$4137.00 and counting

[tightlines]

Just thought I would give you all an update on the the shack cost. It was surprising to add up the reciepts tonight. I still have to purchase a few cabinets,propane tanks, regulator,hoses,inside trim,TV and antanea,carpet and a few odds and ends. I am sure that when it is all complete I will have $5000.00 in the shack. I missed the budget by about $1500.00, but I did add some things that I wasn't originally planning on like hole lights, catchcovers, dinnette set and upgraded panelling. I figure it was definetly worth the time and money as I have one hell of a nice shack and it is built the way I wanted it built. If any of you are planning to build a shack, go for it. It is a lot of fun designing and building and you end up with a shack built to your specs...

[Guest]

Sounds like you have a nice shack going. You'll have to post some pics when its all done. I would like to build an ice house someday but I move around too much right now when I'm on the ice chasing the crappies, gills, and perch. My buddy has a big 12 x 26 house (I think thats the size) up on Mille Lacs. A pretty nice time relaxing in there every once in a while. A nice big ice house up on LOW right over a hunger group of walleyes sounds nice

Must be a lot of fun building your own. I know I have a blast modifying my Fish Trap Pro.

Good Fishin,
Matt

[email protected]

[minneman]

Dinnenet set? No wonder it cost so much!

[tightlines]

Well the dinnette set breaks down into a bed too, so it's worth the extremely high price. LOL LOL I actually got the set at an RV place here in Fargo for 225.00 so that was a bargain. I will still be fishing with the portables and use the shack as a base camp, hopefully on top of schools of eyes and crappies...

[fisherdog19]

Tightlines, I see you live here in Fargo, I'm sure like many of us. The reason I'm asking is that my brother-in-law and I are going to be building a shack shortly and I would like to take a good look at one and pick someones brain. Would it be possible to take a look at yours and pick your brain a littl? Email me at [email protected] if it wouldn't be an inconvenience.

Thanks,
Fisherdog

[walksonwater]

Wow! How fast it all adds up. It’ll be worth it though.

To post the digital pictures into email just compose your email and then
Insert, file attachment and locate the pictures under the directory you saved them under.
One thing to make it easier looking for your pictures is when you save them under your
Digital camera’s software is to save them under a directory called like c:/fishing.

Would sure like to see some pictures. [email protected]

Still waiting on my trailer yet so I can get started on building my shack.
p.s….I hate to admit it but my trailer is pushing $4200, and that’s just for the
trailer.

8 x 16 and an extra v-nose, Electric Hydraulic lift, Tandem axels, coil springs, etc.
It’s the cats meow for trailers for sure!

Walks

[tightlines]

Fisherdog.. You got mail...

[tightlines]

Hey walks. WOW!!! Are you ever gonna have a hell of a trailer. You building this entire thing yourself? I am wondering where you live, as I would like to take a peak at your shack when it is finished. I know we can get a lot of good ideas from fellow shack builders. I would venture that youwill have 10 grand by the time your finished? There is something about home built shacks that spur the interest in guys. I pulled mine out of the garage last weekend and within a half an hour most of the neighborhood came over to check it out. Even the non-fishermen. It was kinda cool to see there reactions. Have fun with the project. I know I am.

[Freewheeler]

Tightlines: Glad to hear you are wrapping things up on your Ice Shack. Will you be completely done in about 50 days, when it'll be time to drag it up to L.O.W. for its first overnight stay? Building one from scratch, one idea at a time, does take a lot of time and talent. I hope to see it up there some time this winter. I know you have seen my new one so I am at a disadvantage to recognize yours. Maybe you'll be able to post a picture for all of us upon completion. Will you be able to use it for a Deer Hunting shack yet this Fall? Might work out good for that too. To say nothing of these Shacks being used for rough Grouse hunting shacks way back in the big woods.
Hope you put the finishing touches on it soon and we'll "catch you" up on the big pond before the F.M. fishing get together.

[EBass]

Tightlines, can you post some pics when you're done. I would like to see this castle compared to my fishtrap scout

[tightlines]

EBASS: I would post some pic's but don't know where I would post them? I could email ya some shots. I do have the exterior about finished with the exception of mounting the tanks. Interior is getting close to completion. Working on the ceiling now and installing cabinets and carpet this weekend.Do you know of a way to post pic's and if so explain how to do it?

[This message has been edited by Paul Waldowski (edited 10-28-2003).]

[Paul Waldowski]

Tightlines,

E-mail them to me and I will insert them in this thread.

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Paul
[email protected]
www.marcum.com

[tightlines]

Thanks Paul. I will get some shots tomorrow.

[walksonwater]

tightlines,
I live over in Lake Elmo. The trailer is going to be the cats meow for sure. I hope I don't hit $10k on the entire project.

Looking forward to seeing your pictures.

email me ([email protected]). I'd like to see your shack.

Walks on Water
(When it's hard that is!)

[tightlines]

Paul: Thanks for posting the pictures. Would you mind posting a couple more when I complete the interior?

[Paul Waldowski]

Tightlines,

Send them my way when you finish them along with a link to the thread that you want them in.

Hard to keep track of everything at times. Must be getting old

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Paul
[email protected]
www.marcum.com

[tightlines]

Any of you shack builders got a good tip on what material to use for my ceiling?

[EBass]

That is a real nice shack! I like the diamond plate in the front. I can't wait to see the inside of it.

[kooba]

You are going to wish that you put the diamond plate up higher on your fishouse. So many times rock fly up and hit the siding and crack it. It has happend to me. KOOBA

[tightlines]

Ebass. Thankyou. I thought the diamond front end was a good defense against rocks and road salt, and besides that it looks good. Kooba, I looked at a lot of houses and found that most of em were using a 2 foot high panel. I am not too worried about cracking the siding as it is aluminum.

[bigfishin21]

Hey tightlines,

Can you send me a pic. of your fish house too. [email protected].

Thank you

[Stradic]

Nice pics.

[walksonwater]

I get to pick up my trailer tomorrow Yaaaa hoo! 8 x 16 and an extra 4' v-nose.

I just picked up some 1/2" treated for the first layer of the floor...$28/sheet ouch! $160.00 just for the bottom layer. This baby is adding up and I haven't even put up any walls yet.

Walks

[tightlines]

LOL!! Hey walks.. I know the feeling exactly. Seems like every time I went to pick up something for the shack it was 200.00 then 300.00 then 500.00. Mine is a 6.5 X 14 and I am at 5000.00 and I still need to get a radio and tv.. Hope you have as much fun building it as I am having with mine. I am just putting the finish trim and carpet and I am finished. The price of the green treated ply is shocking...

[Guest]

walksonwater,
I also just picked up my frame last weekend and my floor boards last night. Sounds like we're going to be going through the process at the same time. I'm sandwiching two layers of 1/2" treated plywood around 3/4 polystyrean pink rigid insulation. Found some 2 3/4" self tapping lag screw to fasten the whole "sandwich" down to the frame with some insullation glue spread in the middle of the "sandwich".

What process are you doing for the floor?

Problem I am having now is finding self tapping screws long enough to fasten the walls through the floor and into the frame. Menards longest was the 2 3/4". I figure I'll need 5" at the very least. I saw in another post that was a key for AquaEye in his process too. What procedure are you planning for fastening the walls down?

I don't have all the details worked out yet so it will be interesting reading your progress as I work my way down the same road.

Keep us up to date.