Does anyone have a primitive shelter they go to?

About 5 years ago, green jeans started pulling permanent stands down. I have taken it as a challenge.

I started building a hideaway a few years ago. Started by hauling in some old telephone poles and building a large platform about 10ft up.

Best I got.

Finally added a base for the platform earlier this year. Wanted to make sure green jeans hadn't found it before I started putting money into it.

Permanent stands are a no go on state land. Even if they have been there for 40 years. They pulled them down.

That sounds cool, but it must be hell packing deer out of there.

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How did u build a cabin that u can only get to by walking 2 miles

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It's a log cabin. we used trees to build it. We didn't cut any trees down, just used trees that fell from Katrina. Cut them up with a chainsaw. Used the chainsaw to cut planks for the floor. We did bring some plywood for the roof, and the roof was tin. Used logs for the floor and roof joists. It was getting rather difficult to figure out ways to get heavy logs 20 feet in the air.
The big logs we used a big arse four wheeler to sleigh them to the cabin spot, and we fricked up 2 four wheelers doing that. The smaller ones we carried. We were young and strong at the time and looked at it as a workout. There was nothing fun about carrying logs in the swamp.

We used tons of old school tools to build it, which we kind of had to being where it's at. We used a drill and chainsaw, and everything else was man powered. We broke 2 chainsaws and a drill. Took us about a year to complete it.

There was nothing easy about building it, and the hardest part was getting the materials to the cabin. Once we got everything to the site, then it was somewhat easy.

We can get to the cabin by 4 wheeler usually so we were able to bring some things all the way by 4 wheeler. The reason we don't go to it by 4 wheeler now is b/c we don't want to bring a ton of stuff when we go there, and we know if we take a 4 wheeler we will, so we walk with a pack instead. We also don't want their to be an obvious trail to the cabin b/c we don't want anyone finding it, even though it's on my buddies land and other people shoudln't be on it. So not having a trail makes it rather difficult to ride a 4 wheeler to it now. We had a trail back when we were building it.

The cabin is meant to be a very primitive off the grid place. We dont' even like bringing phones to it, but we do b/c we have kids now. Bringing a 4 wheeler tempts us to bring too many luxuries, like an ice chest, or a pot to cook with, or food, or propellant for a fire since it's difficult to find dry wood sometimes, or fishing poles.
And anything we leave out there gets destroyed. rats and what not will tear apart any and everything we leave. ONly thing we leave now is a few cheap air mattresses in an old ice chest we found so the rats can't chew it up. The air mattress is one of the only luxuries we have. Sleeping on a wood floor is just asking too much. I guess you could call the guns and knives we bring luxuries. We found an old flat bottom boat that we fixed the leaks on and we use that to go frogging and check jug lines with the paddle we made. Outside of the boat, guns, knives, fishing line and hooks, we try to do everything else with whatever we have out there.

How it's still standing 10 years later, with an enormous oak tree that fell from Gustav just a couple feet from it, and all the termite damage, amazes me.

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I found this online.

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Build a few of those for guest, an outhouse, and I have my spot.