Built a small log cabin

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Goddang thing of beauty right there! Great job!
 
That is simply amazing.....love it!! Being a frustrated wood-worker, I can appreciate the drive and the passion......just wish I had the energy to follow through. You've given me some much-needed motivation my friend....thank you!!
 
Good on yer mate. Excellent.

Not being from your part of the world...what is the life expectancy of the timber used.

regards... Frank
 
Love it! What a cool project. Thanks for documenting it. I really enjoyed it. I'll probably keep coming back to look at it :)
 
Well done. :)
And a perfect example of when an axe is preferable to a big knife.
Although I see that a big knife did find a use in the construction (draw knife). ;)
 
Don't you just love log buildings. Problem once you have one is how to keep the GD mice out. They like a wind break and roof over their heads seemingly more than we do.
Way back a couple of buddies and I got access to a simple log cabin alongside the MacKenzie River at Mills Lake near Fort Providence, NWT and the mice drove us nuts. One night there was a lot of squeaking and squealing and the following night we discovered that a hungry Ermine had moved in. Besides scampering around all through the building and through our stuff the little 'greased lightning' SOB wasn't content with just eating mice it also desecrated anything we brought home: ducks/geese and partridges.
 
halfaxe said:
Very cool. Good job. Personally, I would invest in some metal roofing to prolong the life of that building.
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Thanks halfaxe. The thing about the roof is, this was a temporary project, I built it in Arizona and was set to go back to California after a certain time and leave it there. Plus I was running out of time to finish it, so I didn't put as much attention into building a proper roof for it since I wouldn't be living in it for very long. But yep, a metal roof would have been the way to go if it was able to keep it and have it through the winter.
 
zcd said:
Excellent work! Any shots of the interior?
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Thanks zcd! Not really any shots of the interior, it's just empty inside, about big enough for two people to lie down in, not a whole lot much room in there for anything else.
 
mc5aw said:
Those are Proenneke notches. I'd recognized them anywhere. :)

How long did you cure/dry the logs for?
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You're damn right. ;)

I didn't have a lot of time to do the project, so I really didn't cure them for long at all. But the trees were half-dead as it were, so most of them were already somewhat dried/cured before I cut 'em.
 
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