sawing one up myself, aromatic cedar logs 6 inches thick and about 9 inches wide. 12 by 18' or therabouts anyone interested, it will be for sale/ you move it. stsill got a bunch of logs to saw up 18 to 24' long.only about 5 coarses high right now.

I was out to Got Furs cabin today with him. What an awesome job he has done. Hard to believe one man can do all of this labor by himself. The place is AWESOME.

Building just to sell?

Pics?

had all of these nice long straight cedar logs, so what else was I to do, especialy since I just added a 12' extention to my mill. now I can cut up to 32'. I just finished my brothers timberframe which had some massive 12" x 16" X 28'oak timbers in it.

got a number I can send you one. mine is 3142837186.

MIne would be great if someone had time to sand the inside walls to get the color back and do the outside of the logs. I have one of the jointer heads that go on the end of a chainsaw. It gives a handhewd look to the logs and on cedar around knots brings out the red. I have done a lot of that for mantels for different builders in the st. Louis area. I wish I had the back to do the whole outside of the cabin like that. THat job would be for a youngster.

I sent a pm I appreciate it I may build a couple more in time and am always looking for new ideas and inspiration from others projects.

Well we haven't been able to get as much done the last few days with the holiday and cold weather spent a lot of time filling wood stoves and spending time with family and friends. We did make it out to do a little work. I did manage to get out and shoot a couple videos.
I got the wall mount heater installed and plumbed with work and the farm its been tough to keep the temp up in the cabin with only tending it two or three times a day when farm work needs to get done. Most nights I've been able to get out about 9 and work for 2-3 hours and then back out 6-6:30 to get the stove stocked up and putts a little before heading to work.

I'll try to get some more pictures posted as well.





Thanks for the intrest any questions feel free to post or pm and I'll do the best I can and try to keep updating as things go.

Quite an accomplishment. My dad just purchased a band sawmill so this thread was of special interest to me.

I haven't been able to do much the last couple weeks my buddy bob has been sick and the cold weather has pretty well kept me tending stoves and such. I had to get a new phone and hopefully will work better for posting pictures and video.

For the guys and gals that aren't in to the YouTube I will try to post pictures as well as videos in the future




This is the Dyna Glo 30,000 btu wall mount heater I finished installing at the cabin over the Christmas weekend I plumbed it out side to a 100lb Lp tank with a two stage regulator. So far it seems to work good with the cold weather its a nice supplement to the wood stove when I'm unable to be out there all the time. I did notice fuel consumption is pretty high with the heater on all the time but with the temp a couple air leaks to shore up and a couple changes to the heater I think I can get it dialed in.





These are a couple pictures of the wood stove set up we have. I switched to this stove from the original this is a Wood Pro 2000. The original stove which I bought was shop built and put off a lot of heat and but it was difficult to control draft had no fire brick and didn't hold a fire well so we upgraded to this one. I had to do some modification to the new one to make it draft and not choke the fire out. I will get better more in-depth pictures of the modification when the stove is cooled down. Basically it was cutting a small hole above the draft door to allow additional air into the fire box. The air flow can still be regulated and I can still get close to 15 hours burn with good wood.

The chimney set up is for mounting on the outside of the building I just mounted it inside and ran it through the roof that way I can take the clean out off and sweep it from inside. If you still have some heat coming off the stove or a real low fire the updraft will carry the dust and fines up the chimney and you don't get much at all for dust and such inside. So far this setup has worked well with a 7-12 steel roof I'm not climbing it in the winter and with log walls and 24 in overhang on the gable end running the pipe up the outside really isn't practical and wouldn't be very eye appealing.

Next project is getting a fan to circulate warm air from upstairs down. The some inside mortar and hardwood floors and slate tile

This is a couple of pictures of the modification I made to the Wood Pro2000 woodstove. I removed all the fire brick and the gasification tubes for the secondary burn in order to gain enough clearance to get the drill and 2 inch hole saw in the fire box. The hole was larger than what is needed that's why when I put the fire brick back in I cut the brick to cover up half the hole. The hole is cut just in front of the ash plug which I don't use anyway the hole is still directly over the ash pan and can still be controlled by the sliding damper as seen in the second picture.





The second picture is looking in from the ash pan compartment you can see the ash plug in the bottom right and the sliding draft door to the upper left of the hole I cut. With the door being able to close off the draft and the ability to let the ash fall through the fldraft hole in to the ash pan it has been a great fix. From the factory it was difficult to get the stove to draft well enough to throw good heat.





The video may give a better idea of the modification

That is an amazing build. I had forgotten about this thread. And I pee and moan when I have to build a doghouse.

So we got out to the cabin this afternoon got a little work done and addressed our air circulation problem I will take some pictures when I get back out there tonight.

While I was out there I was able to finish up the bobcat and grouse mount and get the limb mounted to the wall.



I tried to scribe the limb onto a wall log with a large section of live edge to make it appear to be part of the log not just mounted to a flat wall. In the long run I may take the limb back down and lightly sand it to lighten to appearance and better blend it with the wall logs.



I didn't epoxy the grouse to the limb as many mounts are I figure with it being up high I'm not real concerned about it going anywhere and I can just pick it off the limb when I need to clean it.



The otter that is sitting below the bobcat will be the next project we'll get that mounted above the tv. I have a few more things to get hung up and out of the way and we'll get to working on flooring and such.

This is a video we made while getting the limb put up for the grouse to sit on in front of the Bob cat.




Next project will be getting a limb scribes to the support post that is behind the television and get the otter mount sitting on that. Then we'll move on to making a bracket to hang the bear trap on the wall. Once we get some of these things up on the walls and out of the way we'll be able to get back to working on the cabin it's self.

Thanks for the interest
Rick.

Have you considered a outside air intake kit for your woodstove? Any air being evacuated from the structure through your chimney has to be made up from air reentering your building either through an air intake or it's going to be pulled in through cracks and crevices. Makes for drafty window and door openings.

Very simple to do.

I have a fresh air intake coming in the back of the stove that goes through the floor. It does indeed make a world of difference and is a great tip for anybody that doesn't have that set up.

I got out to the cabin the other day was able to get the otter mount put up. I scibed a limb to the support post in the cabin to come out over the tv.



I beveled the limb and had it come slightly off one side to hide the fasteners on the other.



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I tried to position the limb out in front of the television and tipped down slightly to better see from down stairs as well as upstairs.



Thanks for the intrest

So I had a problem with a cold air barrier on the floor of the cabin from about knee level down. I did consider putting in a cieling fan but didn't want the continual draw on the battery bank and also wanted something with a little more flexibility. After a little looking around I found a Dewalt 20 volt cordless or corded 7 in variable speed fan paired with a 20 volt 6 amp hours battery I can run the fan on medium speed for about 24 hours. With two batteries I can charge one during the day when the sun is out and swap them out in the evening.



Nice part with the fan it has a bunch of mounting options there are pull out brackets on the back to hang off dimensional lumber which works will with the 2x6 railing. There is also a threaded metal boss on the bottom as well as key hole slots so there is a bunch of ways you can mount it. Just something to consider if you need air circulation especially if you already have 20 volt dewalt tools.

Well I got the last of the stuff hung up on the wall and out of the way. Getting the bear trap hung the way I wanted was a little bit of a challenge. I came up with a square u-bolt from a trailer or helper spring.




I drilled 1/2 holes in the wall angled back a about 30 degrees so the u bolt would slide in nicely. The threads on the end couples with the trap spring wanting to spread the u-bolt locked it in and holds it nicely.



Now that we got everything up out of the way we can get back to working on the actual cabin.