My family and I built our log cabin in the summer of 1978, depending on the skills and help of our neighbor Andy---the cabin is a story and a half with a loft above the second floor, a basement and front & back porches---the house logs are chinked with 1" diameter poles from local Bacon Creek lodgepole with inside floor measurements are 22`x22`.

to lift the logs from the ground to the top, we used 2 poles resting on the top-most house log as an inclined plane with a rope for each pole tied-off at one end. The 2 ropes would be looped around opposite ends of the log at the bottom and we`d each pull-in the untied end of our rope, thus rolling the log up the inclined plane to the top of wall

upper right: the inclined plane from the side (1978)

right: rolling the log up the inclined plane as Andy and I each pull-in our rope (1978)

lower left: that`s my back porch with the tree growing thru the porch roof---the tree was removed several years ago because it`s increasing girth was distorting the porch floor. (mid-80`s)

below: my basement made from rocks & boulders hauled from along the local roads and out of the fields---the cabin is heated from the basement by a large wood burning steel furnace---the 7` high rock walls retain the heat well, making the basement a heat sink during the winter and cool in the summer. (1978)