April 28-30, 2023: Back to Slaney's New Camp (133 Photos)

Two weeks ago we enjoyed an awesome work weekend at Slaney's new backwoods camp in Central Newfoundland.  Today we headed back out over the highway with plans to knock more projects off the official to-do list. If you haven't seen the first article check it out:

 

Weather was overcast and cold but roads were clear which made for a great drive. Terry was home from working away and already out there having left at dawn Friday. French and I left town around 1:30pm while Stroh is set to arrive Saturday morning.

 

 

During the morning shift while the rest of us were still busy at work, Terry was flat out hauling in the first load of gear before running into Gander to pick up more building supplies.

 

 

The order today included enough v-groove spruce board to finish all the ceilings, some 2x4's, more plywood and the final few bags of wall insulation.

 

 

His track equipped 2018 Argo Avenger certainly earned its keep hauling in multiple heavy loads across the rough boggy licensed ATV trail into camp.

 

 

 

When French and I arrived we loaded up the bikes with gear and tools, I was riding Project Foreman and French left the Argo at home opting to take his Yamaha Grizzly. Terry had just loaded up the last of his construction supplies so we threw out last few things in the back of his machine for the ride into camp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French wasn't having much luck with the now thawed out trail and extremely wet conditions, even Project Foreman got hung up for a minute just ahead of the byes. Terry's Argo came to the rescue and hauled his steel trailer loaded with 10 sheets of 1/2" plywood, a dozen 2x4x8's and a 6 pack of insulation plus French's Grizzly through the last of the hard spots with ease!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French purchased up a couple more items for camp comfort, a large stainless pot to keep a good supply of hot water at the ready and an eco fan for the woodstove which really helped move heat throughout the camp.

 

 

Since it was late by the time we got everything sorted away, I got to work putting supper on the stove. Tonight's menu was Iris's famous one pot goulash I made with ground moose, macaroni, onion, a tin of diced tomatoes and some Lipton onion soup mix.

 

 

 

 

A little hot sauce sparked this already delicious dish right up!

 

 

 

Friday night was a evening of relaxation as it had already been a very long day. However with that said, Mark did manage to get a wire ran across the attic to install one additional flood light on front of the cabin tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

After this weekend, much of this clutter will hopefully be installed, on the list is vents, insulation and more wall/ceiling coverings!

 

 

 

Having gone to bed relatively early Friday, we were up good and early Saturday morning. I was back on the Coleman Hyperflame stove and threw together a quick breakfast of homemade moose sausages, homemade apple wood smoked bacon, white fish puddings and fried eggs.

 

 

 

After breakfast we all started banging out some projects. Terry continued on where he left off previously installing ceiling insulation.

 

 

Mark and I first tackled properly supporting the headers over the bedroom doors.

 

 

Next I trimmed out the convex wall paneling in the living room with my Milwaukee oscillating saw to make the outlet covers fit nicely.

 

 

Mark and I installed a high mounted electrical outlet for a future TV installation.

 

 

Both headers properly supported.

 

 

 

Stroh arrived around 10am so Terry ran out and picked him up in the Argo making very short work of the trip!

 

 

After lunch we got the burn barrel fired up to continue cleaning up dead wood and scrap lumber from around the property. We kept a close eye to it while we worked inside and outside.

 

 

Few pics from inside the old trapper style cabin on the property.

 

 

 

 

Terry carried on with ceiling insulation, I tackled some wall insulation, Stroh was worked on outside vents and a front floodlight. Meanwhile French worked on the bathroom installing a ceiling fan, ventilation duct and electrical rough in. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the woodstove finally cooled down, now came the tangly task of installing ceiling vapour barrier. It went quite well with four people helping and using wall paneling as a guide to keep the large 20' sheet square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

French and Stroh continued on with wall vapour barrier while Terry and I started installing the v-groove spruce ceiling boards. We squared up the first strip with the font wall and I pulled a few tricks from my experience doing tile work to make the cuts around the stovepipe while keeping the starter strip true.

 

 

 

 

Slaney and I carried on with the ceiling boards while French and Stroh moved onto the kitchen area and got the outside wall covered in vapour barrier.

 

 

 

 

 

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