My Industrial Cabin Build

[airbiscuit]

As diligent as you have been about rust and fireblight, are you surpriced to see it back?

 

[WoodChuckDad]

As diligent as you have been about rust and fireblight, are you surpriced to see it back?

From what I understand the potential is always there. Having ignored the trees during spring weather, we knew it would be disappointing to go back in there but the priority was the house.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Was hoping to go for a bike ride yesterday but it rained all day. I finally put the pulls on the kitchen cabinets. We are getting close to having the house put away. It is starting to feel really good. Used a Milescraft cabinet jig. Worked very well. I was going to make my own jig for each sized door and drawer but looked on line and saw that they had some at woodcraft. I walked in expecting to pay over $200 and waked out with this one for $25. A buddy of mine has some cabinets going in at his beach house and he already called dibs on borrowing it. It took a while to do the drawer fronts but the doors were a snap. Once I got the size correct I was able to drill all five doors in less than 2 minutes.

 

[coldsteelva]

Onenof the benefits to this floor is that marks and such are just character. Jefanna left white paint all over it so we are going to have a day or two of crawling around and scraping it away. I try to walk around a couple times a week for ten minutes and just scrape up
Paint and tape glue.
When I was under the sink, I laid two boxes of baseboard trim down and I laid on those. It made the whole thing much easier. It was as wide as my shoulder blades and even with the cabinet floor

Tape a straight razor or scraper to the end of a broom handle or use a mechanics creeper to roll around at floor level to scrape everything at eye level. It won't hurt that concrete.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I think it was milescraft jig I bought to router out door hinges. Took a little setting up, but they came out perfect.

 

[TimberFarm]

Was hoping to go for a bike ride yesterday but it rained all day. I finally put the pulls on the kitchen cabinets. We are getting close to having the house put away. It is starting to feel really good. Used a Milescraft cabinet jig. Worked very well. I was going to make my own jig for each sized door and drawer but looked on line and saw that they had some at woodcraft. I walked in expecting to pay over $200 and waked out with this one for $25. A buddy of mine has some cabinets going in at his beach house and he already called dibs on borrowing it. It took a while to do the drawer fronts but the doors were a snap. Once I got the size correct I was able to drill all five doors in less than 2 minutes.

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I just discovered this project yestrday while I was sitting around the house waiting for our two pups to come out of spay surgery. I read straight through from page one to page 70.
I'm sure I will get caught up to page 440 (!!!) in the next week. They aren't allowed out, so they won't get their stitches dirty. I am on pup sitting detail.

I had to cheat and jump to the end here and see what was up. Yikes still at it but the light is shing bright at the end of the tunnel it looks like.
Congratulations to you. I built my own contemporary style house 30 years ago. Very similar shed roof design, passive solar, radiant slab. Two stories though. HWBB on second floor.
I wish I saw this back then I would have added a lot to the build especially since it is similar to my own house. I did not do SIP's though. I used ICF's. Building inspector wasn't used to seeing how I built and after a slight lack of communication on his part for my footing inspection, he says to me, "You know more about what you are building than I do, keep going".
In construction 45 years, 38 running my own business.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Am I allowed to say that I have been in construction for 3 years? I might get away with it jokingly. We are still walking around looking at the house in wonder. Night before last, after putting in our mailbox down the road, next to all the neighbors mailboxes, I sat on the tractor tire and drank a beer looking at the mountain. Just watching the sunlight disappear from the trees.
Yeaterday, when my workday ended I went down to the pond and fished. Caught about 10 bass and one very large panfish. Let them all go. A couple bass were keepers. One was 4-5 inches and went after a 2.5 inch lure. Best 2.5 hours I’ve wasted in years.

 

[civilian]

And you deserve many more times wasted. Enjoy. Jon

 

[EddieWalker]

The one rule that I have for fishing my pond is to NEVER put any fish back in the pond unless it's over 5 pounds. They reproduce so quickly that it's almost impossible to keep their numbers under control. Too many bass means the feeder fish are not allowed to grow, and a bass is limited in size based on the size of it's food. If all you have is small feeder fish, then you will only have small bass. The only way to get bigger feeder fish, is to have fewer bass. 100 pounds of total predator weight per surface acre is the ideal goal.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

The one rule that I have for fishing my pond is to NEVER put any fish back in the pond unless it's over 5 pounds. They reproduce so quickly that it's almost impossible to keep their numbers under control. Too many bass means the feeder fish are not allowed to grow, and a bass is limited in size based on the size of it's food. If all you have is small feeder fish, then you will only have small bass. The only way to get bigger feeder fish, is to have fewer bass. 100 pounds of total predator weight per surface acre is the ideal goal.

Eddie I definitely need to manage the pond. When we bought the place the pond had tons of large bluegill and a fair amount of bass. But I seldom saw a bass over 12 inches. If I walk down there now, I can stand on the shore and see some bass swim by that are 14-20 inches almost every time I go. And yesterday I saw one that I am certain was nearly 2 feet. Maybe its the optics of the water messing with me. But there are some monsters.
That said, there are schools of bass and and far less bluegill than there used to be. I intend to take some 14+ and cook them this summer. I also pulled out a 10 inch pan fish yesterday that looked similar to a crappy but without the large paper mouth. Did not look like a blue gill. Had a nice fleshy body. I didn’t have my phone to take a picture.