Lunch at the cabin.

[Armored farmer]

It's really a stretch to call it a cabin. It was built as a comfortable, heated,insulated, solar powered hunting blind ...complete with salvaged side-burner from an old gas grill....we just call it 'the cabin'. Situated in our 26 acres of timber, and a five min atv ride from our back door, I make the trip pretty often. Actually I just like being away from the shop. There's always work there!.
I was actually moving a cellular trsilcam for my 89yo pops. But I tool advantage of the trip and am cooking my lunch at the cabin.

I took a nice 8pt buck about 250yds north of the cabin on opening day. Today I brought my Marlin 22mag in case I get a chance at a couple of fox Squirrels. Dad said he could use some squirrel and gravy! Maybe that will be his Xmas present from me.
Like a true mountain man...I'm eating my seasoned pinto beans and smoky links right from the pot!
Be grateful for what we have been Given. However fantastic or meager it may be.....there is joy in either.

Of course...when you're r deer hunting...you see Squirrels.....when squirrel hunting....guess who walks up into range?!? This was taken off the cabin porch just now!

I'm gonna slip off towards the hickory trees and see if I have any volunteers to join us for breakfast.

Best and happiest Christmas wishes to all the THR followers and friends.

 

[Patocazador]

I'm eating my seasoned pinto beans and smoky links right from the pot!

I love pinto beans and sausage with raw onions. My friend's late wife used to keep me supplied as "payment" for various favors for her husband.

I planned to build an enclosed deer blind this year but surgeries and other problems got in the way. A shop like yours would be nice but you can't have everything.

 

[Armored farmer]

If I had it to do over.....an enclosed 6x10 ft trailer would be about ideal.....you could move it around to different deer/turkey areas...or heck ...haul it across the country with an atv and gear inside.

 

[Armored farmer]

The burner is a MUST though!

 

[JmacD]

Merry Christmas . And happy hunting. And you’re making me hungry

 

[BreechFace]

Merry Christmas, happy birthday to Jesus!

What a fine way to spend and afternoon!

 

[tommy.duncan]

I love pinto beans and sausage with raw onions.

This sounds great!! Recipe please?

 

[tommy.duncan]

Best and happiest Christmas wishes to all the THR followers and friends.

Sorry brother, Beautiful cabin!!

Merry Christmas to all my fellow THR'ers

 

[tightgroup tiger]

Yes, Merry Christmas to you and your family. We had a deer camp in the woods at my Uncles property, 40 acres of deep woods, deep cricks, and a small river.

Stick built with a home made fireplace. Worked very well and could sleep 12.

We made chile and hot dogs in a big dutch oven and took it up to the "Rock", a broken boulder where we had a small fire pit chiseled into an area between the broken halves of this bolder, where two of us could set in our lawn chairs, back to back, and watch the gas line right of ways.

Carrying that Dutch oven up there was a small feat in itself. That thing was heavy and it was mostly up steep hills to the "Rock" then it leveled out.

We would let it simmer all day over a small fire and all of our family would show up sooner or later for a chile dog. The fire and smoke never seemed to bother the deer. Good times. I shot a 9 point from that rock one year.

The hot food made a lot of difference in being more comfortable on a hunt. Usually very cold there in hunting season most years.

I like that Marlin 22LR, Dad had that same one. It was a real tack driver.

 

[JmacD]

happy birthday to Jesus

Now that pretty much sums it up…

 

[Highland Lofts]

A nice relaxing day for you.

 

[Patocazador]

This sounds great!! Recipe please?

Uh, that is the recipe.

Pinto beans soaked overnight and simmered with the sausage of your choice with chopped raw onions over the top. Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning makes everything taste better. Use in place of salt & pepper at the end.

 

[tommy.duncan]

Uh, that is the recipe.

Well that's simple, Thanks!!

 

[sage5907]

Great pictures. Do I see a 110 volt electric plug by the cooking pot? You're going first class, I have to do with a 12 volt power station that I keep in my cabin to power my lights. What I really like about being at the cabin is to brew a pot of boiled coffee. I put 7 cups of water in my pot, get it boiling, put in 2 scoops of coffee and boil for about 5 minutes. It really tastes good when I get up in the morning or just before going outside when the temperature is about 30. Some guy had tried to put my 3 burner propane stove in an RV but when it didn't fit I bought it for half price. I'm not cheap I just like a good deal. It's supposed to snow here tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to going to the cabin tomorrow to put out deer feed. When I pulled my camera cards after the deer rifle season was over I still had 5 big bucks coming to the feeders. Want to keep them happy for next year. Two of the bucks were so old I think they were on Social Security.

 

[WisBorn]

Great pictures. Do I see a 110 volt electric plug by the cooking pot? You're going first class, I have to do with a 12 volt power station that I keep in my cabin to power my lights. What I really like about being at the cabin is to brew a pot of boiled coffee.

I always thought first class was a toilet with a real seat, and a flush toilet was like staying at the Ritz

Thanks for sharing your trip Farmer

 

[sage5907]

I always thought first class was a toilet with a real seat, and a flush toilet was like staying at the Ritz

Thanks for sharing your trip Farmer

My toilet is a seat with 4 legs under it with a 5 gallon bucket under the seat. It's for women only. The men take the seat without the bucket and walk out into the woods.

 

[WisBorn]

The men take the seat and walk out into the woods

Upgrade! Not just squatting in the woods

 

[Armored farmer]

Do I see a 110 volt electric plug by the cooking pot? You're going first class, I have to do with a 12 volt power station that I keep in my cabin to power my lights.

Yes.
I have a solar panel in conjunction with a small inverter.
I also just got this little Honda for the farm....it might venture to the cabin on occasion!


I am interested in those power packs/power stations.....I've not been very satisfied with my solar project.....
It worked great in my barn lot in full June sun.....but it hasn't been great in the woods. Too much shade. And my battery is my old trolling motor battery. So that might not be helping either.
I just have two LED bulbs in my ceiling and one on the porch. An LED nightlight. And maybe four outlets. They're mostly for charging phones and such.
I have a bunch of milwaukee power tools. I would like to use those batteries for camping and cabin power source.. but I gotta do some research there...

We're still getting some decent buck on trailcam.
Already have seen some shed their antlers......spring is a'comin'.
Let us know about the battery pack.

 

[ms6852]

I am interested in those power packs/power stations...

I own several power stations and just recently bought 2 more when they went on sale. I bought the EcoFlow brand which I am a fan of. the ones I bought recently were what they call the Delta 2. It has a 1KW battery capacity with an 1800 watt inverter with a peak surge of 2700 watts and it powers my 15 amp mitre saws and circular saws. Charges to full capacity off the a/c outlets in under 2 hours. Your Honda Generator will charge under 2 hours too. I use mine to charge them when we lost power for over a week during the Texas freeze. I own the other one that are 2KW to, but this Delta 2 when it is on sale you can get it for $649 on Amazon or their website. You can charge every day from zero to 100% for almost 10 years and than it is good for only 80% capacity.

This particular model happens to be my favorite because it is small and lightweight at 27 pounds, but it is expandable where you can buy another battery for about $500 but I would recommend you buy another whole unit so that you can utilize the ports and everything it has.

I am also in the process of making my own power bank because I want to use it more for 12V stuff . Redodo and Power Queen just came out with their own "mini batteries" that way about 20 pounds and are 12.8 100ah. for about $250. Am undecided on what inverter to use as I mainly want to use the 12V cigarette outlet for when I go hunting and camping, and fishing.

 

[WestKentucky]

If I had it to do over.....an enclosed 6x10 ft trailer would be about ideal.....you could move it around to different deer/turkey areas...or heck ...haul it across the country with an atv and gear inside.

When I moved to my current house last year the previous owners left a cheap light duty 4x8 utility trailer (harbor freight/northern tool kit variety) that’s not in the greatest shape. 1 wheel bearing is locked up, defrosted tires, no deck left… essentially it’s just the axle and frame. My 11yr old immediately proclaimed that we were going to rehab that trailer into a portable hunting blind but also build it so that we could take it to the lake and fish out of it. I think the plan kinda got de-railed when she was talking about having a futon in there to sit on when hunting or fishing but also have a place to sleep if we were going to be out all night. I’m not sleeping on a futon ever again, 7 months when I was doing an internship was enough. 20 years later I don’t know that I would ever get up again from one of those back-wreckers. For enclosed trailers, I think 8x14 is about perfect… specifically the ramp back door and man door on the side variety. Maybe a couple old school bus windows just for good measure.

Defrosted? Seriously autocorrect? That said dryrotten.

 

[sage5907]

My wife is the one that pushed me to build a cabin. I knew up front that it had to be a bug proof insulated room that was big enough for us to enjoy. It also had to have electric lights, gas heat, gas cook stove and a refrigerator. These were big requirements since it was over a half mile from the nearest electric pole. My experience with RV campers helped me wire the shed with 12 volt RV lights for both the walls and night lights around the floor. Each light was controlled by a wall panel and also a separate switch for the light itself. All of the lights had LED power and the power station I choose was a Bluetti EB70S. It will power the lights for several days without being charged. I installed a 100 gallon propane tank to provide gas for the gas wall heater and the 3 burner RV camp stove. The refrigerator is missing so when I stay there I use an ice chest with frozen packs to provide the cool. The power station will also run a 12 volt refrigerator for about a day and a half but it's hard to make myself spend the $400 for the refrigerator. Looking forward to camping a lot t his spring.

 

[Armored farmer]

My wife is the one that pushed me to build a cabin. I knew up front that it had to be a bug proof insulated room that was big enough for us to enjoy. It also had to have electric lights, gas heat, gas cook stove and a refrigerator. These were big requirements since it was over a half mile from the nearest electric pole. My experience with RV campers helped me wire the shed with 12 volt RV lights for both the walls and night lights around the floor. Each light was controlled by a wall panel and also a separate switch for the light itself. All of the lights had LED power and the power station I choose was a Bluetti EB70S. It will power the lights for several days without being charged. I installed a 100 gallon propane tank to provide gas for the gas wall heater and the 3 burner RV camp stove. The refrigerator is missing so when I stay there I use an ice chest with frozen packs to provide the cool. The power station will also run a 12 volt refrigerator for about a day and a half but it's hard to make myself spend the $400 for the refrigerator. Looking forward to camping a lot tView attachment 1187835View attachment 1187837his spring.

Nice cabin.
Beds? Bunks?
I was tempted to use cots until I stumbled upon the pull-out loveseat hide-a-bed.
I looked for a three burner RV stovetop/oven combo buy didn't find one. One burner is hardly enough.

 

[sage5907]

I was at my cabin yesterday and have a picture of my 3 burner propane RV cook stove. I installed it on a stainless steel table that works good. I have some new pictures of the inside of the cabin after my wife came up with curtains and bed covers. The cabin is about 40 yards from the river so I can sit on the porch and look at the river. My taxidermy work on the buck. Also, a picture of a huge boar hog that was taken on December 17. The date and time of the picture are wrong. I saw this hog when I was deer hunting two years ago and he weighed about 250 pounds then. He is much larger now and has to be at least 5 years old.

 

[Patocazador]

^^^^^^^^^ Super fancy. I could live there with no problem if there is a heater other than the stove.

 

[JmacD]

The “do it right” slogan seems fitting for the task at hand…