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spoiled one wrote:Looks good John. How big of a cabin are you putting up? :beer:
No cabin for many years Pete. I'm putting the old trailer back on and a new to me 5th wheel. I traded a guy a hard top for his Grady for the trailer. I'm painting the trailers and putting small trusses and sheet metal roofs on them so I can attach some gutters and collect the rain water. Hillbilly Comfort Inn lol. with a nice yard :thumbsup: .
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Throw out some blue tarps and you will fit right in with the AK hill billies!
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2 twenty foot ocean containers laying 12 feet apart with a truss roof between 'em . . . that's PacNW cracka heaven
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spoiled one wrote:Throw out some blue tarps and you will fit right in with the AK hill billies!
I personally like the green ones myself. Its a more neutral and calming color :mrgreen: .
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Chaps wrote:2 twenty foot ocean containers laying 12 feet apart with a truss roof between 'em . . . that's PacNW cracka heaven
That sounds a lot nicer than what I am going to do. I guess I'm just not cracka material :rotfl:
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My SIL wanted to build one. Thankfully he decided not to but they do look OK with some paint. They can come insulated, Fire Proof And Tight
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Sounds like some of you have some GOOD Redneck inya.

I'm impressed. :beer:
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That is one wicked project... great location for fishing

Thanks for sharing

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I'm trying to get up there again this week to get the tanks finally back filled in and get some 3/4 crush put on the drive way. Once this is done I can lay down some old mill screen below the trailers so nothing grows up under them. I can then start hooking things up. This weekend the Hydro pole goes in with the meter and 200 amp shut off switch. Next Monday the Hydro company comes and hooks it up. After that I can get my electrician buddy to come and run the wire in the conduit we already buried to my main trailer where the breaker box will be.

Collecting a lot of stuff for the final run at this thing. I'm bagged and need to go fishing.
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Had a great weekend up at the lot with Tidal Chaos and Firelight. We had a bit of a late start Friday afternoon due to having to tow the new to me trailer up there myself. My buddy who was going to tow it up there felt bad and bought me a used fifth wheel hitch and dropped it off at the shop just after lunch. Tidal Chaos and Firelight met me there around 3:00 and just like a Nascar pit crew we had it mounted to my truck in no time flat lol.

Tidal Chaos hauled up a whole truck load of stuff in his truck and met us up there. Firelight and myself picked up the trailer and hauled the rest up there. We got in late and proceeded to place the new trailer in it's spot. Once that was done we re-bled my new hydraulic steering ram on the boat and got her ready for fishing in the morning. We were finally done around 2:00 a.m. the next morning.

We fished the morning and into the afternoon. We stayed inside due to the weather forecast. We managed one spring, a coho, 3 lings, and a couple of nice sized rockfish. We lost quite a few nice fish as well. There were porpoises and whales around which was nice to see. I'm glad I took Tidal Chaos's advice and needed to have to some fun.

Firelight playing a salmon.

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A nice ling cod caught on a Shimano butterfly jig.

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After fishing we moved the old gal back onto the lot. This whole procedure was interesting to say the least lol. It all worked out and is sitting there for now.

Here are a few shots of how we left it for now.

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I want to send a big shout out to Bart, Tidal Chaos, and Firelight for all there help with this project and the good times on the water. Great guys for sure. I will try to post up some more as it comes along.

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Yeah, ya need at least one large Shipping container for at least secure, waterproof-fireproof-idiotproof, hurricaneproof, storage.

A guy down here built a 3200 square foot house out of them. Seriously Cool.

Just a tad more bad azz than Welders steel house. If painted in CAMO colors... :joecool:

When my boat is paid off. I'm gonna have the equivalent of your camp up yonder, but down here in ""Louisiana"".
We'll SWAP locales, then.

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Maybe I can get Welder the "alloy travel'ist" to go in partners with me. He can join me and make it a alloy fleet at the dock.


I'll come see you when the heat's intense, and you can come see me, when the cold is intense. :thumbsup:
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JETTYWOLF wrote:Yeah, ya need at least one large Shipping container for at least secure, waterproof-fireproof-idiotproof, hurricaneproof, storage.

A guy down here built a 3200 square foot house out of them. Seriously Cool.

Just a tad more bad azz than Welders steel house. If painted in CAMO colors... :joecool:

When my boat is paid off. I'm gonna have the equivalent of your camp up yonder, but down here in ""Louisiana"".
We'll SWAP locales, then.

What I want:

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Maybe I can get Welder the "alloy travel'ist" to go in partners with me. He can join me and make it a alloy fleet at the dock.


I'll come see you when the heat's intense, and you can come see me, when the cold is intense. :thumbsup:
Actually you guy's have me thinking about the sea can idea literally. I am going to compare the cost of building something "different" out of them compared to stick frame or log. I can do most of the work myself which would save on labor big time. I use a structural engineer quite a bit for work and I'm going to run it by him. I also know a designer that could come up with something that looks half decent.

That place down South looks interesting Dave. Would you have a trailer or something next to it? or can you build something there. It needs some shade big time lol. I get heat exhaustion pretty easy.
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Update

I missed posting a few weekends ago. Probably due to the tuna buzz lol.

The first weekend that Tidal Chaos and crew came up to head out on their maiden tuna trip we built some trusses for the new to me trailer.

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We just stored them at the back until this past long weekend. Things go pretty good with a team of 5 guys and two of them being carpenters.

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We got the roof on and even started the outdoor shower and change room.

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The power pole went in as well and hopefully will be hooked up this week.

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Another big shout out to Tidal Chaos and crew and to Firelight. THANK YOU again for all the help guys! I couldn't have done it with out you. Very much appreciated.

To be continued..........
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Sculp,

Yeah all I'd have to do is fasten down something like you have if I could ever have a "lot" like that (the one I showed) in Louisiana. Just something that can BLOW away and be easily replaced. A "single-wide" on stilts are popular. Some A/C, an outside shower, and washing machine and that's all I need.

I have just less than 8 years left on my boat, and that would free up close to $500 a month. So, if I'm on track, I may get my place in Louisiana before I'm 60 years old.
That's the goal.

Some kind of change, before I die would be nice. And not to much to ask.

I'll live in a tent, I don't care. Just want out of here in June-thru Sept.
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