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.

AMAZONIA, Mo. -- For some people, the American Dream is a house in the suburbs with a two-car garage. For others, it's a little simpler. Verlin Jones of rural Amazonia is one who prefers the simple ...

In the previous entry, we discussed debarking spuds and drawknives. We’re going to continue discussing other ways to prepare your logs for the next step in log cabin building. This time we’re going to ...

Shawn James is very good at building cabins in the woods. Working under the YouTube name My Self Reliance, he silently goes through the step-by-step process of building a cabin in the Canadian forest.

In this episode, we fell one of the tallest trees so far, resulting in two solid logs. The larger log was too heavy to lift, ...

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 ...

NEAR LENGBY, Minn.-This is a story about coming full circle. It all started in 1970, when Don Klinke heard about a landowner who wanted pine trees planted on a piece of ground in Clearwater County ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner helps, from left, Rowan Wisher, Gavin Baker and Cooper Pelc cut a saddle notch as Schreiner's eighth-grade history students construct a log cabin on ...