In the last couple of entries, we’ve covered a range of hand tools used to peel and prep logs to use in log cabin building. This time, we’ll look at some mechanical or power methods to do this job.

In this episode, we raise 4 more logs and discover an efficient notching technique using a bowsaw instead of an axe, optimizing the number of cuts needed. The tiny log cabin project aims to build ...

Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...

Designing a practical and usable log cabin isn’t easy. The planning stage of a log cabin build is the single most important stage. Spend enough time on this stage and your build will be successful.

At the age of 81, Charles “Mac” McRaven still can swing a goosewing broadax with the authority of a young Abe Lincoln. Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built ...

In this episode, we build the full structure of our front porch roof using logs sourced from our land. We cut several trees and utilized already-downed trees, peeling the logs and creating necessary ...

May 21—Outside in a courtyard at Kalispell Middle School, a small log cabin — the handiwork of eighth-graders — is taking shape log by log. "All of the people coming out to Montana in the late 1800s ...

Puzzle boxes, not pastry, fill the antique pie safe in the corner. Pieces of the next-up puzzle cover the surface of a vintage farmhouse table. An even bigger puzzle surrounds all of this: an 1800s ...

What's a log cabin without logs? New photos have come out of the current reproduction of Florida first Capitol building, underway in Tallahassee's Cascades Park, showing a structure framed out with ...