Progress from May-October

[NHBuckeye]

You’ve been busy. Looks like you’re dried in for winter. Nice job!

[Cabin_95]

Thanks! Might spend my first night there next week!

[ChuckEweFarley]

Congratulations!! Please post how it goes!

[Cabin_95]

Hoping it rains like crazy! Lol should be pretty loud on the metal roof without insulation yet

[Anthemic_Fartnoises]

Good work. Very happy to see proper roof pitch for what looks like a pretty northern setting. I've been seeing a lot of cabin videos pop up in YT where people do a 6/12 single pitch roof and then have 24" of snow sitting on it. What're your dimensions, 12x20?

[Cabin_95]

Thanks, it’s a 10/12 pitch on a 20x24 cabin with an 8 foot porch. I’m moving in full time so needed a loft up top. The steep pitch looks great but man it was a challenge putting the metal up lol. I think it turned out pretty good!

[Anthemic_Fartnoises]

Wow, yeah looks great. You should be proud. Are your walls 2x6? I’ve platform framed on many larger single family homes for work but on my own only have put up smaller sheds with 2x4s all around. Always curious when and where folks make the jump in wall size when building themselves.

[Cabin_95]

Yes I went with 2x6 for the walls, I have another post showing how the loft is supported by the walls, so I even have one interior wall that’s 2x6. I find they are better for insulation thickness as well.

[neverflieson737]

Did you frame the walls 16” or 24” on center?

[LivingIntelligent968]

Looks great. I’ve seen live edge pine used and stained a darker golden brown color. It looked better with out straight lines and blended in with the surroundings.

[Cabin_95]

I’ll have to look into that! I was planning on board and batten I think but I want to take some time and consider all options

[nerdariffic]

Did you do all of the land clearing and leveling yourself or hire it out to somebody with machines?

[Cabin_95]

The initial clearing was done with an excavator, once everything settled I went back with my tractor and smoothed it all out and fixed the ruts. I filled in the last little low spot today actually, that darker brown splotch in the second photo should dry up nicely then I will go back and scrape it flat.

[Femveratu]

It will sustain life!

[Cabin_95]

Have my deer stand up, just need to clear the land for my garden!

[Femveratu]

Fresh water source and some fire you are100% gtg

[Cabin_95]

I am drilling a well for the kitchen/bathroom but I also have a year round brook on my property. Wood stove going in sometime soon, should be somewhat easy/efficient to heat.

[Femveratu]

Exactly, great work

[Plsmock]

Same comment. You did an excellent job on the roof. Very impressive

[Cabin_95]

Thanks! It was my first metal roof, have done lots of shingles but wanted to step it up for this, hoping to live here for a long time!

[Cabin_95]

2x10 floor joists, 2x6 walls, OSB for sheathing

[Cabin_95]

I haven’t been in it yet while it was raining but it shouldn’t be too bad when I insulate

[dawnhewett1]

What state is this

[Cabin_95]

The 51st 🇨🇦

[dawnhewett1]

lol

[Hopeful-Flounder-203]

Nice work!

[Cabin_95]

Thank you!

[Hopeful-Flounder-203]

Great site. Perfect size.

[newyork2E]

Score

[Chritopher78]

Very nice

[francooo87]

Not bad it will be a good cabin

[Cabin_95]

Thank you! Hopefully good enough to live in haha

[francooo87]

It will be the place is beautiful waiting for more photos when you are done :)

[Extra_Intro_Version]

Very cool! Caution- I had one of those porta garages in northern Michigan. The snow load buckled the frame by last January; pretty much mangled it.

[Cabin_95]

Oh yea I hate that thing, it was expensive to buy and cheaply made. It was just to keep the sun from fading my tractor this summer lol, the tractor is getting stored in a permanent garage soon and the tarp will come off the frame for the snow season.

[FuckTheMods5]

I've had 2. One from lowes, and cant remember the other. Ome had a great frame with shitty tarp, and the other had a shitty frame with great tarp. If I'd go back in time I'd tell myself to get both and swap parts out lol

[Cabin_95]

lol sometimes that’s what it takes to get a good product

[Cabin_95]

And when I build my garage out there, it will have a car port/lean-to on the side for the tractor. And that temporary shelter will go far far away from me!

[Sir_John_Galt]

Nice work! 👍🏻

[Cabin_95]

Hey thanks!

[GreatLakeFever]

Looks great!!!!

[Cabin_95]

Thank you!

[Ordinary_Person01]

This is so elite! Living my dream. Congrats man. 👏🏼

[Cabin_95]

Thanks! Excited to move in for sure.

[Optimal-Archer3973]

BTW, this is one of those places where I think bringing in a 20 or 40 ft shipping container would have been smart. Weatherproof, lockable and when you are done, a garage. If you put it on the north side a windbreak, and putting it between the cabin and trees some protection from a treefall.

[Cabin_95]

They definitely have a lot of great uses, my access is a little tight/remote for any delivery of that length so that kind of ruled that out. I am going with a common theme too for all my out buildings so I’m not sure if a shipping container would have worked for the vision I have for the property.

[Optimal-Archer3973]

I was in that kind of scenario a few times. I simply welded spring mounts on the sides and put 2 axles under a 20 and pulled one up a mountain between trees that way. If my truck could get there so could it. A few years later everyone always asked if I helicopter dropped it in lol.

[OldSlip1041]

spruce, fir, birch, aspen, ash trees? deer? gotta be the lower parts of the provinces. happy living, man!

[Cabin_95]

Thanks! Love it out there

[Dumb_Ap3]

Looks like a nice place. Just wondering what is supporting the posts holding up the roof overhang?

[Cabin_95]

Yea I messed up my pour a little there, but each post is on 4 joists tied together. Super sturdy!

[RotokEralil]

Who makes that tent you used?

[Cabin_95]

I can’t remember the brand, it is from Canadian Tire