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jsahara24
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# Posted: 11 Sep 2023 16:11
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Looking good!
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 12 Sep 2023 12:43
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I am really impressed. That is a beautiful cabin and site. You should be very proud. Your family will be making a lot of great times there. How's the fishing around there
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2023 21:36 - Edited by: Grizzlyman
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Aklogcabin
Fishing is great! Lots of northerns, smallies, and good sized bluegills. Walleyes are a bit harder to find but been busy trying!
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2023 21:43 - Edited by: Grizzlyman
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Still hadn’t Fixed the chimney supports from this winter yet. Fixed them this weekend by installing a new set, and securing them with spax lag screws instead of just normal screws. I think it really was a fluke last year so we’ll see moving forward.
Finished painting the outbuildings finally as well this weekend. Looking good!
Also just did some more general cleanup.
This is such a beautiful time of year. Colors are almost peak and there aren’t any bugs at all. That and 60-70 degrees every day.
But we know the cold stuff is coming!!!
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 16 Oct 2023 21:14 - Edited by: Grizzlyman
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We are shutting the cabin down for the 3rd Time this weekend… always bittersweet.
Last weekend we did a lot of grouse hunting. I also installed our permanent water system. Used copper to replace the vinyl tubing I’d been using all summer. I have more work to do on the copper but So far looking good.
Been a great year. Been able to enjoy the cabin this summer vs just working and building.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 16 Oct 2023 22:26
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We get 'ready for winter' but never really 'close it down'; ie, I make some trips in depending upon access and sometimes my wife comes along.
Goodonya for taking some rec time vs always working and building!
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 24 Oct 2023 19:55 - Edited by: Grizzlyman
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Closed down the cabin this weekend. Will be the last trip until the lake turns solid.. then a few winter trips.
Fall is just so incredibly pretty up at the cabin- hard to leave. Got a number of grouse this weekend too.
We have FINALLY cleaned up the ENTIRE site. Took lots of hours here and there spread out over the summer to do so. But everything is now in its final form. I still have some hacking up fallen logs and chipping to do… but that is all stuff in the forest surrounding the site. Filled up my sauna woodshed to let the wood season so it should be decent by spring.
I’ve learned that You can ALWAYS use one more day…But if I did have one I would have completely filled my big wood shed with split wood. Oh well it’s 1/2 full. Lol.
I also finished replacing the vinyl tubing and sweating all the copper for my piping. It’s all external and will bring water from the 60 gallon holding tank into the cabin now via RV pump. I plumbed it to directly fill our countertop water filter. This is preferable over a faucet given the limitations. The RV pump should Cycle on when the spigot is opened. I also plumbed an untreated spigot on the exterior of the cabin.
Additionally, I cut and marked out another 1/2 mile of trails. All together now we have about a mile+ of trails for hiking on our property. And there is a bunch of state land that has decent game trails for hiking to behind us.
Summer #3 has been very productive. Not as much from the “building†side but a lot of little details necessary to finish everything. This summer I:
-built sauna deck
-sided sauna, outhouse, and shed w/ cedar shakes
-built sauna lean-to for water toy storage
-built shed lean-to for lumber and material storage
-cut the forest back to 30ft for fire management purposes
-reinstalled chimney bracing (and beefed it up!)
-Installed a water system to bring lake water up to the cabin
- replaced wood stove with a Vermont casting stove
-reconfigured stovepipe for new stove
- finished widening treads on the staircases up the bluffs
-Installed a reverse osmosis system to filter and drink lake water
- removed R/O system and replaced with countertop doulton filter
-finished trimming out sauna
- replaced vinyl tubing plumbing with copper
-cut trails
- made a landing for “extra†small 14ft boat to stay permanently
-moved construction garbage pile about 100 yards into woods
-cleaned up all the construction garbage and material
- did more fishing and hunting!!
Life is good. Enjoy a few Northern Minnesota fall pics!!
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 24 Oct 2023 20:04 - Edited by: Grizzlyman
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Few more
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 25 Oct 2023 11:07
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You have to beautiful cabin n site. I'm proud for you. And sooooo nice that you enjoy going to the cabin with your wife. I grew up in northern WI and miss the sound of drumming grouse. Although partridge have been introduced to our area and we see one once n a while. Spruce grouse here. And they taste great too. Nice to read your story
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2024 22:50
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We will be heading up Friday to open the cabin back up for the season. Not Much happened this winter due to basically zero snow- we were up only once this winter due to sketchy ice up through January and lack of snow for snowmobiles the rest of the winter. We went up in February and there was about an inch on the ice to ride on only. .. and that was gone a few days later. We did finally get some snow in early April, but only hung around for a few weeks…. Can’t imagine much changed in that short span or had too much snow damage in that span.
One interesting thing though is our dock took a beating. We have a permanent dock. Usually the ice locks up and doesn’t move once it’s there until it goes out. Rocky lakes like ours can handle permanent dock if they’re built right. This was such an odd year for ice. It came and went and strengthened and weakened almost the entire winter. No snow means no insulation and the ice was a lot more Susceptible to temperature swings and would basically keep adding and moving all night long every night, and start to weaken in the sunlight during the day. Some snow is incredibly important for ice.
You normally can hear the ice popping and moaning somewhat, but it really was a trip this year. When we were up in February the ice was pinging and “laser sounds” literally all night long. You could just stand outside and it was so loud and nonstop- especially on the wilderness lake.
Anyway, the ice cycling caused a massive heave on our side of the lake. Normally rocky shore lakes aren’t susceptible to heaves as the rock doesn’t budge and therefore the ice can’t heave- sandy shorelines are different- But rocky shores lock it up in place.
My dock has a 2” “insurance” steel pipe bolted to the rock wall to keep the ice from pushing the dock into the shore. It also has an angle iron bracket with a 3/4 bolt fastened into the rock on the shore side. The ice sheered the 3/4 bolt off the angle iron bracket. Not bent, straight up just sheered it off. The heave lifted it and sheered the bolt clean.
The 2” steel pipe bent like a hockey stick. See pics below. There a couple of where it was starting to bend vs how it finished. I haven’t seen it yet- these were just from a neighbor. I can’t imagine the force needed to bend a 2” pipe in straight compression, just incredible… it also bent the 3/4 bolt that fastens it to the shoreline
The dock seems to be in decent enough shape still- we’ll see this weekend- the dock guys are going to come and reattach everything next week. It’ll probably have to be adjusted back into place and re-leveled too.
They make these permanent docks ultra beefy for this reason. The legs are 3” pipe so they shouldn’t bend. The ice bent the heck out of the permanent bumpers but that’s a quick bend back. If it can last through a winter like this…
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