Building With Logs (Legacy Edition)

A Classic Manual for Building Log Cabins, Forest Shelters, and Cabin Furniture This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Building With Logs is full of old-time tips and methods from the forest experts on how to build log cabins, shelters, houses, and buildings with the natural materials from the woods. This nifty handbook originally from 1945 contains excellent drawings, plans, and photos of the day of actual forest service buildings used in practice. This classic book contains instruction on how to find and prepare timbers, cutting and hewing logs, setting buildings and cabins on foundations, variations on cornering and building edges, flooring and roofing, calking and chinking walls, and the tools used for building log cabins and timber structures. Also included are descriptions and drawings for building rustic furnishings. This book makes a perfect gift for folks who long for a weekend in their getaway cabin in the woods, or any person who is into outdoors life, camping, and