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Worlds Largest Log Cabin #8445231 07/29/25 10:32 PM 07/29/25 10:32 PM
Joined: Oct 2018 Dunbar, Wisconsin P Pike River OP trapper
Pike River OP trapper P Joined: Oct 2018 Dunbar, Wisconsin	>The cabin was an enormous structure, measuring 206 feet long (62m), 102 feet wide (31m), and 72 feet high (22 meters, approximately 7 stories). A full million board feet of lumber went into it. >Its construction was said to have cost approximately $30,000 (about $950,00 today). >Most of the giant logs used in the building were selected and purchased from old-growth trees in Columbia County, Oregon, by the American lumber baron and philanthropist Simon Benson. Backstory and more photos: [One of the World’s Largest Log Cabin: The magnificent Forestry Building in Portland that was lost in a fire, 1905](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/world-largest-log-cabin-portland/)

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Pike River] #8445385 07/30/25 06:37 AM 07/30/25 06:37 AM
Joined: Jun 2010 MT (Big Sky Country) A Allan Minear trapper
Allan Minear trapper A Joined: Jun 2010 MT (Big Sky Country)	What I find the most amazing part of stories like this is the fact that all those trees were cut down with buck saws and a axe no modern day chain saws and hauled out of the woods with teams of horses . Or steam engine tractors either way it was a major undertaking ! Last edited by Allan Minear; 07/30/25 06:39 AM. You're friend along the snare line . Allan

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Allan Minear] #8445392 07/30/25 06:54 AM 07/30/25 06:54 AM
Joined: Feb 2007 New York border Cragar trapper
Cragar trapper Joined: Feb 2007 New York border	Originally Posted by Allan Minear What I find the most amazing part of stories like this is the fact that all those trees were cut down with buck saws and a axe no modern day chain saws and hauled out of the woods with teams of horses . Or steam engine tractors either way it was a major undertaking ! This. I live in New England , there are miles and miles of stone wall here. Must have taken generations of farmers and their beasts of burden. Huge amount of back breaking work. I constantly think of that when I see the stone walls here. NRA benefactor member

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Pike River] #8445405 07/30/25 07:15 AM 07/30/25 07:15 AM
Joined: Oct 2017 perry co.Pa wetdog trapper
wetdog trapper Joined: Oct 2017 perry co.Pa	I'm sure some Canadians are going to disagree.

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Pike River] #8445411 07/30/25 07:23 AM 07/30/25 07:23 AM
Joined: Feb 2015 Mn R Reaperman trapper
Reaperman trapper R Joined: Feb 2015 Mn	Impressive, but there is no way you would build it for only $950K today.

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Pike River] #8445453 07/30/25 09:05 AM 07/30/25 09:05 AM
Joined: Apr 2011 SE SD D DWC trapper
DWC trapper D Joined: Apr 2011 SE SD	The testosterone, strength and endurance levels of the average man then far exceeded what they are today.

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Allan Minear] #8445455 07/30/25 09:08 AM 07/30/25 09:08 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Minnesota 330-Trapper trapper
330-Trapper trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Minnesota	Originally Posted by Allan Minear What I find the most amazing part of stories like this is the fact that all those trees were cut down with buck saws and a axe no modern day chain saws and hauled out of the woods with teams of horses . Or steam engine tractors either way it was a major undertaking ! Amazing NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: DWC] #8445471 07/30/25 09:37 AM 07/30/25 09:37 AM
Joined: Feb 2007 New York border Cragar trapper
Cragar trapper Joined: Feb 2007 New York border	Originally Posted by DWC The testosterone, strength and endurance levels of the average man then far exceeded what they are today. X2 And the women back then were a lot tougher than a lot of some men today. NRA benefactor member

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Pike River] #8445479 07/30/25 09:57 AM 07/30/25 09:57 AM
Joined: Feb 2021 Montgomery Co. Texas Revenant trapper
Revenant trapper Joined: Feb 2021 Montgomery Co. Texas	Originally Posted by Pike River >The cabin was an enormous structure, measuring 206 feet long (62m), 102 feet wide (31m), and 72 feet high (22 meters, approximately 7 stories). A full million board feet of lumber went into it. >Most of the giant logs used in the building were selected and purchased from old-growth trees in Columbia County, Oregon, by the American lumber baron and philanthropist Simon Benson. Backstory and more photos: [One of the World’s Largest Log Cabin: The magnificent Forestry Building in Portland that was lost in a fire, 1905](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/world-largest-log-cabin-portland/) Thanks for the interesting thread and link!

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Reaperman] #8445520 07/30/25 10:48 AM 07/30/25 10:48 AM
Joined: Oct 2018 Dunbar, Wisconsin P Pike River OP trapper
Pike River OP trapper P Joined: Oct 2018 Dunbar, Wisconsin	Originally Posted by Reaperman Impressive, but there is no way you would build it for only $950K today. Today? No But that is what it cost if adjusted for inflation.

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Cragar] #8445522 07/30/25 10:48 AM 07/30/25 10:48 AM
Joined: Oct 2018 Dunbar, Wisconsin P Pike River OP trapper
Pike River OP trapper P Joined: Oct 2018 Dunbar, Wisconsin	Originally Posted by Cragar Originally Posted by DWC The testosterone, strength and endurance levels of the average man then far exceeded what they are today. X2 And the women back then were a lot tougher than a lot of some men today. Heck....they were tougher than many men were back then.

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Allan Minear] #8445944 07/30/25 11:32 PM 07/30/25 11:32 PM
Joined: Feb 2007 Washington State H humptulips trapper
humptulips trapper H Joined: Feb 2007 Washington State	Originally Posted by Allan Minear What I find the most amazing part of stories like this is the fact that all those trees were cut down with buck saws and a axe no modern day chain saws and hauled out of the woods with teams of horses . Or steam engine tractors either way it was a major undertaking ! Alan, not horses, bull teams were the power on the coast. 1905 could have been steam, kind of a transitional time frame.

Re: Worlds Largest Log Cabin [Re: Pike River] #8445954 Yesterday at 12:05 AM Yesterday at 12:05 AM
Joined: Jun 2010 MT (Big Sky Country) A Allan Minear trapper
Allan Minear trapper A Joined: Jun 2010 MT (Big Sky Country)	I had wondered about that , I do know for a fact that my Grandfather and Great Grandfather skid logs out with a team of horses in the Colville Wash area there were logs they couldn't move ! Those logs were skidded out in the last 25 years from what I learned from my cousins there . Sometime I hope to figure out how to post pictures on here and that will be some of the first I'll post ! You're friend along the snare line . Allan

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