congrats on taking the first step SeptemberWheat!! welcome to the family
congrats on taking the first step SeptemberWheat!! welcome to the family
Thanks Panderson!
I'm really excited. I've made some wood furniture and and done a lot of handyman work over the years on my homes and now on my farm. I look forward to understanding this style of building. I really want to buy a little piece of property out in the woods but the world has gone completely land mad...
If interest rates move sharply higher, real estate could get slammed. So I wait... Maybe I'll build a little cabin on my farm.
Finally after trying to get our schedules to work out I'm finally in the class too. I told my boss that I can miss some work or quit, his choice.. It's costing me $8k total by the time I get back to work but I can't wait any longer.. See you there.
Wow, 8k. I figured my time off (contracting) and flight and hotel and food and cost of class it was around $2000-$2500.
And that was the best 2k (~$800 class fee + cheap will-never-stay-there-again Hooters hotel @ ~$250 + $250 flight cancelled + $300 last hour flight + consulting time off for the weekend) I ever spent when I took the class. You'll never look at a stick frame or kit home or even other custom log homes the same ever again.
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Every time I have strayed from the teachings of Skip Ellsworth it has cost me money.
I love the mask mandate. I hardly ever have to bruh my teeth anymore.
I had to take a week off for the class because of the way the pay period falls so that's why the cost went up so much.
Especially if it's in gold coin, and you have a lot to carry.
All my bad forum habits I learned from LHN
Rod Reidnauer
Class of Apr. 9-10, 2005
Thinking outside the vinyl sided box
We are in East central Alabama, hoping to start building by next spring. Took the June 4-5, 2011 class, paid off mortgage and have been saving. Will build on our current 3 acres of land (been here almost 10 years) to replace the manufactured home that was here when we bought the place and we're still living in. Most of our land is wooded, but unfortunately most of the trees are not large enough to build with. Think I counted maybe 40 trees that might work when I walked our trail one day. Not a lot of flat, open space on our land.
So now we're trying to decide WHAT TYPE of logs to use, with all the humidity and bugs in our area, and WHERE to get them. Snow is not an issue--we're really lucky if we get an inch or two once a winter--so we were pretty lost in class with some of the discussions. Also need to finalize WHICH plans we're using. Since there's just one kid at home now, and he just turned 13, we won't need a huge space. Still, I want to have enough room to host family gatherings, and have church friends over. I'm considering building smaller and using porch space to extend living room/dining room area so we'll have enough room to "spill over" when family is here. That will work for most of the year, and maybe the kids could eat upstairs in the loft area in the winter. I want to build on our current home site so we can use the existing septic tank and not have to cut so many trees, so there are still details to nail down there, too.
Would love to hear from anyone building in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, or South Carolina, and anyone with experience with what type of trees we should look for.
How about building two log cabins? One large one for you and your family and a smaller one for company?
Best, Matt
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