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ICC
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# Posted: 20 May 2023 18:48
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Excellent! I'll keep an eye on this.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 21 May 2023 06:13
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Thank you.
We actualy made the 3hr drive, tried to auger the holes with a auger on the mini ex but failed, then dug every one, got them inspected and filled with concrete and rebar in 2 days. I also did a rough grade of the area around the tubes and dug a swale. It was dawn to dusk both days with just my nearly 70yr old father and me.
What really helped was mounting my electric mixer on the bucket of my mini ex and useing my tractor to move the concrete right to where the mixer/hole was.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 21 May 2023 14:04
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As Im now 70 I wish I had a motivated young guy like you for our place!
Yer doin good, especially considering the skeeters. It is like that at our country home (940sf old one room school house from the late 1800s) surrounded by swamps and marshland. We can retreat 45min. north to our cabin 9ac where there are few skeeter or ticks.
And the works is never done.......
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 22 May 2023 11:14
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Looking good! That's a lot of work in 2 days, especially considering you mixed the concrete yourself....Nice job, will look forward to seeing your progress..
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Irrigation Guy
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# Posted: 22 May 2023 18:50 - Edited by: Irrigation Guy
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Quoting: Brettny It was dawn to dusk both days with just my nearly 70yr old father and me.
My father turned 70 in April of this year. His cognitive health is in decline. I will cherish the time we spent together working on my cabin as I am not sure he will make another trip.
I hope you and your dad are making good memories.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 22 May 2023 20:03
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I'm sorry to hear about your father.
We are making many memories. We where both suprised how much we got done in less than 48hrs. Next weekend is girders, floor joists and walls
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Brettny
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# Posted: 28 May 2023 19:41
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Sub floor on, 24' walls framed and stacked off to the side. It's been a very productive weekend. Tomorrow we cut more studs, clean up and head home.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 29 May 2023 09:16
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Great progress! Lots of work!
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Brettny
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# Posted: 30 May 2023 06:48
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Sure is. That's two 12hr+ days. We had a goal to meet by the end of the weekend and got there.
We are taking a break for a weekend then on it again for 10days. I expect to have a dried in building up with the roof fully on by then.
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 30 May 2023 07:46
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Very nice.....What size cabin are you building?
Based on your progress to date I think you should be able to get it dried in, in 10 days.....
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 30 May 2023 10:01
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Great start, for me, once my deck was built it really felt like it was all happening  I put my lawn chair in the middle, christened it a deck chair and had a refreshing beverage.
If I may add a few words of caution....
Be Extra Careful now! Your plan will stop IF either of you gets hurt (it happens to somebody on a construction project Every Day).
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Brettny
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# Posted: 30 May 2023 10:14
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We are doing a 20x24 main cabin with a 8x12 porch next to a 8x8 bathroom. The main cabin will be under a gambrel roof and the porch/bath will be under a gabel roof.
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Erik
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2023 16:21
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I really like your shed, you built to stay in…it makes me smile my whole finished building will be the temporary “shed†you guys use for temporary accommodations while building your actual cabins 😂
Amazing amount of work, you get done.
I feel lazy by comparison at 46!
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Brettny
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2023 19:57
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If I didnt have a family I would have just bought a slightly bigger shed as a cabin. We have stayed in that with no insulation and 3 guys with snow on the ground.
I'm 37 and my father is nearly 70. You build a cabin just like you eat a elephant..one piece at a time. He will prob sendup building him and my mother a house very shortly.
Tomorrow we head up for 10days. The goal is to get the roof on.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 13 Jun 2023 21:21
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3 days of work.
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ICC
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2023 00:09
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Good progress.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2023 08:43
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Dang! This was apparently well planned out before starting! Did you have the roof trusses all pre-cut andvready to assemble? Wall studs pre-cut as well?
Way to go, great progress!
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Brettny
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# Posted: 14 Jun 2023 20:24
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Yes. I have been planing this for what feels like years. We built the roof trusses in half at home. We cut all the wall studs and layed out the top and bottom plates the weekend we did the floor joists and sub floor.
Today it rained half the day and got most of the back wall done becids putting windows in. Theres a 70% chance of rain or better basicly until we leave.
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Great Outdoors 2
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2023 05:40
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Looking great Brett! What will you be doing for the roof?
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Brettny
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2023 06:39
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We are useing metal roofing. We are starting that today.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2023 19:29
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Got the roof 98% done just as the heavy rain came in. This was 7 days of 12-14hr days but we started with the sub floor on. We have had about 2 days of good solar gain the whole 7 days so having a generator with a battery charger has been key
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Brettny
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2023 23:06
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Day 9 at this point I think.. roof is totally done, front door on and trimmed. We spent the rest of the day cleaning up a wreck of s build site, stacking lumber, packing, drying everything and we will be headed home tomorrow morning. It's been such a wonder full mental and physical push for my father and I. We are both happy to have done so much and things turned out looking great.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2023 23:29
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You have earned a day off!
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Brettny
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2023 13:52
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Sorry I forgot these forums dint do vertical pics
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 19 Jun 2023 13:11
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Nice work!
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medic149
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# Posted: 24 Jun 2023 16:51
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Looks great! We have our off-grid cabin in Oswego County and love it.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 24 Jun 2023 20:16
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Thank you both.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2023 10:51
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Went up for a 3 day weekend and got the porch roof on and bathroom enclosed. Next is railings, stairs and decking. After that I'm going to stain the exterior, put the windows and back door in then schedule the framing inspection.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2023 19:35
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Spent a weekend putting front stairs in, staining the siding and putting windows and the back door in.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2023 19:38
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We also did alot of odds and ends like putting collar ties up in the 16ft ceiling, re working some interior walls and cleaning up the job site.
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