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The Spring Bay PART ONE
WE erected the Spring Bay vacation cabin near the end of a road leading nowhere in the northern Michigan wilderness.
The site is at Spring Bay, three miles north of isolated DeTour village, on the broad St. Mary's River looking northeastward into Canada. The island studded river lies 35 feet from our breakfast table.
We picked Spring Bay for its abundance of game and its beautiful scenery, but it has its price. We are at the 46th parallel and the winters are long and cold. We built for year round occupancy, for comfort when howling blizzards blot out the land and the temperature plunges to about 40 below.
Costs were higher because of these factors, but they could be reduced in a milder climate or if you build for summer occupancy only.
Fortune smiled on us in the matter of tools. The land we liked so well at Spring Bay was owned by a friend of many years. He abandoned the highpowered life and made off for the north woods. Over a period of years he accumulated quite an imposing array of power machinery—bulldozer, truck, Jeep and trailer, Shopsmith, electric hand saw—in order to develop his wilderness holdings.
These tools Steel let us use, and many other smaller ones, without charge.
But tools still are an item, or were for us. We arrived on the site with a New York apartmentsize tool kit containing one pair of pliers, three screwdrivers and a tack hammer. We bought small tools and a halfinterest in a 1/2 inch power drill.
From our experience we found that the one tool which will pay for itself quickly is the electric hand saw. Get one with a bevel adjustment for cuts up to 45° with a 2in. bite. With this you can rip through work with
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