I agree with Chas and John... You could build a real log home.Quote:
Originally Posted by AkChas
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I agree with Chas and John... You could build a real log home.Quote:
Originally Posted by AkChas
Hello,
my name is Hari. I just purchased a lot in Sierras and look forward to learning more about building a log home.
Hi Hari. Lots of information, even here on the non-member side.
Don't let John pull you astray, Hari.... He hasn't seen the members side of the forum yet. That's where the action is.
The joke section alone is worth the price of admission (that's the section where I've posted Bo's baby photos).
Take the class.
Love the humor in this forum. Keep up the fun part! Happy Holidays everyone!
Where in the Sierra's are you at
Beware of the posts from "loghousenut". There is a reason he has that name. He tends to drift to the dark side of our family tree. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hari
Tuolumne. It's located 5 minutes south of Twain Harte. I purchased a "rough" .50 acre of lot. It's in a subdivision.
And let's not forget he has the title of "The Conductor" but he's much more talented at derailing! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by BoFuller
I love it Cuz!Quote:
Originally Posted by rreidnauer
How is it that a poor old innocent bystander like myself can get so much bad press.
Just make sure you spell the name right...
Innocent? Hardly! Old? Absolutely! "The Conductor" has ran more trains off the track than anyone in the history of LHBA..Quote:
Originally Posted by loghousenut
The Derailer?
Hello all. Me and my wife attended the course what seems like about 8 yrs ago. Been through some rough times, but we're still standing. Building my own log cabins has been a long-time dream, so it's something I'm going to focus on in the coming years. Starting to look at land nearby in South Carolina that seems ideal for what I want to do. If anyone if breaking ground in South Carolina, and putting their home together, I would like to help build to get my hands wet if I'm available.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello again. Glad to see everything is still up and running.
welcome back RockyRaccoon! glad you checked in and that the dream is still alive :) sorry to hear about the tough times but sounds like you're doing OK!
SC is beautiful:) Happy New Year:)
Another Rock comes home to roost. Get things straightened out and get to building. If you're real nice to me I'll let you finish before I do.
Thanks. Yes this is something I plan to do or die trying. I'm attending some employment training in January, but after that, I'll be on the hunt for some land nearby. Still haven't decided if it's best to sell the house I have or keep it as a backup plan. I'll try to figure that out in February.
Thankyou for the hellos.
We are in WNC, maybe to far to come help but welcome back, best wishes for a New Year that will lead to fulfilling your log dream.
Thankyou. In the next coming year, it will be about getting onto a property that I can start the process of building on. For a while I will be taking care of getting some new employment skills that I have been interested in that I have to travel and/or pay for. After that, I would really love to come and help someone put their home together, if I am available, and even if it's a bit of a ways away. Any kind of work related to putting together a log home property will go a long way to rebuild up my confidence and get me motivated.
Hari, you and I probably live fairly close to each other. I've been looking at lots in the Mt. Knight area. I'm new to the community, too--haven't taken the class yet. :)
My Mother took the class. So did 2 brothers, a cousin, my Wife, and my best friend.
I think it's time for UncleBri to take the plunge.
Sorry Unc, I think we scared Hari away sometime before Christmas. He'll be back.
Welcome
My name is Matthew, I am currently in the research phase of securing land and building a cabin/homestead in the Alaskan Bush. I have not attended the class and am unsure if it is possible due to my limited resources (my entire income is my disability pay from the military) and with that I support a family of 6. I am currently considering the Butt and Pass method but with D-logs using a chainsaw mill to minimize excessive daubing and chinking. My main concern being livability in the shortest period of time due to severe weather extremes and short building season. I intend to use the pillar and post type foundation, with the entirety of the home built with resources from the land purchased from Alaska DNR with the exception of the concrete, rebar fastenings and windows. Therefore I would most likely be building with White and Black spruce which I have been unable to find on lists of acceptable building logs, hence my following question...are those types of logs efficient building materials? please bear in mind that the land that I have located is about 20 miles from the nearest road making it improbable and inefficient on my budget to bring in building materials besides what I can transport behind a snowmobile during winter months. Any constructive advice is welcome.
Thank you, Matthew
Hey I'm new here. My husband and I have 13 acres on a hill here in middle Tennessee. We are getting excited about attending the class in March. I would love to know if there are any LHBA log homes in Tennessee. We live in the Nashville area.
Matthew... I am probably not the right person to respond cause I don't know about the pillar and post type foundation... Maybe you could start a new topic describing what this means, why it works and how frost thrust works in Alaska...
Log homes are heavy. Are there some options, like building a small starter home, then adding on until you get it the right size. I know that moss is used as chinking... I'm trying to think of the guy that built a home that's on TV... o well.
I don't like the idea of d-logs because there are so many options... Spruce logs are fine... I don't know the difference between black or white. I do know that they have a bunch of taper... which is not bad except when you try to make a d-log out of them... Think of stacking carrots. Taper is not a problem next to another carrot.
Any way, in construction you have three attributes fast, good and expensive... You get to choose two...
The pillar and post foundation per my internet research is simply cardboard tubes dug below the frost line and filled with concrete every 6-8' under the Sill Log, thus (ostensibly) allowing air beneath the home to aid in drying the underpinning.
The severe taper in spruce logs is the reason I plan to use D-logs simply milling 3 sides from each log so that they lay flat on the log below while allowing me to take full advantage of the 8" of insulating qualities of the log as (in my mind) the chinking/daubing would be the weak link in -40 temperatures, allowing for drafts and wind should any loss occur.
Hiya Steve and all!!!!! Very nice forum, I look forward to cont my reading of your forums
We are two ladies living in southern England. In 2009 we bought 15 acres of ancient woodland overlooking a pond, and last year bought the adjacent 15 acres. Some of the wood contains the remains of a Scots Pine plantation, planted by the Forestry Commission about 50 years ago. The plantation hasn't been well looked after, and doesn't have much commercial value. So we are gradually thinning it down, and plan to use some of the trees to build a small log cabin overlooking the pond. I'm afraid we won't be attending the class - as you are rather a long way from us! However the forum is extremely useful. All of the expertise in log cabins seems to come from the States - we don't have a tradition of building log cabins in Sussex. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y.../Photo0125.jpg
Hi! I'e been lurking here for a few years and have finally ponied up and bought a seat in the March class. Looking to learn, dream, work and grow! I hope to add value to you all as time goes by.
Phil
Hello Uncle, hello Pinky, Hello Matt, Sara, Task, Phil (can't forget PHIL!!) !! SO good to see so many new folks here! welcome aboard!
SARA a word of caution. not all info needed to build this way is on these public forums. much is reserved for class alone (and are discussed on the members side) :( take care. stay safe everyone.
I was wondering if Ronbo could get a work visa.
Welcome aboard Phil of the North!
Hello Sarah,
How lucky of you to have all that woodland! Land in the UK is not that easy to find, but I have been on the Woodlands websites and had a look around a few times. Now, if only the British Pound would collapse, it would be affordable for those of us in the rest of the world :) Land and housing prices remain so high in the UK that we see many British people coming to buy here in France (where we are at the moment), since it is much less expensive.
I'm sure your cabin will be beautiful-- the setting is certainly lovely!
Check out my photo's. The space between the logs has more insulation value than the log it's self.Quote:
Originally Posted by mattharris5000
Think about building with carrots where you want to keep the top of every second carrot flat... If you are milling a highly tapered log on three sides, you will be wasting more than half the log, IMHO. A member not far from my log home built with bug killed spruce, hence it is very possible to use spruce with out whacking the heck out of them...
I googled "pillar and post foundation". Guess what came up? A log home built by one of our members in Darrington Washington...
The foundation you describe is referred to as using sono-tubes. I built a well shed that had an insufficient foundation. Its a long story... Don't ask. So I drove rebar through the bottom log, dug a hole for the Sono-tube, then poured the cement into the tube. Presto-instant foundation added. Then we went on to finish the 10 by 12 shed for my well. See pictures.
Anyway, there are more questions than can be addressed.
I have a good friend that is building on slab lava on the big island. She is using very small footer and a "U" bolt thing for attaching a 4 X 10 then the house... There are lots of ways to skin a critter...
Hi everybody,
I come from Slovenia, a small and beautyfull country in Europe. I think it is 3rd in terms of percentage of wood coverage in Europe, and we have very high quality wood, so it was used for centuries to build traditional houses, until it was outlawed under the rule of Maria Theresia (19th century), so a lot of traditional knowledge was forgotten. Many methods were used, from, what you refer to as scandinavian, to method very simmilar to butt and pass, with chinking between the logs. In the countryside you can still find examples of this buildings more then 300 years old. I had a wish to build a loghome for many years, recently I have aquired a nice piece of land in the countryside, but i was never satisfied whit what was on the market in terms of log homes...until I found this site. The method makes perfect sense to me, and I will take the class in the future. unfortunatelly I cant take the march one, as I work as a commercial diver, and I am currentlly in China, but I will keep my eyes open for any future dates, and organize my schedule. I see that there are not many members from Europe, which is strange,... I hope to get to the next class and join the members section.
best regards, Ales
I look forward to seeing you on the other side, Ales.
Ha you liked that! :). Thank you for the welcome.
Good to hear of someone from Europe coming to the class. Just curious why was log home building outlawed.Quote:
Originally Posted by phlnrth
My name is Isabelle and my husband Rik and I attended the class sometime in the fall of 1997. Rik attended again in 1998 taking 3 friends along. We were so impressed that we had to share this experience with others. We used to participate in the forums many years ago as RikandIsabelle. We are still looking forward to building our home, and just have had a lot going on in the past 15 years that prevented things from happening the way we thought they should. Getting older :) but are definitely encouraged by some of the fantastic work of other members. We also look forward to hooking up with some of the people we used to have contact with.
welcome back, Isabelle and Rik!!
It's never too late! where are you from? You may want to see about getting your member status changed to view the other side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neuby
It wasnt the log home specifically, but the wood, so all types of wooden houses were outlawed, because of fire hazard, but that just lasted a few decads, then after the WWI it was legal again. And now its legal of course, but you need toadd insulation to your log home to meet the insulation/thermal properties code. But, many loghome owners just put it in the project and then «run out of money» and line in an «unfinished» house:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Prissy Pink