Cordwood fancy.

[Mosseyme]

http://www.theownerbuildernetwork.co/
type cordwood in the search box
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[loghousenut]

Been there.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/loghousenut/Our%20Home/The%20hut/13Thetreewiththepinkribbonwillbethe.jpg (http://s157.photobucket.com/user/loghousenut/media/Our%20Home/The%20hut/13Thetreewiththepinkribbonwillbethe.jpg.html)


Just a stepping stone to the real thing.



http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/loghousenut/P1010122_zps948e4469.jpg (http://s157.photobucket.com/user/loghousenut/media/P1010122_zps948e4469.jpg.html)

[Mosseyme]

You must be better at controling that thing than we are to risk putting it through the [window] like that.

[loghousenut]

YEARS of practice.

[Kola]

I like the cordwood idea. You can make your walls as thick as you like. very easy to build for a guy or gal, no heavy lifting really....and you can get pretty creative by easily making arches and such. I think the hardest part would be avoiding slopping mortar all over the logs.

I like this design:

http://theownerbuildernetwork.co/?s=cordwood

[sdart]

There are some interesting looking houses on that link. Looks like it could be a way to do the gable ends as an alternative to full log gables (allthough a lot more work than board and batten).

[rreidnauer]

Ooooooh, I really like that idea. I'd steal it, but on a 12:12 pitch roof, I don't think it'd look quite right.

[loghousenut]

Why wouldn't it work on a 12:12?


http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/loghousenut/alan20adolphso20n_zps30dcdada.jpg (http://s157.photobucket.com/user/loghousenut/media/alan20adolphso20n_zps30dcdada.jpg.html)


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[rreidnauer]

Ehhh, yea, I guess the look can be pulled off, but with the help of window and door openings. I'm not planning on much of that in the gables, and I think that would be too much cordwood to come off looking right.

[greenthumb]

How 'bout strawbale in the gable ends, with a living roof? :D

[StressMan79]

Hippie....

[loghousenut]

Hippie....

Hippie?

He never said a thing about the cobb construction, rammed earth, or packed tire construction... Yet.








PS... I have played with all of them at one time or another.

[greenthumb]

Hippie?

He never said a thing about the cobb construction, rammed earth, or packed tire construction... Yet.



Doesn't mean I haven't thought about it. I've been saving a bunch of friends blue beer bottles(I don't drink) for putting in the chinking like the cob folks do...


LOL, Stressman. :)

[Kola]

How 'bout strawbale in the gable ends, with a living roof? :D

I like. yes. and stucco it.

[greenthumb]

I like. yes. and stucco it.

Maybe a few stones added in for accents? I've been toying with the idea of a roundwood timberframe using some massive(30" butt) pines I've seen. Ok, they're massive for my area... grown in the open so they taper a lot, have a lot of limbs(character), only have a 20-30' usuable section before they split, etc. Infill with strawbale, lime plaster, living roof... just an idea, I'm still building the main house as a log home. :)

Good to see you back Kola!

[weedgnr]

I am planning on my shed being built using the slipform stone building process and using logs for the rafters and strawbale gables.