While elk scouting the last week, we did some improvements to the cabin. We finally put in a french drain for the kitcken sink. That was a pain because the ground is very rocky. We had to dig down 6 feet but we did get to throw out the old drain bucket under the sink. We put a 1400 gallon cistern on top the steel shipping container next to the cabin, ran a hose from the shower shack well and filled it up. We added a little bleach. We plumbed it with pvc and put a faucet on the cabin exterior wall, and into the kitchen. Now we have running water. Next up is installing a purifier and fixing the solar set up so we can use the generator less. I wish I owned the camp, but the Senator is very graciously letting us have usage rights in trade for repairs and maintenance.
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Like this except ours is piped from the sink, through the exterior cabin wall, down through the deck and into the drain. We dug ours much deeper than this to ensure good drainage-Originally posted by gamgee View Post
Picture this-
On top of this-
Then imagine pipes and faucets.
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Do you have to vote for the Senator? Does the water go from the shower to the cistern? Why not from the well right to the kitchen? Does sleeping in the same bed as a politician make you feel icky?I don't know.Comment
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I do vote for him, he trained mercenary teams at the camp before obama defunded it. We ran a hose from the well 75 yds away to fill the cistern. Among other reasons, you get much better water pressure fro a rooftop cistern then from a 75 yard draw on an unpumped well. It's not the Senators cabin, my son built it for his hunting buddy, the Senator's son in law. I feel really good sleeping in the comfy bed.Comment
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I'm starting to get it. I'll probably have more questions later, though.I don't know.Comment
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Does this mean you can shower now?
do you wear a ball cap when you shower?Tuesday is soylent green dayComment
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No, I take it off when I shower but never take it off in the sun. The shower shack is for everyone's use but we are going to put a private shower in the big steel box. It's also where we have the hanging apparatus and tools...Originally posted by Night View PostComment
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Sounds like ol' UncleFred has his prioritities straight.It's not the size of the dog, in the fight. It's the size of the fight, in the dog.
No guts, no glory. All pain, and fury.Comment
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By the time you're finished it'll be a suburban 3 bedroom mcmansion and you'll have to find somewhere else more rustic to get away to and commune with nature.Originally posted by Unclefred View PostComment
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Ha! It's a pretty cool camp. There's 5 or 6 quonset huts scattered about with shipping containers, a firing range and a light cannon firing deck, sans cannon. Also, the secret underground communications bunker.Originally posted by Absolutely! View PostComment
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You got a chopper pad? It's not an A Camp without one...Bigger the Government, the smaller the Citizen.Comment
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Maybe your albino bear cub will help you build oneGive a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.Comment
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He looked like an adult, but not as big as the red one. That water hole is less than a mile from the ranch.Comment
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