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I'm between two lakes, ten miles to the east and to the west on an improved gravel Forest Service road, plus there is some close by stream fishing.

Nice to be close to recreation for sure!
How far to drinking water?

Nice! My wife has 2 - one is actually "finished". more or less. After 40 years....

So we bought another over the winter. Some assembly required,

Tin side goes up.......



In the interim, for short visits.... yeah, I know. Crappy solution. Maybe the wheels weren't such a good idea, but that's the way it came.



Enjoy your new cabin, guy!

The property owners, a real kick-back bunch, have a community spring fed water source 3/4 mile from me. UCLA tested the water and said it's the best and purest water they have ever tested. The flow out the pipe is about 4 gallons/minute, and the watercress there is fresh and sweet.


I have two high flow demand pumps I got for the farm to build a sprayer that didn't get built. I'll put a 5 gallon bucket under the spring pipe with a 55 gallon blue food grade poly tank in the back of the truck and pump from the bucket up into the tank. Then I'll pump that into another tank on a stand next to the cabin. That water will be for washing and bathing. We're rigging a shower stall outside the 10X10 shed with my RV hang on LP instant water heater. The outhouse uses a plastic bag lined five gallon bucket and cedar chips. We used that method all last summer, and it works great, just add cedar chips as you "go".

Beautiful!

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I am 73 with only one usable arm and a twice broken back. I bought it from the builder of these just a few miles from me, and he delivered it at no additional charge. It is a two hour trip to the site one way, also, and gas ain't free. We did the calculations of materials costs and travel. It cost no more to have Out West Buildings make me one at their local factory than trying to build it ourselves, which is nearly impossible now. With no power to the area I would have used two generators for saws and compressors, plus hauling everything to the site and back.

Four hours a day would be devoted to travel. And, this being an engineered building makes permitting much simpler. Son and grandson, plus son's construction foreman/carpenter friend use the campground a lot and will build a 10X10 storage shed behind the cabin. I bought the materials last year when I saw prices starting to move up. They'll also do a porch cover to the side, where we'll build a paver patio.

It's a 10'X20' lofted barn with the loft floor 10'X10' With doors, windows, insulated floor, and delivery and placement on the pad I built it was $7,500.00, including 7.6% sales tax. For that and all the travel involved let them build it and bring it on up.