Log cabin pics

Some of you folks likely built your own log cabin or maybe you bought one. I'd love to see some pics if you have any you're willing to post.

Sorry Posco couldn't resist.....

I put a green metal roof on mine.

That metal roofing is some nice.One of my future projects.

Covid this spring messed up my plans to drop and skin he remaining logs I needed to finish it. Still made the best of it for deer camp this year.

My camp near Snow Shoe, Pa. Yellow pine log sided. cafe hampstead website

^ Ain't no roughing it in that shack! That is better then most full time home for most. Beautiful!!!

Awesome

Trapping camp on the Mattagami River-about 25 years ago.

Same cabin a few years ago.

All very nice

I've built 8 or 10 of 'em, every one a bit different. Accompanying photo is most recent that is my wife's she-shed that she and I put together together. No logs longer than 8' because USFS won't let me pull out anything longer under my firewood permit, thus lotta twists and turns. This one is only 192 square feet, but serves the purpose. I have a small sawmill, so the logs are two-sided. Foundation is actually cinder block, but faced with local rock that we pick up.




A couple years earlier, we put up a similar building that is our steam bath. The two sit side-by-side, pretty much.

No kidding, pike rivers is a step up from my full time home! Lol

Wow! Those are nice! Any pics of the inside of the steam bath Gulo?

Trapset -

No, man. Sorry. I might try for a couple tomorrow. Basically a short (4') built-in red cedar bench on one side, and an 8-foot built-in cedar bench on the other for laying down on. Building is only 7 X 10 feet, plus the porch. Riser benches for both seats that are stored under the main benches to get the bather up another foot into the really hot air. We use the banya (steam bath) twice weekly in the winter, but rarely in the summer. I would have a hard time living without a wood-fired steam bath house. This is the third one I've built (two others in Alaska).

Jack

Thanks, I've been kicking around building one. I might start a new thread so it doesnt mess up Poscos.

Trapping camp on the North Driftwood river-a couple years ago.

Trapline cabin on Christmas eve



Homestead cabin

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Trapline cabin on Christmas eve



At noon....

^ on the Stony River in Alaska. A great cabin, you are my hero.

Got a photo of it before the addition?

nice guys i built one in1992 for my dads retirement , was a lot of up keep on a log camp ,sold it last year , Bruce from Maine came over one year and stay there with his wife to hunt

Wrapping up some work on the sugar shack...hope to use cord wood construction on another project.

Won't bother me a bit if the thread takes a different direction, they almost always do. Great looking cabins posted up. I like the cordwood cabin, I came very close to building one of those. That might make for a great addition as an arctic entry.

An old log cabin me and some buds stayed in on a spring bear hunt. You can see we were a little early for the bears to be poking out. This pic was taken forty years ago up the Placer River just south of Anchorage.

Made a great score on eBay. I was looking at a reproduction door latch to keep things as rustic as I could on my cabin. I had a door built as some of you may have seen and went casting about to find an old thumb latch to go along with it. I found a site that made hand forged hinges and latches and was about to pull the trigger on it when eBay crossed my mind. Sure enough, I found just what I was looking for at a third the price and it's a period piece of hardware. One small victory for mankind. I'm tickled pink. Now I need to find some screws.

The stackwood looks nice.
Is it hard to do to make it look smooth like that?

I've built more than I can really remember. Over 20 for sure. Have one more planned, then hope to never build another.

Nice looking work, yukon. Did you use a drawknife or a bark spud to peel your logs? I used a bark spud.

here's a latch I made from a elk antler and made the iron parts in the smithy.

Great idea on the antler and I like your door latch. Very nice.

SUPER COOL

If someone will pm me there phone # I will text them som pictures of my 2 story 4 room log cabin that was build around 1830

Man, some beautiful builds. Yukon that is really nice!

In the early days I used a drawknife to peel the logs, then again to take the cambium layer off. Then I got smart and bought a curved shoe power planer. Still used the drawknife to peel the bark, but the planer made the rest easier.

Looks like you milled your logs top and bottom? I did on mine. My long wall is thirty feet so I was dealing with logs thirty-six feet long all by myself. I used a gin pole to get the logs up. I used block and tackle which gave me that four to one advantage. I still had to enlist my tractor at times.

I made this bark spud from some barn junk. works well

I just checked my gallery on my phone. Apparently I haven't taken any good pictures of the cabin since the new phone. I will take some and forward them along hopefully this afternoon when I make it home.

Looks a lot like the one I have except mine has a wood handle. What species of tree did you guys use? I used spruce and fir but if I were to do it again I'd use tamarack.

Yes, please do we all would like to see them.

Looks like you milled your logs top and bottom? I did on mine. My long wall is thirty feet so I was dealing with logs thirty-six feet long all by myself. I used a gin pole to get the logs up. I used block and tackle which gave me that four to one advantage. I still had to enlist my tractor at times.

I've only used two sided logs on one building, ( not pictured) everything else has been full handscribed. Handling logs alone is a ton of work. The vast majority of the cabins I've built were in remote locations. I didnt have any motorized equipment except a boat, and sometimes a quad. Learned to use pulleys to get that advantage.

Yep, double block and tackle and gin gin poles can do a lot of work. Rigging is a mans best friend at all times.

I bought two sets of B&T off eBay and they are incredibly well made. Anodized housing and the rope is rated at something ridiculous like 10,000 pounds. I went with 100' of rope, should have gone with 200'.

I have mostly balsam fir, I really didn't want to use it but it's what I had, Good overhangs and I keep it treated

What is the difference between a banya and a sauna? My dear wife is Finn, 100%, and wants me to build her a sauna next summer out of spruce.

Maybe some of you guys can help me find information on scribing and cutting saddle notches or dovetails when building either an octagonal or hexagonal log building like this one? I think I would prefer dovetails.
I basically want to duplicate it.

The logs were all cut very close to 20 inches...a bit challenging to make a curved wall. My wife helped with the joint pointing. Stripping wood was a pain because the ash trees were not cut at the proper time.

Courtesy of Providence. Gorgeous.

Man! That is absolutely gorgeous! I admire things that are built to last. That building fits the bill.

Jack

Nice place

Get the book " building the alaskan log home." Best book on log building Ive ever seen. Everything you need to know is in it.

One of the fire places is deeper and inside the cabin. On the left side the chimney is external and the fire place is not as deep. The internal side heats the masonry and the thermal mass helps retain the heat even to a small degree upstairs.
The shallow fireplace with external/through the wall chimney was more for summer cooking and to keep it cooler.
At least that's my theory.

Beautiful !!! Looks like that two story is built strong and well built. Very nice cabins everyone.

It needs some serious TLC some logs on the back are in bad shape.

I'm currently debating if I can afford to fix it and build on to the back put in septic and build a barn. Then I would move into it.

Since I'm not buying any of that ground that borders on the back of the farm it is a realistic possibility.

It would be nice it sits 300 yards back off the road and electricity is there and water will be before June.

Another large expense would be the gravel across the pasture .