76 pages of excellent text, filled with great instruction, photos and illustrations. 6th Edition.

Building With Logs

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

B. Allan Mackie

Home Improvement & Design

Allan & Mary Mackie

Paperback, Building with Logs, 7th Edition.

Log House Pub Co Ltd

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

Firefly Books

Log Span Tables for Floor Joists, Beams and Roof Support Systems by A. Mackie, N. Read, T. Hahney. Includes tables for sizing log joists and beams

Log Span Tables for Floor Joists, Beams and Roof Support Systems

Thomas M. Hahney

Norman A. Read

International Log Builders Association

Now completely revised and updated, B. Allan This classic is still considered the best book ever written on making a full sized log home. This enlarged eighth edition, revised in 1997, is filled with numerous major construction improvements, and clearly shows the novice and experienced log builder how to select logs, plan both the site and financing, and then build a handsome log structure from the foundation to the ridge cap. 
 The concept of modern log building was born 25 years ago with the first edition of Building with Logs. All who loved log homes could, for the first time, learn how to build one. With over 100,000 copies sold, this book inspired thousands of owner-built homes. 
 Building with Logs covers: financing, the site, planning a good home, acquisition of logs, how to fall a tree and trim it, storage of logs, safety, foundations and basements, first logs and floor joists, hewing and the broad axe, cutting a round notch, sealing between the logs, setting allowance, gable ends, electrical wiring, finishing touches and much more. 
 The author has continued to teach, design and build. His schools have trained thousands of good craftsmen, some of whom formed companies to build internationally, with the result that the world-wide standard for excellence in log building is now a "Mackie" log house.

Building with Logs

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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 Plans: Revised Edition

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Building With Logs

Building With Logs

Notches of All Kinds: A Book of Timber Joinery

Log Span Tables for Floor Joists, Beams and Roof Support Systems

Building with Logs

Log House Plans: Revised Edition