inside trapping camp

[musher]

7 pickup full trips to the dump later, 2 gallons of paint and 17 sheets of paneling make it Wifey hospitable. We still have to do the ceiling.a




We also installed 20 marten boxes so far. Quite a bit of scouting done but more yet to do.

[bobwendt]

thst looks very nice. much nicer than my shacks in wyoming. some of my funnest memories are heating water on the stove and the kids and wife and me all washing in one 30 gallon tub. saving a gallon of warm water for each bather to rinse off with. we did the 3 kids first youngest to oldest, then the boss ,and me last as I was carrying the most poundage of dust and grit and sweat. some of the happiest days of my life at trapping camps in the far out. no phone no tv , not even much radio, only one station reception. no nothing but fun fun fun

[redsnow]

Looking good. Man that place must have been full to get 7 loads of junk. I remember one of your other pics showed a lightbulb hanging on the porch, do you have power?

Does look like it's solid, that paneling will help block the cold too.

[northof50]

Looks like you have a water resevoir on the side of the stove, does it still hold water for heating?
So you have the base of the coal lantern, but no cover. agh

[musher]

My wife really regrets that I didn't take any "before" photos.

There was a skinning room on the right of the oil stove. The partition is all I kept. We'll put a bunk bed behind it. On the right of the oil stove was a bunk bed. It was a double sized one. I figure that buddy had 12 inches between the bed and the oil stove. "Safety first" wasn't his motto!

I didn't fiddle with the wood stove yet. All I did was empty the ash. Wifey spent about 4 hours cleaning it. You didn't see ANY white! She isn't finished yet. I patched the chimney so all should be shipshape.

If you look at the right hand side of the bottom photo, you'll see one of the outside doors. (handle). The window frames were 100 times cruddier.

7 loads and the place WAS packed. He left EVERYTHING. Socks on the wall all the way to skivvies in a corner. We took it all to the dump. Plates, pans on down. I saved everything that is in the bucket on the oil stove. They are tools.

We kept a couple of kerosene lamps. they are complete. I'm thinking of ditching them due to the fire hazard and the soot.

No electricity. It was a battery hook-up. I cut it all out. It didn't work. Buddy's wiring seemed a little iffy.

Here's a photo of a wall or two prior to paneling. The paint was done by then.

[decoy]

Look'n good!
Take some pics of your Marten set ups please and post
Thanks

[redsnow]

I wouldn't trash the oil lamps, build a shelf/mantle, tell the kids to keep away from them. They might come in handy one day. Darned things sell high $, too. I can't tell from the pics if you have more than one door or not?, before you stay with your family, put up a smoke/co2 detector, and I'd mount a fire extinguisher handy. Better to spend $100 and never use the stuff, at least you can sleep.

[Stef]

Looks good Brian... I know where you were last w-end

[northof50]

With the wood stove look at the connector bolts in the firebricks and make sure they are there. They seem to rust out with ash left in the stove. make sure the creseol is not built up around the water resevour or under the oven. There is a small inspection port, to put a dragger in and pull back the soot.
Those ovens do make for some awsume pizza's.
From an old BBQ take a themoter guage and place it on the top and you can judge how to baffle the heat out of the stove.
Save the wax paper and you can polish the rust off with a fire going, and it will darken up in no time.
First thing to go once electricity got to the rural areas was the wood cook stove. What a lost.
Always great to simmer off a pot of sap to syrup been my experience.

With those lanters do save them, cause the mantles and lanterns as sets are big dollars items.
Does not PQ Hydro go out 10 times a year as a rule, but never during a Montreal Canadiens game...pun pun

[Hale87]

Looks good.
Inside it looks like a lot of places around here when I was a kid.

Can I ask, why did you haul the junk to the dump?
Why not just burn and hide the rest?

Just wondering...........

[musher]

If I would have burnt it, the fire would have lasted for days! Then you'd have all the nails and metal still there. It would be a danger for dog injury. I'm also not a fan of hiding stuff. It's trash? You haul it to the dump. That way you're not looking at it 20 years later.

[TrapperRon]

Looks like some very nice improvements. Wifey tolerable is a good thing if she is to spend time there. The old wife proof cabin can best be described as a man camp. Good Job.

[mink99]

Nice clean camp. The beginning of a long trapping story with lots of marten and a black wolfe.....

[trappnman]

very nice musher- I can see you are looking forward to the future with no holds barred!

[Woodswalker]

We used to have an cook stove like that with a water tank in it for hot water. Wood has to be split fine ...

Some stoves like that can be fitted with an oil burner, I think.

I've seen piping routed into the fire box so the stove will heat water which is stored in a large tank situated behind the stove. That would really spoil the ole lady. Hot running water!