Anyone into the tiny cabin builds ?

I’ve been working on this thing for a year now. It sits in the middle of the woods on my 80 acre farm. It’s my happy place away from STL. I have done all the work myself. 😂 at 62 it’s kicking my ass sometimes. IMG 5422

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LOOnatic
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2/8/2024 8:55am

I have plans to build one in Tennessee and have been watching how to vids on YouTube.

Care to show some more pics?

 

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JustMX
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2/8/2024 8:58am

Thinking about doing a schoolie so I can take it with me.

Get one with a handicap lift to load my klr 650 in the back and I am ready for the apocalypse.

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Jeremy A.K.
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2/8/2024 9:19am

It's one of my go to youtube searches in the evening . 

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2/8/2024 9:52am

It's one of my go to youtube searches in the evening . 

I spend way to much time there on YouTube 

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2/8/2024 9:55am Edited Date/Time 2/11/2024 7:24am

I love watching the builds on YouTube. I bought a 12x32 building almost 2 years ago for the farm and had to remove some of my fence to get it where I wanted it. It has quite a bit of room. I still have not even been in it since delivery.  I told my wife I'm putting a half pipe or rc car track inside it but its plan really is for a warm house for some of our animals during winter.  I have a 14x22 at home that I ran power, insulated, ac,  tiled and put a fan and two big fluorescent in. 

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2/8/2024 11:03am

Love it man. It's very cool. I also frequent youtube channels that do cabin builds and survival builds and stuff.

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2/8/2024 12:29pm

I went through a Dick Proenneke faze back in my 30's. It never went beyond day dreaming however.

Good on you 2smoker, i like your cabin and am jealous.

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2/9/2024 1:57pm

That's cool, 2Smoker. Are you going to put a floor in it or just rock it Tom Sawyer style? 

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2/9/2024 4:22pm

Did you seal the air gap between the logs with anything?

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2/9/2024 8:54pm
JustMX wrote:
Thinking about doing a schoolie so I can take it with me. Get one with a handicap lift to load my klr 650 in the back...

Thinking about doing a schoolie so I can take it with me.

Get one with a handicap lift to load my klr 650 in the back and I am ready for the apocalypse.

Dead Head! 1st thing that came to my mind. 

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2/9/2024 9:24pm Edited Date/Time 2/9/2024 9:25pm

I used " Log Jam "

On all my big gaps ...

A+ all the way

( I have bought it * Cheap on eBay where I. Ouldnt see tge " Born on date etc. " and it didn't apply as smooth and fast as the product within the date recommended..

Still worked and took longer to cure..

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2/10/2024 3:09am
Falcon wrote:

That's cool, 2Smoker. Are you going to put a floor in it or just rock it Tom Sawyer style? 

I still have to dig down and level the dirt floor and I have a spot with a lot of flat stones, that I will make a floor out of. I get about one weekend a month to work on it. 

2/10/2024 3:12am Edited Date/Time 2/10/2024 3:12am
LOOnatic wrote:

Did you seal the air gap between the logs with anything?

Not yet, still have logs to peel. I just got the roof on around last November 

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2/10/2024 3:51am

You all are so very fortunate to be able to have the land to build these Cabins.

It is only a dream for me. I can build just about anything but it is a risk here in Africa. 

Land is extremely expensive and to get a reasonable priced piece of land one would have to purchase far out in the boonies...then comes the problem. Savages will come rob, rape and murder you.

Love the pictures you all are posting. Cherish them Cabins...there is no way to live better than a simple practical unit in the middle of nature. 

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FLmxer wrote:
I love watching the builds on YouTube. I bought a 12x32 building almost 2 years ago for the farm and had to remove some of my...

I love watching the builds on YouTube. I bought a 12x32 building almost 2 years ago for the farm and had to remove some of my fence to get it where I wanted it. It has quite a bit of room. I still have not even been in it since delivery.  I told my wife I'm putting a half pipe or rc car track inside it but its plan really is for a warm house for some of our animals during winter.  I have a 14x22 at home that I ran power, insulated, ac,  tiled and put a fan and two big fluorescent in. 

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Eventually my plan is to get a few acres bordering or close to state land and put one of those on it to use as a base camp for hunting.

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These lofted cabins are easy to get here, no credit check, 200 down and they deliver it and you can pay monthly. You can order them over the phone. If you don't pay they just come take it.  There is a lot of deals on repoed units too. 

2/10/2024 10:18pm
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These lofted cabins are easy to get here, no credit check, 200 down and they deliver it and you can pay monthly. You can order them...

These lofted cabins are easy to get here, no credit check, 200 down and they deliver it and you can pay monthly. You can order them over the phone. If you don't pay they just come take it.  There is a lot of deals on repoed units too. 

You got a pic of one of those lofted cabins?

How much do you sell for?

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2/10/2024 11:19pm Edited Date/Time 2/10/2024 11:20pm

Been looking into putting a small rental in our back yard, there’s a place in Carlsbad called turn key adu, they quoted 100k if the slab and plumbing are there, seems steep for a 400 or so sq ft studio. The Tesla ones look interesting, I’ve seen numbers from 10k to 50k. A new sewer line and slab is job one regardless. Anyone seen either of these in person ? https://homeandtexture.com/elon-musk-tiny-home/#:~:text=Well%2C%20accor….

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2/11/2024 5:09am

That is super cool! I grew up in a log cabin and my oh my do I miss that thing. 

I hope to purchase 5 acres or more in the next several years.  I'll end up building a cabin like yours OP.

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2/11/2024 5:23am

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Boomslang wrote:

What do you guys do for plumbing / toilet?

Septic tank?

I have to move this from one spot on the farm to where my cabin is. But I collect rain water, gravity feed to toilet, waste goes to a trash can , separates the solids from liquids,with a screen over drain pipe and layers of pine bark and mulch. have worms eating up the solid waste. I’ve had this going for two years now. 

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2/11/2024 6:18am

We had a small piece of property as a kid we parked a camper on and it had an existing outhouse and to this day I can't understand why it had 2 seats right next to each other , I can't imagine a scenario where 2 people would use it at the same time.

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