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Originally Posted By Aviator: With the whole "Tiny House" thing going on, and the huge interest in Alaska as of late, I wonder if it would sell if I wrote a book about my experience. How does one go about getting something like that published? What do you guys think? Might be a good way to get some cash together for part of the house? Aviator View Quote You write it, buy your own ISBN number, and publish that shit yourself. I did. |
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Wow, I'd completely forgotten about this thread and definitely never read it through. There are a lot of great ideas here. I have some land that I'd love to put a small off-grid cabin on and this has definitely wet my whistle.
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Originally Posted By RTUtah:
You write it, buy your own ISBN number, and publish that shit yourself. I did. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RTUtah:
Originally Posted By Aviator:
With the whole "Tiny House" thing going on, and the huge interest in Alaska as of late, I wonder if it would sell if I wrote a book about my experience. How does one go about getting something like that published? What do you guys think? Might be a good way to get some cash together for part of the house? Aviator You write it, buy your own ISBN number, and publish that shit yourself. I did. RTUtah, What book did you wright? |
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Originally Posted By shooters101: RTUtah, What book did you wright? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By shooters101: Originally Posted By RTUtah: Originally Posted By Aviator: With the whole "Tiny House" thing going on, and the huge interest in Alaska as of late, I wonder if it would sell if I wrote a book about my experience. How does one go about getting something like that published? What do you guys think? Might be a good way to get some cash together for part of the house? Aviator You write it, buy your own ISBN number, and publish that shit yourself. I did. RTUtah, What book did you wright? Thread link is in my signature, but I'll PM it to you; don't wanna hijack Aviator's thread. |
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Looking good Aviator! Can't wait to see the shop.
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How many scandals is the Chosen One up to?
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This has been a very informative and inspiring thread, Aviator. Thank you for updating us on your progress, and thank you for serving.
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You should definitely write a book. Hell, I'd pick up a copy.
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Did a lot of stuff in the last few weeks. will try and get photos and update this in the next week.
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Cool, looking forward to more pictures.
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Just found this thread. Awesome stuff! I haven't read the whole thing yet, so I apologize if this has meet covered. What's your elevation at the site? Does your insurance cover earthquake damage?
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Originally Posted By Aviator:
With the whole "Tiny House" thing going on, and the huge interest in Alaska as of late, I wonder if it would sell if I wrote a book about my experience. How does one go about getting something like that published? What do you guys think? Might be a good way to get some cash together for part of the house? Aviator View Quote Guy Kawasaki's book, APE: Author, publisher, Entrepreneur, is about this very subject and might be worth a look. http://apethebook.com/ |
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Since we're expecting our first major snowfall of the year, seemed like a good time to bump this.
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Will try and get photos up this week. I promise...
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Is it to late in the season to drive up there without 4x4? Front wheel drive car make it? Got all next week off...maybe drive up that way How far from St. Louis?..lol.
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Originally Posted By dropdbombnow:
Dick Proenneke - "Alone in the Wilderness" - 1967 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20120422/AITW-01.JPG Fascinating video View Quote I have watched this a number of times and love it. |
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Awesome OP! Thanks for your service.
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Originally Posted By Inspector2211:
I have watched this a number of times and love it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Inspector2211:
Originally Posted By dropdbombnow:
Dick Proenneke - "Alone in the Wilderness" - 1967 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20120422/AITW-01.JPG Fascinating video I have watched this a number of times and love it. I have as well. Thanks to your link I found out about the sequel and 2 other movies with footage up there. Thanks! |
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I wouldn't say I'm a gun nut... but I'd consider extreme enthusiast.
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Originally Posted By Aviator: OK here are a few photos... I am not done yet, a lot of smoothing and cleaning things up to go, but you get the idea. Here is the little hill by the road, before and after. The garage will go in here. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66258 http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66259 Same hill from the road looking back towards the property. There will be a line of evergreen trees or shrubs planted along the top to shield my property from the road. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66260 http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66261 This is the new pad down below the cabin. The house will have a walk out basement, and I want to bury a conex long ways so the door opens onto this new pad. Storage you can't see, but it will be very handy and accessible. Wood shop and the fire pit swing thing will go down here. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66262 http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66263 A lot of the material I dug out from the hill by the road that was extra I used to make the upper pad bigger as well. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66264 Aviator View Quote That soil looks insanely rich. |
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Originally Posted By Aviator:
Below the cabin and where the house will eventually be I want to build my wood shop, and one of these! http://goodshomedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/campfire.jpg Aviator View Quote That is awesome. I'm definitely going to have to sink some coin into something like that in the next year or two. |
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Originally Posted By ziegenbock:
Is it to late in the season to drive up there without 4x4? Front wheel drive car make it? Got all next week off...maybe drive up that way How far from St. Louis?..lol. View Quote About 5 days driving hard from St Louis. ALCAN is actually better in the winter. Aviator |
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Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu:
Just found this thread. Awesome stuff! I haven't read the whole thing yet, so I apologize if this has meet covered. What's your elevation at the site? Does your insurance cover earthquake damage? View Quote Elevation is right at 400 feet. Yes Have earthquake insurance. Aviator |
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Originally Posted By Aviator:
OK here are a few photos... I am not done yet, a lot of smoothing and cleaning things up to go, but you get the idea. Here is the little hill by the road, before and after. The garage will go in here. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66258 http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66259 Same hill from the road looking back towards the property. There will be a line of evergreen trees or shrubs planted along the top to shield my property from the road. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66260 http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66261 This is the new pad down below the cabin. The house will have a walk out basement, and I want to bury a conex long ways so the door opens onto this new pad. Storage you can't see, but it will be very handy and accessible. Wood shop and the fire pit swing thing will go down here. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66262 http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66263 A lot of the material I dug out from the hill by the road that was extra I used to make the upper pad bigger as well. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=66264 Aviator View Quote Shipping containers don't take too well to being buried. The sides tend to bow in with even just a foot or two of soil, and even if the top or "roof" is even with grade. And water weight, and freezing will make it worse. If you want to bury it anything beyond setting the back corner just a few feet into the soil, no more than halfway up to it's to, you'll have to build a structure around it to take the soil load off of it. http://graywolfsurvival.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-roof-crushing-in.jpg http://www.prepper-resources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-3-300x225.jpg If you already knew this, or had some plan around the problem, nevermind. |
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Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Shipping containers don't take too well to being buried. The sides tend to bow in with even just a foot or two of soil, and even if the top or "roof" is even with grade. And water weight, and freezing will make it worse. If you want to bury it anything beyond setting the back corner just a few feet into the soil, no more than halfway up to it's to, you'll have to build a structure around it to take the soil load off of it. http://graywolfsurvival.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-roof-crushing-in.jpg http://www.prepper-resources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-3-300x225.jpg If you already knew this, or had some plan around the problem, nevermind. View Quote Had no idea. I'll have to do some planning for that I guess. Perhaps fram the inside with 4x4s every so often? I was planning on a foot or two soil on the roof. Thanks! Aviator |
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This is Alaska, right? I think your cabin is awesome, thanks for all the pictures of your place. |
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Thanks for the update. Neat stuff.
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Originally Posted By Aviator:
Had no idea. I'll have to do some planning for that I guess. Perhaps fram the inside with 4x4s every so often? I was planning on a foot or two soil on the roof. Thanks! Aviator View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Aviator:
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Shipping containers don't take too well to being buried. The sides tend to bow in with even just a foot or two of soil, and even if the top or "roof" is even with grade. And water weight, and freezing will make it worse. If you want to bury it anything beyond setting the back corner just a few feet into the soil, no more than halfway up to it's to, you'll have to build a structure around it to take the soil load off of it. http://graywolfsurvival.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-roof-crushing-in.jpg http://www.prepper-resources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-3-300x225.jpg If you already knew this, or had some plan around the problem, nevermind. Had no idea. I'll have to do some planning for that I guess. Perhaps fram the inside with 4x4s every so often? I was planning on a foot or two soil on the roof. Thanks! Aviator Yeah, shipping containers are really strong, but only on the box-tube edges, the lift points for the crane, and the floor. The sheet metal corrugated sides seem 'strong' as compared to normal stick-built and drywall building materials, but as compared to your basic compressive load like mortar and cinder blocks could handle, it's very weak. My idea to make it "cheap" to bury a container would be if there's a supply of used old tires in town you could get a truckload of them dumped off. You should be able to get them for free, or maybe even be paid a few dollars to take them if you convince the tire place you're not going to dump them in the woods somewhere. You could make a gravel bed for the container, ringed with French Drain tubes sloped and pointed towards the outside drop in grade, then build berms/walls with old tires filled with rammed earth a few inches from the container's sides, with a slight outward slope. Hammer in cut rebar pins from one rammed earth tire to the row below it. Spray the container with a bitumen asphalt coating, then fill the narrow gap between the tires with gravel, or just leave it as a void. Span the tops of the tires with posts, Then make some kind of a ridge-pole down the centerline of the "roof" made of posts, cover each side with sloped gravel, then put a heavy 10mil plastic sheet so it's got some slope to the outsides of the tires for diverting rain and snowmelt. Then cover it with your soil. It's the cheapest way I could think to do it and know it'll last. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/6s4multimedia/ecobuild/images/tire_work.gif Although, once you've gone through the trouble to build a rammed earth tire foundation wall, I'm not sure there's really that much benefit of putting a shipping container in it? The other idea that's "cheap" is if you had lots of rocks on your property, I don't know what they're called, but there's these Hesco-barrier-like things made of chain-link wire, filled with rocks instead of dirt. You'll see them used as retaining walls, and berms on road bridges sometimes. Found it. They're called "Gabions". http://www.gabion1.com.au/retaining_wall_seats.jpg Although your property doesn't look like it's got a ton of stones you could just scoop up and fill the "gabions" with. |
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Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Yeah, shipping containers are really strong, but only on the box-tube edges, the lift points for the crane, and the floor. The sheet metal corrugated sides seem 'strong' as compared to normal stick-built and drywall building materials, but as compared to your basic compressive load like mortar and cinder blocks could handle, it's very weak. My idea to make it "cheap" to bury a container would be if there's a supply of used old tires in town you could get a truckload of them dumped off. You should be able to get them for free, or maybe even be paid a few dollars to take them if you convince the tire place you're not going to dump them in the woods somewhere. You could make a gravel bed for the container, ringed with French Drain tubes sloped and pointed towards the outside drop in grade, then build berms/walls with old tires filled with rammed earth a few inches from the container's sides, with a slight outward slope. Hammer in cut rebar pins from one rammed earth tire to the row below it. Spray the container with a bitumen asphalt coating, then fill the narrow gap between the tires with gravel, or just leave it as a void. Span the tops of the tires with posts, Then make some kind of a ridge-pole down the centerline of the "roof" made of posts, cover each side with sloped gravel, then put a heavy 10mil plastic sheet so it's got some slope to the outsides of the tires for diverting rain and snowmelt. Then cover it with your soil. It's the cheapest way I could think to do it and know it'll last. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/6s4multimedia/ecobuild/images/tire_work.gif Although, once you've gone through the trouble to build a rammed earth tire foundation wall, I'm not sure there's really that much benefit of putting a shipping container in it? The other idea that's "cheap" is if you had lots of rocks on your property, I don't know what they're called, but there's these Hesco-barrier-like things made of chain-link wire, filled with rocks instead of dirt. You'll see them used as retaining walls, and berms on road bridges sometimes. Found it. They're called "Gabions". http://www.gabion1.com.au/retaining_wall_seats.jpg Although your property doesn't look like it's got a ton of stones you could just scoop up and fill the "gabions" with. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Originally Posted By Aviator:
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Shipping containers don't take too well to being buried. The sides tend to bow in with even just a foot or two of soil, and even if the top or "roof" is even with grade. And water weight, and freezing will make it worse. If you want to bury it anything beyond setting the back corner just a few feet into the soil, no more than halfway up to it's to, you'll have to build a structure around it to take the soil load off of it. http://graywolfsurvival.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-roof-crushing-in.jpg http://www.prepper-resources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/shipping-container-3-300x225.jpg If you already knew this, or had some plan around the problem, nevermind. Had no idea. I'll have to do some planning for that I guess. Perhaps fram the inside with 4x4s every so often? I was planning on a foot or two soil on the roof. Thanks! Aviator Yeah, shipping containers are really strong, but only on the box-tube edges, the lift points for the crane, and the floor. The sheet metal corrugated sides seem 'strong' as compared to normal stick-built and drywall building materials, but as compared to your basic compressive load like mortar and cinder blocks could handle, it's very weak. My idea to make it "cheap" to bury a container would be if there's a supply of used old tires in town you could get a truckload of them dumped off. You should be able to get them for free, or maybe even be paid a few dollars to take them if you convince the tire place you're not going to dump them in the woods somewhere. You could make a gravel bed for the container, ringed with French Drain tubes sloped and pointed towards the outside drop in grade, then build berms/walls with old tires filled with rammed earth a few inches from the container's sides, with a slight outward slope. Hammer in cut rebar pins from one rammed earth tire to the row below it. Spray the container with a bitumen asphalt coating, then fill the narrow gap between the tires with gravel, or just leave it as a void. Span the tops of the tires with posts, Then make some kind of a ridge-pole down the centerline of the "roof" made of posts, cover each side with sloped gravel, then put a heavy 10mil plastic sheet so it's got some slope to the outsides of the tires for diverting rain and snowmelt. Then cover it with your soil. It's the cheapest way I could think to do it and know it'll last. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/6s4multimedia/ecobuild/images/tire_work.gif Although, once you've gone through the trouble to build a rammed earth tire foundation wall, I'm not sure there's really that much benefit of putting a shipping container in it? The other idea that's "cheap" is if you had lots of rocks on your property, I don't know what they're called, but there's these Hesco-barrier-like things made of chain-link wire, filled with rocks instead of dirt. You'll see them used as retaining walls, and berms on road bridges sometimes. Found it. They're called "Gabions". http://www.gabion1.com.au/retaining_wall_seats.jpg Although your property doesn't look like it's got a ton of stones you could just scoop up and fill the "gabions" with. Earthbag construction would be another cheap option. Essentially its 50 pound feed bags filled with dirt and tamped into place like sandbags, with a couple strands of barbed wire between each course of bags (helps tie the wall together). |
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Earthsheltered house - a steel reinforced concrete bunker that even the treehuggers consider to be socially acceptable.
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Originally Posted By Aviator:
So, sorry for no updates in forever. Been helping a friend who bought the lot next to me build his cabin. This is the photos of the finished area by where the garage will be. There is a berm I built that goes along the road, and then turns 90 degrees away from the road and goes between my friends property and mine. It tapers out to nothing as it runs away from the road. On this berm / line I selected some trees and planted them. They will eventually fill in and provide good privacy. Looking towards road http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73288.JPG looking along road http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73290.JPG looking away from road along property line http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73291.JPG Trees I selected http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73289.JPG Completed lower terrace area that will be the fire pit and guest cabin area http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73287.JPG http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73286.JPG This should give an idea of what I am planning. First, the house will have a walk out basement onto the lower terrace, with a deck that is level with the upper terrace. if that makes sense. The garage will be in the little area near the road I built up and planted the trees by. The connex will be buried and not visible except from the lower terrace area. The doors will be where you can get into it from the lower terrace. Its a terrible drawing, but you get the idea. http://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5537/73292.JPG Aviator View Quote When did you add the awning roof? Looks nice. Also, I think that's the first time you posted pics of the exterior from that angle. Really looks awesome. Now you need one of these to cut and split all those logs. |
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Just found this thread. Very cool.
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Looking for my first .45. Satin nickel Colt Combat Commander serial # 70SC85412 sold at a gun show in Louisville KY sometime in 1985.
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Terminally infected with both Black Rifle Disease and Edged Tool Syndrome at the same time!
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