My crib!
Dang it man!!! I don't have any pictures of my camp, but with one hand I'll do my best to form a picture in your mind. Years ago when I was just a lad, my father and I started this camp from a clump of brush that you couldn't see 10' through. I don't know oh long ago but my grandfather bought 80 acers back when you could just squat on a piece of land and he paid $75 for the entire 80 acers. I to this day still have the reciept for the purchace. My dad mowed while I had the controls of a D9 cat! yeah I couldn't believe it but he told me that their was nothing out there that I could hurt. It was at that place that I learned how to opperate a dozzer. Wow that was fun, and I dont remember but I'm sure I didn't put the final grade on that site. My dad had bought a 10' x 50' trailer that he had pulled to our house and we spent he entire summer gutting and remodelling. Since there is no electric at the camp site we did no wiring for electric but did the plumbing and ran everything gas. Added a new floor to the entire place and redid the kicthen area completely. we piped gas for a full size gas frig. and stove. After replacing all the panalling in the trailer and painting the sealing, we were ready to try and get this beast 3 miles deep into the woods where out property was located. It took 3 weekends of trimming the roads to make the road wide enough to get the beast in. After my dad had a friend that owned a wrecker to pull the trailer into the woods we spent the week of the 4th of July down there drilling a well by hand! After using a persimmon switch to witch where the best place to put the well we started drilling the well by hand. 2' of clay then 15' through solid flent rock. At 19' we stopped driving casing and drilled the well out another 2'. With the best water in 3 miles we made the choice to stop and call it quites after 7 days of hard work. The next weekend we place a piston pump on the well with a 5hp. motor on it. It would then pump water into a 500 gallon tank that we had set in behind the trailer on a stand that was above the trailer. The next summer we spent building a porch that enclosed both doors with screen and had an open deck that wrapped around the front on the trailer. so the porch was 30' screened in with a 20' x 10' deck on the front of it. Keep in mind that all of this was done with NO electric. we hand sawed everything. Some years later we put a pitched roof over the trailer and called it finished at that point. 30 some odd years later that place is mine and still in the best condition ever still with no electric. Since I have put an acer food plot within 150 yards of the camp and enjoy weekend after weedend with both of my two girls. By the way My Grandfather was named JP Hopping and we named the camp "Hopp-Inn"
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Here is my home away from home. The pine company built a pond for the helicopters to scoop up water & fight fires, it's right across from our pole shed, the kids fish in it all the time.
Dang it man!!! I don't have any pictures of my camp, but with one hand I'll do my best to form a picture in your mind. Years ago when I was just a lad, my father and I started this camp from a clump of brush that you couldn't see 10' through. I don't know oh long ago but my grandfather bought 80 acers back when you could just squat on a piece of land and he paid $75 for the entire 80 acers. I to this day still have the reciept for the purchace. My dad mowed while I had the controls of a D9 cat! yeah I couldn't believe it but he told me that their was nothing out there that I could hurt. It was at that place that I learned how to opperate a dozzer. Wow that was fun, and I dont remember but I'm sure I didn't put the final grade on that site. My dad had bought a 10' x 50' trailer that he had pulled to our house and we spent he entire summer gutting and remodelling. Since there is no electric at the camp site we did no wiring for electric but did the plumbing and ran everything gas. Added a new floor to the entire place and redid the kicthen area completely. we piped gas for a full size gas frig. and stove. After replacing all the panalling in the trailer and painting the sealing, we were ready to try and get this beast 3 miles deep into the woods where out property was located. It took 3 weekends of trimming the roads to make the road wide enough to get the beast in. After my dad had a friend that owned a wrecker to pull the trailer into the woods we spent the week of the 4th of July down there drilling a well by hand! After using a persimmon switch to witch where the best place to put the well we started drilling the well by hand. 2' of clay then 15' through solid flent rock. At 19' we stopped driving casing and drilled the well out another 2'. With the best water in 3 miles we made the choice to stop and call it quites after 7 days of hard work. The next weekend we place a piston pump on the well with a 5hp. motor on it. It would then pump water into a 500 gallon tank that we had set in behind the trailer on a stand that was above the trailer. The next summer we spent building a porch that enclosed both doors with screen and had an open deck that wrapped around the front on the trailer. so the porch was 30' screened in with a 20' x 10' deck on the front of it. Keep in mind that all of this was done with NO electric. we hand sawed everything. Some years later we put a pitched roof over the trailer and called it finished at that point. 30 some odd years later that place is mine and still in the best condition ever still with no electric. Since I have put an acer food plot within 150 yards of the camp and enjoy weekend after weedend with both of my two girls. By the way My Grandfather was named JP Hopping and we named the camp "Hopp-Inn" :saluting
Wow, that sounds pretty awesome. Ain't many places like that left. My great great grandpa homesteaded 600 acres up in the panhandle way back in the 1800's. When I-10 was built the state took a portion of it and basically split it in to. The remaining land has been sold off with every generation until finally there's just a 100 acres my two great uncles own. Not sure what will happen to that when they pass as they're both 90 something. Probably get sold like all the rest. Prime hunting land though up near Lake Talquin. Wish I had the money to keep it in the family...
Hey make sure you get some pictures the next time you're out there. I'd like to see if my visualization is in line with the way you described it.
Not rich enough to own a hunting camp. We can camp on public land primitive camping some boat in only and some drive in places.
