Dornz87,
As everyone else said, clearly you want to have no debt, and some surplus cash, before you start on the log home project. Your idea for the land/location sounds fantastic, my parents are...
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Dornz87,
As everyone else said, clearly you want to have no debt, and some surplus cash, before you start on the log home project. Your idea for the land/location sounds fantastic, my parents are...
Joel,
I'll toss you a private email detailing the story as it stands now. I'd be very glad to share with you everything I've learned so far - I hope that it will help you make good purchases and...
Cardiff,
My logs are located in Louisa, VA, just a few minutes from Lake Anna. Ping me at benjamin.kleber@gmail.com with where you're building - that's by far the best way to get in touch with me.
Cy (and everyone else who is interested),
I've seen all the comments on this thread and how if you're not doing the work yourself, you'll probably end up paying *somewhere* along the line. Someone...
Timber,
Like the others have said, there's a large range of time in how long it takes to peel a log. I'm at the peeling-with-all-the-help-I-can-get stage. Two guys peeled a 36' pine ~14" across in...
I spent some time thinking about this, and while there's merit to your idea, I think I can understand why the instructors chose the method they did.
Yes, if there were large amounts of...
Rod,
I used to work in a lab where we studied breakdown of turbines under extreme rotational stresses. It was a lab run by Dan Lathrop, http://complex.umd.edu/ who is trying to replicate, in a lab...
Hardwood,
There's another thread less than a month old, I think called "2 good 2 be true?" where another interested person was asking a similar question - how is it possible to learn everything...
Where in Ireland are you? My wife and I honeymooned in Dingle, and I think a genuine log home in the butt-and-pass style would look as natural most places we drove as any of the old stone houses we...
Kala, While I took the class and loved it, remember that there's a money-back guarantee if you're not happy. But I can't imagine that anyone would ever honestly cash in on that - there's just too...
Rotorgoat,
The LHBA sells well-designed and engineered plans to its members with special licensing rights that you won't find anywhere else. The engineer who designs these plans typically makes them...
Sarah,
If you're looking to build on the land and there isn't already any structures set up you can live in, you might also want to make sure that you don't buy land that will be difficult to...
One of the sold-for-huge-profit houses is <A HREF="http://loghomebuilders.org/image-galleries/student-log-homes/jeff-cooley">Jeff Cooley's</A>, materials cost $60k and it sold for a hair under $500k....
Before I took the class, I was burning up to know how it all worked too - and the above site that Klapton mentioned was the best argument for taking the class that I ever saw, not counting the LHBA's...
Just the act of creating plasma doesn't require a tremendous amount of energy - just a lot of voltage. You can have almost no energy at several thousand volts and create a tiny plasma ball. in fact,...
Actually, I use the term 'hind-brain' to refer to your intuition, gut instinct, or the part of your mind that reacts on instinct instead of on logic. In my post, which I can't see as I type this, I...
I'm a physicist, and so trained to be deeply skeptical of such claims. From reading the article, here's what I can say off the top of my head:
-It doesn't look like pure bunk
-it looks like he's...
brk,
Another problem you're going to run into is that magnetic attraction lines don't work the way your hind-brain thinks they do. Remember the shape of the field lines of a bar magnet, that you...
My wife and I are strongly considering building Skip-style log homes and selling them for profit. We arrived at this plan through a kind of roundabout route, and I promise that we wouldn't have...