Cabin door latch??

[nebo]

Looking to make a door latch for the shack. I have a standard solid wood door now with all the pre-drilled holes like a standard door. I want a latch so I can close or open form outside or inside. Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

[logbuilder]

I have a double cabin door that I also need to make an inside/outside latch for. I'd like to make it out of wood. I'll be interested in following this thread.

Later, I'll do some looking around for ideas and will post what I find.

[nebo]

I have done some looking so I'm stupid or just can't find much. LOL

[logbuilder]

Here is one I found.

[Brighton]

http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/sss_latches.html

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/...bin-Door-Latch

A friend who has a small cabin, one room, just drilled a hole through the door, then took a dowel and two long, very long, skinny nails (cut the heads off them) that he bent into and L shape, hammered one into the dowel on the inside of the door, then the other once it was through the hole, and matched eye bolt type things so that when he turned it the ends of the L shape of the nail slid into the eye bolt and the door was shut.

[arcticow]

Originally Posted by logbuilder

Here is one I found.

This works well, but it needs a string tied to it and run through a very small hole in the door to the outside. Leave the string out while you're outside, pull it in when you come in and at night.

[logbuilder]

Originally Posted by arcticow

This works well, but it needs a string tied to it and run through a very small hole in the door to the outside. Leave the string out while you're outside, pull it in when you come in and at night.

Or put a pin in the latch that does not go fully outside.

[ET1 SS]

Our house has the regular steel doors. I tested the locks once, when I hung the doors, but they have not been locked since that dated. Years ago.

No idea where the keys are.

I made a big deal of giving my Dw her key, to her new house. She never used it.

[logbuilder]

Originally Posted by ET1 SS

Our house has the regular steel doors. I tested the locks once, when I hung the doors, but they have not been locked since that dated. Years ago.

No idea where the keys are.

I made a big deal of giving my Dw her key, to her new house. She never used it.

I'm as concerned about 4 legged critters as I am of 2 legged. Bears can get aggressive sometimes. Coyotes not nearly as much.

[ET1 SS]

Originally Posted by logbuilder

I'm as concerned about 4 legged critters as I am of 2 legged. Bears can get aggressive sometimes. Coyotes not nearly as much.

We generally have a few bears on our land. Most years one is harvested from on my land. Along with moose and deer.

Bear usually give our pigs a wide berth. I have not heard of any 'aggressive' bears in this area. But every household includes hunters, I think that the first indication that any bear is getting too familiar with people, the bear ends up in a chest freezer real quick.

A neighbor traps on my land, he took a bobcat a couple months ago. Bobcat feed on deer through the winters.