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Wishing everyone special happiness this holiday season!!

May everyone get to enjoy the special warmth a LHBA home brings during the Holiday Season!

We're spending our first very snowy X-Mas...

Nice catch on the "Hand Crafted" logs there Kola!! Can't agree more with everything you said!!

If it were a LHBA style B&P Home I'd say no problem with the logs... I seasoned mine for 2 years...

First off, One the beetle kill logs... Like Stressman said, check out the majority of logs first by peeling a good chunk of bark off before taking delivery!!

whynotnow,... Trees down in January...

Very, very true... Log Home building is a lot of work and will work muscles you never even thought you had before. (Wish I knew about the demo-hammer back when I was driving rebar!)

Up until...

Maybe the powers that be can just add another forum section, like the alternative energy one and call it, "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" A forum to discuss politics and law... Enter at your own risk...

Just another little note on Pam's attention to detail... (Suprised ya didn't get a picture of it Ellsworth) To hide the screws on her wooden bar top in the kitchen Pam has these set in indian head...

You take some killer pics there Ellsworth!! WOW!! Pams place is truly awesome and her attention to detail shows in "ALL" of her work... even all the custom work she's done on me ;-)

Little...

Love the energy and positive attitude Cameron... Keep that ball rolling!!

We used Douglas Fir logs for our home and the small butt ends of our logs are 12" diameters... large butt ends vary from...

Hey there Cameron, how ya doing? Dunno' if ya saw our place in the student log homes section or not, but we are close to completion of our log home / B&B now... We've done all the work ourselves and...

I am so sorry,... but I couldn't resist.... How to drive a Brit Crazy: Invite them into your round house and tell them tea will be served "promptly" in the corner.

We live in a town very much supported by the "Timber Dollar" and logging is the major industry here. I have many very close friends (Some I call family) working in the logging industry and have known...

Toscha,
Have your Dad take the class if he's gonna help ya build. I had a pretty good construction background like your Dad before I took the class, as a General Contractor with years of...

LOL Phil!! Yup, gotta worry about over-spray!! We used Sikkens on our log home and at $320.00 per 5 gal bucket of the stain it just about killed me watching some of it going out into the air!! My...

An Airless Sprayer was used on the exterior of our place using an oil-based stain... back-brushed after stain was sprayed.

Fire Killed Logs... Might as well call them "Kiln Dried Timber"!!
Wish I had a good source for them before I started my cabin... any logger or saw mill owner/operator would tell ya that!! (Couple...

Hi All !!
My Name is John Koenig from good ole' Rockport, Washington! I took Skip's class back in the mid 90's sometime.

I've been working on my "Log Home" since 2003... yeah, yeah I know... and...