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Carpentry & Cabin Building in 1876: A Puzzle for a Carpenter—To Build a Log-house without Iron—Split-Shingles—Put on the Roof—Make Door and Fireplace—To make a Door, Fireplace, and Chimney— Log Quarters of the Boundary Commission—Effects of Cold—A Caution to be remembered—To procure a Light from two pieces of Wood—Getting a Light with a Gun—How to carry Lucifers. Excerpt from: "At Home In The Wilderness" By John Keast Lord, 1876; Chapter 17

Building Shelter on a Trapline: Having decided upon the seat of operations, the young trappers should immediately set to work at building their shanties and boats. The home shanty is of the greatest importance, and should be constructed first.

Cautionary Tale - Log homes & earth homes: My wife and I had a bad experience with one log home company. We put a down payment on a kit with the company's assurance that we would have no trouble finding a builder. If necessary, they had builders that we could contract. Surprise, surprise, none of our local contractors wanted to bother with a log home kit. They didn't know much about them, and weren't much interested in learning about them... 

A Log Cabin [PDF] Nice little package of info, but you need Adobe Reader to see it. This is one to save to HD. See also: FIVE ROOM LOG CABIN Plans. 32'-6" x 42'. and THREE ROOM LOG CABIN Plans. 28' x 30' and ADIRONDACK-TYPE SHELTER 13' x 15' OPEN FRONT and ONE BEDROOM POLE FRAME CABIN. 24' x 24' and ONE BEDROOM "A" FRAME CABIN. 24' x 24' and WOOD FRAME CABIN. 16' x 20' and DORMITORY LOFT CABIN. 22' x 24' FRAME.

Life in a Log Home This is actually a lesson site for educational purposes, but I got a kick out of it.

BUILD A Handsome, sturdy and affordable Log Cabin. The log cabin is still a great choice if you want to build your own home. BY MICHAEL CHOTINER; Illustrations by Harry Schaare. This article is from a Popular Mechanics issue - December, 1983 - and is used without their knowledge or consent. It's a good article and could come in very handy in the future for quite a few folks. The only problem (aside from possible copyright infringement) is that it's on a TRIPOD site and those darned pop-up windows are really annoying.

Five building tricks for super strong framing Applying one or more of the following five principles can add considerably to the strength and rigidity of frame construction.

Install rafters alone — the easy way Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job at the very best. At worst, the task requires the services of three or four people. But there are times when the extra help is not available. If you live in the real backwoods, you may find that it is highly expensive to pay carpenters to drive out to the hinterlands and then work in teams of three or four, which means at the very least, even if you hire amateurs, $30 an hour for the team, or $240 per day. However, there is a very simple way that virtually anyone who is physically capable of modest manual labor can nail up rafters quickly and easily and save a great deal of money in the bargain. By using the three simple and almost-free devices shown here, you can install rafters of any length, and you can do every step of the work without an assistant and without straining your back or risking injury.

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill These are trying times for those of us who need to buy lumber. The prices of good boards are at an all-time high. The E.P.A. is shutting down the mills that make plywood. The timber companies have less old growth forest to choose from. Most of the affordable timber is being cut from new-growth pine. In the Midwest, the standard 2x4 is made primarily from spruce. Boards made from cherry, oak, or poplar are expensive. The easy solution to this lumber crisis is for the woodworker to make his own boards from the trees of his choosing.

Trusses — low-cost marvels to roof over most large spaces This column is about something the construction industry (or architecture, if you prefer) has not been able to do very often over the last 10,000 years—come up with a new and better way of roofing over a space. It took thousands of years for builders to move from throwing tree-trunks over two walls to arches and domes. It took thousands more before steel and concrete were used to create, in effect, bigger and better tree-trunks. Only in the last few hundred years has the industry come up with the roof truss (a collection of little pieces so assembled as to span a large space) and only in the last score of years have trusses become available to the mass market at extraordinarily low cost. It’s all a little remarkable, from an historic point of view, but it’s now so commonplace that we take it for granted.

Here’s an easier (and cheaper) way to make wooden beams I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber, from band saw sawmills to chainsaw attachments. I’ve seen a lot of these at work, too, and most of them are actually terrific pieces of equipment, if you’re interested in producing a large quantity of dimensional lumber. However, if you’re really only in need of a few good squared beams, then those gadgets become more of a waste of your hard-earned dollars—and time wasters to boot—than any sort of worthwhile investment.

Log Cabin: Building the Shell. This is actually a step-by-step informational series of moderate value. Keep following the "Next step" links until you reach the end. To find out what-all the series contains, check out the project index.

Building a Log Cabin: Contained on this and following pages is a pictorial display of a 2-story log cabin house and adjacent 2-story garage recently built in the woods of North Florida, USA. The home was built by two people - Clyde and Rosemary - without the help of contractors or hired help. Clyde has worked full-time during most of the construction period, so only a few days of the week are available to work on the house. The home is built from logs bought at BK Cypress, Bronson, FL.

Log & Timber Frame Construction. You’ll have to scroll down to about the middle of the page to find the LC index. This series of pages is actually quite informative and worth all the back & forth action. Some pretty good photos and knowledgeable text.

The Log Home E-Zine. Occasionally has good articles on building & maintaining log homes. Log Homes NetZine® Back Issues

Chinking Your Log Home - By: T. Johnston - Log Home Store, Inc.

A Sealant For All Log Joinery - article by: Perma-Chink Systems, Inc.

Log joinery: what works, what does not and why! - By: Lloyd Beckedorf - Moose Mountain Log Homes

Why Log Home Builders Are Switching To Wool - By: Stan Potter - GoodShepherdWool.com

Building a Timber Frame Home: A Consumer's Guide - A publication of the TFBC - Timber Frame Business Council

Whew! The Rewards of Sweat Equity - By: Lilean Nicolaison- Cobblestone Realty A great story of a family building their own log cabin.

Not Just a Little Log Cabin - Courtesy of Article Resource Association.

Living log cabin dream - article by Inman News about LogHomeLinks.com.

Chainsaw Tips - By: T. Johnston - Log Home Store, Inc.

A Guide to Log Cabin Construction Good photos of actual period corners and notching. Not really a guide, though.

Follow the Log Cabin's construction in pictures The Log Cabin looks like it has come straight out of the forests of North America or Canada. Indeed, it was built using a highly skilled method called the American Full Scribe Technique. The method involves the contours of each layer of logs being carefully scribed and shaped into the layer above, so making a perfect water and air tight fit. It took just over four months to build but should last well over 100 years! You can follow each stage of building the Log Cabin, from clearing the site to laying the chestnut floorboards. All the images are in chronological order.

Log Cam Our goal is to share with you what we learn as we build our log home. We plan to provide photos from start to finish in the section called the Drawing Board. Plus a chronological list of events in the Journal. Also we plan to have time lapse videos on-line for major events like the log raising. Please keep in mind though that we are very busy building our dream home and it we may get a little behind on posting the latest photos so bear with us.

Log Cabin Introduction From " Foundation & Flooring" Episode BLC-101 Related Projects
Delivery of the Log-Cabin Kit Building the Cabin Floor-System WEB-EXCLUSIVE: Septic System for the Log Cabin WEB EXCLUSIVE: Front Porch Pad

Log Cabin: Building the Log Shell Building with logs is an American tradition dating back to the colonial days. However, most people today don't have the skills or time to prepare and assemble this type of structure.There are many different types of kits available for erecting a cabin. The type we chose used actual logs that were stripped, notched and assembled for the entire "shell" of the cabin.

Building A Log Cabin There are more than 700 log structures in the National Parks. Nearly all of these log cabins are considered historically significant, but more than 400 of these structures are in need of restoration work. Imagine that you are about to build your own log cabin. This activity provides information on what parts of a log structure are most often in need of restoration as time and the elements affect them.

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