The actual milling didn't take long!

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I set the pads and got the 1st round of logs down that same march

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Built the cabin in March of 2016

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I did the whole thing entirely on my own. The actual building, from the pads to the completed roof with windows in and doors took 28 days. They were long working days.


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The inside dimensions are 16x26

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A couple interior shots
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The 'shop'/skinning room

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My partner built the railing upstairs.

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A couple shots out the front window

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And a couple of the cabin

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I hope some of you guys and girls enjoy these photos!

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Great pics and great work.

Thank you for sharing!

I really enjoy the pictures.

Love the railing! But nothing like the cabin, best place ever to be!

Beautiful work!

AMAZING!

Very impressive. Wish I had that kind of talent. Congratulations.

Nice job.

That looks like quality work. There's nothing like living in a home you constructed with your own hands. I hope you have many years of enjoyment.

Very nice. How does it hold the heat. I am guessing it gets pretty cold there.

When logs dry and shrink do they just shrink diameter wise, or will they shrink length wise too? Reason I’m asking is cause I am building a cabin and planning on using a spruce log post going from the floor up to the ridge board to help support it in the center. Should I let it dry out a whole year before I put it in or would it be ok to put it in after it’s dried for a few months and just let it finish drying while it’s already set? Thanks

A stack of round logs in a wall say 8 ft high will shrink more than an 8 ft log standing on end next to that wall. Put another way, a round block 12" in diameter and 12" long will shrink more in diameter than it will in length. How much a log will shrink depends on how dense the wood is and how much moisture is in the wood at the start, so there is no formula I know of to estimate that shrinkage.

Personally I would not worry to much about it on a small cabin. If, after things get done drying and settling, the center pole is too long, cut a half inch or so off the bottom end of it and let her settle, or if it's only a slight amount, live with it.

One thing you will learn with logs, they are always moving. With heat in a cabin and high humidity outside, a log will bend slightly from end to end. When the outside wood absorbs moisture it will swell, while the dry wood on the inside shrinks. The longer the log the more noticeable this becomes. Putting wood sealer on the logs after they are seasoned well will reduce this effect to some extent, but never completely overcome it. Letting snow build up against exterior log walls will soak the wood outside and can cause a huge amount of movement. I've seen this situation bend a 24 foot log as much as 2 inches from end to end. Such excessive movement can wreak havoc on an interior framed wall or cause doors to jam to the point where they will not open. You need to have eves long enough to keep snow from ever touching the exterior walls.
But, get a small cabin dried out good, and put sealer on it, and you won't have any noticeable problems.

Going out tomorrow to start dropping trees.

A bit concerned about trying to move them. The trees are a mix of maple and oak. I plan on cutting to 18' lengths and about 10" in diameter. I'll drop them, debark them and get them off the ground then give them the summer to dry. Hopefully by September they'll be easier to handle.

10 inch DIAMETER

How you know I'm not cutting very small trees? Lol

Thanks