Download The Craft Of Log Building Torrent UPDATED
Download The Craft Of Log Building Torrent
On this page you will discover technical information, some difficult-to-discover information, and LOT of practical stuff.
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Back in 1991, Robert wrote two articles almost full-scribe, full dovetail, hewn-log structure for Joiner's Quarterly mag. These used to be bachelor from JQ equally back bug. There is plenty of other info on chinked dovetail construction in print, just these are the but detailed manufactures I know of about full-scribe (chinkless) dovetails. Click hither to go to the Fox Maple website where you lot can ask to social club back issues # 13 and # 14 (it's a 2-office article), but I've been told they are not bachelor. Click this DOVETAILS link to download a large (9 Mb) pdf that contains both of Robert's JQ dovetail articles. Dovetails.
There is also an article written by Robert for Fine Homebuilding magazine, Result #34, about a big dovetail project that Robert congenital. This commodity is interesting, and has a lot of great photos, just not as much technical information on "how to do it" as the JQ article mentioned above. Back issues of Fine Homebuilding #34 are non available from Taunton Printing (sold out) -- then please try finding it at your local library, or used book stores, or search at Amazon.com
Underscribing
Underscribing (ane.9Mb) Affiliate 8 from my 2016 full-colour volume, the Revised Log Construction Manual. I re-printed my book in wintertime 2016, and fabricated all-encompassing revisions. This file is the total chapter on Underscribing. All owners of my volume (2014 and before) should download this free upgrade because it includes new information. Underscribing (invented by Del Radomske 30 years ago) is a super way to keep corner notches tighter over time. Proven and effective.
Spiral Grain in Logs
Spiral Grain—The Inside Story (270Kb) a 3-page article from Log Building News 63 (July 2007) about what spiral grain is, where information technology comes from, and how it affects logs in log walls. Lefthand spiral is one of the leading causes of badly fitting corner notches and grooves in log homes. Written by Robert W. Chambers, this is a good introduction to the problems caused past left-mitt spiral building logs.
Log Notch Choice Calculators
Download one of these files to figure the "Desired Shoulder Heights" for your set of logs. These are Microsoft Excel files, and you lot can open and use them if you own a copy of Excel software. If you do non have Excel on your calculator, and then they volition NOT work. I file is for metric builders, and the other file is for imperial (feet-inch) builders. Download just the one file that you volition employ. These files are copyrighted past Robert Chambers and they are free for you lot to download and employ. You will demand a re-create of my volume, the Log Structure Manual to understand how to apply the numbers this spreadsheet produces. Contact me with questions, bugs, issues, compliments (!) Notation that both spreadsheet files contain "Macros," and they are virus-free, if downloaded from this link. To apply the spreadsheet you must "let Macros."
1) LOG Choice CALCULATOR -- Click on this link to download the Log Selection Computer
two) METRIC LOG Choice Calculator -- Click on this link to download the Metric Log Selection Calculator
Log Building Video Clips *** My DVDs of how to build with logs are for auction in my webstore, or at Amazon. To learn to trip the light fantastic y'all accept to come across people dancing! And to acquire log edifice skills, video of people cut notches, saddles, and scribing will be a goldmine for you.
Free clips bachelor on my YouTube Channel LogBuildingDotOrg
one) How to SCORE a saddle notch with a chisel and mallet
ii) How to CUT a saddle notch with a chainsaw. Illustrates cut and brushing techniques.
3) Accelerated Log Edifice - my patented method for making handcrafted homes faster and more than safely
4) Corner Guild: BBTT, a great video clip from my DVDs explaining corner club, and the importance of getting the sill logs right.
"Natural Log Homes" Technical Sheets Thank you to Natural Log Homes ( www.NaturalLogHomes.com) for permission to post diverse data from their production manual from time to fourth dimension. Feel gratis to download and impress and use this info for yourself, or email the files to friends. But please exercise non post these files on another website, they are copyrighted by Natural Log Homes.
Windows and Doors in Log Openings 1 (100Kb) a i-page sheet on the pick between flanged and not-flanged window styles for log homes, the difference between Carpentry Rough Opening and Log Rough Opening, and how to frame bucks into openings. Photos and drawings as well as helpful words of advice. Feel free to download and print and use this information.
Windows and Doors in Log Openings 2 (100Kb) a 1-page sheet including detailed head, sill, and jamb drawings of installing doors and windows, how to flash the opening, how to air seal it, and using settling boards and settling space a safe way. Photo and drawings likewise as a clarification. Feel free to download, print and use this info. Architects and designers may discover the drawings useful--and carpenters and DIYers definitely will.
Gasket Material, Design, and Installation (180Kb) a one-folio sheet about the gasket (rubber seal), that Natural Log Homes uses inside their grooves and notches. NLH uses a rubber seal that they designed, tested, and that they have made only for them -- it is not an off-the-shelf item bachelor anywhere else. Good shut upward photos of how it is installed in logs.
Effective Practices & Methods, Log Edifice Standards (One-time) , ILBA Log Edifice News, and more . . . . . The International Log Builders Clan (ILBA website), produced the original log building standard and it is filled with useful and great information. The Committee that wrote the Standards were many of the most experienced and highly regarded log home builders in North America. The members of the ILBA adopted the new Effective Practices & Methods to replace the old Standards. (Robert Chambers wrote the Commentary for the EP&M that draw in ordinary linguistic communication what the Practices & Methods hateful.)
"2020 Effective Practices & Methods for Handcrafted Log Home Structure" (we telephone call it the EP&M for short)
The brand-new replacement for the Standards. 72 pages, Full-color. Profoundly expanded coverage. Loads of helpful and practical data on logs, notches, settling, gaskets, air infitration, flashing, foundations, roof beams, electrical, plumbing, chimneys, doors and windows . . . the list goes on. In some industries this is chosen "Best Practices" document -- the ILBA calls it "Effective Practices."You tin can buy either an immediate PDF download ($22.50) or a paper copy ($28.50) from the ILBA store
Or click here to buy a newspaper copy from Amazon.
Click on the photo below to download a free sample from the EP&M book. You'll see what a great new book this is.
Click on this photograph to download a PDF (about 1.seven Mb) -- a small sample of pages from the volume. Open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader, not in any other PDF reader app. Merely Adobe Reader will display the interactive functions.
Log Building News #38 (i.1 Megabytes) Ane full copy of the ILBA newsletter, 20 pages. Issue #38 is from August 2002. This newsletter (Robert Chambers was the editor) is sent to all members of the log organization. Contact the ILBA to become a member and receive LBN iv times a yr.
Log Builder Interview Class (28 Kb) A 3-page form that can be used when you lot telephone call or talk with log builders - - interviewing them equally possible builders for your home. The questions are good, and information technology's also a way to organize your knowledge of several log building companies to make comparing them easier for yous. This is an extract from the ILBA booklet, "From Country to Lockup."
European Union Log Standard A document called "ETAG 012" -- 48-folio PDF (180Kb) of the 2002 draft of a log home kit construction lawmaking. This certificate is in English language. Some EU countries are using this code, just some are not. This re-create says "draft" but it is being used every bit "code" in some EU member countries. Y'all will need local advice in the country yous are going to build.
Log Edifice Code
ICC Website For auction by the International Code Committeee, this is the 2017 residential building code for log homes— the globe's first building code for log homes . It will go into effect in your area only if your local (state, county or city) government adopts it. For some places that could be soon. For other places it could be years from now (or never, since in that location are places in the USA that do not utilize any building code). It is called "ICC 400 Standard on the Design and Construction of Log Structures" and costs about USD $39 plus S&H. As well bachelor as a PDF download or as an eBook. Please notation that revised 2022 edition volition be bachelor soon.
Forintek review of log home energy codes. 2013, 4 pages. Includes some excellent recommendations for designing and building energy-efficient log homes. Considers Rescheck and EnerGuide software.
R-Value and Thermal Efficiency of Log Walls
Energy Performance of Log Walls --2013 research past the BC Log & Timber Building Manufacture trade association. Several important reports and downloads for free from their website
Research paper on laboratory testing of logs walls for air and h2o infiltration, and modeling log wall energy performance. Besides blower door tests of entire houses. 54 pages, with lots of photos (too infrared photos, and pressurized tests with smoke), and charts. Good information on non-log leaks in log homes (windows and doors, tongue and groove). Testing was done by RDH Building Enterprises, in BC, Canada in 2013. Very useful information. 4Mb PDF file.
Energy Performance of Log Walls (600Kb) a 29-page booklet copyrighted past the Log Homes Council website that has information on the thermal efficiency of log walls. The Log Homes Quango is an organization of companies that build milled or manufactured log home kits, but much of this information also can be applied to handcrafted log homes.
Forintek review of log home energy codes. 2013, iv pages. Includes some excellent recommendations for designing and building energy-efficient log homes. Considers Rescheck and EnerGuide software.
R-Values of Log Walls (260Kb) A three-page article by Dalibor Houdek of Forintek Canada, that outset appeared in Log Edifice News #38.
Infrared Study of Log Homes (i Mb) 9-page 2005 written report by ii engineers that used a blower door combined with infrared thermal imaging cameras to study air and oestrus leakage of log homes. The blower door is used to reduce the air pressure level within the house, this makes cold air leak into the firm apace, and the camera "sees" the common cold air, and identifies where air leaking is happening.
Maintenance and Preservation of Log Homes
Maintenance and Preservation of Log Walls (200Kb) a fourteen -page article copyrighted by the Log Homes Council including information on insects, decay, removing iron stains from forest, and more.
Finishes for Log Walls (570Kb) A comprehensive 16-folio booklet on finishes for log homes-- penetrating stains, water repellancy, mildew, and much more. A very valuable resource. How to protect log homes during construction, how good design helps protect logs, your choices for chemicals and finishes, wood cleaners. (Skip Ellsworth seems to exist spreading some mis-information about drawknife-peeled logs and their ability to withstand weather - - if yous have heard what Ellesworth has said, and so you ameliorate get a copy of this independent and objective information.) Produced by Forintek Canada website , a top government inquiry establish for everything about wood.
Mildew and Finishes (50Kb) A short article about mildew and finishes for wood. Some information nigh mildewcides that can be added to a cease; about finishes that are manufactured with mildewcides in them; and how to fix a wood surface before yous apply a terminate to avert mildew problems.
Log Home Tips Almost Insects written by the Georgia Forestry Committee. (800 Kb) 23-page brochure that includes advice on preventing insect attack, avoiding bluestain and decay—advises use of deep roof overhangs, some chemicals (borates), and the like. Some very good color photos of bugs that attack wood. The accent here is on bugs--which makes sense, in Georgia.
Hands-on Log Cabin Preservation-- 2015 book about old log cabins, produced by the US Wood Service. The focus hither is equally a training manual for Forest Service staff in how to preserve historic cabins. The title of the book says"dovetail," and there are some dovetail and lap-notch cabins, but many of the buildings are circular log scribed and round log chinked. Information about how to appraise condition and find subconscious decay...and how to repair. How to jack up foundations, and repair floors walls, and roofs. How to supersede logs without taking walls autonomously. Lots of hands-on data about roofing (especially with cedar shingles and shakes). Doors and windows, chimneys. I learned a few things, and saw a tool I had never seen earlier: a "ring clamp" (Figure 63). Big file: 52Mb PDF.
US Army Rigging Transmission - - or, "How to Elevator Things (the low-tech way)"
Gin Poles (400 Kb) Chapter 5 from the army field engineer'due south manual, this chapter shows you how to build and rig lifting devices like gin poles, derricks, A-frames, and more. Simple, applied information. In that location is not much about gin poles that is in print, and this is some of the best that I accept uncovered - - 19 pages of free information. (Please note that the ILBA's Log Building News as well had an article about a gin pole .. please e-mail the ILBA for a re-create of that back issue, it is not available on this, or any other, spider web site.)
Anchors & Guys (480Kb) Chapter 4 from the field transmission on how to build anchors (stakes, deadmen, tree wraps) and how to guy them to support a gin pole, derrick, etc. Also, how much you can look each sort of anchor to concord.
Hoists (520Kb) Chapter 3 from the field transmission on how to rig for lifting and pulling. Includes block & tackles, mechanical advantages, and more than.
The Wood Handbook
The Wood Handbook is an encyclopedia on wood equally an applied science material. It has capacity on engineering science specs, drying and shrinkage, decay, gluing, preservation, burn down resistance, glu-lams, fasteners, finishing, wooden bridges, and plenty more than. Totals more than than 400 pages. Written past the USDA, Woods Products Laboratory website in Madison, Wisconsin. Each chapter tin can be downloaded for free every bit a PDF. The whole book (hardcover) tin can be purchased from the United states of america Government Printing Role. This has a lot of great data, and much of it de-bunks the half-truths and misunderstandings that are widespread. There is besides a new (2021) edition of the Woods Handbook available for free download.
Index to all chapters that can be downloaded . Non a download, this is a web-link to the Forest Products Laboratory (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) site where you tin see what's in each chapter, and then choose to download capacity one at a fourth dimension . All chapters in the volume are available for free download from this spider web site.
Decay & Insects (620Kb) Chapter 13 from the Wood Handbook deals with deterioration of wood. Mold, mildew, decay -- what it is and how it happen. Clicking on this link will download this 1 affiliate onto your hard bulldoze.
Drying of Wood (500Kb) Chapter 3 from the Wood Handbook deals with the drying of wood -- what is "green" wood?, how does wood dry?, what about fiber saturation point and equilibrium moisture content? This is very important data-- fifty-fifty some log abode builders do not understand how their logs actually dry out, and how long information technology takes, or that shrinkage may not accept even started when their logs weigh half as much as they used to. "It'southward then much lighter in weight at present, so that ways it is dry" . . . . Incorrect, no it doesn't!
Round Timbers and Ties (400Kb) Affiliate 18 from the Wood Handbook has information on logs, poles, timbers, and ties -- immovability, strength, and grading standards.
Alaska Log Edifice Construction Guide
Written by Mike Musick for the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation in 1999, this volume is non copyighted. Mike has good chapters on foundations, free energy standards, scribing and cutting notches, plumbing, venting, insulation, and more than. The focus is on Alaska's need for energy-efficient homes, but there is plenty of fabric here well-nigh other log building topics. The unabridged volume can be downloaded as one file (20 Megabytes), for free.
Download the book (20 Mb)
Fire Resistance
Burn Resistance of Log Walls This file is copyrighted past the ILBA. Written by Dalibor Houdek, PhD, and get-go published in Log Building News #35 (September 2001), this is a reprint of a 3-page commodity about scientific testing done on scribe-fitted log walls and their resistance to fire. (Log walls come up out not bad, by the style.) This download is courtesy of the International Log Builders Association.
Burn Resistance of Log Walls from Log Homes Council (104 Kb PDF).
Equilibrium Wet Content
Equilibrium Moisture Content Equlilbrium Wet Content, besides known every bit EMC, is the moisture content of wood in your expanse when air drying has come to an end; in other words, the woods has come to equlibrium with the local climate. This article (270 kb PDF) from the Forest Products Laboratory lists EMC for many Usa cities, and many locations exterior North American too. Essential for figuring out how much your logs will shrink. 14 pages of tables and graphs and formulas.
Roof Construction
Triangle Solutions This is a ii-page 'cheat canvas' for figuring out triangles -- lengths of sides, angles, etc etc. Very useful for roof design and layout.
Building Log Homes (1945)
Building With Logs (6 Mb) a wonderful erstwhile 1945 US Forest Service booklet called "Building With Logs," by Clyde Fickes and Ellis Groben. A classic. A few of the highlights are:some floorplans for unproblematic cabins. Measured drawings for log piece of furniture. Instructions for how to building a log cabin without a chainsaw. And probably the beginning-ever drawing of a log scriber with a bubble level attached to it (on page 5). It is interesting that they used the chimera scriber simply for the corner notches. They used a scratch-scriber for the long grooves. This booklet is rare and out of print.
Structural Engineering of Log Walls
New Zealand Convulsion -- This 3-Mb PDF is a survey of damage to log homes caused by the 2016 New Zealand earthquake. "Must" reading for structural engineers, and for people building in an earthquake zone. I believe that ane of the major causes of damage to some of these log homes was that the owners did Not keep the throughbolts ("hurricane rods") tight every bit the log wall settled. I have been in contact with the authors of this article about this. Many of the rods in these houses were loose (some by 3" to vi" , 75mm to 150mm), and when the vertical earthquake waves hit the houses, there was a tremendous mass (the walls) moving upward. This could accept hands snapped some of the steel rods. Two big lessons to exist learned: keep the throughbolts tight, and use large, thick washers!
Lateral Loads on Log Walls An article past Tom Hahney from Log Building News #32 (ILBA) of interest to structural engineers and to anyone edifice a log domicile in an convulsion or loftier-current of air zone. NOTE that the ILBA has a special reprint of several articles about structural engineering for log homes - - delight contact the ILBA by electronic mail: info@logassociation.org
Lateral Resistance of Handcrafted Log Walls (4 Megabytes) A 33-page report of enquiry published by Forintek Canada. Technical, and probably of interest only to structural engineers. Very hard to find a copy of this, but if y'all need to calculate current of air or convulsion loads on notched log walls, then this is what you're going to desire! This research was done at the asking of the ILBA. They congenital log walls and log corners and tested them to the point of destruction in the laboratory. Basis-breaking stuff. Very large file.
Lateral Resistance of Log Walls, an commodity by Leichti, Scott, Miller and Sharpe, from Structure Magazine, March 2006. 5-pages (305 Kb PDF file) Good stuff. Every engineer should accept a copy in their library—technical work with finite element analysis for seismic resistance, and more.
The Response Seismic Modification Cistron for Shear Log Walls. A 113-page Principal'south thesis (2010) in Civil Engineering from Kansas Country University by Samantha Kessler. Technical, and probably of interest only to structural engineers. The consequence of her research a proposed R factor (response modification factor) of 6.0.
Forcefulness Values of Softwoods -- "Allowable Property Values" (500 Kb) A xxx-page written report of many softwood copse, and the values immune for bending (MOR, F-sub-B) and stiffness (MOE), shear, compression, and more. Published past the W Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, File APV-2 (website has more costless downloads). This download includes many species from Europe that are tough to find information most, merely has many of the mutual softwoods, likewise. Meant for engineers—it is a booklet full of tables of numbers that are used when designing structures. Hither's another web-link for similar info, though non near as detailed: http://www.hobbywoods.com Too, the "Wood Handbook" (see above) has design values for a big number of hardwood species from around the earth, and a few of the more than common softwoods.
American Woods Council -- This website has many useful downloads including "National Design Specification for Wood Construction" which give the technology Fb, E, Fv, and etc for about N American log domicile species -- make sure you apply the "big timber" tables called 4D (pages 44-50). And ane of my favorites, the "Forest Structural Design Information" (a volume of 264 pages) has like shooting fish in a barrel-to-follow formulas for all sorts of wood beams, but the All-time function are the span tables. The tables are written for rectangular timbers (so yous utilize the "inscribed timber" method when using these tables for round logs) but information technology is very fast and easy way to figure out about what diameter log will work for your ridge, purlins, joists and other beams. A goldmine, and it's free. All the costless downloads are on this library folio. Scroll down to "NDS" (highlighted in light-green on the webpage); and to "Bridge Tables" "Woods Structural Design Data." It'due south a flake difficult to find these, merely they are there. You lot'll also find gratuitous design info for lag screw connections, fire resistance, air current and seismic loads on woods structures, plank flooring design and loads, and more.
Tool & Book Specials from others . . .
I of my all-time favorite log home books is the 1938 "Park and Recreation Structures" past Albert Good. Information technology is a wonderful picture show book (ane,200 or so B&Westward images) of some of the greatest log buildings in the Usa--the national and state park log structures built past the CCC and WPA in the Bully Depression. The logwork is fabled, the designs are wonderful, the calibration of the building is perfect. If you are designing a log abode, employ this volume every bit your guide and you'll exist on the correct track. It is available hardcover for about $54 every bit "Park and Recreation Structures," and with really skilful newspaper and photographs reproduced like they are artwork. But it also bachelor for the bargain cost of less than $19 in paperback with a unlike title "Patterns from the Aureate Historic period of Rustic Design," with photo reproduction and newspaper quality that is not nearly as skilful. 632 pages. These are the same volume with different titles and different publishers. An encyclopedia of great log buildings, and more.
Patterns from the Gilt Historic period of Rustic Blueprint ($19)
Park and Recreation Structures ($54)
Mitered Truss Downloads
Spreadsheet and Map for using Adjusted Mitered Angles. But you will need to have a re-create of my new Log Motel Secrets volume called "Advanced Mitered Joinery" to understand and employ these two files:
Excel spreadsheet of angles
PDF Map of truss angles
Mold on Woods, and in Houses
"Mold, Housing, and Wood" An article by Robbins and Morrell (226 Kb pdf) is a good introduction to mold, health, wood, and homes. Includes some very basic tips for cleaning and killing mold. More mold links are available on the Western Wood Products Clan website. Simply at that place are tens of thousands of links to data on mold in homes on the Cyberspace, and this is by no means consummate! It'southward a place to outset.
Can't find what you are looking for? Please send me an email, and if it is about handcrafted, scribe-fit log building I might be able to send you lot what you're looking for. Due east-mail to Robert
All pages, photos, files, text, video, and drawings are Robert W. Chambers © 2020. This folio was posted Dec 2021.
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