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Hi again, and I hope the new year finds you well. My apologies for neglecting the thread so badly but there's a recent dearth in update material since I've yet to find signifcant time to work on the cabin. This has been of benefit to my brother who's spent most of his unemployed rear end' time living up there hunting and not sending me a single picture. Typical. Apparently it's been a solid year for hunting up at the cabin, but I've been way too busy to even visit. Still, I'm not gonna leave you with nothing. Here's some mood pictures from late autumn:    Shyeah. Autumn. Not even really winter. Storms have been worse than usual this december, and weather's been real fucky. Super cold late autum, super warm late december, it's been weird and not really possible to do much work. It's been mostly inside work for me, and really mostly not inside the cabin but inside the outhouse getting sanitation in order. The crappy (if you'll pardon the pun) chemical toilet has been replaced by a much nicer composting bio toilet that's basically as comfortable to use as a regular toilet. No smell, no fuss, runs off of the solar panel. Super enviro-friendly. But I am a coward, so I will not post it. Well, I will post it once I actually get a chance to get some pictures, so for now the only other real thing of interest is the old-rear end corner cabinet:  Stained and done. Pretty happy with it, it's pretty anonymous for a huge-rear end cupboard with massive amounts of storage. I hope you're having happy wintertimes, and I'll see you next post with some actual content. One of the reasons I haven't got anything recent to show is that in my last attempt to get up the mountain my snowmobile crapped out on me, so I'm gonna have to fix that first of all. Maybe the next update, we're gonna pretend to be a mechanic and fix up an engine? Might be fun. We'll see. I'll leave you with some starry nights and winter mood for now. Put the AC on full blast, play some metal and imagine you're there. See you soon.       
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"Why is he posting blank, black images" *clicks to enlarge thumbnails* Ooooohhhhhhhh
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You need to get yourself one of these bad boys - https://www.ioptron.com/product-p/3550.htm
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n0tqu1tesane posted:"Why is he posting blank, black images" this was me as well
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n0tqu1tesane posted:"Why is he posting blank, black images" Yeah. Like Phil says, it's one of the most moving sights you can see. Puts stuff in perspective.
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Book-loving-marked. I need to catch up but just wanted to shout out to you OP.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Yeah. Like Phil says, it's one of the most moving sights you can see. Puts stuff in perspective. Absolutely astounding and entertaining thread op. Expect more visitors as your in the what’s hot thread in gbs. So I love all the pics you took time to do so thanks for making SA great Few questions, apologies if I missed them when I ? Your op to read your posts * what did you do for a living to make this possible financially * how could you take off this much time * how do you sustain your (family) now? * do you live there as a primary or secondary residence I guess, it seems really nice for a secondary:)
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This thread kind of makes me homesick for Alaska. I recognized the stockfish right away, although my grandparents made it from salmon and called it dry fish.Nice piece of fish posted:Luckily, I have a deal with a couple of farmers for some great cheap firewood (honestly, it's really cheap in bulk) and having to drive wood up to the cabin during winter is a prerequisite for having a snowmobile permit! Snowmobiles are disallowed for personal transport, and I get only about 10 trips a year for transport of water and wood. Motor Vehicle Use In Nature Environmental Protection Act, and so forth. So, I use my needing wood as an excuse to drive me and people up there. I may fudge the numbers a bit on the whole number of trips thing, but it's all fine. What an interesting detail.
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Nice cabin. great story You are living the life. How far from your primary residence is your paradise? When can I come over?
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God, I love americans. You're just so gosh darn upbeat about everything, it's enough to pierce even my miasma of nordic noir. I do apologize for the glacial update pace, I will try to do better as soon as I can. Did find the culprit causing my snowmobile woes, so maybe soonish?Professor of Cats posted:Book-loving-marked. I need to catch up but just wanted to shout out to you OP. Thank you for the interest! I'm always happy to see someone enjoy scandi cabin culture. Burt Sexual posted:Absolutely astounding and entertaining thread op. Expect more visitors as your in the what’s hot thread in gbs. You're extremely welcome. This is the only place I'd care to share something like this anyway. To answer your questions:
Sweaty IT Nerd posted:This thread kind of makes me homesick for Alaska. I recognized the stockfish right away, although my grandparents made it from salmon and called it dry fish. Stockfish from salmon? Weird stuff. Yeah, nature protection laws are pretty aggressive around here. Using a motor vehicle in nature basically requires you to be a public authority, aboriginal Sami or rescue service. Or the land owner and you really super need to to run your farm or whatever. That's basically it. Everyone else needs a special permit. And yes, you will get pulled over by snowmobile cops, sometimes in helicopters and checked. No, I am not joking. Something else you might find cool: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/right-of-access/ Nucken Futz posted:Nice cabin. great story Thanks! It's just about and hour and a half of driving... to the mountain. Then you got to get up it, which varies. Soon as you graduate law school, pass the bar and start posting in the Law Megathread. You must be this lame  to ride. Exceptions given on a case by case basis.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Stockfish from salmon? Weird stuff. The racks looked very familiar to me. It's not so strange if you have excess salmon.
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Hello again, I'm back for a bit of a winter update. Snowmobile edition! Finally fixed the darned snow mobile, which means the cabin was back to being accessible.  So what could be the trouble with this mess?  That freaking thing. It's a carburetor. Yeah, I know, it's an old-rear end snow mobile but it was cheap, doesn't have a battery and is air cooled which makes it as simple and low maintenance as possible. No flat batteries, no liquid cooling system to crack and leak, fairly low center of gravity. Great for my uses, but... it's feeling the age a bit. Having an old beater is fine, but it's getting tedious. So the damned carburetor was full of loving water. Yeah. It doesn't run on water, so that was unhelpful. Turns out the gas lid wasn't properly sealed on top, so it's been dripping water down the tank all summer because I stored it outside. A complete disassembly of the carburetor system, a rinse and a flush of the gas tank and it was back in action.   So, for those not used to snowmobiles, couple of fun facts: The 440 is a two-stroke, long belt 60 bhp with a actually pretty great throttle (real long and slow), and it's pretty comfortable to drive. It's not great off-road, as you can see the belt isn't very far down so it has low clearance, which is not necessarily great off track. Hence, the shovel. It's pretty essential once you dig yourself down. The sled is extremely useful, but it gets to be a bit much for the engine on it. Anyway, it works, so let's... take a ride? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ35xW1OLmU Kinda hard to drive one-handed.  And then after a while, it's downhill. Yeah, it's kind of inevitable once you wanna go down into the valleys, and let me tell you it is very steep. So going down a creek ravine, there are a couple of things you can do to make sure you have an easier time. Here's a neat trick:   Slap some chains on your tires and you're ready to go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLhZPGAGTW0 It's steeper than it looks, but I'm not much of a youtube movie maker when I'm wrangling a vehicle, so I guess you're gonna have to settle for my word on it. Engine braking aaaalll the way down. Anyway, cabin's doing great so far. Fire is good. Fire is life.   It wasn't very warm up there. So, time for the thing I'm sure you've all been waiting for, what is this amazing toilet I've totally avoided posting about? It's fit for a king! Well, a crown prince anway.     Alright, it's functional, not that pretty. Being extremely environmentally friendly, I quite like it though. It's a separator composting toilet, where the end product is composted soil aaand... that's it. It makes soil out of night soil. It runs a small fan off the solar grid which eliminates all the smell, it's super easy to clean and it's got very few moving parts. It's primitive, but without any kind of plumbing or serious electricity, it was that or something that burns propane (which I wanted to avoid) or some sort of huge latrine type system which to be frank smells, collects flies like crazy and needs a huge hole in the ground which... yeah is a lot of work. So how does it function? Simple. Even comes with instructions.   Honestly, for as primitive as it is, it's perfect for this kind of use. Low power requirement, as easy and as comfortable to use as a regular toilet, no smell, needs emptying two or three times a year which is simply taking the lid of and exchanging the bucket, use the handy sealing lid on the bucket and liner and leaving it for six months. Then, dispose of the soil in nature. Vents out the back.   Ain't got that completely fixed yet though, I need a much more complicated vent system out back with a passive venting fan as well to help with power consumption. Oh, that weird double spade thing? It's a post digger, for reaching wayyy down. It's colloquially known as a "whore". No, I'm not joking, that would be in bad taste. Extremely important about this system, it does not break down when it gets cold in any way. Because a blizzard rolled in.  And when you gotta go...      Fire good. Fire life.   Allright, that about does it for now. Otherwise, the view's not gone, we got a new cool thing and my fiancee reupholstered the goodwill kitchen chairs and I think they turned out pretty nice.    So what's the next short term plan? Basic shelves in the toilet and the entryway, troubleshooting the loving electrics which crapped out on me, finally get the curtains in place, maybe some more storage, might get an extra bed up there and quite possibly finally finishing the wall behind the fireplace while I can drive stonework up there. Well see. Sorry for the crappy update, thanks for reading and I'll see you next time I have something worthy of a post.
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Too happy for you to be jealous. Thanks for the update!
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Hey thanks, that goes for all of you for following along. I'm gonna try and make sure it's not as long till next update. Feel free to ask if any of you can think of anything about the cabin or the area or the wildlife you wanna know more about, particularly the latter I wanna try and include more of. I'll try and post properly about it.
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 so uh, when will you be building a hallway between the WC & the cabin? Seriously, though, everything about this project is amazing. The views are breathtaking.
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Oh no, part of the charm is having to dress up in loving Roald Amundsen cosplay to make it 50 feet to the outhouse in the middle of the pitch black night in whiteout conditions. It's great. It's actually not that terrible though. The outhouse is insulated (though I still have to re-pad the roof and put sod on, but that has to wait until I can belt a digger in so I can get through the loving permafrost/shingledirt in the ground), and I'm gonna put a source of heat in there eventually. It'll be cozy. Besides, bears and trolls don't hunt in those conditions so it's pretty safe.
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Nice piece of fish posted:I'm gonna put a source of heat in there eventually. It'll be cozy. I refuse to believe you haven't dropped one or two in already.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Oh no, part of the charm is having to dress up in loving Roald Amundsen cosplay to make it 50 feet to the outhouse in the middle of the pitch black night in whiteout conditions. It's great. From experience, using a crudely built pit style outhouse in below freezing temperatures, with a draft coming inside from more ways then one, in the middle of the night when you have to go now, and have no time to bundle up, and then it isn't a quick one is, well... forgive the pun but lovely. Edit: I didn't mean yours, that one looks like luxury in comparison to what I was referencing! Really enjoying the thread though, would love to hang out and chill (hah) at that cabin! Twenty Four fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Inspector 34 posted:I refuse to believe you haven't dropped one or two in already. nice Twenty Four posted:From experience, using a crudely built pit style outhouse in below freezing temperatures, with a draft coming inside from more ways then one, in the middle of the night when you have to go now, and have no time to bundle up, and then it isn't a quick one is, well... forgive the pun but lovely. Yeah... been there, regretted that. Lucky those kinds of toilets are super illegal now, so you won't really find many of them around. The outhouse at the cabin is pretty far from luxury, but at least it's not very drafty and I do intend to improve the comfort level soonish. Thanks for reading along!
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Reading this is revitalizing my fantasy to escape to Maine/Northern Canada. Those pictures of the night sky and the blizzard are amazing. A couple of questions about thermal management of the cabin: 1. How well-insulated is it, in terms of heat retention? When you have a blizzard going, do you need to keep the wood stove going 24-7 or does the cabin retain the heat decently well such that you only run it for 3-4 hours a day? 2. Do you find that the central stove sufficiently heats the cabin for the nearby rooms, or are the bedrooms pretty cold during the winter? 3. I've read some about log cabins where people rely solely on wall thickness of wood to act as the insulation (assuming the logs are squared off or sufficient chinking), and I've wondered how effective that would be. Have you been in such cabins before, and that drove your decision to use fiberglass? Thanks for fueling the fantasies of us city-dwelling goons around the world!
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Griffen posted:Reading this is revitalizing my fantasy to escape to Maine/Northern Canada. Those pictures of the night sky and the blizzard are amazing. Man, northern Canada would be a trip. There's a famous (for a norwegian) outdoorsman guy called Lars Monsen who travelled across Canada from Alaska, on foot (or dog sled or canoe). It is sickening just how huge it is. Glad you're enjoying the thread! Here's some answers: 1. The cabin is pretty well insulated. Ironically, it gets better insulated in winter, once snow covers the roof. The more it snows, the better it retains heat. That's half the point of a sod roof, and a major reason for the super stiff construction in a stave log cabin is to be able to carry the weight of all that snow even through heavy snowfall. Generally, the first night is pretty cold; it takes time for the warmth to really soak into the logs so you spend a lot of time and energy getting it warm. That said, even when it's well below zero it takes less than an hour or two to reach a comfortable temperature and less than three to make it fairly cozy room temperature. By the next morning the temperature will have crept back down some, I figure the cabin loses about ten degrees centigrade during the night. Quite quickly fixed. The fire is nice though, so I try to keep a small fire burning at all times but really by the second or third day you kind of have to stop and make maybe like 4 small fires over the course of a day so you don't cook yourself. The stove is very efficient and puts out a lot of heat. There's no real difference between 0 and -20 degrees centigrade in terms of internal heating. 2. The stove is sufficient and then some. The bedrooms are usually pretty cold the first night, since warming them up takes a little longer due to the wall in between them and the stove. Also, I keep the vents open to air the rooms out when I'm not there. My magic solution is super thick duvets and blankets, which I warm by the fire before sleep so they are nice and toasty. After the first night, temperature in the bedrooms is not an issue at all, even with the vents open (cause you do want that crisp mountain air when you sleep, it's nice). 3. In my experience, it's not effective at all. Logs don't insulate terribly well, but actual insulation does. I've slept in my fair share of traditional log cabins and by my reckoning they function by heat retention, you heat the cabin a lot and the heat retention in the timbers themselves keep the interior warm overnight when you're not firing the stove. It takes a while to get them warm though, and the heat disappears quickly. For the abovementioned reason, I didn't want to do that. There's good reason to abandon traditional log cabins for the stave log type, and it's not just the looks. Stave log cabins are vastly better insulated, they are much easier to windproof, much easier to put windows in and much easier to rodent-proof. My exact build also retains heat better due to the massive roofing log crossbeams. Fibre glass insulation is the main method of insulating houses in Norway, it's cheap, locally produced, doesn't burn and is super easy to use and install. It's very effective insulation, and rodents don't like to eat it (though they will nest in it). Current TEK17 building standards require absurd amounts of it for insulation, like a foot thick walls of it and the entire A-frame of the roof of a house filled with it. Hope that answers your questions, feel free to ask more! Thanks for reading along!
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Are the snowmobile videos of the way to the cabin? How far from a paved road is the cabin? How far is the cabin from your house? How much of the land around the cabin is 'yours'? Do you have any lemmings, lynx or foxes around the cabin? Is there anything besides daffodils that cervidae won't eat? How bad are the insects in not-winter?
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joat mon posted:Are the snowmobile videos of the way to the cabin? Objection, badger in your witness?  Alright. The snowmobile vids are partly from the way there, sure, though there's two main access paths up the mountain. The terrain around is steep, you can kind of see it in the view pictures. That valley that goes north/south across the east plateu goes wayyy the heck down, to the closest road which runs on the bottom of the valley. It's steep. Steep enough that I follow a ravine valley that's been dug by creek flowing down from the mountain plateu. There's another zig-zagging road way to the north that follows the side of the mountain up, that's usually what I drive in the summer... when the road is managable. The cabin is rougly 3 kilometers from paved road as the crow... dives? But it's like a kilometer climb as well, a fit individual with no backback can ski up there in just under two hours from the road. The cabin is maybe I own about an acre (the parcel it's on) and I have exclusive logging and usage rights to about five acres around it. Also, I have the all-man's right to use the area around as I see fit for travel, fishing, berries and mushroom and I have a deal with the land owners of the not-public land for hunting. Lynx, I haven't seen, though I know they are up there. Lemmings and fox absolutely, there's a lemming burrow just north of the cabin. From my experience, deer don't like pine needles (though the shoots are delish apparently), Buksbom and Tysbast are not popular and fibrous bushes they don't like. Moose don't give a gently caress though. The insects are... bad. And that's good? Certainly thriving. It's mountain marshland around so during the peak of summer (july/august) the blackflies and horseflies are just assholes. The rest if the year though there really aren't any, though the cabin does house some few loft fly squatters during winter.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:What animals can you kill in the spring aside from the most dangerous game Lynx, by special permit. Not easy. Beaver rat, Bisam, raccoon, wild mink, wild boar (though the latter and the racoon dog are invasive pest species and nobody gives a poo poo if you hunt them year round), racoon dog, stoat, fox, beaver and wolverine. Wolf and bear by special permit. That about covers it.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Lynx, by special permit. Not easy. I see the wild pig is a pain in the rear end everywhere. I bring a pistol whenever I go out riding in the woods, so I can kill them on sight. They’re pretty sneaky. Also good for rattlesnakes and armadillos.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Also good for rattlesnakes and armadillos.  Snakes, including rattly ones, are cool. And are you riding on a lawnmower and hunting armadillos tearing up your lawn? That's like one Requesting more Aurora Borealis pictures...
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joat mon posted:
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I see the wild pig is a pain in the rear end everywhere. I bring a pistol whenever I go out riding in the woods, so I can kill them on sight. drat. That's pretty cowboy right there. https://i.imgur.com/6ijH2St.mp4 joat mon posted:
We're lucky, our snakes are harmless. Mostly. In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of an animal that poses a serious threat to people in Norway. Probably cows. Avalances kill orders of magnitudes more people than animals do, I don't think we even keep track of wild animal deaths. Tell you what, I'll do what I can about those northern lights. Incoming mini update, stay tuned.
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Alright, just a quick mini update this time. Took a short weekend trip to celebrate the first forecast of sun so far this year. The climb, as previously mentioned is steep. Yeah, that steep. Figured that was a better way to illustrate it than shaky cam. We had a bit of a time getting to the cabin, though. Recent snowfall had left the area covered in about three feet of absolute powder, just no carry capacity to the snow whatsoever. I struggled for at least an hour getting up the slopes, got stuck maybe twice and had to dig the sled out while standing waist deep in snow. Like I said previously, the 440 while a decent all-rounder is not equipped for these conditions, and it was just painful all around. We made it though.   Absolute winter wonderland. Still, I was surprised how well the machine performed. It was super rough going, and I was very thankful that I'd managed to fix the relatively simple engine to the degree that it was functioning properly. I had been considering a change to a model better suited for bad conditions, but honestly the 440 has performed well beyond expectations and I'd pretty much resolved to keep it for a while: It was sufficient for my needs, could tow a sled, only really got stuck in really terrible conditions and it was dirt. cheap. And I'm a cheap kind of guy. Even with the recent trouble, I decided to leave well enough alone and work through snow mobile adversity like a proper nordic. Then the loving transmission and brakes exploded going downhill and drat near killed me when I had to ditch it to stop, so I bought a new snow mobile.   A Yamaha Viking (look, it even has a little helmet  ). It's kind of a culturally appropriating piece of poo poo, but it's also a widebelt low gear high-power weight-steering monster that was previously put to use hauling timber for a local farmer, pretty much impossible to get stuck with. Yeah. That's more my speed.Cabin status? Pretty sweet. We made a suntan couch off the porch snow, had some appropriate Viking beer, a shot of coffee and some deeply neccessary propane waffles with brown cheese and raspberry jam.       Also, troubleshot the electrics and it looks like the fuckoff huge solar panel is too gently caress-off huge and keeps tripping the high voltage disconnect. Gonna maybe have to fix that. Otherwise, only minor repairs and fixes, and some planning for next time. See you all then.
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Gorgeous view. Do you not ride around on your snowmobile with a gun holstered on your hip like a modern cowboy?
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Gorgeous view. Do you not ride around on your snowmobile with a gun holstered on your hip like a modern cowboy? I would if I could (I totally wouldn't). Even the cops aren't allowed to open carry around here, I'd be locked up in no time.
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Nice piece of fish posted:We're lucky, our snakes are harmless. Mostly. In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of an animal that poses a serious threat to people in Norway. Probably cows. Avalances kill orders of magnitudes more people than animals do, I don't think we even keep track of wild animal deaths. I've heard møøse bites can be pretty nasty...
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Pham Nuwen posted:I've heard møøse bites can be pretty nasty... That's not funny, my sister died like that.
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