a friend needs info on building a cabin from scratch like the early settlers did.....any takers?

-- paul a coleman (wormfarmerone@yahoo.com), August 25, 2001

Answers

FOXFIRE books,, has it in detail,,, even the different corners. Or the book,, BUILDING LOG CABINS, is another good one

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), August 25, 2001.

For sure FoxFire series. you might find them at (half.com) or (abe.com)for a good price. Or maybe one of the good fellow countrysiders here might have them & copy the pages for you and send them your way.

-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), August 25, 2001.

Check the library for FoxFire books and cabin building books.

-- Kenneth in N.C. (wizardsplace13@hotmail.com), August 25, 2001.

Bradford Angier wrote a book in the 50's, "Builing a Log Cabin in the woods" check library, it gives plans for different style cabins from a 8x12 trappers cabin on up.

-- hendo (redgate@echoweb.net), August 26, 2001.

Jackie Clay is doing a three-part series on building a log cabin in Backwoods Home magazine. part 2 came out in the newest issue. It might be a little fancy but it has a lot of good common sense ideas!

Their web site is www.backwoodshome.com

-- Suzy in Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), August 26, 2001.

Two more books with traditional cabin designs is the reprinted "Shacks, Shanties and Lean-To's"(?), by D. C. Beard and Horace Kephart's book, whose name I cannot recollect right now, but is reprinted by the Tennessee Press. LOTS of good ideas, and both are early 20th century so are designed for on site construction. Fur- Fish & Game magazine has the A.R. Harding collection in its pages, where there are several pamphlets (60 - 200 pp.) detailing trapping and land cruising; other good choices.

-- j. r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), August 28, 2001.

Hi Paul;

We built our log cabin from scratch without the help of any books. First we cut the trees off our own land and hired a portable sawmill to saw them up into 6 x 6's. We have a cement foundation and bolted the first row down. The first row is 6 x 8's then each row was secured by using 12 spikes evenly spaced. Our corners are the butt and pass method. Two edges of each 6 x 6 was rounded off with a skil saw.

-- Paul and Alyson Rung (arung@earthlink.net), August 29, 2001.