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flatwater
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2010 16:16
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Would you rather live in a clear area with woods around you or a more private cabin deep in the woods with trees all around you? And Why. For myself, our cabin was in the deep woods but I cleared an area 50 feet around the cabin for #1 fire protection #2 to let more light in #3 allow for better solar use
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dk1393
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:50
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Our cabin is in an open field (4 acres are cleared). There are woods all around us. It is nice being in a clearing. We have good sun for the solar. An open area for a food plot and veggie garden. We dont have to worry as much when using the fire pit. I wanted in the woods, but I am now glad we are in the clearing.
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2010 22:37
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We have a mix of forested and cleared space on our land but will build in the cleared space at least 100ft from the trees. The main reason is that we are in high mtn. desert and it is quite dry. No lush forest here. If there is a fire we will have little to no help saving the cabins.
+1 on the open space for a garden and solar.
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Moontreeranch
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2010 00:49
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open...passive solar...and for the PV
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bigriver
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# Posted: 9 Feb 2010 20:01
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Our cabin is in the middle of an open field. We do have a wooded area and I am thinking of setting up a little camp area with a small lean to for sleeping in the middle of the woods. Does any one have plans for a small camp area?
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larry
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# Posted: 25 Feb 2010 21:08
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we have plenty of open field around but we decided to go in the trees with the field on the north side. since we would be using our cabin mostly on the spring, summer and fall we wanted the shade on the cabin so it would not be so hot inside.
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 26 Feb 2010 15:15
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hmm.
Would depend on what part of the county you are in. Hear in east Texas summers are terrible HOT ! . we built burried under the trees and need the shade in those summer months. kinda sux in the winter.
But in Colorado where we are putting our cabin we have to think backwards. would be to cool in the shade specially in the morn and afternoon for us. So, we are building our cabin in a Sunny open space. Not the way we are used to thinking. I dont usually sit in the sun.
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waldenpond
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# Posted: 18 Apr 2010 17:33 - Edited by: waldenpond
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am thinking several open acres with a few trees, garden plot and burn area, and wooded rest but not too over-much. right now we are out in the open surrounded by crop lands. great when its corn , not so much when its beans..
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Xplorer
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2010 16:40
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Another one for the open field. My house is in the woods & it's nice to have the cabin in the open. It's located 5' from my garden entrance. How nice.
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fooboo
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2010 00:23
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Hmmm, how to describe this with just words. Suppose we have a clock and the cabin is in the center of the clock. North is at the top at 12.
The cabin was on the edge of the forest. Look out to the North, East or West and you saw dense forest and there was a creek to the North about 100 feet into the forest. So everything from 9 to 4 on the clock was forest.
If you look out the windows to the south, it was cleared. Everything from 4 to 9 was in the sun. Right about where the 7 and 8 o'clock area would be I expanded the cleared area further out so that it received more light and that's where the animals were kept and the garden was located and a shed.
So I ended up with a circle and a rectangle that jutted off into the 7 and 8 o'clock area. I hope that is easy to visualize.
The cabin would not get any sun until about 10am on most days, but the area down around 7-8 o'clock got lots of early and late sun.
We also trimmed the lower branches on a lot of trees that looked out towards the creek (north) and removed the underbrush so it was more of a "park like" manicured forest between the cabin and creek. The area was very wet so fire wasn't a big concern, but we cleared the underbrush to lessen the fire danger.
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2010 21:54
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well,i love deep woods with tons of brush and weeds and all.trees galore,but we have to clean up our whole area cause of fires.Theres so much brush and wood down.We are not allowed to burn it till the first snow.so we are waiting .We have to get tarps over the big piles and then burn.But i like the deep forest alot.
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