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If you've never been to Vermont you must give this place a go. Vermont has it's own unique vibe. And this cabin is less than a half our from Burlington, Church Street, and some of the best breweries in the country imo (the alchemist; heady topper. Lawson's; sip of sunshine. To name a few). They're a relaxed bunch up there like no other.
WOSODA Trail Camera, Waterproof 16MP 1080P Hunting Game Camera, Wildlife Camera with IR LEDs Night Vision, for Home Security Wildlife Monitoring Hunting https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C21K7XQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_4TVWSFGR5CV2A2CAM8KM?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 and Wildgame Innovations Cloak Pro 16mp Game Camera with Batteries, Hunting Trail Monitor https://www.walmart.com/ip/604701742.
Would recommend both, we got 2 of each. We were very surprised with the quality of the photos and videos, especially for the price point.
Okay. The cabin is dry, but we still need info. Are you able to drive right up to the cabin or do you walk in?
WALK IN: two twenty ounce bottles per shower. Dump half of first one on you, soap up and shampoo, slowly dump rest of bottle on you while rubbing soap from hair making sure water goes all down your body, check your body for where you missed and finish rinsing with other bottle…. To make it last longer take a thin nail and pound it through bottle tops before shower and squirt it slower than just pouring.
DRIVE IN: buy several 1 or 2 gallon water jugs at store, or if you have several 5 gallon buckets with lids fill them, put the lids on, and take them full of water. Go to Lowe’s or Home Depot and buy spigot to plumb one of the buckets and use that bucket as the shower in the future. Fill it a quarter of the way with cold or room temp water, add enough hot water from the tea kettle to warm it up, hang the bucket up high or set on a high shelf (tall step ladders work perfectly anywhere) and stand under it. And take your shower.
Ivation Portable Outdoor Shower, Battery Powered - Compact Handheld Rechargeable Camping Showerhead - Pumps Water from Bucket Into Steady, Gentle Shower Stream https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IFHFJXI/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_68MT4W16XSTYB17V6209
Ivation Portable Outdoor Shower, Battery Powered - Compact Handheld Rechargeable Camping Showerhead - Pumps Water from Bucket Into Steady, Gentle Shower Stream https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IFHFJXI/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_T606VHZPWWHAAWRV6VD1
With Cabin 2.0 I tried to improve as much possible. Your tipps were very helpful! What do you think about this design?
Or, you can purchase the book here, or borrow it from your local library, instead of grabbing it from a site that posts stuff without permission from or recompense to the creator. So that, you know, the artist can make a living doing the work that makes you happy.
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I wouldn't use it, go with a direct vent electric free unit. We have this one in our small cabin. Can probably find a cheaper model.
Found this one on amazon
I’ve installed mini splits. What you’re looking for is called a core drill. It’s like a hole saw but long. You can also get away with using a hole saw on a bit extension and keep cleaning the bit whenever you drill between 50-70% of its depth. But you need to be really careful because bit extensions might not be very strong and you now have a bunch of torque at the end of a long rod. I opted for this because I didn’t wanna spend the money for a core drill, but the core drill is the right tool for the job.
Depending on how thick your logs are, you might need a bit extension anyways if you have to drill from both sides. Also think about how you’re gonna join the line set and the indoor unit, I imagine with a thick wall like a log that you’re gonna have to mate the indoor unit with the line set before you mount it. This might not be possible on a precharged DIY unit line set.
2" Diamond WET Coring Bit - Concrete Core Drill by BLUEROCK Tools https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NPD965O/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_f2XcFbBE87WGB
To give you an idea of what sort of thing you need.
Put that hole saw on an extension (make sure to get the right size for your hole saw arbor) and go at it bit by bit. Going through a whole log will take some time but should work.
I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand you're right, and those of us that are interested know to just go check out his channel every Friday. I myself had to do so last weekend because /u/markusooi skipped a week. :) On the other hand I personally won't participate in YouTube comments so it's nice to have a place each week to make discussion, however limited.
To wit: I'm fascinated by the cemented hole he put in the floor, and am wondering what it's for. My best guess is a cold storage area for food. Also, his reflections this week seem to intersect in some ways with a work by Hannah Arendt I've been reading of late and I wonder if he himself is familiar with her.
Land prices in the western U.S. are just crazy. Good luck.
I want to call out and expound on something that /u/BigBearCO did that I think would be beneficial to you if you design and build yourself: quickly build a small structure first for basic shelter while you're working on the main structure. This not only serves as a place to sleep and as a good future guest cabin or storage shed but it will give you much needed experience. You don't even necessarily have to design it, you can get a kit at a big hardware store where they have already figured out all the materials you need (though not, and I wouldn't suggest, prefab in any way) and provide basic construction plans. Construction isn't rocket science, it isn't even as complicated as farming at least for the small relatively simple structures we're talking about, but you will learn things by doing, and see for example how something is done at one stage flows/meshes well into a something else five steps later. Without that experience you may make early mistakes, particularly in design but also in carpentry, that cause problems later on, as happened to me.
One way around this of course is to buy or obtain existing plans put together by a professional designer. That way at least the design has been thought through. In my case none of the plans I found quite met my needs and I went it alone.
Finally, if you don't want to build two structures another way to get real world construction experience in advance of your build is to join up with your local Habitat for Humanity chapter and start going to builds on the weekends. You'd probably want to do this at least a year before you start building so you get a chance to see and feel the many different phases of the process.
ETA: You mentioned that if you do build you'll very likely be doing so alone. If that's what you do I highly recommend reading this book first.