Welcome to our Log Cabin Project! We are building a tiny log cabin from scratch using materials sourced from our land and ...

Learn how to build a log cabin from trees on a budget using local materials, traditional hand tools, and hard work while embracing the land. Read more.

In this episode, we raise our walls higher by adding the next layer of logs, which require three notches due to the middle girder on our first floor. We found it easier than expected to make sure all ...

Josh Drinkard always wanted to build his own cabin. Growing up in suburban New Jersey, he’d wander to a small strip of woods near his childhood home and spend hours constructing forts and ...

Of course, you could avoid the customized route and instead build a log cabin that’s far cheaper than $300 per square foot. You may save money with a prefab log cabin or a log cabin kit.

The log cabin build is part of a homesteading unit the students are learning, which ties into other lessons Schreiner teaches on Montana’s timber industry, mountain men and the fur trade.