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  1. Porkbrick

    my dirt bag cabin

    It’s still there 😆, but other than putting a door on the outhouse I haven’t had a chance to do a thing on it. Not sure if I mentioned it here but we found a sweat deal on a house on 2acres nearer town and bought it almost 4 years ago now. All of my time and energy not going into akimbo, akimbo...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    everything is better with dinosaurs!oven works awesome, at some point before is starts to rain ill put a final coat of plaster on it to give it a little more protection. i also need to go back and re mortar the keystone with a high temp mortar instead of clay.
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    my dirt bag cabin

    added the chimney to help move the smoke above face level. finished the second layer of cob and its time to pull out the sand form.
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    my dirt bag cabin

    ha! im mastering the art of doing 10 projects at once in increments equal to a 2yr olds attention span :D. pizza was something i could get him enthused about, plus it required the making of mud.after the sandstone slabs there is a thin layer of sand. fire brick is bedded on the sand and then...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    If you look close, my son is standing on the refractory brick layer. That forms the inside floor of the oven.
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    my dirt bag cabin

    after screening in our front porch, replacing the all the drain plumbing, rewiring and plumbing the washer/dryer, and repairing drywall its time to build a pizza oven in the yard!first is the base for the oven. i dry stacked rock i got from a friends old retaining wall. on top of that i set some...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    Pineapple quarters next to it for scale
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    my dirt bag cabin

    more gardening. i do love to grow stuff! we've got tons of pumpkins going, tomatoes, potatoes, cape gooseberry, sorrel, corn, squash, fennel, and tons of other stuff. Ive started collecting unusual edibles like canna, day lilies, walking onions, tree kale and tree collards, new Zealand spinach...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    i also turned 40 last year. i cooked a goat luau style in a pit in the ground. it was excellent.
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    my dirt bag cabin

    Thanks guys! The only time I’ve felt shittier than dealing with the county was when I got booked into jail. Both cost me about the same:whine:.
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    my dirt bag cabin

    I love grand designs. Watched every episode I can find online. We even watched all of the grand designs New Zealand and Australia! I have no solid plan for when it might be done. I?m hoping that now that my son is turning 3 and the Akimbo is closer to launching I?ll be able to spend more time...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    and now that the county is off our back we can get a dog!
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    my dirt bag cabin

    i immediately started with planting a garden! ive always wanted the space to collect interesting edible plants and now i have it. the yard was solid with calla lily and Virginia creeper. I'm slowly pushing it back, section by section. less than 8 months into owning our house we got red tagged by...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    well, since Ive had diddly squat for time to work on the cabin the last two years, i thought it might be nice to post some picks of what Ive done instead.we bought a place much closer to town. 2 acres with a small house and separate garage with an apartment upstairs. i finally have a space for...
  15. Porkbrick

    my dirt bag cabin

    Owen has occupied all of my weekends since his birth. I do have all of my roof tiles finally on site and I go the chimney done. I'm hoping to be able to do more this year
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    my dirt bag cabin

    im not sure it is chatoyance technically. i think it is the carbon refracting light. i guess since the structure of the wood is still there maybe it is chatoyance?
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    my dirt bag cabin

    this shows better the iridescent quality
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    my dirt bag cabin

    do you ever sleep Butch?
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    my dirt bag cabin

    speaking of pigment that never fades, how about carbon black? Brian, aka toyotadon, milled me some live edge cypress boards for my fascia. i decided to try shou sugi ban. torched the boards black, brushed them off with a stiff brush and gave them a coat of deck treatment. i think they turned out...
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    my dirt bag cabin

    yes Stig, thats the plan. final coat of plaster will be a lime/sand mixture, should come out very white. still toying with the idea of doing the lower half in a dark color to break up the verticality of the front.
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