Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: wildman on September 18, 2014, 12:06:51 pm
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This will be an epic build along. My wife and I have a small farm that we own debt free. That being said we are building a small cabin/home without debt. The current plan is for 400sqft. All the wood with the exceptions of a few boards have been salvaged from old buildings. Bear with me guys this may take awhile.
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Good start! ;)
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Clearing the land and hauling in materials was labor intensive and we had to be creative. Atvs and trailers were used a lot. The joist came out of an old grain storage facility. They are pine with very tight growth rings.
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I took down a building that was a fishing camp my grandparents owned years ago for studs and T&G.
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Slow going , this has been over a few months as you can tell. The thing with salvage is gleaning and cleaning materials. The windows are double pane vinyl windows that came out of a Mcmansion in town for free when the homeowner wife wanted new ones.
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I like it! I like it a lot! :D
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very nice! I could live in a cabin like that and run my house like a workshop/museum!
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Love it! I will stay to the end of this one.
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The loft flooring is T&G pine from 1940s. The sub floor on the main level is 1" oak from a home built in late 1800s.
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The floors will be tung oiled and left as is.
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Wonderful project! I am glad you live in an area where "the authorities" are sympathetic to this sort of creative recycling.
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Kudos to you for marrying a wife who will bear with you through this project! Get er done! ;D
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Stringman, it was her idea.
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Your structure may be a bit small in footprint, but calling it a "cabin" is understatement. Gonna be very very nice, me thinks.
:thumbsup:
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Your livin the dream man!.... Brian
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Super super cool Keith! I'll be watching!
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Looks really 8)....... I like it. Might have to stop by sometime and check it out in person.... :)
DBar
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Way to go wild! I built a lot of my house in VA from salvage framing
material I got from the demolition of buildings at the Brooklyn NY Naval Yard.
Twenty foot floor joists and every other stud good ole Douglas Fir.
The horse barn is framed from cedar lumber I had sawed from local trees.
Zuma
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Looking good, My old cabin was put back together with scrap from other old farm building torn down and saved over the years,got to love that. Wast not want not. Keep us posted. ;) :)
Pappy
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Two Thumbs up ! Bob
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That is an ambitious and worthwhile project you have started Wildman. It looks like it is coming along nicely, please keep posting pics. as you go. I would love to have a place like that myself, now I just need some land. :)
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Good on ya Keith, A lot of work but also a lot of satisfaction. Most folks talk about doing it but dont, this will be a memory for you to treasure. Ya got my admiration, sir.
rich
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Looking good. It appears the 2 of you will have a room with a view built on a hill.. 8)
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Im jealous
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Really liking this project Keith!
Tracy
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Very cool Keith the wife and I are just in the tear down stages still. Good to see some of the work coming together. I can't wait to start our house. We are going to go a little bigger because we have a year and a half old. So about 875 sqft. I truly can't wait. We got our road cut in last month and are staking the house out with ribbon.
I can't wait to see more of yours. Keep em coming :)
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Awesome!!
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I scored a 12ft trailer loaded 5ft tall with lumber today for FREE!!! , guy was nice enough to load it with a forklift. Stay tuned more pics by the weekend.
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Way coooool, Wildman! The salvaged materials idea is right up my alley. Takes a bit of time to collect but free or ultra-cheap is awesome. Keep 'em coming!
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I scored a 12ft trailer loaded 5ft tall with lumber today for FREE!!! , guy was nice enough to load it with a forklift.
Talk about bein' in the right place at the right time . . . . . .!!!
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Update time. Playing around with some reclaimed siding. It will be an organized hodgepodge of recycled artistic stuff. The 1/2 birch plywood was all given to me 42" x 42" a whole trailer full for FREEE!!!!! The roofing was also off my grandparents old fish camp flipped over to the fresh side and screw holes lined up to reuse.
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That sucker is coming along pretty good..... ;D
DBar
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Enjoying the updates.
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Looking good. I like how you are re-purposing all of the supplies.
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Hooray! Been waiting for an update. Looking good.
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Lookin great man. We just got all our windows this Monday, for the house. This cabin is just awesome. It's crazy what people will give you for free. I had someone just give me about a ton of corrigated tin sideline from the sixties for free. He even tor it off the roof and pulled all the nails. I just had to go pick it up. Can't wait to see more man.
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Grand total so far $135
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Grand total so far $135
Nothing wrong with that. We sometimes spend that on 4 gallons of paint....... :o The cabin is taking shape.
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Well , we sold our house and the 4acres it sits on , so the updates should be rolling in. I have a good bit more done and will have new pics up before the weekends out. My buddy from Indiana owns 10 acres beside us and is thinking of doing something similar to stay in when he is down here hunting.
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What an incredible experience this must be for you and yours sir! You have my envy and respect...
OneBow
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Lots of long talks between the missus and myself this weekend. We have weighed the pros and cons of the lifestyle we are choosing. We have always dabbled in a more "primitive" lifestyle so its now or never full in!!!! We have decided to home school our daughter after this year , purchase a few more tillable acres , and expand on the hogs and goats. JW we have bees on our long term radar. Now the WORK begins. Any input would be great and taken under great advisement from others who are /have done this. The shack is coming along. It will probably turn into a studio if we get this other ground , and build a small dogtrot style there. Big problem right now is I have to find a place to store 2 doz dried osage and hickory staves, oh the stress >:D Shed going up asap.
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Good luck with your adventure. I have a great deal of respect for those who can live a primitive lifestyle.
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Nice to see the dogs again. Miss them feisty things.
Good luck on the adventure.
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The dogs send their love JW!!!! The little yellow one is new addition , Yellow mountain cur named him JW
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Lemme guess...he's a barker?
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Cabin looks great!
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Big problem right now is I have to find a place to store 2 doz dried osage and hickory staves, oh the stress >:D Shed going up asap.
I've got plenty of room for stave storage! Send 'em over!
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Sweet cabin! I need more pics though. Have you got the interior finished out yet?
I just closed on 20 acres with a two story house on it that was built in 1890. The framing appears to be in very solid condition. I hope it's re-usable. If so I hope to be starting on my own cabin project in the next year or two. Depends on how long tear down of the old house takes. Wish me luck I don't have any carpentry experience really but surely I can knock out something that will be somewhere north of basic shelter. Don't want it looking like a house in town anyways.
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I plan to post a ton of pics shortly. I have been living in the cabin off grid since Feb.
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Wonderful project, wonderful story. We'd have trouble trying to do something like this in the UK, not enough land to go round... :(
If I had the time and money and experience that I have now but the energy and fitness I had 40 years ago, I'd have a go at something like that.
Kudos for getting stuck in and doing it.
Living the dream.
Del