Making a Cabin out of Spuce

[Yooperforeman]

Nice job! looks like fun. Did you get any splitting in those timbers? Mine split during air drying,then when it came to stacking them,the splitting made it difficult,we had to shim as we went to keep the wall plumb.

 

[brookpederson]

That's looking really good!

Where in MN are ya?

Montevideo, MN

 

[brookpederson]

Nice job! looks like fun. Did you get any splitting in those timbers? Mine split during air drying,then when it came to stacking them,the splitting made it difficult,we had to shim as we went to keep the wall plumb.

Thanks
Most dried good especially the red cedar ones. The ones that Split bad or twist I put back on the mill for 6'' X 6''s for the loft area.
This is actually the second cabin that i have built like this. The first was a little 12' by 12' in the minnesota river bottoms. It has been through 5 floods now, the worst coming up right under the eves. I'll try to find a picture and post it of us canoeing in and standing on the roof w/ all the water around it. LoL we had to cable it down too the cement slab it was sitting on so it wouldn't float away:bang:.
That one we constructed out of ash logs we cut and stacked green right out of the woods. Its a huntin shack w/ asleeping nook and it only took the bunch of us a month to throw it up. This one is an expansion on the idea and making it quit abit bigger and not in the flood plain.