Faux shepherds hut

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I stared this over in non -traditoinal designs
you can read my about my quest here.

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but, here is where I will put my build journal.

It all started with wanting a simple camper for the hunting club. My son(s) and I go hunting almost every weekend from Mid Oct through late Jan. We wanted to keep warm and have a place to store stuff that was more secure than a tent and would have a shower and maybe a wood stove for heat.

we started looking for a camper and were ofter beat to the buy by other hunters. We were disgusted with the junk that people whould put on the market, thining that by puting the words "hunters special" it would be worth buying. What junk! and smelly too.
so we decided it would be better to build on an existing frame.
we found this frame on craigslist for about $220.

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we removed all the rotten ply and subfloor and ground off all the rust.
we then put on a coat of primer

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after letting the primer dry overnight, we put on a coat of black gloss paint.

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once the paint dried, i moved it inside to start leveling and collecting materials.

The are still building in my sons neighborhood, so he got permission to collect the discarded mylar duct from a new house.

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the original subfloor was just plane untreated wood, so we wanted this to last for a long time. We went with pressure treated and bolted it down.

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the original trailer had a holding tank, which we discarded and framed over the space.

we wanted a good weather proof floor, so we went with half inch pressure treated ply.

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started framing, which if done by yourself is sorta like juggling eggs.

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so my son came in and i got him to help me level and get every thing plumb

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as we progressed with framing, we wanted to cover up the old metal wheel wells.

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and i built a door from some left over 3/4 inch pressure treated ply

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so it was time to start thinking how to bild the roof and how tall it was going to be. My cieling is higher than the barn door.

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so I now knew how long and tall the arch would be, it was time to make one.

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here is the first protype in place.
the notchs on tope are for perlons running fore to aft.

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so it was time to start hangin some metal

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first we covered with a house wrap for moister control.

once i got both the front and back covered with metal, i an out of room, it had to go....outside that is.

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my door has a header that is lower than the cieling, so i had to let the air out of the tires to ensure it would clear

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so now it will rest overnight so i can start putting on end walls

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everything went real fast last couple of days, so not a lot of pics of the progression.

here is where we finished it up enough to be road worthy (we hope)

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and where it wound up at the deer club

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we have some more work to do inside, but we do have heat and some light

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