Thursday, October 1, 2020

Dorothy Molter's Summer Tent - living a primitive lifestyle in the Boundary Waters canoe wilderness and the Shack Tent Shed

 

So that's quite the wood stove pipe for a summer tent! What kind of protection - must be a metal plate.

maybe it's some kind of asbestos?

Early style canvas on wood frame camping tent, semi-permanent structure. Dorothy called this the Summer Tent.


So that's the "summer tent" - the back side. Pretty huge!!

https://www.gluseum.com/US/Ely/317122710180/Dorothy-Molter-Museum

Oh yeah at 34 minutes in - there is a vid of the INSIDE view of her Summer Tent - and the wood stove! 

So I think it's metal.

So must be corrugated metal...


(While hoop houses are generally a type of semi-permanent structure made up of several hoops or bows that are covered in a heavy plastic, some hoop houses may be a principal structure and be built as a permanent building.) These structures can be either an accessory or principal structure, depending on their use or the other uses of the property

municipal code requires a building permit for all structures in accordance with the building code, which applies to structures over 120 square feet.

https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/sites/default/files/Mendota-Heights-Policy-Scan-2015.pdf

 

Shed

This is the first semi-permanent structure we built on our land. A storage shed for keeping our tools, camping gear and most importantly dry wood. The main indoor space is a simple 10 x 12 enclosure, however the continuation of the roof past the sidewalls forms a covered outdoor space that is perfect for stacking firewood.

This tent/shack plays with the temporary notion of camping, combined with the convenience of the permanent storage shed.

https://www.stonetentarchitecture.com/johnson-residence

This is PRECISELY what I have done!


Wow - very sneaky!


So... "connects" the two 10 x 12 structures...


Wow...

Sleeping on tree roots wasn’t comfortable so an inventive camper pitched his tent on a small wooden floor. Soon plywood walls were attached to the floor, a ridge pole attached, and a tarp formed the roof. This was the birth of a shack tent.

https://waskesiuheritagemuseum.org/shack-tent-history-1

 

https://gurushots.com/discover/search/Hut

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syr_Darya_Oblast._Interior_of_a_Kyrgyz_Tent_WDL11000.png

thanks - this is a good vid. I live in a senior housing complex - and we have our own septic system and our own water well. Our town has a sewer but no water mains. So everyone has their own water well. Most houses around here if not in the town directly - then they have a septic system. So the issue though is to get a Zoning or Land-use Permit for a "permanent" residence or "primary" residence to have a mailing address - then you HAVE to have a water well installed and a septic system installed by certified installers working with the government permit offices. 

So the taxes then increase by the government for a primary residence as a legal "abode" or "dwelling unit" based on International Code. "The International Building Code (IBC) is a model building code developed by the International Code Council (ICC). It has been adopted for use as a base code standard by most jurisdictions in the United States."  

But real Off the Grid living does not use any certified installation - be it a well. For example on my own land as a mini-forest that I got tax-forfeit purchase - I just hand-dug water holes using an extendable auger. So I hand carry the water and then have a primitive dealing that is 120 square feet. It HAS to be 120 square feet or less to not require a land-use or zoning permit.  

Technically we are "sovereigns" from the government - but the free land for Homesteading was only allowed if a person built a PERMIT house for taxes and had everything certified by zoning permits - and then also had to farm the land. So only 40% of homesteaders actually succeeded - the house had to be a minimum of 12 x 16 square feet. So then the citizen is directly controlled by the government tax collectors promoting "development" etc. 

For example the Spanish - they kicked off the indigenous Mayans - because if people are self-reliant on their land then how can the rich get cheap or slave labor to make a profit? There is no incentive for a person to get a job (be a wage-slave) unless their land is removed. So the rich in Latin America will have huge tracts of land that are not used simply because that PREVENTS people from being self-reliant and forces those people into slave wages. thanks


























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