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Offline ricktrojanowski

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Re: really big project
« Reply #45 on: September 06, 2009, 06:48:56 am »
Very impressive,  that is a mansion of a bark house,  Nice work Jamie.
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Re: really big project
« Reply #46 on: September 06, 2009, 04:45:05 pm »
that is rediculously awsome man. great work. i dont have the time to do the bark deal, but i got lotsa palmettos.  ;D

im getting ideas here.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: really big project
« Reply #47 on: September 06, 2009, 06:28:38 pm »
RS, when I was a kid in Savannah we would make forts with chicken wire and palmetto fronds woven into it. You can make them almost water proof by starting at the bottom and working up to the top like roof shingles. Would make a great blind in a palmetto thicket.
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Re: really big project
« Reply #48 on: September 06, 2009, 07:47:45 pm »
finished the bencher up . Rock solid so visiting children wont destroy em. Now ontm the next project. Full length dugout and a phragmites wigwam. Next year rebuild the bark wigwam. Thanks again for the good mojo everybody. Rick come up this fall and we'll campout . I have a decent hunting property not far from the museum. Peace
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Re: really big project
« Reply #49 on: September 06, 2009, 11:42:15 pm »
Quote from: jamie on September 06, 2009, 07:47:45 pm
finished the bencher up . Rock solid so visiting children wont destroy em. Now ontm the next project. Full length dugout and a phragmites wigwam. Next year rebuild the bark wigwam. Thanks again for the good mojo everybody. Rick come up this fall and we'll campout . I have a decent hunting property not far from the museum. Peace
I am there!!!  Let's figure out a good weekend for me to not shoot any deer. ;D  Camping out in the house would make the hunt, even if I didn't see a single deer.
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Re: really big project
« Reply #50 on: September 07, 2009, 10:26:46 am »
i have made the palmeto blinds, and they work great till it gets all dryed out, then every little breeze rattles the snot out of it.  :-\
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Re: really big project
« Reply #51 on: September 07, 2009, 10:00:59 pm »
Great job Jamie, I know how much work you put in this. I thought I would never finish mine and yours is probably three times bigger. I can't imagine building one that size! It looks really great man!

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Re: really big project
« Reply #52 on: September 08, 2009, 07:55:03 am »
thanks alan. id say all in all it took 2 guys about 2 weeks to harvest and build. we had a lot of volunteers a couple days and then none on other days. what most of the onlookers forget is the harvesting work. building it is mentally challenging but pulling 100 lb bark slabs out of the woods for days on end is exhausting.
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Offline woodstick

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Re: really big project
« Reply #53 on: September 08, 2009, 11:45:11 am »
how much you get on rent, thats nicer than most houses here in oklahoma.
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Re: really big project
« Reply #54 on: September 08, 2009, 03:10:20 pm »
Good lord!  Looks good!   :)  -josh
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Re: really big project
« Reply #55 on: September 09, 2009, 10:02:28 pm »
Yeah you're right on Jamie, building one from all the materials laying there in a pile is easy compared to the work it takes to get that pile of materials harvested. Fighting the summer heat and bugs to get all that bark is physically and mentally exhausting. I bet I sweated off ten pounds getting the bark for mine.

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Re: really big project
« Reply #56 on: September 10, 2009, 07:12:16 am »
Very cool jamie,Lots of work but looks like you handled it great.  :)
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Offline woodstick

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Re: really big project
« Reply #57 on: September 11, 2009, 08:35:37 pm »
still looking to rent that condo. all bs  aside that is really cool i bet it will last along time. or it better after all the work you put in it.
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Re: really big project
« Reply #58 on: November 04, 2009, 03:31:57 pm »
   Very good job. Lots of hard work, thanks for sharing....Brokenhand....Aho.
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Offline PeteC

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Re: really big project
« Reply #59 on: November 04, 2009, 09:21:53 pm »
Wow!! That is an excellent long house.Did you build it where you hunt? God Bless
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