A complete guide to planning and building a log cabin provides information on acquiring and preparing logs, framing and construction, wiring, and interior and exterior finishing

Building With Logs

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

MacKie, B. Allan

Home Improvement & Design

Scribner

Offers floor plans and illustrations for a variety of log house designs and notes special considerations for building with logs

Log House Plans

Arts & Photography

MacKe, B.

Architecture

Firefly Books, Ltd.

Picture Book of Log Homes

  A traditional log structure was held together by gravity. Logs were carefully cut to length, and notched at the joining points to ensure a very tight fit, great stability, and weather-tightness. The notches were also beautiful and functional as the dovetails of a master cabinet-maker.    Here, Allan Mackie shows a complete selection of notches for corner joinery, roof beams and trusses and lateral grooves (for seating a stacked log firmly along the length of another wall log; and timber framing techniques).    Clear instructions and profuse illustrations and drawings make this a completely detailed manual for the log builder.  

Log House Publishing

A traditional log structure was held together by gravity. Logs were carefully cut to length, and notched at the joining points to ensure a very tight fit, great stability, and weather-tightness. The notches were also beautiful and functional as the dovetails of a master cabinet-maker.  Here, Allan Mackie shows a complete selection of notches for corner joinery, roof beams and trusses and lateral grooves (for seating a stacked log firmly along the length of another wall log; and timber framing techniques).  Clear instructions and profuse illustrations and drawings make this a completely detailed manual for the log builder.

Notches of All Kinds: A Book of Timber Joinery (1st Edition)

Canadian Log House

37 House plans using logs and rustic materials.

Log house plans

Log House Pub. Co

Learn from the Best: Build an Acclaimed Mackie Log House This big book gives you 48 log-house plans, with photographs, elevations and building tips. When combined with the basic text of B. Allan Mackie's Building with Logs, this book is the next step for the serious log-home builder -- the complete map for getting the job underway. 
 Designs range from a 432 square-foot guesthouse through a 1,140 square-foot cabin (that began as a ski lodge and eventually became Mackie's home) to a 3,300 square-foot masterpiece that contains a sauna and swimming pool. 
 Somewhere in this wealth of log-house plans is the perfect home and cottage for all who love logs buildings and are planning one for themselves. 
 B. Allan Mackie continues to teach, design, and build. His schools have trained thousands of good crafts people; some of whom formed building companies internationally, with the result that the worldwide standard for excellence in log building is now a Mackie log house.

Log House Pub Co Ltd

Log Span Tables: For Floor Joisys, Beams, and Roof Support Systems, with Recommended Standards for Log Building Construction

Read, Norman A.

Hahney, Thomas

Canadian Log Builders' Associ

Log House Publishing Company

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