The Log Building Construction Manual

Building your own log home from your design is challenging and can be very rewarding. Building a solid home with logs is something that requires proper technical knowledge, woodworking skills, and a solid understanding of what must be done. This means that instructive manuals must be clearly written and have detailed technical instructions with lots of pictures and clear detailed illustrations. And on this page we have described an excellent textbook and working manual that will meets these requirements and will help you to design, work and construct all the log parts of your log home.
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The Log Building Construction Manual

Written by Robert Chambers, professional log home builder and workshop instructor. He also co-authored of Log Building Standards:the building code for hand-crafted, scribe-fit log homes. This working textbook is loaded with practical how-to information for the beginner and for the the experienced log home builder. Based on 16 years of teaching the craft of log building and over 18 years of log building.
The 260 pages includes over 200 B/W photos and detailed drawings.

The Construction Manual Includes:

• Trees: finding, choosing, and buying good building logs. How much bow is OK?, what about taper?, dry or green?, spiral grain?, pine, spruce?
• Building log walls: scribing and notching, professional tricks of the trade, keeping walls level, door headers, plate logs, floor joists.
• Cutting notches and groves: learn how to cut the way the pro's do it, it is safer and much easier.
• Sill log layout:getting the building started right. All floor plans, including hexagons, and building with an odd-number of walls. The most difficult layouts made easy. Available in NO other book, magazine, or video!
• Selecting the next log: which log should you use next to stay out of notching trouble? The author's Selection System is fool proof, easy to use, and works with virtually ALL logs. Available in NO other book, magazine, or video!
• Your project: financing, organizing the work, getting the permits, and more. Lot of good ideas to save you money!
• Roof systems: plate logs, how to lay out and build, the best step-by-step instructions anywhere!
• Log Trusses; made from full-round logs: the only step-by-step instructions available anywhere. Available in NO other book, magazine, or video!
• Tools: where to buy and what to get, including tool reviewed by brand names. what works and what doesn't. No holds barred.
• Books and magazines: recommendations and reviews on where to get more information.
• Designers and engineers: design help for your project, with names and phone numbers of log-saavy engineers, architects, and designers.
• Workshops: how and where to get hands-on training.
• Log Building Standards: the building code for hand-crafted log homes.
• index: makes it easy to find what you are looking for.
• And much more...including detailed photos and drawings, log valley rafters, cutting notches, simple and difficult sill log layouts.