Your Get-a-way Buildings...PIC thread

In the fish camps up north they often use just thin logs for a frame and thick poly stapled to them but with a good solid plywood floor. They actually work really well and can be put up quickly with very little having to be brought in with you.

It is not exactly rustic but a porta potty is a much better out house than a real one and way less work.

I am going to start with the polywall and porta potty set up when I buy our chunk of land and build a nuch nicer but still small log house. I am thinking like the Dick Pronneke
one in Alaska but with wireless internet.
 
lots of the locals where i grew up used the thin logs frame and poly sheet stapled to it for bush shelters. Dry, warm when heated with a portable wood stove , and DRY.
 
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In the fish camps up north they often use just thin logs for a frame and thick poly stapled to them but with a good solid plywood floor. They actually work really well and can be put up quickly with very little having to be brought in with you.

It is not exactly rustic but a porta potty is a much better out house than a real one and way less work.

I am going to start with the polywall and porta potty set up when I buy our chunk of land and build a nuch nicer but still small log house. I am thinking like the Dick Pronneke
one in Alaska but with wireless internet.
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Any pics of this sort of thing for us central IL flatlanders? Just need a little help envisioning how it is pulled off.

Some of your guys have some seriously cool setups.
 
Our 30 ft. lighweight. The trailer is level, but the site was that sloped. It is in Hocking Hills State Park in Southern Ohio. We always get that site because of nothing behind or to the left of us. I must have been taking the picture at a odd angle.

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langston302 said:
your cabins, sheds, leantoo's, teepees, what ever....show pics....
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I am just finishing up a tool shed which has been built in stages over the past three weeks. It looks a lot like the picture you posted of your backyard getaway. It is a basic 12' x 12' square with a low pitch shed roof, 1:12, sloping front to rear.

I bought the 4"x4" treated posts for the skids, 2x6 lumber for the floor framing and 5/8" OSB for flooring, a few studs, rough sawn siding, paint, nails and screws. The window is a double glazed unit I salvaged but I bought the steel door, locksets and deadbolt. The rafters are salvaged 14' floor trusses with purchased 2x6 for eves and scrap 1/4" siding for the soffits. The roofing cost me $110 for painted standing seam steel, $15 for the screws. I did wire it with three inside electical outlets, two salvaged inside lights and a purchased outside floodlight and weatherproof recepticle.

Inside, the walls are covered in old cheap pecan paneling I salvaged and 1/4" OSB to cover the trusses and give it a ceiling. There is a 6' countertop underneath the window (also salvage), and 18" wide shelves to the right of the door along that wall. Along the back wall are shelves 3' wide.

The "deck", 3'x8', was this morning's project between rain showers. It is really a loading dock that I can back my truck up to before sunup and after sundown, thus the floodlight in the eve.

I have right at $1200 in this building right now and still need to buy deck paint for the inside floor, metal trim for the facias and a correct ridge cap. Slightly changed, this would be a spacious cabin for the backwoods. At 12'x12' and only 10' tall built on skids, it is "portable". Maybe "moveable" is more like it because it is built more with house type construction than typical shed construction.

I added a 10'x8' lean-to shed on the back, enclosed on three sides to store ladders, wheelbarrows, tarps and buckets. It is made to be unbolted to move the shed.

I was tired of stolen and "borrowed" tools, gas cans etc., and the leaky roof in the old barn which I couldn't completely secure. I am a contractor and depend on my tools to make my living.

My next project is to build an office, also "movable". Rough plans are for a 12'x20' with half bath and kitchenette. The ultimate mancave!

A major find in my salvaging was the trusses and steel roofing from a local truss company. The ten twenty-foot regular 4:12 pitch trusses for my office cost me $165. But two truck and trailer loads of floor trusses were free for the hauling. About $2000 dollars worth of lumber! These were mis-orders, cancelled orders that laid in the factory yard and weathered gray, so they could not be sold as new goods. I'll have to break them down into lumber, removing splice plates (no nails used). But it beats the heck out of buying about 100 studs, top and bottom plates, king and jack studs. The steel roofing cost me $1 per foot. My shed and lean-to used 101' of steel with a tad left over. Trim and roof cap will cost $1 a foot too.

I'll try to get some shed pictures up tonight.

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It is behind me in that picture. You can see the edge of the wood deck through the window behind the basketball goal. The goal post is made of knives I have broken while testing them with my 8# sledge hammer on a piece of railroad track. :D
 
I personally don't have any sort of shack. Have stayed in a friend's small cabin a few times, though. They made it out of cedar logs they cut down in their pasture. It's about a mile away from the nearest anything, right beside a little creek. It's an excellent place.
 
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