Building A Log Cabin With A Portable Sawmill

A year earlier i had purchased a portable sawmill to mill lumber for repairs around the farm and we had a plot of land that was mortgage free.

Building a log cabin with a portable sawmill.

Contact woodmizer sawmills to get a list of owners near you. A year earlier i had purchased a wood mizer lt15 sawmill to mill lumber for repairs around the farm and we had a plot of land that was mortgage free. If you have your own trees have someone saw them for you. The result is a little sawmill that just tears through trees.

So i ve decided to build with natural untreated lumber that i mill myself with a portable sawmill. Home building woodworking portable sawmills cabins. Building a cabin with a portable sawmill reader contribution by billy reeder the wood mizer team 12 24 2015 8 24 00 am. This is how we built an entire small off grid cabin from start to finish using a portable sawmill.

The cedar log that i cut up next revealed an awesome purple heartwood. Of course the first thing you need is logs. It had to be built completely debt free. I was very surprised at how well it works.

But with it feeling like the world was falling apart around us we decided to do what it takes to build a log cabin from scratch. I just wanted to try it and ended up milling an 18 diameter 6 long log of spalted maple into over a dozen 6 x1 boards. We are now working on the outhouse. I don t know about you but i don t have 47k to drop on lumber and to build my cabin approximately 1500 square feet i know i ll need about 30k in lumber if i buy it from the store.