Making a Cabin out of Spuce

[brookpederson]

Some pics of mostly spruce and a couple pine 8"x 8"s we milled today. Plan to build a cabin out of all of them, getting close to 19 0 of them, 8' to 14' lengths. Running out of room to store them all View attachment 206892View attachment 206893View attachment 206894

 

[deeker]

Great pics!!!

Looks like a log of cedar too??

Cutting on a CSM or bandsaw?

Kevin

(test at 0630hrs)

 

[820wards]

Some pics of mostly spruce and a couple pine 8"x 8"s we milled today. Plan to build a cabin out of all of them, getting close to 19 0 of them, 8' to 14' lengths. Running out of room to store them all View attachment 206892View attachment 206893View attachment 206894

Nice looking logs there.

jerry-

 

[thechknhwk]

Your chain is loose and your saw is too small Nice timbers, where's the mill pics?

 

[betterbuilt]

Nice beams.

What are your plans on connection? Are you just stacking them and driving rods or are you planning on any type tongue and grove horizontally along the beams? I guess it doesn't matter what you do your gonna need some type of chinking in the seams.

Edit: Maybe I read that wrong and your making a post and beam structure. I might have just thought log cabin because the way you have them pushed together. Anyhow. What type of structure are you building?

 

[brookpederson]

Cutting on a Timber King 1220, nothing special accept extra track to cut up to 24'. I'll post a pic of a mock build of our cabin plans we did out of 1"x1" s. To see what we want to do and show the county for a building permit. It will be built with notch and stack style, then *****. If you look at the picture it will look like a swiss cross from above, we did this because we can't handle anything longer than 14' and most are 8' to 10'. Each little wing will be 8' x 10', making the center room 10' x 10' w/ a loft in the center room. Hope that explains it ok, we have done a small version already measuring 12' by 14' with a little 4 by 8 sleeping nook made out of ash timbers.
P.S. When i say we i am referring to my father and myself. I'll update this as we go along, not planing to start the actual build until next summer.View attachment 207016View attachment 207017

 

[thechknhwk]

Awesome plans, now learn how to post your own pics in the thread:chicken: Just giving you grief...

 

[brookpederson]

I know I need to figure that posting picture thing out. How do you do that by the way? Facebook you post a picture and it shows up as a picture why can't they do that here?
Anyways, going to get a building permit this week, I wish I didn't need one but can't do much about it.:msp_mad:

 

[gink595]

Very cool, what is your plans for the roof line, hip and valley all the way around?

 

[betterbuilt]

I know I need to figure that posting picture thing out. How do you do that by the way? Facebook you post a picture and it shows up as a picture why can't they do that here?
Anyways, going to get a building permit this week, I wish I didn't need one but can't do much about it.:msp_mad:

When posting a picture you have to use the button with the tree in it. It takes a few minutes but you'll get it.

 

[Yooperforeman]

View attachment 207286That's awesome! you'll have fun with that project.I built a log cabin(check it out in the picture forum).I used spruce 8x8's for the support beams.If I had enough spruce trees
I would have made the whole cabin out of square spruce timbers.
keep us updated

 

[Yooperforeman]

I need to figure out the picture posting thing too! It didn't work that time either.:msp_confused:

 

[betterbuilt]

I need to figure out the picture posting thing too! It didn't work that time either.:msp_confused:

Its really easy. I just opened your pic in another tab. I copyed the url up at the top. I opened a reply to thread thingy. Then I clicked on the tree symbol. Then it has two tabs From computer/ and from url. Click on url. Paste the url into the slot. Uncheck the box and hit ok. Thats it.

 

[Yooperforeman]

 

[Yooperforeman]

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trying again

 

[Yooperforeman]

again

 

[brookpederson]

Here i'll try a video of us stacking and stickering the cants. A little hard to get 14 foot timbers through a 10 foot door, but it worked:msp_thumbup: [video=youtube_share;o-DFe9Lphqw]http://youtu.be/o-DFe9Lphqw[/video]

 

[brookpederson]

Just thought i would do a little update on this thread. I wish there was a better option on updating stuff like this, i don't want to start a new thread but it's always a little weird dragging up old threads. But what the hell

Finally getting along on this project of ours and for any of you who have done a cabin are sure to know it's a labor of love or a love of labor, depending on which way you look at it.

We did a block foundation, and the reason for all the corners and short logs(nothing over 14'') is that in the baren farm country nuthin grows very tall. But almost every timber was reclaimed from a HO yard or some type of removal we did. Ya gotta love free logs.
foundation has a lip 1 block down to put joists on
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and no these are not water shedding notches, so i don't want to hear about it K. We are going to put a very large roof w/ plenty of overhang.
log and a sawmill
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[Jim Timber]

That's looking really good!

Where in MN are ya?

 

[WidowMaker1]

looking awesome !