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Hi Again! Do you have any pictures you could share of the interior of the cabin?
Lawrence
Hi Again! Do you have any pictures you could share of the interior of the cabin?
Lawrence
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Lawrence,
I will have to snap some pics of the inside. I will try to descibe the best I can. I built benches that open for storage on 2 walls. I had a solid core 3/0 door that I made into a bed on another wall. The bed is on hinges so I can swing it out of the way. The floor is carpeted with 1" styrafoam. I also have two shelves above the windows for storage, some antler sheds for coat racks and deer calls and last I installed some rope lighting that runs off of an power invertor and 12v batteries.
Lawrence,
I will have to snap some pics of the inside. I will try to descibe the best I can. I built benches that open for storage on 2 walls. I had a solid core 3/0 door that I made into a bed on another wall. The bed is on hinges so I can swing it out of the way. The floor is carpeted with 1" styrafoam. I also have two shelves above the windows for storage, some antler sheds for coat racks and deer calls and last I installed some rope lighting that runs off of an power invertor and 12v batteries.
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Awesome job on the hunting shack Dzklz
I love it!!!!!!!!!
Billy
I love it!!!!!!!!!
Billy
That is one neat little cabin.
Not trying to hijack your thread, here's a little explanation for our friends up North. I live about 30 miles from Wash DC, in MD. It's so over run with deer here, they are a hazard to motorist, but it's hard to hunt. It's too populated. Back in the 70's my dad and uncle bought 2 pieces of property, for $215 per acre, in West Virginia, about 2 1/2 hours drive. This property is just for leisure purposes. My goal is to build a little cabin with my milled lumber just to the left of the old trailer. One day I want to build a real log house behind where the trailer is and use the smaller building for a shed/workshop.
Once again, neat cabin and sorry for weasling in on your thread, Joe.
Not trying to hijack your thread, here's a little explanation for our friends up North. I live about 30 miles from Wash DC, in MD. It's so over run with deer here, they are a hazard to motorist, but it's hard to hunt. It's too populated. Back in the 70's my dad and uncle bought 2 pieces of property, for $215 per acre, in West Virginia, about 2 1/2 hours drive. This property is just for leisure purposes. My goal is to build a little cabin with my milled lumber just to the left of the old trailer. One day I want to build a real log house behind where the trailer is and use the smaller building for a shed/workshop.
Once again, neat cabin and sorry for weasling in on your thread, Joe.
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Thanks for the information you provided for your friends to the north.
Man,that is some nice looking country there in West Virgina,No wonder John Denver sang about it!
Lawrence
Thanks for the information you provided for your friends to the north.
Man,that is some nice looking country there in West Virgina,No wonder John Denver sang about it!
Lawrence
WadePatton
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about cabins/camps/blinds in my part of the US:
Hunted all my life and not more than once on public lands. Fished all my life on mostly public or publicly used bodies of water.
All of my hunting friends own or have access to private lands. We build cabins where folks normally stay a few days each outing and/or the site is used for other gatherings. Camping gives way to cabins eventually.
So yeah, hunting on the same land for years and years is common. I just helped construct a stand on ground I've been hunting since the 1970's.
A stand used to just be a bucket or a chair or board jammed into a crotch or nailed to a post. Then they got bigger...armrests, then roofs, and so on until now it's quite common to see hunting stands with four walls a roof and a heater.
And while they're usually home-built, they can be store-bought.
Since we know where we'll be hunting next year, we also plant wildlife specific crops and conduct wildlife-oriented forest stewardship of our private woods..as well as imposing our own herd management rules.
Hunted all my life and not more than once on public lands. Fished all my life on mostly public or publicly used bodies of water.
All of my hunting friends own or have access to private lands. We build cabins where folks normally stay a few days each outing and/or the site is used for other gatherings. Camping gives way to cabins eventually.
So yeah, hunting on the same land for years and years is common. I just helped construct a stand on ground I've been hunting since the 1970's.
A stand used to just be a bucket or a chair or board jammed into a crotch or nailed to a post. Then they got bigger...armrests, then roofs, and so on until now it's quite common to see hunting stands with four walls a roof and a heater.
And while they're usually home-built, they can be store-bought.
Since we know where we'll be hunting next year, we also plant wildlife specific crops and conduct wildlife-oriented forest stewardship of our private woods..as well as imposing our own herd management rules.
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I dunno, and this is just my opinion, but that doesn't at all sound like hunting. That sounds like cracking a beer and waiting for some unlucky creature to wander into your sights. I'm not saying I'm against it or anything; it just seems like it would be more fun (and sporting) to actually go out and find and track an animal rather than shoot it point blank because it can't see you sitting up a tree. I've never really understood the point of hunting from a blind either, except for ducks where it makes total sense. Then again I'm not nearly patient enough to sit 30 feet up a tree all day long without making a sound. Maybe for a million bucks ($1000000) but not ONE buck! I tried icefishing one winter... I can't imagine why anyone who isn't starving would spend any amount of time doing that voluntarily! Nothing like freezing yer arse off sitting in one spot out on a lake for a day to take the appeal out of something, for me anyway.
Back on hunting though, I guess it comes down to geography. 93% of British Columbia is still public Crown land, and outside of some that's under grazing, mineral, or timber license, any of that land is pretty much open to use by anybody as far as hunting, fishing, camping, firewood cutting etc. are concerned. So it's a LOT easier to find good hunting areas on public land than private land up here. I know that's not the case in the vast majority of the US, so that explains a lot. On the other hand there are still guys like my neighbor who goes way up north to almost the Yukon border (like driving from New York to Chicago) every fall for a month or so with a bunch of other guys. They pack up a couple big modified camper trailers and their ATVs, and once there they park them out in the bush someplace and do daytrips on the quads. If they don't get anything they just move the campsite to another spot. Different means to the same end as what you guys do, I guess.
Back on hunting though, I guess it comes down to geography. 93% of British Columbia is still public Crown land, and outside of some that's under grazing, mineral, or timber license, any of that land is pretty much open to use by anybody as far as hunting, fishing, camping, firewood cutting etc. are concerned. So it's a LOT easier to find good hunting areas on public land than private land up here. I know that's not the case in the vast majority of the US, so that explains a lot. On the other hand there are still guys like my neighbor who goes way up north to almost the Yukon border (like driving from New York to Chicago) every fall for a month or so with a bunch of other guys. They pack up a couple big modified camper trailers and their ATVs, and once there they park them out in the bush someplace and do daytrips on the quads. If they don't get anything they just move the campsite to another spot. Different means to the same end as what you guys do, I guess.
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Yep just different but not complicated?? I think the mentality here in America is just the point of getting out in nature and finding some peace and quiet in that process some that have scouted out a area and know how deer move/work in their respective area may or may not stay in the same place but might "get lucky" that a poor helpless creature finds its way into their sights (sarcasm) . I am not sure how it is all over America but in my area there is not alot of public land and you do not wander or set up camp where you think all the deer are migrating to do so would be risking getting shot by either a landowner (rare) or accidently being shot by a unseasoned excited new hunter (more likely and happens). As far as beer goes most I know most save that for after dark and they get together at someones home for awhile and might crack a couple or even a few open while telling the equivelant or big fishing stories. Hope that clairifies how "we" do it and why.
A little shack like that would make a great sauna also. nice little building!
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Yep, I was just joking about the beer & such. I know there are a few dangerous idiots who drink & hunt; I don't mean to say it's the norm.
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WadePatton
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"atv's and quads"
those are my pet peeves in the woods. for a myriad of reasons. we walk out to our stands always. even when someone has hauled one of those things into camp.
those are my pet peeves in the woods. for a myriad of reasons. we walk out to our stands always. even when someone has hauled one of those things into camp.
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Ya I can see how they could annoy stand hunters. Those two wouldn't go together very well.
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You either love them or hate them.
Me, I've just about lost interest in hunting because the woods turn into a motocross park during hunting season. Not my idea of hunting.
WadePatton
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oh sure, and there's room for everybody. for work days, i'm all for 'em-in the rare case my truck won't do the job.
hey--back to cabins/blinds. here's an elevated one that i like (not that there's anything to not like 'bout the op's). and ftr, my "big stand" is a fully enclosed 5x5, elevated, built with commercial materials (i didn't build it). the one we started recently on another place is 4x6 elevated on sassafras poles the balance is all scrap. i'm using throw-away pallets in some future plans.
my lumbermaker is going to get a workout soon. i need lumber and i need ground contact/non-toxic like black locust.
oh yeah--that pic.
irishcountry
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Thats a sweet blind or getaway~~!
WadePatton
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yo, i stole that image somewhere--not even a hunting thing. dude lived in it for a bit i think.
but lookit all the round wood...save some mill time by using round as much as you can. that's my notetoself.
cheers.
but lookit all the round wood...save some mill time by using round as much as you can. that's my notetoself.
cheers.
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I like that little cabin you built, it's pretty neat, you should be proud of your work. The fact that you took the time to mill the lumber with a CSM, only makes it even better.
I built myself a small elevated cabin some years back here on my property. Origionally i had built it with a 6' deck on three sides,
then a couple years later i decided to add even more deck onto one of the sides,
and i also added an outdoor kitchen, (it's further along than these picts. show)
Anyway, here's some picts. from my cabin.
On one side there's a pond,
and on the other, there are fields and woods that the deer and turkeys travel back and forth to/from,
Anyway, it's a work in progress, as i work on it as a hobby.
Rob
I built myself a small elevated cabin some years back here on my property. Origionally i had built it with a 6' deck on three sides,
then a couple years later i decided to add even more deck onto one of the sides,
and i also added an outdoor kitchen, (it's further along than these picts. show)
Anyway, here's some picts. from my cabin.
On one side there's a pond,
and on the other, there are fields and woods that the deer and turkeys travel back and forth to/from,
Anyway, it's a work in progress, as i work on it as a hobby.
Rob
irishcountry
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Great job Sawyer Rob!! That looks like a real nice spot for something like that!! I wonder if it would be worth having a thread to compile all the pics and work/info done over the years on cabin building/shacks ect. on this forum? I know I just like to even look at photos and read about that kind of stuff for ideas or maybe its because of Grizzly Adams scarring me when I was a little boy ha ha !! Anyway great job everyone!!
