My hunting cabin CSM

[dzklrz]

Here is my cabin I built out of boards I milled up with the Alaskan, 394xp and alittle help from my 372xp. The horizontal siding is Hemlock with the corners and the door being red oak. The logs on the front and back porch and white pine, the front deck is made out of cherry and the back deck is maple. In the spring I want to seal coat everything and chaulk all the horizontal boards to make it look like chinking in logs.

This site has been real bad for me getting anything done around the house as I am always looking for dead trees to mill and once that is out of my head, its hunting season!

Chad

 

[Philbert]

Nice!

Enjoy it!

Philbert

 

[nategyoder]

Awesome!

 

[Gumnuts]

Good job....did you season for long ?
Looks like you could use a small pot-belly.

 

[mtngun]

That's a tastefully built cabin and a good example of the practical use of a CSM.

Is the cabin for sleeping or shooting or both ?

 

[KD57]

Sweet !!!!

 

[gink595]

Any pics of the inside? Really nice cabin for sure! That is going to be one of my projects as well for my mill, one of the biggest reasons I wanted to start milling was to make a small cabin.

 

[wood4heat]

Bet that RZR in the background is a kick in the ### in the snow!

 

[stipes]

Nice!!!

Hellofa job!!!

 

[SilverBox]

How big is that beast of a cabin!!

It looks more like a really nice shack to me .

Good work!.

 

[dzklrz]

Thanks for the compliments. I use the cabin for a getaway, hunting, sleeping, drinking, and storage for my hunting gear. The cabin without the decks is 10x10. All the windows are on hinges so I have 360 degrees of shooting except the door. I have a wall mounted heater that runs off of lp. The 20lb tank is stored in the seat/boxes on the left side of the door, I then ran the hose through the wall to the heater. My wife wants the storage shed I built last year by our house to look like the cabin. Looks like another reason to run the saws!!

 

[sachsmo]

Home made?

Do you have any plans or pics of that home made Alaskan?

We use a lot of aluminum extrusion at work, always thought I could make my own too. That stuff is very versatile.

 

[gink595]

Where are you at in Indiana?

 

[sachsmo]

Ever heard of the Back Fourty?

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[irishcountry]

Great job that would nice to have froze quite a bit this yr. out hunting!!! Looks great

 

[Brmorgan]

That's a sweet looking little cabin.

Please humor a Canadian non-hunter though... Exactly what is the purpose of a fixed-location "hunting cabin"? I keep seeing/hearing you American hunters talk about and show pictures of these things, but it's a completely foreign concept to me. Do you guys just build these out in the sticks on public land, or what? Or do many of you own big acreages of essentially wilderness forest that you mainly just use for hunting? Up here probably 98% of all hunting is done on public Crown land, and since we aren't allowed to build structures on undeeded public land (except for traplines and mining claims), a lot of folks usually go daytrip hunting down the logging and ranch roads. Of course it helps that we only have to drive maybe half an hour from town to get into fairly empty wilderness. If people DO go out on extended trips, they usually throw the camper on the truck and set up a small camp for a few days with a couple buddies. You see these all over the backcountry around here in the off-season - random poles and tarps set up between trees in the middle of nowhere to hang deer & moose from, with a nearby firepit etc. The only people I know of who actually hunt on land that they themselves own are the ranchers (who own hundreds if not thousands of acres) and the Natives, many of whom also hunt anywhere and anytime they damn well please with no regard to limits and seasons and with little consequence.

Not knocking it, I've just never heard of guys here going hunting and staying in a cabin in one spot for days at a time, much less going back to the same spot year after year. I guess it's just a different way of doing things. Like the Germans I've talked to who come over here to hunt and fish - they have no concept of public land to begin with; it amazes them that we can just grab a boat and throw it into pretty much any lake we like and go fishing. Back home everything is privately owned.

 

[gink595]

My grandparents had what they called deer blinds, set up all over there trac of land in Northern Michigan, they were permanent strutures kinda like the one the OP made but not as nice, I know one had a little potbelly stove and fold down cots, pretty neat setups. I'd like to build one just to hang out at now and then, take the kids to and camp out.

 

[WesternSaw]

dzklrz

One helluv a nice little getaway you have there! I'm kinda wondering the same thing as Brad.I hunt and Brad is right about his assessment on what the general hunting public do for accommodation when out hunting,campers,trailers,tents and tarps.I'm under the impression that many Americans might be in a club that owns tracts of land available to it's members,or they build these cabin's on private land.Sad to say if someone built a cabin on public land like that,some yahoos would trash it in a second.I have seen many small trap line cabins on public land.If you have a good spot you usually go to year after year on public land you would be hard pressed to even find your game pole there after one season.Seems like some are just into wrecking whatever made someone feel proud of what they did.Always take our garbage out ,plastic,that kinda stuff.
Lawrence

 

[dzklrz]

I live on just over 180 acres, about 80 is wooded and the rest is soybean or corn fields. I use the shack mostly for rifle hunting, as bow hunting I need to be in a tree. I scoped out the land and picked this spot. There is a hemlock bedding area to the back of the cabin, corn and soybeans to the east, food plot to the north and about 1,200 acres of solid woods to the west. It is just a nice spot to sit back, watch and listen to nature.

 

[irishcountry]

dzklrz ---what your saying is you have a peice of heaven and deer or no deer you enjoy the land and getting away to have peace and quite kicking back and maybe crack open a cold one or two right? Great job on the cabin looks like a nice place to hunt and or just relax!!!