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I have a dream and a hill top field too steep to keep bushhogging. Long post.

I love blacksmithing as a hobby with a western chief crank blower and homemade everything else. I’ve been dragging my stuff out of the garage every time I’m working on a project.
I don’t have shop space for a permanent forge setup and my equipment shed barely holds the tractor, skid steer and attachments.
I do have large stockpiles of juniper timber and limestone from picking out of food plots.
I’ve also got this absolute bastard of a steep field that feels like you’ll roll the tractor when clipping it off.
Basically I’m thinking real hard about making a “hobbit hole blacksmith shop”.

I will include a picture of the bastard field and adult beverage fueled doodles for the rough draft.

Roughly the order of operations seems to be:

• Taking a level 22’ wide bite out of the hillside deep enough back to leave a 11’ rear wall.
• Dig holes in ground or rear wall for all the posts and beams.
• Build a small sturdy sloped roof log cabin with chimney inside that cleared space.
• Dump a load of crusher run in the floor compacted.
•Wrap in tyvek.
• Back fill with dirt.
• Decorate with more rock.
• Let the top of that field go back to woods.
•Tea.
• Fill it with tools.
• Enjoy.

I think it’s a cool idea and I’ve wanted a hobbit hole of my own for 27 years.
Has anybody made or seen something like this before?
Is this a still a bad idea if I have life insurance coverage in place?
Is this the perfect marriage of Hobbit and Dwarven ideals?

u/tiredguy1961 — 15 days ago
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Just a quick bitching about a in-laws “helping.

First off, I have already fixed the problem. So no worries there.

My lesson that many of you have already learned is ‘you can’t always trust what your brother in law says he knows how to do’.

Our property has got little bit of everything. Thick wood, rocky hills, one decent open field with good soil, and below that field is a marshy boggy mess only good for hunting.

My brother in law wanted to work outside over the weekend to reset from his office job. I said sure. He said he wanted to use the tractor because he remembers operating a virtual identical tractor their grandfather ran 16 years ago. I said sure, and asked him to bushhog a double lane around the good field but stay one width away from the treeline to try not to disturb any nesting on the edge of the trees.

Long story short. He missed the good field and I had to borrow more equipment to get my tractor out of the marsh.

End of bitching.

Good luck out there.

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