Cabin Porn

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Here are some really cool and some really weird cabins. Some made from top of the line materials and some from throwaway and recycled material...There's no shortage of interesting pics with 57 pages.

Cabin Porn
 
Take a ride up to the North East Kingdom of Vermont and drive some of the logging roads. There are hundreds of camps tucked into the woods all over.

A great book on The Camps of Vermont is; "Last light in the North East Kingdom."
 
ok off the dorner downers

this is awesome

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I also for some reason love the A frame designs

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half buried wood cabins are no good for the long term.unless you only have wood above ground and stone below the grade.
there is a whole dumber of problems with that design.
i. water infiltration during thaw/melt cycles, constant dampness from just moisture being pulled up from lower layers of ground, smell, occasional insects, frozen-through effect during winter month.

best log cabin is th one that sits at least three feet above ground on the stone supports or foundation. 5 feet is ideal. it's healthier for wood to be aerated by wind all the time to keep it dry and make it last much longer. being off the ground also means warmth during winter month cold-air sinks.

only reason people built cabins half-sunken blow grade is an ease of construction. when you are just one trapper/hunter out in the wilderness, lifting timbers above shoulder height by yourself get very difficult very fast. also the less timber you have to fall and prep the faster your shelter is erected. it's always a balance between what could be done with limited amount of tools, help, time.

when i traveled through Siberia and Asiatic part of russia, i've seen local natives building their winter hunting huts and their permanent 'houses' or 'lodges' the best design was where they had timber box sitting on several very large boulders. some of those 'lodges' were as old as 100 years. inherited from great-grand parents. and they were in very good shape for their age. you would not have guessed the age if not told. only thing they replace there ever 2-3 years is a bark roof. It's really humid and wet there - very similar to what we have hear. and stuff rots very fast. virtually anything that lasted for more than a decade was build off the ground. their A-frame winter hunt huts are usually rebuild about every 4-5 years because of how simple they are and how destructive moisture and how fast terrestrial bacterial life recycles dead wood.
 
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Nothing! not a damn thing.
if anything there are more positives over city girl.
she can cook, she can split wood, she can skin and gut. i'll take mountain girl any day.
 
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