Watched this video a year or so ago and it gave me a ton of good ideas. Just started building my house and I could not find it. But after 3 hours or TH-cam videos I found it! What size are those beds?
This is awesome. Do you know the tongue weight. I am trying to decide if I could tow it with a four wheeler. The aluminum double axle manufactured houses can be towed with a 4 wheeler but cost $20k. Have you ever tried moving your with a wheeler
Anthony Sligar when people tow the big ones with a ATV they usually use a tongue skid/dolly that takes the weight.. my tongue weight is about 200lbs, I’ve pulled it with a ATV multiple times without issues. The entire house weighs just under 3000lbs.
Hey check out ice house conversions. We build the entire interior of fish houses and we install happy jacks as well to raise those bunk beds to make more room
I wish more people would post TH-cam videos of thair homemade drop downs. Yours is awesome and im planning on using a bunch of your ideas for mine. Do you by chance have a totally waight?
Hey so I'm making an ice house. How did u do the radio and speakers? I've watched videos on everything else but can't see how you wire in the radio. Do you connect it to like a surge box when you turn it all on it'll give it power?
gaming with sneer I have one main 12v positive and negative wire coming from the battery to the switch panel. There is a 20amp in-line fuse on that wire (the positive). Then everything else (12v lights and radio) run off of the switch panel. That way if I ever short anything it should trip that 20amp fuse first before frying it. Most radios have there own fuse built right in so your pretty safe either way. All the wiring on the radio (if it’s new) should be labeled for power, ground, speakers and so on. Just make sure you connect the “remote wire”(it’s usually yellow) to the red main power wire. The remote wire is what tell the radio to turn on or off. Hope this helps some.
I have seen your other vid of it after you have been fishing out of it. Love that too. Was just curious on the length and width on your bunks. I was hoping to build this year but isn't happening. Next year. I am gathering materials for an aluminum skid/floor frame. Then build on that. Thanks for sharing and tight lines!
Hi, trying to figure out what to do for a roof on the shack im building, im wondering what did you use for your rubber roof? and how did you go about it?
Nathan Schultz just stretched it over the 7/16 OSB, with glue, then used the termination strip around the edge. I put a 1x4 (pvc) on the top down the center to help it from turning into a balloon going down the road.
Thanks! Plan on finishing up the roof this weekend. I laid my tin sideways like you have here only using a normal corner so the best we way figured we could so it is have the plywood come out 1.5 inch all the way around cause thats about as far away from the walls the corners are, and we put 2x4 right below the plywood so theres a couple inch strip going all the way around for the rubber to attach too and I got a 90° piece of flashing trim that's the accent color to hide the wood.. if I worded that in any way that makes sense lol but it's got black and red tin half sheet of black ground all the way around the bottom with brite red on the rest with all black trim should look decent!
Hi! From central Ontario Canada! 🙋♀️ Nice fish hut. It looks really heavy though. You can never have enough reflectors eh? 😉 We built ours smaller, and lighter, but it would have been nice to have had beds in it. 😁
@@McGowanOutdoors ~ that’s awesome! I used to have a heavy hut, but we didn’t bring it on the ice and off again, we left it there for the season. It was tons of maintenance, and required lots of muscle. I am so glad it works for you. It looks very comfy!
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Kevin F www.google.com/search?q=3/8in+thick+tongue+and+groove&start=20&client=safari&sa=N&hl=en-us&biw=375&bih=553&tbs=vw:l,ss:44&tbm=shop&prmd=sivn&srpd=3560531054165075471&prds=epd:11698192161045053487,paur:ClkAsKraX562fml6lUjlpy4IgrAacFsOytc4IcnVPLaGSlgCaClIv60ajeUXmpY0sJ_-JdhJUBkr-7tucmH6DSGJ7bWqs1PXGOLRktNDzn1Mm5hfSFh7DF8HqxIZAFPVH708ufNhNU74-_LOfxudg4zxdpZXTg,cdl:1,cid:4002157089699427735&ved=0ahUKEwiO7uTq5qHZAhXs54MKHW2rAoc4FBCBNgjhAw
Connor Trast I don’t think so.. I don’t think I could have saved any more. The only thing I would change is spend the extra $50 to get a heater with a thermostat, and make my outside light 12v. So when the generator runs out of gas in the middle of the night you can still see to fill it.. lol. Over all I’ve really enjoyed it. I have a few more videos on it. One goes over the building, the other is a update I did this year.
4:23 I can see it now ,,they are watching band of brothers drinkin southern comfort and fishing to get away from their wives. In the summer put on 4 blue barrels and fish on the lake all day. Open door and put boat motor there to move on lake.
Allen Ballard the shack weighs about 3000lbs, I’ve taken it out with the ATV on 6-7in of good clear ICE. I’ve drove it out with the SUV on 10.5in of good clear ice. My SUV and shack weigh around 7,000lbs combined
Jeff Spears i put it there because it’s by the intake for the fan all air in the shack get circulated through the fan. CO (carbon monoxide) is lighter then air. Co2 (carbon dioxide) is what we breath out everyday.
@@McGowanOutdoors ~ For safety sake, ask a Fireman. I think Jeff is on the right track, with low placement but I don’t know enough about fan you have either.
Phil Campbell, I bought the spindles and hubs (3500lb) from Amazon. I got almost everything from either Menards or Amazon. The tires and rims were even from Amazon.
great ice house but the CO detector should be as low as the lowest bunk because CO builds up from the floor... by the time it gets that high youll be dead.
MIAdventureLife There’s a myth that carbon monoxide alarms should be installed lower on the wall because carbon monoxide is heavier than air. In fact, carbon monoxide is slightly lighter than air and diffuses evenly throughout the room.
Love this build. Saving in the event I ever get to build my own wheelhouse. Murphy style fold up bunks are a must.
Very operational, love the vent idea , no more melting on the top bunk
Awesome build brotha, just bought a new 6x14 trailer and are currently building the interior, taken alot of ideas from your vid. Good luck this season
Very nice! Efficient use of space and looks fantastic!
Watched the build and now this--You do good very good work.
Well thank you sir. 👍
Looks like some Canvas by the stitch ideas. Nice set up.
Great build!👍
Awesome. Answered a lot. Thanks for posting
Such a nice house. Good work!
Thanks, we really enjoy it!
Awesome build
Man that is legit.....to bad Erie don't get solid good continuous ice or i would def build one of these, nice work man.
Pretty cool.
Great job
nice job
Watched this video a year or so ago and it gave me a ton of good ideas. Just started building my house and I could not find it. But after 3 hours or TH-cam videos I found it! What size are those beds?
I think there like 2ftx6ft.. I go through them more in this video..
th-cam.com/video/5SzUgGS-Bto/w-d-xo.html
This is awesome. Do you know the tongue weight. I am trying to decide if I could tow it with a four wheeler. The aluminum double axle manufactured houses can be towed with a 4 wheeler but cost $20k. Have you ever tried moving your with a wheeler
Anthony Sligar when people tow the big ones with a ATV they usually use a tongue skid/dolly that takes the weight.. my tongue weight is about 200lbs, I’ve pulled it with a ATV multiple times without issues. The entire house weighs just under 3000lbs.
Hey check out ice house conversions. We build the entire interior of fish houses and we install happy jacks as well to raise those bunk beds to make more room
Can you show us your power housing?
Great video. Would you install a solar panel? How long does the 12volt system last on a battery charge?
Typically, I run my generator most of the time.. but I have fished about 8hr on battery alone.
I wish more people would post TH-cam videos of thair homemade drop downs. Yours is awesome and im planning on using a bunch of your ideas for mine. Do you by chance have a totally waight?
Dan Fagnan thanks. It’s about 3300lbs fully loaded.
Hey so I'm making an ice house. How did u do the radio and speakers? I've watched videos on everything else but can't see how you wire in the radio. Do you connect it to like a surge box when you turn it all on it'll give it power?
gaming with sneer
I have one main 12v positive and negative wire coming from the battery to the switch panel. There is a 20amp in-line fuse on that wire (the positive). Then everything else (12v lights and radio) run off of the switch panel. That way if I ever short anything it should trip that 20amp fuse first before frying it. Most radios have there own fuse built right in so your pretty safe either way. All the wiring on the radio (if it’s new) should be labeled for power, ground, speakers and so on. Just make sure you connect the “remote wire”(it’s usually yellow) to the red main power wire. The remote wire is what tell the radio to turn on or off. Hope this helps some.
Looks great. I am looking at doing something very similar for the bed design. What did you use for matresses?
Ryan Longhenry I used 2 inch upholstery foam. It came to feet wide and 72 inches long. I got it off Amazon
Ryan Longhenry Then I bought some outdoor fabric and made the covers. As you can tell I’m not the best at sewing but it works.
Hey I'm building an ice house also and I was wondering how you attached the house to the frame? Did you just glue it or did you bolt it?
PSG Wrigglee I welded short all-thread all around the frame about every 4ft. Then framed the walls and bolted them down.
If you watch the other video (slide show) I posted on my channel there is a picture of what I did when we put the floor down.
Is your flooring like a vinyl laminate flooring? Is it planks or one piece? Does it get slippery with icy/wet/snowy floors?
It one piece vinyl. It never gets slippery. I just keep it clean with a squeegee, plus the water on it never freezes with the spray foam floor. 👍
great video, do you have a video on how you made those bunk beds
th-cam.com/video/5SzUgGS-Bto/w-d-xo.html.
I go a little more in-depth here.
Nice!!
Southern Comfort. LOL
Spent all his money on the ice house had to go cheap liquor lol
Love your build! Nice job. Well thought out. What are the dimensions on your bunks?
I believe they are 30in by 72in, 3ft apart top bunk to bottom bunk, and around 16in off of the floor
I have another video where I go into them more, it’s the Fishouse update 2018 video.
I have seen your other vid of it after you have been fishing out of it. Love that too. Was just curious on the length and width on your bunks. I was hoping to build this year but isn't happening. Next year. I am gathering materials for an aluminum skid/floor frame. Then build on that. Thanks for sharing and tight lines!
Very nice. Dimensions and how much do you think you have into it?
6.5 x 14ft with 3ft V, cost me about $3500 to build. I have another video on my channel that goes through the build.
What flooring did you use
can you show me more of the axles. how you did them please. with the springs and winches
I’ll put up a video of the axels in a few days when I get home from work
Just posted that axel video for you. 👍🏼
Hi, trying to figure out what to do for a roof on the shack im building, im wondering what did you use for your rubber roof? and how did you go about it?
Nathan Schultz just stretched it over the 7/16 OSB, with glue, then used the termination strip around the edge. I put a 1x4 (pvc) on the top down the center to help it from turning into a balloon going down the road.
Thanks! Plan on finishing up the roof this weekend. I laid my tin sideways like you have here only using a normal corner so the best we way figured we could so it is have the plywood come out 1.5 inch all the way around cause thats about as far away from the walls the corners are, and we put 2x4 right below the plywood so theres a couple inch strip going all the way around for the rubber to attach too and I got a 90° piece of flashing trim that's the accent color to hide the wood.. if I worded that in any way that makes sense lol but it's got black and red tin half sheet of black ground all the way around the bottom with brite red on the rest with all black trim should look decent!
Also got the same style tongue and groove pine did you nail and glue it on or just nail it?
Nathan Schultz I nailed it on
Hi! From central Ontario Canada! 🙋♀️
Nice fish hut.
It looks really heavy though.
You can never have enough reflectors eh? 😉
We built ours smaller, and lighter, but it would have been nice to have had beds in it. 😁
It weighs 2800 pounds on the scale.
@@McGowanOutdoors ~ That’s too heavy for where we fish. But looks well built.
I pull it out with a ATV on 7in, and with my truck on 10in
Your average Ice Castle (store bought) ice house weighs 5500lbs-6500lbs, so it’s actually pretty light.
@@McGowanOutdoors ~ that’s awesome!
I used to have a heavy hut, but we didn’t bring it on the ice and off again, we left it there for the season. It was tons of maintenance, and required lots of muscle.
I am so glad it works for you. It looks very comfy!
Roughly how much in materials did you have on this project?
Jesse Henderson just over $3000
Hey where did you get those little blue hole lights you have there??
" Purishion 10x 3/4"" Round LED Clearence Light Front Rear Side Marker Indicators Light for Truck Car Bus Trailer Van Caravan Boat, Taillight Brake Stop Lamp (12V, Blue) www.amazon.com/dp/B07H5LW32G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_bXX5FbP1DFESC
What size is the house and did you custom build the frame?
th-cam.com/video/Zs3WjJ4OzGY/w-d-xo.html
6.5x14ft, I built everything
What 12 volt lights did you use in the ceiling?
Chris Whiteside www.amazon.com/Leisure-Recessed-Ceiling-Aluminum-Downlights/dp/B075QMX4VH
If you don't mind me asking, what was your overall budget?
$3500
What do you tow it on the ice with? What area are you in?
Nick Thornton I use my small SUV, live in Ottertail County, MN
Was your interior 4x8 panels or was it actual tongue n groove.
Kevin F it was actual tongue and groove. It came in 8ft length.. 3/8in thick by about 3.5in wide.
Jacob McGowan will have to take a look. Last year I looked and all I found was 1" thick stuff.
Kevin F www.google.com/search?q=3/8in+thick+tongue+and+groove&start=20&client=safari&sa=N&hl=en-us&biw=375&bih=553&tbs=vw:l,ss:44&tbm=shop&prmd=sivn&srpd=3560531054165075471&prds=epd:11698192161045053487,paur:ClkAsKraX562fml6lUjlpy4IgrAacFsOytc4IcnVPLaGSlgCaClIv60ajeUXmpY0sJ_-JdhJUBkr-7tucmH6DSGJ7bWqs1PXGOLRktNDzn1Mm5hfSFh7DF8HqxIZAFPVH708ufNhNU74-_LOfxudg4zxdpZXTg,cdl:1,cid:4002157089699427735&ved=0ahUKEwiO7uTq5qHZAhXs54MKHW2rAoc4FBCBNgjhAw
How did you acquire the trailer and what size is the v nose?
I built it. Watch my other video (2017 Fishhouse Build). The V is 3ft
can you do a video one how you build the beds
I talk about them more in my other video
I am semi becoming intrested in building my own house... if you dont mind me asking, after all was said and done how much did it cost ya?
About $3500
@@McGowanOutdoors if you could rebuild it is there anything you would do differently in the money Department?
Connor Trast I don’t think so.. I don’t think I could have saved any more. The only thing I would change is spend the extra $50 to get a heater with a thermostat, and make my outside light 12v. So when the generator runs out of gas in the middle of the night you can still see to fill it.. lol. Over all I’ve really enjoyed it. I have a few more videos on it. One goes over the building, the other is a update I did this year.
The build
th-cam.com/video/Zs3WjJ4OzGY/w-d-xo.html
Update
th-cam.com/video/5SzUgGS-Bto/w-d-xo.html
Where do you purchase those wall bunk beds?
michael rogoschewsky I built them
4:23 I can see it now ,,they are watching band of brothers drinkin southern comfort and fishing to get away from their wives. In the summer put on 4 blue barrels and fish on the lake all day. Open door and put boat motor there to move on lake.
How thick is the ice before you can take it out?
Allen Ballard the shack weighs about 3000lbs, I’ve taken it out with the ATV on 6-7in of good clear ICE. I’ve drove it out with the SUV on 10.5in of good clear ice. My SUV and shack weigh around 7,000lbs combined
Jacob McGowan You obviously like to live your life on the edge lol
Your Co2 alarm is not in the correct location. It should be placed about knee to hip high for maximum protection.
Jeff Spears i put it there because it’s by the intake for the fan all air in the shack get circulated through the fan. CO (carbon monoxide) is lighter then air. Co2 (carbon dioxide) is what we breath out everyday.
@@McGowanOutdoors ~ For safety sake, ask a Fireman. I think Jeff is on the right track, with low placement but I don’t know enough about fan you have either.
Where did you buy the axle kits
Phil Campbell, I bought the spindles and hubs (3500lb) from Amazon. I got almost everything from either Menards or Amazon. The tires and rims were even from Amazon.
Jacob McGowan thanks I look forward to attempting mine
Where did you get your bunks from?
Wyatt Boche I drew them up while I was at work one day, then built them myself. I Used to Weld for a living.
If you watch my other video (slideshow) you can see more of the building process. 👍
th-cam.com/video/Zs3WjJ4OzGY/w-d-xo.html
You should be on the Fish house Fabrications facebook page.
great ice house but the CO detector should be as low as the lowest bunk because CO builds up from the floor... by the time it gets that high youll be dead.
MIAdventureLife
There’s a myth that carbon monoxide alarms should be installed lower on the wall because carbon monoxide is heavier than air. In fact, carbon monoxide is slightly lighter than air and diffuses evenly throughout the room.
@@McGowanOutdoors the international association of fire chiefs and the majority of manufacturers seem to disagree. Weird. Cool Ice House though.
how big is it
6.5ft x 14ft with 3ft V front
My cousin and I are building a shack exactly like this, we just can’t figure out the drop axels!
xxBuBBaxx s watch the other video of the build, I have pics. 👍
how much did the total cost you?
Bassin With Blake right around $3500
You can see more of the building process here.
th-cam.com/video/Zs3WjJ4OzGY/w-d-xo.html