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Welcome Jordan,
LHBA really doesn't accept logs from distributors. We prefer to obtain our logs from individual loggers. We use plain, unmilled, peeled logs. We can even use green logs. No, we are not concerned about shrinkage......yup it is true. You have indicated that you are a contractor......wallllll building a butt and pass log home is very different from stick building.
Blondie
Hello, greetings from Georgia!
My name is Tom, I stumbled across LHBA last week and I am very excited to get myself to a class ASAP. Unfortunately I cant make the next class so hopefully I will be able to this Fall. I have always wanted a loghome and now after reading endlessly through the rookie forum I am ready start the journey to make this a reality. Well, just wanted to say hello. I will continue to creep in the shadows for now......
Mr. Smackin,
Welcome. You are starting at the exact point that the rest of us started at.... You wanna build your own log home with your own hands. It'll happen. Just a matter of time and commitment. Keep lurking and take the class as soon as you're able. We'll try to keep you inspired.
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Hi Jordan - You came to the right place, if you want to do a quality log home at minimal cost (or not so minimal if you choose -- but certainly do-able very inexpensively). The key to realizing this however, will be doing things "smart", thinking outside of most peoples' "norms", etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordan
I'm also in Md (well, when I'm not somewhere else on the planet -- which sounds logical, but it happens that I'm often away). If you want to save a TON of money and realize your dream of building your own log home -- without a mortgage.......Spend $800 and TAKE The LHBA CLASS. It will save you 20x that much, if you were not to take the class. It truly was the BEST investment I made in Myself, since college!
We get our logs from ANY source from whom we can get the right ones, at the right price, in good condition and to the property/build site of our choice. So there really is no One Answer to your question. In The Class, you will learn ALL KINDS of things (including where to possibly find cheap logs), that will save you lots of time, money and heart-ache.
Keep poking around here. Read tons of posts that you have access to. Then RUN (don't walk), to the next available class that you can get in to (there's only 3 or so per year, by the way -- Oh! And they fill up REAL Fast).
Cheers Jordan -- Enjoy the ride :)
Hello,
My name is Patrick. Hoping to book the May class. Loggin in North GA. Just posted my first post surrounding indigenous pine ad what my options are.
Thanks for the platform!
Welcome talks to squirrels, i eat squirrels!
If we are now inviting in folks who are named for animals that Rcklmbr has eaten I suppose we'll be hearing from talkstopossums and talkstoroadkill....
Sorry Ronnie,I couldn't let that one slip past without swinging at it....
Welcome aboard talktosquirrels!
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That's OK. But it would be impolite to talk (to squirrels) while your mouth is full (of squirrel).
;-)
I couldn't resist.
Peter
You havent lived till you've eaten possum, just saying...
Squirrels I can do, but opossum, I don't think so.
I thought you were supposed to play with possums ? Wait that was " Playing Possum "
Opossum, it'll cure what ails ya!
Cure, or cause?Quote:
Originally Posted by rckclmbr428
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Seems to me the subject at hand oughta be possum roadkill and how it tastes.
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You guys are impossumable!
Hi, my name is Rich, and we are looking to give up the in town thing and get started with an off grid home. I have been lurking for a few weeks and have no joined to better interact with the forum. Thanks for the info so far, soaking it up like a 10 year dry sponge!
Welcome Rich! You've made a good first step in the journey. Enjoy the ride!
Yep, like Chas said, good move joining the forum. We got folks of all walks of life here, and still manage to have so much in common. Definitely a good pool of knowledge, and the public side of the forums is just the tip of the iceberg. Soak it in, and don't be shy about contributing your own knowledge and opinions.
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Welcome aboard Rich! I think you'll find most all here are fatigued with the "rat race" and seek to return to a more "country" way of life. It's intoxicating for us to consider the enjoyment we'll derive from not only building our own LHBA home, but becoming self sustainable. Read often, ask questions, but most of all enjoy!
Hello everyone, my name is Scott. I live in Wisconsin and i'm in the process of drawing up the plans for our log home. I have yet to get in a class but i'm thinking maybe this fall or early next year. Looking to build in the next couple years. Seems so far off but there is much to do on my end. I'm getting antsy, but will not rush the planning and preparedness stage.
Rush it as much as you want to Scott... your plans will change for the better after class. Welcome aboard.
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Welcome aboard Scott!!! Or should I say,......."howdy neighbor, oh ya hay doncha know!" Where in 'sconny??? I was hatched there. I'm juxtaposed now in South Carolina. Spent my younger years in the SW Corner on Old Man River! Yes still a die hard bleed Green and Gold Packer fan! Could also use a good supplier of curds and REAL 'Sconny brats!! They just don't make em the same down here, even the ones they ship to the grocery stores.
Anywho, I hope it thaws out up there and again, welcome!
I'm registered for the May 25-26th class! See yall there.
Good Move TTS! Be seein' ya on "the other side". :)Quote:
Originally Posted by talkstosquirrels
Just wanted to introduce myself as my wife and I are scheduled for the May Class. We have loaded up the mules and wagon and have started towards Nevada. I hope we make it on time.
Congrats on taking the plunge Pinecone_Grenades and Talktosquirrels! Ya'll are in for a treat!!
Hello All!
My name is Nichole. My husband and I have been researching this site for quite some time now. Reading the forums, looking at pictures and learning lots of great info. We can't wait until we'll be able to attend a class, we're shooting for this fall.
We'd like to build our log home in Northwestern Montana with in 2-3 years. Looking forward to learning a lot and getting to know all of you along the way!
Welcome aboard Nicole and Casey!! I think you'll enjoy getting to know the folks here. As always read much and ask questions. The class really is a SUPERB experience!
Thanks Dan! My husband's name is Casey; Let's not share that I forgot to add that. I already have numerous things I will be never allowed to forget, like the time my husband and I were discussing bats. I made the mistake of saying " Bats don't have ears" -straight faced and all. I immediately tried to recant that statement to no end... However, it was futile to do so and I knew it. That one, tiny statement will forever live on in my husband's mind, just waiting for the ever-so-perfect moment of exploitation.:rolleyes:
Say wha???????? I watch Major League Baseball a lot and I've NEVER seen a bat with ears???? <full body head tilt>
PS, re read my previous post, Casey will never know.
Exactly my point! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by LogHomeFeverDan
Although, in all fairness I have to say we are very blessed. I married my best friend! And we truly are that....the only downfall? Well, when you, your hubby and y'alls "crew" have been the best of friends since young childhood...oh the stories they can tell! Never-ending supply of Ammo!
We truly are looking forward to getting to know all of you folks.
BTW- Thank you very much LHFD!!
LOL Sound like you have a WONDEFUL Crew, ya'll will fit right in here! Laughter heals, literally. Good <ahem> "stories" cause more laughter as the story ages.
Just got my mortgage statement in the mail like I do every month....Best reason to build your own house? How about $952.57 dollars in interest to the corporate bank on a monthly basis, eh? My brain fries every time I open this envelope...
frances
I hear ya Frances. Big part of why I elected to hire out some to get done faster. Any way I cut it now I am cutting that interest by 70%. I'll fret the amount I owe when the big one is gone, maybe cash it out with proceeds...or not. (??)
My house and the supporting mortgage served me well for years - thankfully tax code made the burden not so painful all in all and that's the way I looked at it. Guess in a way it "welfare" for those of us who itemize on return.
If I had been smarter waaaaaaaay back and built outside the metro on a 160 acre plot we had I could still be on it and yet be a multi-millionaire too just by selling part of it. I wasn't. My sister, however, was. lol
Happy for her. I just made a bad choice in hindsight. One of a million at that!
You started yet this year on the "little house" or still to wet? Keep me posted - you are smart on the way and manner you are moving along.:)
Daughter and I put up a couple of tents to store our camping stuff and we've been working on doubling the width of the driveway access at the road so a truck can pull in. I only had 10 narrow feet over the culvert and now I have 20' but gotta still build it up a little more. (This weekend.) Then I'll be ordering my lumber for the framing. My daughter has a full time job now and is always doing something for the fire department so I don't get much of her time anymore. I'll have to work a little smarter if I wanna get that 24 foot wall standing up on its own by myself.
Hello, name is Tom. We have property in Creede Co and have been looking at modular log cabin kits. We want a small cabin--say 1000 square feet. Lots of kit manufacturers, just looking for any input from people who have built a modular cabin. Thanks in advance
tmere
hi there Tom. welcome to the LHBA forums! when we stumbled on to LHBA, we were looking for info on kits too:) not sure many here have experience with modular type building. worth asking though!!
Hi Tom, welcome to the forum. There are a few guys on here that have experience with kit homes, but I think most of them have spent time working for people who own them and are making repairs. I think on the home page of this website, down at the bottom is a block with some articles in it. One of them is why not to buy a kit home. This site is all about building your own cabin using whole logs and butt and pass corners, using information gained in a jampacked two day class. So take some time and read those articles and a bunch of forum threads. I think just about everybody on here will gently, or not so gently, try to steer you away from kit homes and into making your own cabin that will last for generations. So keep an open mind, do some reading, have fun and again, welcome to the forum.
Modular cabins are just standard homes with log siding, Nothing different about them then that
I couldn't have said it any better -- Well said, JohnW!Quote:
Originally Posted by John W
Tom: You too have now stumbled upon a site that may very well change your 1) Way of thinking, 2) Ideas of log home living; and 3) Your Life!
As John suggests -- poke around the open-side of the forum and the many, many threads there-in. Read lots, ask questions, absorb all you can.
Chances are (depending on your interests, desires and determination), you too may take the plunge by attending an LHBA class and start a whole new journey.
(This, from my own personal experience, and continuing journey.......). Godspeed!