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General => Owner-Builder Projects => Topic started by: heep70 on May 07, 2009, 02:50:03 PM

Title: 26' X 30' 1 1/2 loft handcrafted log cabin, Chesaw WA
Post by: heep70 on May 07, 2009, 02:50:03 PM
Here in my log cabin that I have been building for a thousand years now.  Nope, just kidding.  It has been a long time build thou.  Not in a huge hurry and it is 320 miles away from me.  Right now it is just a shell with a roof besides the loft floor and back door.  It is a one and a half loft butt method log cabin.  The logs I fell, drug, peeled and stacked every log from my property.  This summer the base floor, windows and one more of the doors will go in.  I am also going to chink it with mortor nothin fancy.  I will before I chink hand stuff the spaces between the logs with fiberglass insulation and the tack down aluminum lath to hold the mortor.  I will get something going soon for pics.  It has been fun and at the same time nerve racking build.  I am ready to get it done and stay in it.  I must give a special thanks to all my friends and family for the generious amounts of help they have provided.

Enjoy.   8)

This is the side/front of the cabin.  The log about midway up on the side is where the loft floor deck will be along with a door and a window.  The front will have a resest porch and the porch will also stretch down the front of the cabin.

Title: Re: 26' X 30' 1 1/2 loft handcrafted log cabin, Chesaw WA
Post by: Alasdair on May 07, 2009, 04:12:32 PM
Awesome job Heep! Looking forward to seeing more, :D
Al
Title: Re: 26' X 30' 1 1/2 loft handcrafted log cabin, Chesaw WA
Post by: MountainDon on May 07, 2009, 04:47:38 PM
How long did it take to get that far?

Title: Re: 26' X 30' 1 1/2 loft handcrafted log cabin, Chesaw WA
Post by: apaknad on May 08, 2009, 09:08:19 AM
great work heep. don't forget to invite us to the house warming party. ;D
Title: Re: 26' X 30' 1 1/2 loft handcrafted log cabin, Chesaw WA
Post by: heep70 on May 08, 2009, 10:28:15 AM
A chinking party is what I need to do  d*


It has taken me a long time to do this.  It has never been a job or a high priority for me.  Just sorta a fun goal and it is also 320 miles away.  These past three seasons I have stepped up the pace a bit because of raising fuel costs and my bones are getting tired and wanna see what it is like to relax in it.  I real don't have alot to do to get it sealed in, I should (I hope) get that all done this summer except for the actual chinking.  I will get the fiberglass and most of the wire done before the snow flies again.  Oh, the elevation is 5,000' so I only get to work on it when it isn't buried in snow.  This winter I should be able to pack in and work on the inside stuff with a wood stove to keep me warm.

I bought the land I think back in 88" and I beleive I started in 92"  ???
Title: Re: 26' X 30' 1 1/2 loft handcrafted log cabin, Chesaw WA
Post by: heep70 on July 26, 2010, 03:23:23 PM
Been awhile since I have been here  ???.  All the windows are in, doors are in and some furnishing.  Propane cook stove, wood stove and some furniture.  I am headed up there for 11 days to do the mortor in between the logs at the end of July.  Hoping to get it all done(mortor).  Enjoy