What do you all stay in when you are on site

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  • May 29, 2010 at 5:52 pm #41695
    TaylorJohnson
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    What do you all stay in when you are on site . I have stayed in the back of my truck, in the truck, tents, campers , on the ground , potable ice shacks , and tinker shacks .
    What I want to do is get a truck with a van box on it,, about a 22′ er or bigger. I will put a living quarters in the front of the van and a small work shop in the back were harnesses and what not would also a small bench with vice . I will pull my trailer with the truck . These would be fairly comfortable quarters compared to a tent especially in the winter. I will heat this with a wood stove. These trucks in medium duty trucks in this style are very cheap with good motors in them . The one I looked at is an Internationale with a 6 speed . For the money they are hard to beat.
    Back in 95 my Dad and I looked into building a portable barn on a 30′ heavy flat bed trailer we had . A truck like that would pull something like that and could still get my loader on with out the poll. This set up would be a one trip one day set up most of the time as well. I hope to get the truck this summer but the trailer will have to wait. With a truck like this I can get my horses and arch there no problem with what I got now . Taylor Johnson

    May 29, 2010 at 8:26 pm #60468
    Rick Alger
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    For the summer I have one of those cots-enclosed-by-a-tent that Cabela’s sells. I set up inside the stock trailer with a Coleman stove and gas light. I use a brook to keep food and drink cool. For the fall and winter I either borrow a camper or cadge a cabin. For the last three winters I’ve been able to stay at a logging camp that the mechanized guys don’t use any more. Gas lights and refrigerator, and battery powered radio – almost like home.

    A friend of mine with a mechanized operation has a set up like you described. It’s a 30 foot box trailer. He’s got a workshop, a wood stove you can cook on, a bunk, and a dining room table.

    May 30, 2010 at 5:17 am #60467
    Scott G
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    When I ran my mechanical show I was often staying at base camp up to 8 months out of the year, winter, spring, summer, and fall. Didn’t get to see my oldest daughter grow up much…

    I used a wall tent with a wood stove. Set up with a cot & kitchen it worked pretty well for long periods of time even when the weather turned nasty. The record was having it set up for almost 9 months straight on a very large government contract I had. My guys would have their own individual tents set up around the area and use mine as the cook shack/warm spot. A couple of years we had quite the tent city going.

    I, like Taylor, am always looking for efficiency though. My scenario is now more in the line of being out for 2-4 days and then coming home. Most of my away work is/will be out a good distance and/or the haul is just to rough to put the horses/myself through daily. Even though the tent doesn’t take long to put up, I’d still rather spend my time logging than giving my job the homey touch. Pull up, put some t-posts & hot wire up, fill the water trough, and be done with it.

    So now I am more in the mode of putting the cot in the back of the trailer and cooking off the coleman stove. Thats all I need other than a solar shower now & then. I haven’t been staying in my trailer during nasty weather to get the condensation and resulting interior thunder storm from it. My situation being what it is now I don’t have to log in nasty weather… I think if I put my sheepherders stove in the back, however, and stick the flue out the back that it would burn off enough moisture to cut down on the raining inside issue.

    When I save up enough pennies I’m going to buy a stock-combo trailer and customize it for my operation. I’ll buy the plain shell and build it up myself with the front goooseneck for the bed and about 6′ of floor for LQ with a gas stove & small sink. I’ll have a walk through door back to the stock compartment so I can spread out a bit. The slam gate will be 4′ from the front wall and I’ll use that area for storing harness, rigging, etc. with an escape door off each side of that. Open the whole 20′ trailer up and I’ll have a base camp/shop all in one. Pull up and you’re there ready to go, no camp to set up other than a hot-wire corral. Per a previous post shelter for the horses really isn’t an issue if I have part of the corral in heavy timber.

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