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http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aalogcabinb.htm
 (good pictorial of Swedish style early log cabin)

http://www.loghomebuilders.org/
 (commercial blurb, nice picture, but the builder sure as hell did not 
make $150,000 profit on that building as alleged)

http://www.diynet.com/diy/ho_log_cabins/article/0,2037,DIY_13947_2273552,00.html
 (pics of various milled logs---I have built quite a few log houses, 
and my personal preferemce is for an unmilled log.  I hove always found 
them satisfactory, with standard chinking between backer-rods---no 
discernable air leakage that I have found)

Also click on the URL's at the bottom of the page for additional stages 
of construction (including electrical wiring)
# ALSO IN THIS EPISODE:
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   Beginning the Exterior Walls
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   Exterior Walls and Framing for Windows and Doors
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   Exterior Log-Wall Completion and Propane Tank
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   Interior-Wall Construction

http://outlands.tripod.com/farm/logcabin.htm
 (while I despise two-story buildings of any kind and in any material, 
here are some good photos of a log cabin in verious stages of 
construction, and how to create component details.)

http://loghomelinks.com/articles/articles.htm
 (long list of log-cabin related topics)

http://www.diynet.com/diy/ho_log_cabins/article/0,2037,DIY_13947_2274490,00.html
 (installing appliances and other interior finishing jobs.
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   Log-Cabin Closet-Shelving and Doors
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   Bathroom Cypress Panels and Dining-Room Wainscoting
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   Plumbing and Electrical Installations
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   Kitchen Appliances and Interior Construction Recap

http://www.growinglifestyle.com/us/h/improve/logcabin/page4.html
 (lot of links, including slip joints behind cabinets, window and trim 
details---forget about the stupid firetrap shingled roof, always use 
golted-together precast concrete channels, or at a minumum, 
standing-seam metal roof.)

http://www.hearthstonegeorgia.com/hutcheson.htm
 (the two-story and dormer both bad ideas, the 1500 square feet about 
the right size, and standing-seam metal roof a good one)

http://www.loghomebuilders.org/who_is_skip_ellsworth.htm
 (Skip Ellsworth, foremost log cabin builder and teacher)

http://www.ahfc.state.ak.us/Department_Files/RIC/Construction%20Manuals/construction-manuals.htm
 (some Ellison student small structures)

http://www.alaskacabin.net/
 ($8.00 online building manual on using vertical logs---a lot easier 
than using horizontal logs, and using small six or eight=foot logs you 
can handle alone instead of big logs requiring mechanical equipment to 
haul to the building site, and two or three men to erect._

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ainsworth27.html
 (thought I posted this before, but don't know where, this is a 
vertical log structure erected by a single woman---a hexcabin with a 
rectangular wing sticking our from one hexpanel.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF3/382.html
 (log shrinkage, approximately three inches on eight-foot horizontal 
log wall)


http://www.ahfc.state.ak.us/Department_Files/RIC/Construction%20Manuals/construction-manuals.htm

(Alaska online log cabin building manuals)