How Can I Build A Decent Sized, Structurally Sound Cabin Without Stacking And Notching Logs Endlessly ?
Sep.29, 2009 in
chalet
My friend and I want to build a small dwelling cabin style, very basic. We don’t want to go through all the work of cuting dozens of trees and skinning them to get it done, then notching endlessly. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
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September 29th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
if you are flat broke and you want this you will have to invest your labor to accomplish any thing.
first invest in thinking this project through from the ground up.
for example it is not really necessary to ’skin’ the logs.
looks better perhaps and would make for less chinking in the future, but to get in out of the weather raw logs will stack as well as prepared ones.
think out side of the box.
two guys bring a synergy into the project.
with the timber available and the tools you two should be able to erect a water tight structure from local materials in less than a month.
and that would be only working 4-6 hrs a day.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
This is a serious answer:
Buy a kit.
The company that sells the kit will have done all of the felling, skinning, and notching for you. You can probably get the kit delivered very close to your proposed constructions site.
A very small, very basic cabin can be had for around $10K
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September 29th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I would build the cabin with 2×4 construction, then put “log-like” siding inside and out. You can even “chink” the siding, and nobody will know the difference other than you.
A lot of kits use this construction too. But if you insist on real logs, I also suggest a kit that can be easily assembled on your site.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Dude my suggestion would be, since you’re young god bless both of you, lazy plus flat broke, wait a few days and something else will come along to amuse your young easily sidetracked minds to the point that you’d have forgotten the notion that you could build anything for little cost and without working hard! Or in words you young dudes could appreciate GET OVER IT! Because it’s not going to happen.