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cookieman
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2025 12:05pm
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Hi there,
I'm looking for help on a cabin build I'm looking to complete.
I recently bought a 2 acre property and I want to build a cabin on it. A cabin that can be used as a hunting camp and also a place for friends and family to stay when they come to visit.
I'm thinking of making it 16x36, where I want to build has kind of a narrow long envelope surrounded by trees. I also don't want to completely rule out the idea of keeping it as a building lot, and want to make the cabin something that could possibly be moved someday (hence why I wanna make it 16 feet wide)
I thought the best way to do this would be to build on concrete pads/blocks up off the ground. Then it would make it easier to possibly be moved someday if I wanted to build out there.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with this? Is that a good way to do it?
Also wondering if anybody has any plans of this size or pictures. I want it to be a 2 bedroom (with 2nd bedroom possibly being the loft), big min area and smaller kitchen. I also have old cook stove that I would like to incorporate into it for heat. I also would like it to be rustic with board and batten siding and steel roof.
Thanks again
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philpom
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2025 08:04pm
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To be sure you would want footers that go below the frost line in your area. Make them flush with the ground and then stack blocks to get it level. If any movement happens down the road you can jack it and shim it. Building that large are typically built mostly onsite (assembled) because that size is s challenge to move. Go check at some local barn/shed dealers to see the largest models they will deliver intact and take a good look at the foundation assembly for its to make sure it's strong enough to move down the road.
Sitting on blocks is no big deal.
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DRP
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2025 08:42pm
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16 wide with a loft will not go down the road. Unless it is on steel girders you'll likely break it before you move it. I'd view this as the core, build it with a real foundation and provision to add on later. Below is 16x28 with loft above, its about 20' above the foundation and just enough room to stand upright under the ridge above. 13' above the road is max road height and there are axles and frame in that. At 16 wide it is pretty much all 2x12's. I seriously doubt you would or could move it.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2025 10:24pm
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Our new pre-built milled log cabin last year is a 12.5 x 28' c/w a 4' front door overhang on one end. Without the overhang we could have had a max 32'. I dont know the height but it was over the road legal here in sc WI, delivered on a portable building truck rig and moved onto my prepped site and floating foundation with a 'mule' (portable building short fork iift to guide and a set of boggy wheels on the other end). It took them less than an hour to unload it out on the little town road out front, bring it up the 350'ish foot driveway and set it on my blocks.
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