Greetings Ladies and Gents...
Like so many before, I am a long time lurker and now a first time poster.
My lovely wife and I are currently residing in the Memphis, TN area. I have recently started looking at property in Arkansas to build a retirement home.
I have signed up for the email alert for the next class.......I can't wait! My wife on the other hand.....thinks I'm a wee bit nuts. I'm betting the class will change her attitude.
Jeff
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Jeff,
You might be nuts by the time you are done but you will be in a more peaceful place��. You will both be glad you did it and it will give you something to do with your retirement.
Probably seeing one would help as well. That's what helped me. There's a few in Nashville. I'm in north Alabama. I'm "under roof", but haven't started the inside.Originally Posted by Chewie
Welcome to the forum!
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My wife already knew I was nuts. Building this home just solidified it.
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I agree with Blane and your Wife, but seeing that you are sane enough to sign up for email notifications, you are probably sane enough for class. I look forward to harassing you on the Member's side of the forum.
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.
Thanks MudFlap!
I have really enjoyed reading your blog and watching the videos. There is some really great stuff there.
Thanks Bo and LHN.
Yea, she keeps rolling her eyes when she finds me spending hours reading all the blogs and looking at all the pictures. I keep having to reminder her that I could be looking at something worse....... boat pictures.
But MudFlap is right. I think a visit to a near by house would help.
Thank you. Let me know when. I'm about 3.5 hours away....
took me about 10 years of not saying anything before my wife was convinced.... wasn't totally her fault- we were pretty poor for most of that, and then I went back to school. We were only ready for about 2 years before I got "the text" giving me the green light.... whereupon I mashed on the gas and haven't looked back.
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"cutting trees is more important than thinking about cutting trees or planning to cut trees." ~ F. David Stanley
videos: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mudflap/
polished blog: https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com
not-so-polished-but-updated-frequently blog: https://x42.nohost.me/BALCAS/
You know, my Wife rolled her eyes a lot too. She'd built a kit "log" house in a previous life and was pretty savvy about how Her log home oughta look and what she wanted in a future log home. We went to class together (I proposed to Her the night before class) and she was an easy convert to this way of doing it. Almost an instant fanatic. She is not bashful about climbing right in the middle of it whenever someone mentions the word kit and the word log in the same sentence. I am a firm believer that both parties should either...
1... Go to class together, hand in hand and starry-eyed.
or
2... Get the divorce before class and divide up all the assets before there is a half built LHBA building for the lawyers to argue over. Her attorney will be able to minimize the value of "that pile of crooked logs" right up until it is time to access what her half is worth.
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.
Good advice for most people. Not critical though. My wife was onboard with my dream but had no desire whatsoever to go to the class. She supported me all through the process, but said no way to going to the class. She wouldn’t have gone even if it was free.
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Mine too!
Just make sure, if she doesn't go, that she really is on board. I'd still say me and Bo would be the exception. So LHN is almost right. Ifn I woulda tried this lhba stuff with my ex (shudder)....
Buying a house together is hard.
Building one together (like with a contractor) is harder.
Building one yourselves even more so.
Building a log home from raw materials together.....
Yeah.
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"cutting trees is more important than thinking about cutting trees or planning to cut trees." ~ F. David Stanley
videos: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mudflap/
polished blog: https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com
not-so-polished-but-updated-frequently blog: https://x42.nohost.me/BALCAS/
LHN~ Love the shot of your re-wedding. Will not be there for the party on Labor Day, but so happy for you getting into your home. Incredible!Mike, you waited too long to go to class. We have just moved into our place and had a re-wedding (30 year anniversary) a week after out first legal night. We have just announced our Housewarming Party, scheduled for Labor Day Weekend.
This Housewarming is only open to LHBA members but, if you sign up for the next class I would love to have you catch a load to the left coast and, if you time it right, you will meet folks just like me and my Wife who have built one of these things with our own hands and without a mortgage. Trust me, you will not regret it.
PS... This photo shows our new home, myself, my brother-in-law, my Wife of 30 years, and our Son, Jake... You figure out who is what and take the class.
Working on our dream one step at a time! Making strides slowly, but surely!
Thank You. I expect to see you on your next trip to the wrong coast.
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.
Hello All,
John from Australia here. Just purchased and moved into a log home, and so I am looking for tips and tricks etc. I have some maintenance to do, and so I thought I would drop and say hi.
Cheers
J
hi there JFleming. welcome
Hello, and welcome.
Hi All!
Long time lurker here, extremely infrequent poster. I don't know if I ever have officially introduced myself. My name is Aaron, my wife's name is Jaime. We are planning to build a B&P log home within the next 4-5, on acreage in western Washington state. I've been designing the house and other things on the property for the past three or so years (even though we've only owned the property a little over a year), reading and studying as much as I can on just about every aspect of construction. Our vision and dream has definitely become more real since we purchased the property and have done a few small improvements, with lots more to come this year. We're really looking forward to the whole process.
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron and Jaime, Looking back on the process, I can assure you that you have every reason to look forward to the process.
Why not take the class so we can talk to you on the member's side of the forum? That's where the action happens. Good deal on legal plans too that pays for the course.
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.
Hello, name is Rick from Washington, I own 40.52 acres of timberland next to the Okanogan National Forest at 3400 feet in elevation. I have built a cabin on it already, complete with a ranger station, campground with 6 campsites, solar community well (livestock design) and professional signage. Its all private for family. I have always loved log cabins and wanted to attend when classes were in my home state, but they move to Vegas. Good news, its all online now, so I signed up for lifetime membership and here I am. I plan on retiring in about 4 to 5 years. Getting ducks in a row to build a modest sized cabin to retire in.
I am married, 2 girls, 4 grand-kids, live in Olympia, hobbies are ham radio, shooting, hunting, but haven't done any in 12 years, I spend all my vacation time at my cabin now playing and making improvements to the land. I'm a Toyota dealer tech by trade, same place for 31+ yrs now.
Wanting to get to know others in here. I have loads of great pictures to share too. Not log stuff yet, but know members will enjoy. Havent figured out how to post pictures yet.
Rick
Rick
The Double J Ranch & Timber Farm
"Ride for the Brand"-- its the code of the west.
Rick, you are smack in the middle of LHBA territory. Lucky man!
How did you like the online class?
Start posting photos and making the relationships that will force is locals to stop in when we are in the neighborhood.
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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.
Just signed up, working through it now, love it so far. Any LHBA member is always welcomed at my place. Its a nice special place. I'm headed up at the end of April with a small work party and my Kubota tractor to build a log type park shelter (12X16) it will be framed in logs, roof will be sheeted with plywood and light green metal roofing to match the other structures. I suspect I may only get the footers built. I have dropped and skidded some beetle kill already. I have a Kawasaki Mule 4WD that skids logs with ease. Have my barking spuds ready, I also have a log wizard on a chain saw I set up just for peeling. Ground off all cutting teeth, its jsut a log peeler now. Few draw knives..
Rick
Rick
The Double J Ranch & Timber Farm
"Ride for the Brand"-- its the code of the west.
OK, trying to figure out how to post an image.
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Rick
The Double J Ranch & Timber Farm
"Ride for the Brand"-- its the code of the west.
All those pictures showed up on my end. And your website works too. I'd love to pick your brain about the website a little bit.
I don't see a website but I do see a problem with those photos. What's up with all the gravel? We want to see either mud or dust. I see no old trucks or piles of tires. And where is all your junk lumber that is too good to burn until it is to rotten to burn hot?
That painted container building has a better roof on it that my town's Post Office building and as for that fence around the solar panel, well I have seen less secure airfields at USAF SAC bases (look it up Bo).
I want you to fit in here but you have to meet us half way. Try to tone it down on the civilized photos and please, please, please, no photos of a shiny new truck.
You are welcome.
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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.
LOL, like your humor. Oh, when I was building it, July of 2008, it was dust, locals call it moon dust. Consistency of brown flour and no matter how easily you stepped, a plume of dust rose up. When it became wet, it was slippery and stuck to your shoes.
Most of that gravel was a result of the Okanogan Complex fire in 2015, it almost burnt the entire place, twice in one fire. Several came together, Northstar fire chewing its way and was meeting Okanogan complex. As it was making its second attempt to burn me out, it had come down the mt peak chewing its way towards me and 1/2 mile away, a monsoon downpour of rain snuffed the entire fires out over there. I have my twin brothers ashes over there, he is my gate keeper and is keeping it safe.
Just before all that, I went over to clear back brush and trees, I had lots more trees close to cabin. I moved it all back, brought in about 250 yards the following spring. I had a full thinning operation last spring, my forest needed attention, was full of thick stands of small trees, stressed and falling victim to western bark beetle. This was mainly for fires too. The state of WA DNR picked up 75% of that cost, just under 50K, my cost was about 13K. The cutter was a former USFS wild land firefighter and loved my decor and theme. I met him in person. So after he did the job, he sends me a link, a commercial video for his biz and asked me if I recognized the place.
I'll post a map of the burn and the small dot is my 40 acres, and a link is below in my sig file. Scroll down, you will see the link for "Wildfire Home Protection Video" right under his logo and link to his biz. The video was 95% shot on my place. He was kind to obscure my signage etc to not reveal my location.
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Link above is the fire map, that burn area is huge.
The reason for all the gravel is "gravel doesnt burn"
No more wood piles on my porch or under the porch, even gable vents should have baffles, blowing sparks enter, start attics on fire. Trim should be beveled on the top to roll off sparks, cement board trim against house from porch, special deck coating for fire resistance, I did the obvious, cleared all brush back, graveled, raked all those ponderosa cones.
The well enclosure, my front 20 is fully fenced, but if free ranging cattle do get it, they rub up against it and destroy it. They are heavy and very powerful animals, one doesn't realized how bit they are until closer to them. Reason for the fence. I do not leave the panel in place.
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I did have a huge box full of lumber scraps for firewood, its an apple box and its full or bits, and a squirrel nest some where at the bottom. I have a full footer/stemwall foundation, that is a plus on fires.
A picture of one area at the cabin before thinning and after.
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After thinning, same exact spot. Yes, that is snow last April. The barren landscape under the trees was lush green pine grass within a month, never has it looked so lush.
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Rick
The Double J Ranch & Timber Farm
"Ride for the Brand"-- its the code of the west.
It was new, 10 yrs ago when I bought it new, but still looks the same today.
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Rick
The Double J Ranch & Timber Farm
"Ride for the Brand"-- its the code of the west.
I like the pallet box and the ugly shipping container but that truck has California money written all over it.
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.
That pallet box is an old apple box, its now full of scrap lumber for my woodstove and houses a bunch of chimpmunks under it. They also managed to dig under my container and reside in there. I screened off the fork pockets, but they just dug under it. Not hurting anything, so I am going to leave them be.
As for Cally $$, no way, local boy, been here in WA my entire life, born in Seattle, moved to Shelton as a kid (logging town), now reside in Olympia. Been in the southern puget sound area all my life, 3 generations on both sides come from this same area. Both my grandfathers retired from Boeing. Not a big city liberal at all, very conservative, love the woods, like shooting, log homes, cabins in the woods, hunting (but havent hunted since started cabin, spend all my vacation time there now). Mechanic by trade, but a master at many other areas too. Metal fabbing, leather carving, plumbing, electrical...That cabin, I built (I know, not logs, but...) container set up...
My last metal project, a pile of steel turned into this.
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Rick
The Double J Ranch & Timber Farm
"Ride for the Brand"-- its the code of the west.
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