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Originally Posted by Stonecold

Hello miltonjoy,
I live in Ashland, Al. Hope to be building soon. I went to the class in Feb and loved it. I still have so much to learn. Good luck at selling your home.

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Wow I can't believe there are like minded people in East Alabama, nice to hear that. Is your family name Stone? My husband Milton's fam is from Malone with the last name Stone, maybe we're distant relatives. I grew up a suburban girl and was apprehensive about country living, but now I know the only thing I will miss is family and friends in Atlanta. Hope to be out there soon. Good luck with your build, I know flight nursing is quite a busy career, I'm an RN. Joy

Hi Brandon,

I'm hopefull things will go well this winter with my planning. As for woodworking, I make a Windsor chair once in awhile. We might have a thing or two to talk about regarding woodworking, and log building of course.

Hello all.
I'm new to this site, being driven here by finding out that the Cabin I live in here in Seattle will soon fall down. Here's a little history: Built in 1931, by a one-armed Butcher for his wife, the cabin was then purchased by my Grandfather, and our family has lived in it ever since. I just recently moved back to the cabin after an absence of 8 years. One of my family members was supposed to be maintaining it but didn't. I thought maybe the house would eventually need a new roof, maybe the floors done. However, when you go underneath the house you see the support logs and can literally stick your finger into them they are so mushy. There are also mushrooms growing inside the home in between several of the logs. If you can believe it there has never been a problem with the electrical system, or any proplem with sewage after it was hooked up to the city in the early 70's. I'm here trying to find a way that I can salvage at least the look of my home, building a new one with a matching floor plan, possibly around the stone fireplace that is the original fireplace of the cabin and where my Grandparents, Mother and Father, and most of my siblings have been married. So that is that. Nice to meet everyone :)

I just came across this site. My husband and I REALLY wanting a log home!! I am originally from Montana and now live in VA. My husband is a real outdoorsman and this is our dream. My husband was hurt on the job in August of 2005. We are hoping to get some money from this, but it will probably only pay for the land. My husband had a serious head injury. He is back to work, but can't deal with the stress of it. I guess my question is, what would be the cost to build ourselves? We have priced a lot of kits. After paying for the kit, we'd still have the expense of the contractor, plumber, electrician,.... any input would be appreciated. Also, are students still building homes? I'd like more info. Thanks!!!!

Look, listen and learn
Im Your Huckleberry
Hello and Wecome
Allot people ask this qwestion and its very hard to answer it.
Its to hard to figure out how much it cost it all depends on allot things.
Price of your land you buy and how much work you can learn to do your self.
And if you got your trees on your own property. And how strick your codes are where you live.
For me my land wasent bad but i got do altiertive septic that cost more.
But as kits go there gone cost you allot more anyway you look at it.
Where would you like to build at in Va i know south of va the land is cheeper.
There a few of us from Va building ore in process of building.
I am Luray Va north and land went up in price here since i bought a few years back.
If you want ask me some qwestions here my email chad_fortman2001@yahoo.com
If you take the class you learn allot on ways to save allot money.
cheers Chad

Hi, I attended the class in the spring of '07 and loved it. I have a home in central FL that is currently still on the market. When it sells we are going to buy some land in Northern KY, where we now live. I am in the process of finding logs and equipment. There are a lot of "Log Homes" in this area, but none that use the butt and pass method. Every one of them are kits and look so sterile. I love the rustic and sturdy finished look of a BnP log home. I'm glad to be a member of an organization of realistic people.

I've always wanted a log home, so I guess I'm getting ready to get serious. I will probably have to 'order and buy' logs from somewhere elese and 'rail' 'em here, so I need plenty of advice. So start sending those letters and postcards now!! I don't know when the next class will be, but I hope to be there for it.

Good to know. Hope to get to know a number of people. I'll try and get the hang of asking the right questions i the right way. Gotta go, thanks

my husband and I had a constuction bussiness which had led to a downfall we are now in the process of purchacing property in colorado so that we can fulfill our dream of one day building a log cabin but the kits are not the way to go so i've heard and this is something we would like to do hands on. That is when we ran across this site and we are hoping to get any advice as we go about the process of constucting our own log cabin we are not sure about where to purchace our logs or anything else for that matter we are just tring to do our best but we do know we are planning on putting it on a heated slab we are now truck drivers so we go just about everywhere. we think that we can do most of the construction ourselves but its just getting started is the hard part so it seems. the problem is our land hads no trees it is all praire grass any help you can give would be greatly appreciated we can probably get them hauled in from just about anywhere due to us being truck drivers but we have no way to cut or pull the logs so if there is any way to help us locate the materals so we can go about our dream that woulde be wonderful thank you so very much james and sunshine

Hiya. An uncle of mine wants to build a log home, and directed me to your site. He's got property 150 miles from me, so I'll be taking a summer off to help him. We'll be attending the class whenever he can arrange it.
I'm a working carpenter with plenty of tools, but do you have a list of uncommon items we may need, so I can start looking for them? Thanx

Welcome!

My suggestion to you that have newly found us is to read all the info you can on this site. Up at the top of the page you'll see "forums" open that and you'll see the "Member section" and the "Public Forums". Well, you can't get into the Member section yet, but all the info in the Public forums are yours for the reading.

I would also sign up for the Email alert for when classes will be offered again, you'll receive an email before the classes are offered on the internet.

I like you found this site over 2 years ago, read everything I could, then finally signed up for the class. One thing you'll read over and over again..... " The best investment of my life" of which I totally agree, my wife & I took the class this past April.

I personally discounted building with logs over 20yrs ago, for all the reasons you can come up with, but now, we are preparing to build our log home, with the method that I've come to believe is the Correct way to build with logs.......Butt -n- Pass as taught by this association.

This is for real, I too had a healthy amount of skepticism up until the first hour of class, when all my remainder of questions were answered, then I had to open my mind to all the info they were teaching.

This is not a Club, it is an association of people willing to help anyone (almost) with their dreams of building a log home, with the method & backing of members to complete it.

Welcome Again!
Tom

Sunshine Hicks,
You will find that there are several of us building in Colorado. Where is your land at? We live near Mead and we are building near Rabbit Ears Pass.
First step is to get signed up for the class and read this entire site!!

Hello
I find myself looking into so many log sites that I thought why not a forum too. I'm a man who has dream of a log cabin since I was a child and have a few acres in West Virginia where eventually would like to plant one and maybe should start learning more of all the pros and cons of one before trying to start which I hope soon within a couple of years or less.
My name is Rob and I hope to see or read some good stuff within ....

Where at in WV are you? I am currently building in Roanoke, VA but am from barboursville, WV and hope to be getting land in the new river gorge area soon, hit me up at rckclmbr428 at aol dot com

Hi!

I'm Jenny and my husband is Noel. We are parents to the lovely 2.5 yo Elizabeth. We live in the concrete jungle, behind the Iron Curtain (Long Beach, California). As soon as my husband is finished with his teaching credential program, we're outta here! We want to move to Idaho or Washington. We want to take the loghomebuilders class and eventually build one of our own somewhere in the Northwest.

Can someone help me find the Contact Information off this website? I want to e-mail them to request that a class be offered sometime around Easter 2009. But I see no way of conacting or emailing the administrators or people in the organization.

Jenny

If you are looking for info on when a class is scheduled, just follow this link to sign up.

http://www.loghomebuilders.org/alert

Cheers,

J.

North West side near Glenville,weston area...Dodgedridge county, West Union is the county seat....Its a beautiful area ! New river area is beautiful too great small mouth fishing

Well, I have been signed up with that e-mail notification for a while now. So far, the classes haven't been at the right time for us. We have many ducks to get all in a row first. But I think 2009 will be our year!

Isn't there an e-mail address where we can communicate with them? Or do they read all the posts?

If this is my only way--I just want to ask: any chance there will be a log home building class in the Spring of 2009? My husband's Easter Vacation (he's a teacher) may be our ONLY opportunity to come up there, and look at properties in the area as well. We want to relocate from the large city of Long Beach, CA to something more rural in Idaho within 12 months, but we have NO idea where to go! So I figured--kill two birds with one stone: use his week-long Easter vacation to 1. take the log home building class, and 2. scope out an area we're dreaming of, but is presently totallly foreign to us: Idaho!

Jenny

Jenny, when you get notified of a class sign up-look for airplane tickets online & book imediately-same for your room. I stayed at Best Western in Monroe and it was very nice. If you do as i suggest you will save and not have to worry where you will stay-the Best Westerm is only 10 minites from class and it was full. Cheap tickets or priceline-you can go there and see what the cost is 30 days in advance to get idea of flight price. SEA TAC is where you fly in to. They give you more than 30 days in advance when class notices go out. What I am saying is he can go and at worst miss a Monday-hopefull both of you can go!

Look, listen and learn
Im Your Huckleberry!
Keep Rocking With Dokken!

Most the time i stay at best westerns.
But when i was there ever night i had problems hearing kids people in the hallways.
I think the cheeper place across the street might be under rated.
I should have stayed at one them i might got some sleep.
Do a dry Run to find the parking lot for the class the day before.
Enjoy the class.

Jennifer,

The admins do read many many of the posts. They don't read them all (I don't imagine--they do have other things going on). However, I talked to a member who talked to Ellsworth. Evidently the "member's meeting" has not even been scheduled for this fall (we generally have a get together). Anyway, I suspect that there has been little thought as far as when exactly the next class, especially the next two classes will be. I understand that the current drought won't go on indefinitely. Unfortunately the best way to find out when the upcoming classes are coming will be the email alert.

There is a lot of beautiful rural land available in N.E. Washington. It is a good drive from Skip's ranch, but you might be able to take a look on your trip up here. If I'm up there, you would certainly be welcome to stop by, peel a log, have a sandwich, etc.

Good luck on your log home building endeavors. We (I) will assist in any way we (I) can.

-Peter

Hi Steve,

I just found out about 30 mins ago about Skip Ellsworths death. I met Skip back in 1998 when I had planned a trip to the school. I never made it to the school but Skip and I became E-mail buddies. He kept me informed of his pioneer journey when he was skipping across the Islands of the Philipines. We lost contact around 2000. Strangely as it may seem, Skip has been on my mind for several days. This morning (Sept. 28th, 2008) when I awakened I began wondering where the Skipper was and to my shock read the article of his death, I was shocked.
Skip use to tell me that the USA is heading for very bad times.....here we are! There was a lot more to Skip than most know of him, he was much bigger than just Log Home Building, he was a visionary. I even thought at one time he was a little radical. Looking back, the Skipper had a vision beyond Log Homes. He saw the future. This guy most definitely left a gaping hole in the world and the Log Home community. I salute a great man and may his son carry on the legacy.
Phil Clark, NC Mountains

Hi everyone.
I'd like to introduce us. My name is Paul. My wife (Natsuyo) and daughter Natalie-Momoha all live in Tokyo, Japan. We've got a 5 (approx) year plan to move up to the northern most island of Japan (Hokkaido) to build our dream log home. We're in the very early stages, yet to attend a class, so reading the site is really getting us excited about planning our path to a log home lifestyle.
We're so very impressed with the beautiful log homes that have been built by former students. We'd be ecstatic if we could build our home half as good as the ones posted here.
We look forward to getting to know others here and finally, one day soon hopefully, getting to meet at a class.

Until then, live healthily, and may your heart greet each day with song.

The Dore' family in Japan

Hi all, my name is Ray. Myself and family (wife and 3 boys, 14, 10 & 9) love to build. Building boats has been our latest hobby but we are thinking of trying a log home, actually we plan to start with a small cabin, something under 1000sq/ft and if that goes well then we'll tackle a house.
I have already learned quite a bit from this site already.
Ray

Wondering what your dimensions are and let me say it looks like its coming along pretty nice....

My name is Wayne Shannon. I am owner/operator of Tree Cowboy, Inc. of Atlanta. Visit my website at www.treecowboy.com. I am a currently in the process of a Masters degree program at Georgia Tech. My study is in International Affairs, with a focus on Environmental Politics. I am very interested in learning the process that goes into permitting and building my own log home, and am ready to begin immediately. I have the timber source and the land to build on, so what am I waiting for? I look forward to gaining as much knowledge in this area as possible and look forward to networking with those of you that can offer me some direction.








Wayne Shannon
ISA Certified Arborist SO-5436A
Tree Cowboy, Inc.

Greatly depends on what jurisdiction you are under. Call you county building (planning) department--get fee schedules, requirements, etc. You'll likely need a septic permit first, then (if your county offers it) an owner-builder permit. Take the class, get your logs and a HS football team that needs the cash, and a dozen spuds and set them to peeling.

Anyway, the key is to learn how to build cheaply and correctly. Start scouring CL for deals on tools and materials. Play around with floorplans, network with people you can barter with and that can help you plan or with labor. You'll find membership in the LHBA will greatly help you with the networking, as you'll be plugged into a nation (even world) wide association of like-minded people to help you get your dream accomplished.

That is my 2 cents.

-Peter

Hey all,
My name is Josh and I'm in Fairbanks Alaska. I'm a student at UAF and in my final year of my elementary education program. A few years back i walked into a construction job that lead to building a small log cabin. After building the cabin I rented it and lived in it for all but a year, and have never enjoyed a living space so much. Once out of school, with a somewhat stable job, I plan on building my own log home and maybe some rental cabins.