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Absolutely gorgeous view! Nice to see how much progress you've made. Very cool! 
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So there is three different materials (shakes, tin, and hardie board) being used for the siding? Yes, but instead of using Hardi Board I'm using LP Smartside. I like it better for a variety of reasons. It's lighter, stronger, made form real wood, easy to cut, handle and nail and I think it looks better. I used a spray paint can of primer to hit the ends with as soon as I cut it and before I installed it. That said, I have had some scrap pieces sitting out in the rain for weeks and they look just like they did when I bought it. I think it is good stuff. The siding will be getting a coat of subdued green, sort of an olive color and the shakes will be sealed and left natural. The tin will be allowed to oxidize and weather naturally. The thought here was that I won't be up on a ladder 30' in the air painting the upper portions of the cabin as I get older. The cabin, for now, is basically a 20'x24' box with a shed roof, so I used a mixture of materials to to give it some architectural interest. At least that was my thought process. I'm sure people drive by the cabin and see our slow progress and say, "Why won't that idiot make up his mind about the siding?"  I searched for a lot of pictures of cabins when I designed ours and it was images like this (although much more architectural than mine) that inspired me to try some different stuff... 
Last edited by Irishguy; 08/21/17 12:41 AM.
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Thanks. We've gone from being carefree motorcycle riders on the weekends to part time, half-assed, plumbers, electricians and carpenters. It's a lot more work, but it's still fun and rewarding. Standing back enjoying a cold beer and admiring your handiwork for the day is pretty satisfying.
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That food looks great and so does the cabin! Thanks. You burn a lot of calories when you don't know what you are doing.
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Thanks. I'm (And I know Mrs. Irish is) getting tired of having 2 jobs. We work on our jobs all week and then this cabin on the weekends. We're looking forward to a stay in a little mountain inn outside of Bryson City, NC. for a few days where we won't have to cook, or clean, or measure, or cut, just let someone else do the cooking and cleaning and I plan on just sitting on the porch with a cup of coffee or a beer and a good book and a nice view.
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Thanks. We've gone from being carefree motorcycle riders on the weekends to part time, half-assed, plumbers, electricians and carpenters. It's a lot more work, but it's still fun and rewarding. Standing back enjoying a cold beer and admiring your handiwork for the day is pretty satisfying. So you are a Carplumbatrician! Nice work, I've enjoyed the build!
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OK... So just a little update. Spent the last few weekends pretending to be construction workers and doing a very poor job of it, but drinking lots of beer, being fortunate enough to be invited to friends cabins and served good food, vodka and whiskey, watching college football, and generally being blessed to be alive. We bought some new hammocks to string up on the back deck and enjoy this view:  Not just relaxing, we actually did a bunch of work. Putting up a scaffold that can slide back and forth so we could finish the front of the cabin was a lot of work just by itself.  you can kind of get the vision of what we were thinking with the cedar and the corrugated tin. The look will only get better over time as the tin weathers and rusts and the cedar starts to age.  All we have to do now to get the outside finished is to install the tin on the upper ends of the cabin. Then we can get to work on the plumbing on the inside. Our goal is to get the outside completely finished before winter sets in. Over the last few weekends we finished the handrail on both the entrance deck and the outdoor grilling decks, so that's done now too. 
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Sig Sauer, to hell and back reliable.
Whatever suits you just tickles me plum to death.
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
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I would rather be tried by 12, than carried by 6.
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“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
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Thanks guys. Next thing on the agenda is to rent a manlift for a long weekend so I can reach the gables on the ends of the cabin. Anyone know a good place near Ft. Payne where I can rent an electric powered one that can reach about 30' high? I want to stay away from a gas powered one for various reasons...
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I'd think you would need a knuckle boom lift. Not battery but you can get up and out and most are 4WD. Scissor lifts only go straight up. Nice cabin.
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I'd think you would need a knuckle boom lift. Not battery but you can get up and out and most are 4WD. Scissor lifts only go straight up. Nice cabin. Yes. Boom lift or knuckle lift is what I want. I never said sissor lift. They make electric ones. I've seen them.
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Man, that cabin is awesome. You're doing a great job.
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Man, that cabin is awesome. You're doing a great job. x2
A mans got to know his limitations.
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Man, that cabin is awesome. You're doing a great job. Jono, Doing so much of it ourselves has been so much more work than I had imagined, but it has brought us closer together and Mrs. Irish and Irish Jr. (What little he has helped between his full time Tech job and going to school to get his Computer Science degree) have both learned a lot of skills. Mrs. Irish has really been a trooper. I have to rein in my goals on the weekend some so that she won't get burned out and will still want to come up on the weekends and help. We have to allow for time to just hang out with friends or just sit in the hammocks and enjoy life. It is a lot of work for a husband and wife to build their own house on the weekends. However it is rewarding. I've noticed now that she knows how much work goes into every little detail, she doesn't flippantly just say... "Hey! Why don't we rip out this wall and enlarge the kitchen?" She's learning how to throw stuff like a tape measure and tin snips up 25' in the air so I can catch them. It's amazing the amount of skills we as men have that we take for granted and it can be both fun and frustrating trying to teach those skills to the women we love.
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Man, that cabin is awesome. You're doing a great job. She's learning how to throw stuff like a tape measure and tin snips up 25' in the air so I can catch them. It's amazing the amount of skills we as men have that we take for granted and it can be both fun and frustrating trying to teach those skills to the women we love. True statement
A mans got to know his limitations.
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Good time this weekend up at the cabin. We decided just to chill and piddle around with some little stuff: Finished staining the decks, cleaned up around the job site and burned a bunch of scrap wood, built some wood storage racks under the bottom deck, etc... Stuff like that. Got to watch some football, made the first campfire of the season, do some good campfire cookin' (See thread in Aldeer Buffet.) so all in all a good weekend. All we have left to do is the end "gables" in the corrugated tin and we will finally be complete with the outside and can turn our attention to the inside and start the rough in plumbing. Not a bad place to watch some football and enjoy a beer (or three):  Fist campfire of the season. Love sitting in front of a fire with a nice glass of bourbon on the rocks:  Completed entrance deck:  Mrs. Irish my carpaplumbatrician's helper. I hope she doesn't get any stain on my old camo jacket...  My grilling deck finished except for a little roof to cover the grills:  A little close up of our finished cabin front: 
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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