Duck Camp: Cabin's Up.

Ed Askew

Ed Askew

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I can't believe that while I've been up here working the guys have already got the cabin up. My brother just sent me these.

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Well, I'm going down there later this week, and we'll be framing up the inside (standard 2x4 stick construction). We ought to have her done by time for the season I think.

Ed.
 
That is really nice Ed...........and BIG! That sucker would be one NOISY SOB in a hailstorm the way it is right now though :^)

2X4's on 24" centers should do the trick and be a lot lighter than on 16" centers. You will most likely be using 1/4" 4'x8' wood paneling on the inside walls right? Bunks beds built in to the corners and a galley in one of the back corners. Don't forfet the wood stove and it's pipe out the roof. Yep, that's going to make a pretty fancy "Shantyboat".

Dave
 
Dear Ed,

Wow, that is magnificient!

Having spent time at Pass A Loutre' and the Achafalaya river system and delta, I have always admired those who have done exactly what you are creating. Good for you!

God Bless,

Mark
 
Once you guys get moving, there's no stopping! It's great to see the progress. Thanks for sharing the photos.
Rick
 
I also thought about a wood stove; I have one at my house. This thing will be a long way from any trees though. We'd have to haul wood down there, 30 + miles by boat. Also, it rarely gets cold enough to bother. I wanted a propane heater, but that got voted down. We will have no heater at all. Typical morning temps down in the marsh in South Louisiana are about 40 during hunting season. We do occasionally have much colder weather, but we'll just have to suck it up when that happens. I've been duck hunting down there for over 30 years, and we've never had a heater. Usually just the warmth from the stove heating up the coffee, making breakfast, etc is plenty. The bunks are going to be welded from 1" square tubing. Talked to my brother today, he's thinking we'll have her done by the first of October. I'm going down early Friday morning and will bring my camera.

Ed.
 
Ed:
You SOUTHERN BOYS certaintly do things up right! That is some operation--how many hunters involved in that? If you fire from that with the door open that should be some echo :) A camo life ring hanging on the outside might be a good idea? Looks like a lot of fun.
wis boz
 
There are 5 or 6 of us right now, depending on how you count it. My brother is bankrolling the operation, one of his employees and a brother of that employee have done most of the work so far. I pitch in when I can, but most of the work has been welding (they wouldn't let me weld. They don't like my welding). Finally now we're working with wood, pipe, and wire, so I can really do something.

Ed.
 
Ed:
I assume you all fan out from there in your respective boats to hunt differen areas?
That's a different style hunting then we do in our area.
wis boz
 
Right. This is just the place to sleep, eat, etc. It's not a giant blind. We lease a square mile of marsh, and have several different boats, including a newly acquired airboat, to get out to the various hunting spots. Actually, duck hunting has become a minor concern for us. The main motivation for all this is fishing. We don't have enough ducks down in our area anymore to make this sort of thing worthwhile for hunting alone. A couple of the guys don't even buy a duck stamp anymore and just come for fishing.

Ed.
 
Ed

I have been trying to follow all your postings as your project is pretty cool. Maybe I missed mention, but what are your plans for a latrine? I don't mind squatting in the woods, but from what I understand you don't have a whole lot of solid ground to stand on.

Keep the picture coming!

Chuck
 
Ed, I guess a stove may not really be needed, but a small woodstove does not take up much room and forget about hauling firewood for one, Ya just use charcoal brickets, a couple handfulls will warm up a small cabin just fine (as long as it's not 20 below outside).

I have always used charcoal in my Tipi for overnight heating. A couple big handfulls will keep my 18' Tipi warm all night and it gives a nice red glow on the Tipi walls. In the morning ya just throw a few peices of kindling on it and you have light enough to see what you are doing. Another handfull of charcoal will be enough to make your coffee and cook breakfast too.

One suggestion I gotta make.........after the duck season haul it out and take it to Canada.....as they don't have many Hurricanes there I hear :^)

Dave
 
Regular old toilet from Home Depot, with a very expensive sewerage treatment plant. I actually already have a Type II MSD (lectrosan) I was going to use on another houseboat project I never built, but it requires a marine head, and my brother won't stand for that (he remembers the old pump model we had on the old camp when we were kids. He just can't get past that.) He has to have a regular toilet, so he's got to lay out the bucks for a Type III MSD, which is only required on much larger boats by USCG regs. We'll have a nice little bathroom and shower. We're not into roughing it by any means. Where do we get all the water you may ask? We collect rain water into a large cistern (500 gallons). We collect enough water off the generator shed roof for 2 camps, maybe 12 guys, and we only collect it off one side of the roof, so only 70 square feet of roof we collect way more rain water than we could ever use. We could make 30 people comfortable with all the water we collect, as long as not too many of them were female.

Ed.
 
ED,IT SURE IS A NICE CAMP.We couldn't collect enough water to flush a toilet once,if we had 700,000 sq ft of roof.
We actually do need a huricane skirting the coast,or driving up over the Florida panhandle to get enough rain here this year.
 
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