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Have container, will settle
Bangor Daily News ^ | 6/21/11 | Bill Trotter

Posted on 06/21/2011 2:45:35 PM PDT by Kartographer

Try as they might, Trevor Seip and Jennifer Sansosti cannot contain their excitement.

The young engaged couple recently shipped their lives from out of state to a rustic, 63-acre property they bought on Winkumpaugh Road, where they hope to build a home and future together.

They are not the first to move to rural Maine from a more heavily populated part of the East Coast — Pennsylvania in their case — with dreams of homesteading in the woods. Nor are they the first to do so while in possession of a well-thumbed copy of “The Good Life,” the 1954 book by former Brooksville residents Helen and Scott Nearing that has served as a manual for simple, sustainable living for so many.

“It’s full of life,” Sansosti said of their wooded property which abuts a stream that flows toward Branch Lake. “It has an abundance of natural resources.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bangordailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: bhoeconomy; buygold; buysilver; getreadyhereitcomes; preparedness; preparenow; preppers; prepping; shtf; survival; survivalping; tshtf
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To: Kartographer
And I'm not the one who wrote the following, BTW. ;-)

"Exiled_Mainer [Moderator] Yesterday 03:28 AM in reply to Jenny Bean I have been getting a kick out of the people carrying on about how hard Maine winters are...living at nine thousand feet above sea level in Colorado makes Maine winter seem quite tame. 8)"


21 posted on 06/21/2011 3:20:36 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in a thunderous avalanche of rottenness heard across the universe.)
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22 posted on 06/21/2011 3:23:07 PM PDT by loungitude ( The truth hurts.)
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To: Kartographer

And then in a few years when that area is over-run with illegals and Ted Kennedys 1965 immigration act Islamo participants they can move again! cool!


23 posted on 06/21/2011 3:26:06 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Talk to me Hudson!)
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To: rintense
"bury one below the surface with only one access point,"

Airtight: 1. too tight for air or gas to enter or escape.

25 posted on 06/21/2011 3:37:49 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: familyop

What if the SCs were incorporated in the interior of a house as structural elements?


26 posted on 06/21/2011 3:39:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rintense
Put some 40 footers on end for a tower house.


27 posted on 06/21/2011 3:43:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rintense

I did some work at a mine in Indonesia. I’m glad we were there for only 3-months so we got to stay in a nice townhome while one of their pilots was on leave. They were planning on having us live in a container where the miners live. Packed 3 or 4 tall and who knows how many packed side to side. The “housing” looked like something out of Mad Max.

I can see where a private owner that would put windows in, etc. they could be nice.


28 posted on 06/21/2011 3:46:54 PM PDT by 21twelve (Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: Kartographer

I hope those container doors are welded open ‘cause I can think of a neat practical joke ...


29 posted on 06/21/2011 3:50:56 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "We own the economy" June 15, 2011)
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To: Kartographer
Can't beat my Redneck Basement though!


30 posted on 06/21/2011 3:58:15 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: Peter from Rutland

Ha ! Yup.

I give `em until mid January with 10 feet of snow and wind chills of -20.

They`ll have a quick change of heart come spring and the thrill will be gone.


31 posted on 06/21/2011 3:58:15 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Wait till the Maine winter hits and they are living in a large metal box.

If they are smart enough to insulate (R12) the outside of the container, all 6 sides, as you would a concrete wall, not the inside all that metal will act as a heat sink. A flat slab is a must.


32 posted on 06/21/2011 4:00:46 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: Kartographer
“We make [our plan] up as we go along,” Sansosti said. “This is what the future looks like.”<\I>

or said Obama

Lord help us

33 posted on 06/21/2011 4:04:21 PM PDT by frogjerk (Liberalism: The ideology of envy.)
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To: Kartographer
The Nearings were screwballs,period.

I read Mother Earth News when their articles were current.

Of course,if your idea of the good life is endless physical toil,no children,and pretty sure the internet is out along with phones and electricity.

At least the Amish are a lot smarter about the "simple" life.

And when the Nearings wrote their books America had many areas without building codes.But the nanny-statists spread their noses everywhere in the interval.

34 posted on 06/21/2011 4:42:58 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Paladin2
"What if the SCs were incorporated in the interior of a house as structural elements?"

The intent was obviously to prevent shipping containers from being used as outdoor sheds for storage here. So using them as structurals in an engineered design would probably work, IMO.


35 posted on 06/21/2011 4:54:51 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in a thunderous avalanche of rottenness heard across the universe.)
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To: troy McClure

Two words in a lot of places:

NO ZONING.


36 posted on 06/21/2011 4:58:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: familyop
Thnx.

That's interesting as in my "People's Republic" one can build a shed without any building code requirements.

Maybe I should have a couple of containers dropped off to test the system. (They would work as garages AFAICT)

37 posted on 06/21/2011 5:06:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kartographer

Heck, I’d move into a Container with Jennifer if she were down with that.


38 posted on 06/21/2011 5:07:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kartographer

I would never, never live in a metal house.

Most containers have been heavily sprayed with pesticides many times during their lifespan so that should be taken into consideration.

If I needed a dwelling, I would look into this method of construction:

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1215&bih=831&q=cordwood+house+construction&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.daycreek.com/dc/html/dc_cordwood_masonry.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwood_construction

In fact we’re thinking of building a small pump house that way just to see if it works. Any and all sizes of wood can be used.


39 posted on 06/21/2011 5:09:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: spokeshave
and double insulate those containers to prepare for the coming mini ice age (or not so mini as the case may be)

Yeah, and it will be as cold as a well digger's butt in Maine! I wonder why they chose Maine? The soil is horribly rocky, and when the mini Ice Age hits, the growing season will be almost non-existent! Or maybe they plan to do a sweet greenhouse set-up powered by solar panels. That's what I'd like to do!

40 posted on 06/21/2011 5:24:43 PM PDT by SuziQ
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