r/cabins

How bad are ticks in your area?

I don't like to use any chemicals in our yard, but we have so many... What are your best strategies for keeping them at bay?

We have a lake house in wisconsin we get to once a month or so. When I'm not there I'm curious what the weather there has been like (especially if it rained, and how windy it was) but it's weirdly difficult to find anything but weather forecasts.

So I built a simple website that emails me yesterday's weather, ie what actually happened, each morning. Temperature, precipitation, wind, that kind of thing. Currently getting and summarizing data for the local airport

Decided to put it online for free in case anyone else finds it useful: yesterdaysweather.app

(You'll need your nearest airport code, and FYI not all airports have weather data)

All,

I would like to add running water to my off-grid cabin. I have a 250 gallon water tank that I can use (although I should get a larger one). I also have the ability to do have the tank well above the cabin, so I should be able to get some pressure from a gravity feed.

I would like to find out if there is a small/small-ish pressurized water pump and tank that I could pick up that would give me good water pressure at the cabin.

Bonus points if I can find something that combines water pressurization and water heating for a shower.

Looking for out of the box ideas for permitting! My family has 21 acres of land in Northern Mn. There’s an old log cabin plus a bunkhouse on the land currently. (And a couple of storage sheds).

The main log cabin hasn’t been used as a dwelling in over ten years. It’s no longer suitable for staying in, but we have over a hundred years of history in that cabin so we don’t want to tear it down.

I really want to build myself a small bunkhouse on the property since the main cabin isn’t usable and the existing bunkhouse belongs to another family member, but the county only allows one primary residential dwelling plus one bunkhouse. I understand the rule on smaller parcels, but seems a little silly when we have over 20 acres and not much of it is being used.

Anyone run into this before and found a solution to secure a building permit? Is it a thing to reclassify a residential dwelling unit into an accessory structure if it’s no longer habitable? The land is in a family trust so I’m not really interested in trying to split it into separate parcels or anything along those lines.