vertical log cabin picture

[Amanda_931]

cute little Alaskan vertical log cabin posted in Weather Underground today.

I like vertical log cabins.  I do kind of wonder why they have their corners sitting right on the foundation, but the others on a log sill.  And I don't see any chinking.

http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=Judy&number=218&album_id=107&thumbstart=0&gallery=CURRWEATHER#slideanchor

[tjm73]

Pretty neat.  Wonder what the floorplan is like.  I'v enever seen a verticle log cabin before.

[David Wolff(Guest)]

Amanda, didn't you build a vertical log cabin?  How is the racking strength of the vertical walls?  I ask this because I like the concept but I've noticed some older ones in my area that have walls that are leaning a bit now that they're approaching 50yrs or so.  Did you do anything to help this problem or is the nature of this design stronger than it appears?  Maybe the ones I see are leaning are poorly built.  Thanks.

[jraabe]

That's a nice little building. I see it is actually a picnic shelter with what looks like a screened in secton on the front. I like the steep hip roof with wide overhangs.

For a live-in building or cabin it could be built as an insulated and well braced frame building with log siding. That would be more easily wired insulated and plumbed.

Here is more info on vertical log structures from pervious threads on this site.

http://www.countryplans.com/bbs/messages/3620.html

[Jimmy_Cason]

This is link from the thread John posted..

Simply amazing!

Determined woman builds
distinctive vertical log studio

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ainsworth27.html

[tjm73]

This is link from the thread John posted..

Simply amazing!

Determined woman builds
distinctive vertical log studio

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ainsworth27.html

I like how she used the cableing to keep the roof forces contained so she didn't need a center support beam.

[jraabe]

Determined? Indeed she was!

The wonderful log structure she built burned to the ground. What did she do? Built another one!

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ainsworth38.html

[Amanda_931]

Yes, and it's still not finished.  So I should have said I wonder why THAT ONE in the picture has the log sill under all but the corners.  We didn't, the plans we used didn't.

Three logs in the corners--as big as we had--seemed like they were extremely sturdy.  Put together with landscape screws, into the sill plate and then to each other, nailed from the top plate.

Might should have used some, at least, lag bolts or 20d nails as the landscape screws could be brittle.

Roof supported on external poles--barn is around 32 feet long, log room only about 12, ceiling joists tied into the roof and pole structure.

[jraabe]

Amanda:

The way I read that picture is that the whole structure is built on a concrete perimeter foundation with a PT sill all the way around.

The big corner logs bear directly on the sill, and between them a log sill was placed to (notch in?) the smaller infill vertical logs. I expect there is a matching top one we can't see.

[Amanda_931]

There is a matching top log, if you look quite carefully.

But they haven't notched the logs in so that there is a smooth line between the vertical logs and the horizontal ones.