[Robe]

I have a well worn and dog eared copy of a neat little book entitled “How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin, by W. Ben Hunt (Collier Books)..
I used it to build a 28’x16’ one room vacation cabin in Texas 30+ years ago..added a 10x16’ kitchen two years later ten a 16x20 bedroom two years after that.
I had a great crew of friends who early on camped in their own tents, and worked their butts off..
A fellow asked me a few years after the project was complete “ Just how much you have in this thing?..
I thought for a minute and replied “ About $20,000 in materials and $30,00 in beer and brisket”..
That was a pretty accurate assessment according to my wife...

[redhead]

I remember reading about log cabin construction and repair in the Foxfire Books. The are still available on amazon.com.

[jay1949]

When I was a lad, my maternal grandparents had a log cabin in North Carolina which they used on weekends and for vacations. It was a double-crib structure, every bit handmade, with a living room and a nice stone fireplace in one crib and a kitchen and two sleeping rooms in the other. Wood-fired kitchen stove, no electricity. The cabin had been built by a neighbor named Cecil, who lived in his own log cabin, which he had also built by hand. The grandparents' cabin was at the end of a long, dirt road; there was a place to park out front. Cecil's cabin was at the end of a long, dirt path; it couldn't be reached by vehicle. Cecil had no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no car . . . and no mortgage and no bills. I remember him as one of the happiest men I have ever met.