Just finished a BIG project.........

I've been banging on this thing for a year and a half.

Five thousand square feet dovetail log cabin,full basement...........

Here's the great room ceiling.....

Its a wee bit bigger than mine.:jawdrop: 5000 sq ft isn't exactly a cabin. Somebody had DEEP pockets.

The wall logs appear to be 6"x12" T&G flat inside and out. Is that correct?

I'll speculate that the dormers are in bathrooms by the looks of the glass block "windows". How wide are the dormers, and is that assumption correct?

What are the rough dimensions of the house? 32'x80'?

Nice, I like the peaked roof in the greatroom with the glass.

excess650 said:

Its a wee bit bigger than mine.:jawdrop: 5000 sq ft isn't exactly a cabin. Somebody had DEEP pockets.

The wall logs appear to be 6"x12" T&G flat inside and out. Is that correct?

I'll speculate that the dormers are in bathrooms by the looks of the glass block "windows". How wide are the dormers, and is that assumption correct?

What are the rough dimensions of the house? 32'x80'?

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Yes they are 6X12 T+G white pine logs,flat inside and out.

You guessed right about the third floor bathroom placement,they are 8X12

The house has a busy foot print with all the offsets....the longest dimensions are 59X39 (these dimensions are in imperial feet BTW)

It sure is nice to get to the end of this one.........

Stacking the logs last year..............

freehandslabber said:

Stacking the logs last year..............

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I am VERY, very impressed.

Now I need to get busy with my sawmill....and....

Kevin

Beautiful! Great Job. Thanks for sharing your pics.

Best wishes,
Bob

Another from the west side while stacking the logs.......

Jacks and valleys..........

Ready for ridge beams....

Flying in the first ridges....

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Jacks and valleys..........

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This I really like, a hand framed roof. Nice.

Thanks,there's over 200 pieces to the timber portion of the ceiling.

Here's another pic of crane day....................

That's Beautiful!!!

Wow... My brain is reeling just imagining all the math and engineering involved in that. Nice job, man. That is one trade I'd like to at least try out as a hobby, if not turn it semi-pro eventually. Looks like a lot of fun.

Thanks,Brad........Here's a pic of the first main rafters flying in.

It all seemed to come down to this one day,spent two weeks cutting out the timbers and then got this crane operator to come out one day for a thousand bucks.....worth every penny.

The biggest ridges are 6X12 and 28 feet long....we estimated their weight somewhere around 900 lb's

That looks like pine. If so, I wouldn't doubt that weight estimate. I know the 4"X16"X20' pieces I cut for my deck last summer were barely movable all by myself.


A couple months ago a sawyer job came up at a local timber-frame company. I'm pretty sure I would've been a contender since I was previously a sawyer at a sawmill, and also hold a AA lumber grading ticket and have seven years' experience at that. The problem was that they are located over an hour's highway driving from where I live, and the 125-odd miles on the road each day would've taken my monthly fuel bill from ~$100 to between $500-700 or more, and there was no way I could swing that with the pay rate and my current bills.

Here's a pic of her all framed out....

Yea,all pine....eastern white and southern yellow.

Sorry to hear that job was out of reach,Brad.....would have been a shweet gig.I worked as a faller for five years and than I went right into finish product woodworking.....I'd like to run a real mill for a while.....maybe someday.

900 sounds kinda high to me, that would be heavier then water.. Probably more like 500-600 . I just put up a 6"x12.5"x 17' Doug Fir (air dried for 6 months) header, my BIL and I carried it and set it, it weighed maybe 300.