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TomChum
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# Posted: 15 Feb 2011 01:27
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Quoting: fpw I have many projects lined up and I am itching to get started. Hopefully, spring comes early this year.
Amen to that. I can't wait to get out there too. Having a cabin makes me appreciate the weather, except for mud.
Your cabin looks great.
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fpw
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2011 22:52
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Excellent weekend at the Stump Ranch.
Getting the chainsaws ready for spring.
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Organizing the cabin, a little.
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Fired up the Oliver 880.
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The 4-dog stove kept things quite warm.
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dvgchef
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# Posted: 19 Mar 2011 23:10
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An amazing project you are working on - hats off to you.
Quoting: fpw The shower is a test rig, I wanted make sure it works. I filled it with water by setting up a scaffold next to the shower. The final version will be a timber framed support structure with a 55 gallon drum at the ground that gets hand pumped up to the shower structure. The hand pump will have an option to add a gallon or two of hot water to the shower drum.
did you get this working? Want to do something similar - actually exactly similar! What kind of hand pump will you/ did you/ use? I'm a newbie to all this - built my first cabin last season with no plumbing and I miss it, especially a hot shower - but don't know too much about plumbing.
Thanks!
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2011 01:01
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thats so beautiful.
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fpw
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# Posted: 20 Mar 2011 10:03
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dvgchef,
Time consuming project, but it keeps me out of trouble.
I have not, yet, finished up the shower. I plan to get that done early in the spring.
A few years back, I used a similar shower. It was very simply. A bucket or drum set up like I have in the photos above. And, then, at ground level that was a 5-gallon bucket with a hand pump piped up to the shower. We pumped up a bucket of cool water, then, we heated, another bucket of water on the sauna stove. When you pumped up the hot water, the shower was ready to go. It worked very well.
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fpw
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# Posted: 18 May 2011 21:48 - Edited by: fpw
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Weather is great. Bugs are bad. And, of course the wood ticks are out in force. But it sure beats 20 below zero.
Cutting Some Trees.
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Turning trees into beams.
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Finished siding the outhouse.
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