Dale, Have you seen this build on the DooTalk forums?

http://www.dootalk.com/forums/topic/1220849-small-doo/

It's a machine built just along the lines of what you're talking about.

The EPA has done away with the machines that you guys are looking for in the USA. Manufacturers like Bombardier, Polaris and others get points for making gas friendly, smoke free don't harm the earth as bad ect. They use their points to make two strokes that have these computers in em today. Thus making all these other good rigs made in foreign country's illegal to sell here due to EPA standards.

Here's some different chinking I saw in a 1920's building in Leetonia, Mn.
Built by Croatians, I am told

The chinking was held in place by nails and it looks like brick chinking from a distance.
Here is a corner

Dovetail corners

Heres a line cabin I just finished in April. It is built with fire killed logs, and all the lumber was milled on my bandsaw mill accept for the treate pad material. Sure look forward to trapping next winter!


The cabin is 16x26 inside, with a 14x16 loft as well.

Nice!!!

Nice job Dawson.

Looks like a fun project. My brother just started welding an ultralight fuselage in our basement, maybe when he finishes that he can use his know-how to make me one of those. I'd do it myself, but when I try to oxy-acetylene weld thin-walled tubing, it looks like a bird pooped on the joint.

Nice job dawson. Any interior shots?

Geeze Dawson, that's a line cabin? Pretty high class.

Ok got a question . Built cabin last year kinda Marshy land but cabin holding up good . over kill on foundation. . The problem is were I drive in with atv the tundra has sunk about 8 inches and is getting pretty wet . I have been throwing sticks and trees in wet spots but was thinking of using wood chips or saw dust to fill in wet area . Has any body used them as fill . It is a lot lighter then gravel

This could solve your issue.

Around here back prior to about 95 they used to build a lot of logging spurs with cedar spaltz (waste) from local shake mills. It made a poor road but it wouldn't be bad as long as you kept heavy stuff off. It was cheap as the mills had to get rid of it and they had curtailed burning the stuff. I doubt anyone would have used it if not for that. It takes a pretty good layer of the stuff to work.
So you have it in and working but when the stuff starts to rot it just turns to mush especially where it is laid down in a wet area. Cedar doesn't rot to fast and I'd say these roads were OK for maybe 15 years. After 20 worse then a bog.

Dawson Trapper,
Cabin looks awesome! Would love to see more pictures....interior, etc. That is a great looking window too.

I would think building a cabin with out gables, and using the natural taper of the logs to give you a slope would be easier/faster?


Something like this? (excuse my crude drawing)

Around here they would lay down logs and cover with gravel called it a corduroy road. Works great as long as the logs stay submerged or wet. Doubt the wood chips or sawdust would work as well as it would sink or squish out the sides as you drove over it. I tried some large rocks on soft spot a few years ago only to have the rocks sink further down as I drove over them. Temporary fix at best.

Miss Lisa (my wife and trapping partner) and I put together our 6th little log building last summer. Cut the logs locally and picked up the foundation rocks on our place. With building codes, need a permit for anything over 200 square feet, and I didn't want to buy one (this cabin is 192 sq. ft.). Also, Forest Service won't let a person bring logs out of the hills over 8' long, so no wall is over 8'. This cabin is out of lodgepole pine, at least two years standing dead before cutting. Hand-peeled with draw-knife.




Oh, thanks to Spek and others for all the images and hints above. Next 'cabin' I'll have to try some new things.

That's a nice little Bunkie,Gulo.Really like the foundation.

Jack that would sure beat that motel in Leadore

Ha! Decoy, I've never stayed in the Leadore Hilton, but it's interesting to drive by at night and see light coming through numerous cracks. Next time you're in the country, hit me and you can stay at our place.

Thanks Boco. Never heard 'em called a 'Bunkie' before. I like the terminology. The foundation is actually cinder blocks faced with flat rocks and mortar. Time-consuming when I should be fishing...

That would be an honor Jack. Will have to remember.Thanks