"The Cabin"

[JohnL48]

Some renovation pics

Me trying to look busy

We took a ratchet strap and pulled the back wall in and built an interior wall to hold it in place

 

[outdoorstom]

I love it! Beautiful inside and out...and gorgeous property!!

 

[JohnL48]

Old fireplace was shot so down it came. All that hemlock siding was saved and I made the flooring with it

 

[Satguy]

Cabin is awesome and homey.

 

[wbpdeer]

I love this cabin restoration. Your pictures tell the story wonderfully. I built a hunting cabin in the woods in 1990 and tore it down in 2014. It was in disrepair and my father-in-law wanted it gone.

Good job on the chimney removal.

 

[Elkaddict]

Thanks for sharing

 

[JohnL48]

After ripping off the old hemlock siding and wrapping with Tyveck I got my father up for a day to help put up siding. It looks nice but if I were to do it again it would be vinyl siding. too much maintenance. all I seem to do is work up there

 

[JohnL48]

A lot of rot had to be fixed

After getting the one side livable we started on the other side

More rot

Getting there

 

[JohnL48]

Finally the outside was done and I can start inside

One of my attempts to stabilize the cabin. You can see what I'm dealing with

 

[JohnL48]

Finished off the bathroom first

This is the vanity I made for it

 

[JohnL48]

I made the interior log siding out of 2 x 6 spruce and cleared with water based poly

I took all the old hemlock siding back to my shop, ran it thru the planer, squared it up and put a tongue and groove in it the pre finished it with clear

One of many helpful friends

Our supervisors

 

[JohnL48]

2010 was the first opening day in 12 yrs we spent at the cabin. Although the kitchen was still a wreck we hung a sheet over the doorway and stayed in the almost finished side

Future food plot

The late Gunner, trying to hide from the crackling fire

 

[JohnL48]

What the kitchen looked like at the time

And all the crap that came out of it

 

[JohnL48]

Am I boring you guys yet ??

 

[Turkey Creek]

Not bored at all! I posted the same thing over on HT, these kind of threads are always popular as we in general are that time of people, hands on and like to build something out of all the pieces. Nice job on the project! Beautiful property.

 

[JohnL48]

More attempts to stabilize kitchen side. I made 16' long beams and slid under cabin. this one is holding ok

 

[JohnL48]

I was having a problem with the beaver clogging up my overflow pipe so I built a beaver deceiver, never had a clogged pipe since

 

[JohnL48]

Blow out from beaver dam flood

Putting up knotty pine in the kitchen

 

[Triple C]

Fantastic thread John! You'd make one heck of a neighbor. Pretty cool to have so much history with your dad, the cabin and his jeep. Love following along on your "rebuilds"!!

 

[JohnL48]

Had to make a new beaver deceiver last spring. they only last a few yrs but if your having clogging problems this is the way to go. the bottom of the cage never clogs and always flows water. I'm going to post this in the build thread too