{"id":14097,"date":"2014-03-03T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2014-01-21T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:38:41","slug":"the-owner-built-log-house-log-construction-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-owner-built-log-house-log-construction-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Owner-Built Log House *  Log Construction Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1554077907\/cooltools-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/01\/owner-built.jpg\" alt=\"owner-built\" width=\"213\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14098\" \/><\/a>Log homes are fashionable. You can order one pre-manufactured from a catalog. Or you can make your own crude log shell for under $5,000 (see the previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/how-to-build-this-log-cabin-for-3000\/\">How to Build This Log Cabin for $3,000<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Or you can use the system featured in these books to make a log home so finely crafted that it is more like living in a gigantic piece of dove-tailed furniture. Called scribed-fit, this method produces handcrafted joints thinner than a piece of paper. You won&#8217;t save any money this way, but you&#8217;ll live in hand-made shelter of utmost craftsmanship. That joy can be worth the trouble.<\/p>\n<p>And trouble it is. Building with logs this way is similar to post-and-beam construction: the scale and details are beyond a single individual. You need a team, and you should try something small first. Your path is made much easier by either of these two books.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Owner-Built Log House<\/em> is geared to the dedicated individual willing to do as much as this hard work as they can themselves, from peeling logs, to hoisting them using pulleys, to carving notches and chinking. It presents the task of building a log house as part construction project and part lifestyle &#8212; since it will consume your life. Remember, a shell of a house is only a fraction of the work. This guide is good about detailing the ways to finish it off, and the tricks need to say, get wiring in the logs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0971573603\/cooltools-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/01\/log.jpg\" alt=\"log\" width=\"196\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14099\" \/><\/a>At the highest end of quality is <em>Log Construction Manual<\/em>, the Ferrari of log homes. These aren&#8217;t houses as much as wooden jewel boxes. Most guides are based on the personal experience of the author building their own house (see above); this one is based on the author&#8217;s experience teaching thousands of others to build theirs. You get a comprehensive course, laying out the steps, the logic of the steps, and much hard-earned wisdom anticipating your problems as you learn how to scribe-fit logs into a house. But to be honest, the precision and energy needed to build this way demands you hire contractor help. You&#8217;ll probably end up working alongside the pros, perhaps teaching them some new notching skills.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, building a fitted-log cabin is like building a wooden boat in your backyard. Many will begin, few will finish on their own. The magnitude of this quest should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium log fitting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14109,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions\/14109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}