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The cabin remodel
- Thread starter m1west
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Friday afternoon my cabin neighbor Dave showed up at his place, Dave has done me a lot of favors up there so Saturday morning we started excavating a new driveway for him to reach the forest road from Golden lane ( our driveway) he agreed to pay for the fuel and some maintenance on the machinery when needed, I donated the time. We started at 6:30 am. The first picture is before starting and the other pictures are the progress. I have never cut in a road from scratch before, especially on a very steep hillside. It was a learning experience and wasn't nearly as scary as I had anticipated. We got about half done roughing it in at 11am so we went to town for lunch and called it a day. He will get a new road that otherwise would be cost prohibitive and ill get more favors from him.
Nice. Work never ends.
The ship lap will be painted gloss white and the beam will be stained Cedar color for contrast. The home depot just sent me a text that my order of 23" faced insulation just showed up, so next trip I can insulate and then start the finish work. I also mad a complete list of materials that I am short, need way more vent channels, 2x2 spacer boards and ship lap boards. I figure 3-4 trips for the ceiling.
Thats why I call it the work cabin.
You're probably like me. You can't sit still long enough to enjoy it. 
That is a really Kewel idea. I like it.
These are improvements that I made in the shop, and the hand held shower head from Home Depot.
The outriggers for the scaffolding helps a lot on plywood
Latch for the security door went a long way in keeping warm at night
the hand held shower head helped a lot in a shower that is 3x3'
The outriggers for the scaffolding helps a lot on plywood
Latch for the security door went a long way in keeping warm at night
the hand held shower head helped a lot in a shower that is 3x3'
It was friggin cold up there with a high in the 50's and rained all day Saturday.
I was only able to work inside, so I organized and clean up the solar container as well as the loft in the cabin. I haven't been in the loft in 3 years, lots of insect carcus's.
Since I could only work inside I got all the vent channels on the ceiling in the main cabin and loft, still got the porch area I added in to go.
Got a visitor Friday night, pretty good sized Kitty, I posted picture of me and the dog in the same spot the next dy for comparison, the dog is a 110# American bulldog, and the Cat is much bigger. Can't say it too many times, if you frequent the woods carry a weapon, its only a matter of time before you may need it. Famous last words of many that got mauled " I just ran outside for a minute and when I turned around it was between me and the cabin"
There is plenty of Deer for them to get big and fat on up there, when the deer see you they just stop and look at you. As a side note I was really shocked/impressed that Saturday with all the rain the solar worked good enough to make hot water for a shower.
I was only able to work inside, so I organized and clean up the solar container as well as the loft in the cabin. I haven't been in the loft in 3 years, lots of insect carcus's.
Since I could only work inside I got all the vent channels on the ceiling in the main cabin and loft, still got the porch area I added in to go.
Got a visitor Friday night, pretty good sized Kitty, I posted picture of me and the dog in the same spot the next dy for comparison, the dog is a 110# American bulldog, and the Cat is much bigger. Can't say it too many times, if you frequent the woods carry a weapon, its only a matter of time before you may need it. Famous last words of many that got mauled " I just ran outside for a minute and when I turned around it was between me and the cabin"
There is plenty of Deer for them to get big and fat on up there, when the deer see you they just stop and look at you. As a side note I was really shocked/impressed that Saturday with all the rain the solar worked good enough to make hot water for a shower.
Take it from me if you get a better inverter the standby current will drop. I just troubleshot a camp that had a harbor freight juniper?
it took twice as long to run the microwave as the generator to prove it I put a spare outback on the system and microwave worked just like at home.
The outback can be set to sleep mode and will blink on to see if there's a load saving power like his night light's wouldn't turn it on because they were all led not enough load to wake it up turned on manually and it was fine.
I gave him an estimate on a new outback or victron (my new preference) well see what he picks these both are inverter chargers with pass through.
tom
the 3000 watt inverter works great, I now lose less than 1 volt overnight, watching videos, microwave and coffeemaker in the morning plus a 1/2 horse pressure pump. When I had the 10,000 watt inverter the batteries would lose 5-6 volts overnight. Inverters have a 15% parasitic drag on your batteries. 10,000 watts = 1500 watts, like having the hot water tank on all the time plus your other usage. The 3000 watt inverter still handles everything and only eats 450 watts. I have 24kw of lithium ion battery and 2400 watts of solar. After switching to the smaller inverter, I am very happy with the performance.
I just binge read your thread..... I laughed at the broken toilet tanks as I still have post traumatic stress over the ass chewing's I received as a kid when I did not sponge the water out to the standard expected by my father.......
This summer in anchorage I was able to lend a hand to a man restoring an old D7 or 9. it was a giant machine and was cable operated. the pony motor was toast ( yet ran) and I could not get him to leave it alone. It started easy and the rods just knocked to beat hell. He kept wanting to adjust things and I sternly said leave it alone as it starts so easy. it had no power cause it was only running on one cyl. I was made aware it chucked a rod and has been replaced.
This summer in anchorage I was able to lend a hand to a man restoring an old D7 or 9. it was a giant machine and was cable operated. the pony motor was toast ( yet ran) and I could not get him to leave it alone. It started easy and the rods just knocked to beat hell. He kept wanting to adjust things and I sternly said leave it alone as it starts so easy. it had no power cause it was only running on one cyl. I was made aware it chucked a rod and has been replaced.
I just built an electric crank for the D7 pony motor, sometimes I starts right up and sometimes its a temperamental %#*( thing. Anyhow I'm tired of pulling on a crank handle. I used a starter an ring gear from a Harley Davidson and a 5/8 square bore weld hub. I finished it today and took it apart to paint it. Tomorrow I will put it back together and post the picture. in another week and a half I can try it out. I like the idea of the pony motor for the old gal but if it blows up someday I will go to an electric starter conversion.
Here is the electric crank I just completed, still have to wire it up with the battery leads and a momentary switch, I plan to use jumper cables for the leads, that way I can just use my pickup to start it.
The first picture shows the starting handle shaft sticking through the hood, it has a male 5/8 square on the end about 2" long, the starter has a female 5/8. I plan to mount it to the hood with spacers at the correct elevation, so when you engage the starter it will spin the pony motor like the crank handle, when the pony starts the dogs on the shaft will let it pop up and disengage. That way it can stay with the Cat and just connect the jumper cables to a battery or my pickup when you want to start it.
The first picture shows the starting handle shaft sticking through the hood, it has a male 5/8 square on the end about 2" long, the starter has a female 5/8. I plan to mount it to the hood with spacers at the correct elevation, so when you engage the starter it will spin the pony motor like the crank handle, when the pony starts the dogs on the shaft will let it pop up and disengage. That way it can stay with the Cat and just connect the jumper cables to a battery or my pickup when you want to start it.
Today I visited the HomeDepot in Riverbank on the way back from real work in Modesto. Got 30 of the plastic vent channels and bought 20 of the 2x2 spacer boards that the shiplap will attach to. Headed back tomorrow to the cabin, will split the time on dead tree clearing and the ceiling in the cabin, be back Sunday.
Got the electric crank installed, first I tented the dozer and set off 6 bug bombs in it. Next morning they were all gone until it started heating up a little, then the bastards started coming in from other areas trying to get into the areas of the dozer that they once lived, mostly in the radiator housing and the pulleys for the blade cable. I didnt get the unit completely installed on Friday due to batteling the Yellowjackets. Saturday morning I finished it and started the pony motor with it, big improvement over pulling a crank handle. Before if the stars were aligned just right it started right up with the crank handle and if my stars where off a little I just cranked until blue in the face. Now it just starts.