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Really enjoying watching this build. Skin those logs green, as you cut them, that job is a major pita when the sap dries. Love the curved walls too.

Well, if it was my place I'd oil it and deal with the rust for the patina. I'm on line to do a bigger iron job, and the contractor wants all the ironwork powdercoated :/

Check out iforgeiron.com, some top notch blacksmiths there, good info. I just got a propane forge going I can heat 2 foot sections with. Definitely the way to smith since you're as much in coal country as I am. All the info to make a nice one is in the gas forge section. I have done a lot in...

Spar urethane, several coats, we used gloss on the window trim and satin on the logs. I've read it takes to iron well, so thats what the railing will get after a cleanup, stair rail and corner caps.

What an odd place to see morels popping out of, neat. Looks like good progress happening, building custom sure is time consuming, I've been on this log home for a few years now, on and off as their funds allow. You might think of getting a forge and anvil set up and put in some ironwork at some...

actually did the texturing cold in my powerhammer, made top tool dies out of cut off bolts In 1/4" x 4" plate

ok, kinda cheesy, but they wanted something more interesting than simpson ties, couldnt get too drawn out...

Nice work there, but I dont think I'd like to be walking it with a laundry basket, or come down it after a beer or 12 to take a leak at 3am... Straight runs are good to avoid in stair design, the less far you go bumpty bump the better. I probably have about the same mix of trees, california...

Here's a couple shots of how I did my staircase. I cut U shaped half sections out of steel pipe the diameter of the post for the risers, then enclosed it.

Hey Jamie, the inset branches got me to thinking, is there a way you could include more of that, maybe bolted together, to increase the structural integrity of the building? Would look neat too :)

Gerry, you ever get to camp 18, up hwy 26 in oregon?

BTW, I really like the tree trunks in your structure, are they madrone? And I sure the hell wouldnt build that huge place for myself, here's my little 900 sq ft cabin I've lived in (and when it was half that), 16 steep acres, since 92

I guess I could say I built most of it. It was a job I couldnt refuse, 2.5 miles from my driveway. Summer work, and I was gone on FS contracts in the spring and fall, but they were so slow stacking the log walls, I could tie into it with my logwork a few months a year and keep up. The...

oops, donno how to thumbnail those. Dindnt want to be a non posting slacker. :D

Cool build Jamie. And howdy all. Not to hijack, here's a couple shots of the little cabin I've been working on.