Keithw247
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This is a cabin build thread more so than a property tour. The property is pine plantation and cypress swamp emcompassing about 500 acres. My guesstimate is that 300 acres are highland. There are some pockets of hardwoods. My family purchased the property in 2012 as a timber investment and recreational property.
We haven't done any significant habitat improvement outside of clearing some logging decks for food plots. The food plots have not been very successful as it seems the tractor would break down at the worst times. I have planted some apple, pear, crabapple, persimmon and a few chestnut trees, but it will be a few years before those begin producing. In the meantime we've put a few feeders up on the food plots. My father, brother, myself and a few of our friends hunt it, but we have yet to kill a wall hanger. In the five years we have owned it we haven't killed more than 4 deer in any one year with the majority being does and a few button bucks (inexperienced friends!).
The property was a shoot anything dog hunting club before we acquired it so I knew it would take a few years to establish some shooter bucks. Based on trail cams I think we had 3-4 shooters this year and I'm assuming there are a few more I don't have pictures of. That's some history of the place.
When we got the property there was an old 16' x 16" clubhouse on a 32' X 32' concrete pad that had electricity run to it. The roof had been torn off (vandalized) in the weeks before we closed on it.
This picture shows the roof going on.
Roof completed with shed overhang.
This was our cabin for 2013 and 2014. It has a bunk bed, wood burning stove, refrigerator, microwave and window a/c. I think I've slept in it once or twice, but my brother spends several weekends a year staying in it.
By the end of 2014 my dad decided he wanted a nicer place to stay and designed a cabin plan.
Construction began in January 2015. The guy building the cabin is a fantastic carpenter but has a lot of other work obligations and this is a side project for him when he has time. Due to a number of issues like the floods in October 2015 and the Hurricane in October 2016, he did not have time to work on it so it has been a long build that is still in progress. Hopefully it will be completed in the next couple of months. That's why I decided to go ahead and start the build thread now.
Framing began in February 2015.
Looking out the front of the cabin across road at existing shack.
The roof began going on in March 2015.
In April they began drying it in.
June 2015 the wrap around porch went on.
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We haven't done any significant habitat improvement outside of clearing some logging decks for food plots. The food plots have not been very successful as it seems the tractor would break down at the worst times. I have planted some apple, pear, crabapple, persimmon and a few chestnut trees, but it will be a few years before those begin producing. In the meantime we've put a few feeders up on the food plots. My father, brother, myself and a few of our friends hunt it, but we have yet to kill a wall hanger. In the five years we have owned it we haven't killed more than 4 deer in any one year with the majority being does and a few button bucks (inexperienced friends!).
The property was a shoot anything dog hunting club before we acquired it so I knew it would take a few years to establish some shooter bucks. Based on trail cams I think we had 3-4 shooters this year and I'm assuming there are a few more I don't have pictures of. That's some history of the place.
When we got the property there was an old 16' x 16" clubhouse on a 32' X 32' concrete pad that had electricity run to it. The roof had been torn off (vandalized) in the weeks before we closed on it.
This picture shows the roof going on.
Roof completed with shed overhang.
This was our cabin for 2013 and 2014. It has a bunk bed, wood burning stove, refrigerator, microwave and window a/c. I think I've slept in it once or twice, but my brother spends several weekends a year staying in it.
By the end of 2014 my dad decided he wanted a nicer place to stay and designed a cabin plan.
Construction began in January 2015. The guy building the cabin is a fantastic carpenter but has a lot of other work obligations and this is a side project for him when he has time. Due to a number of issues like the floods in October 2015 and the Hurricane in October 2016, he did not have time to work on it so it has been a long build that is still in progress. Hopefully it will be completed in the next couple of months. That's why I decided to go ahead and start the build thread now.
Framing began in February 2015.
Looking out the front of the cabin across road at existing shack.
The roof began going on in March 2015.
In April they began drying it in.
June 2015 the wrap around porch went on.
