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i need to tow a trailer with our car soon to get some building materials onto our nature mountain property. i installed a tow hitch receiver which was my first modification of a car ever. then time ran out and it got dark. i reassembled the car. next i have to disassemble the whole back of the car again to connect the wire harness. unfortunately i broke some decorative parts that are impossible to find in stock somewhere. so soon i can tow a trailer but the car looks broken from the outside. tradeoffs!
in other news: the wife got poison oak while hanging out in our forest and the rashes are spreading. sorry to see her suffer.
2 years ago
@danrl I'm here if you need me, haha. Going into the wilderness and building a cabin is just one of those things where the only way to be prepared to do it is to have already have done it. You can plan, you can prepare, you can read up on things, you can watch videos of other people doing similar things, and you should. But when you go to do it, something will go wrong, every 10 minutes or so. So being a good problem solver and being dumb enough to think it'll be fine are super powers :) · 2 years ago
@whixr oh this is a real danger. comfy nights is a big deal
for the wife! also poison oak. she got it really bad and now she wants to weed every last bit of it out. i am either immune it have not touched it yet.
minisplit sounds like a great idea. definitely a danger mitigation and peace maintenance device, lol
wish i could pick your brain more. i am totally unprepared for this new part of my life. · 2 years ago
@danrl Having a place to be comfortable at night not only saves you from lions, but also from grumpy girl dangers. We got power in this spring, but still no well. Thankfully there is a nearby hunting lodge with facilities for getting in a shower. I don't think *I* will be safe from the grumpy girl until I install a minisplit though :) She is just as scary as the lions if I'm being honest :D · 2 years ago
@whixr this is very good advice. not cluttering up and going slow but non-temporary is exactly what we are aiming for as well. we don't have power, so solar it is. we have 5g which is nice for a start. and fresh water. so the basics are taken care off once we got solar up and running. while we build the sleeping cabin we sleep in a nearby hotel. really don't trust those mountain lions. they are quite active at night. · 2 years ago
Now that we have power and starlink at the property, an office is exactly what the horse trailer has become! We're several years into the process at this point. The main thing I try to do differently than many is to avoid 'temporary' solutions. It is all too easy to clutter a place up, loosing the beauty that one was drawn to at the start. · 2 years ago
@whixr you are a few steps ahead. happy to take any advise! feel free to share anything you think i should be aware of. considering a 8ft “office” style shipping container for a start. it would have a door and a small window. could install bunk beds. · 2 years ago
This spring I framed and dried in the first building on my moutain desert 40 acres. Being onsite for six weeks, I needed a place to stay. So I converted an old horse trailer into a camper and towed that out there. I jacked it up off the ground, poured some piers, built a deck under it, then set it down on the deck without tires. Keep at it! The trick is to be dumb enough to want to, and dumb enough to keep at it :)
We've got mountain lion, black bear, coyote, big horn sheep, rattle snakes, bobcat, etc. so I appreciate that metal box at night. · 2 years ago