What to Take and What to Pack

Tango · #21 05/13/05, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Blu3duk

If you are hiring your building done for you, have the contractor build you a storage shedon property, double the size you can rent one, and triple if it doesnt set you back to much. It will pay for itself in short order, becuse everything you want to use will be on site where you are living, and not in town, or in another state.
William

Very good idea. I'm going to be repairing a garage/barn that is there on the property when I go up next week and was thinking of using that for storage but if that doesn't work out, I'll go with your idea- call it Plan B. Thank you.

Tango · #22 05/13/05, 01:24 PM

Thank you Jan, Steve, and Mark. I appreciate your good ideas

I can probably scrub out and bleach the trash cans I have now Jan. I have seven of them - 3 on wheels. I use them for feed containers but won't have as many animals up there as I have down here. Mark, like a kid searching for a treehouse, I'll be looking for my quiet spot. The tool box idea might be in the air. I've already got one in the trailer with matches, a can opener, some bungees, duck tape, locks, and tools

will add scissors.

caballoviejo · #23 05/13/05, 06:22 PM

Can't add much to what has already been said except watch for winter. In the south (maybe elsewhere?) what a builder or sub contracter assured you will be finished by a certain date always takes a few months longer.

Don't know what your bathroom facilities are like but for just two people, the white 5-gallon buckets make great sit-on toilets - without any modification.

mink · #24 05/13/05, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Tango

Thanks everyone. Very good suggestions. Bethlaf, I ended up buying in southern TN. Cyngbaeld, I'll have two streams and a couple of springs right away for water but the current well has no motor. It is a priority to put one in asap. What is a 3 pt hitch? I keep coming across that on haying equipment I'm looking at- some say 3 pto hitch. Tarps and bungees? LOL. I've got so many that my son might be riding on the roof to get there

First aid kit is being worked on. I need a tackle box or something bigger than the little box we have now. So far we have: band aids in several sizes, scissors, bandgae, gauze, tape, neosporin, sulfa powder, apsirin, allergy meds, prilosec (for me

) and a snake bite kit. I'll need a higher-powered rifle- all I have is a .22. Coats with fur?

3 point hitch picks implements up.....pto sends power to them...mink

Tango · #25 05/14/05, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by caballoviejo

Don't know what your bathroom facilities are like but for just two people, the white 5-gallon buckets make great sit-on toilets - without any modification.

Quite fortunately we won't have problems in that area. Our travel trailer has a full bath and we also have a camping toilet and an inflatable one

I'm setting up a solar shower and the camping toilet inside a privacy fence.

luvrulz · #26 05/14/05, 06:43 AM

The only thing I'd add is to *mark everything* you put in storage! My hubby and I did just what you are doing and when I got out of the camper and into our temporary home, I didn't have my boxes well marked and I can't find some things that would be handy to have now. While we were in Florida and working with 2 incomes, I stocked up on stuff when it was on sale. Cleaning supplies and paper supplies and stuff that doesn't go bad. Things that I would want/need to have for later too that might not be readily available in rural Ky. We built a temporary storage area, a 2 floor garage and now live overhead until we save up enough to built our dream home! It's great and you're going to love it!

Good luck with your move!