Building A Log Cabin With A Portable Sawmill

This is how we built an entire small off grid cabin from start to finish using a portable sawmill.

Building a log cabin with a portable sawmill.

The result is a little sawmill that just tears through trees. We are now working on the outhouse. If you have your own trees have someone saw them for you. It had to be built completely debt free.

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. So i ve decided to build with natural untreated lumber that i mill myself with a portable sawmill. Home building woodworking portable sawmills cabins. 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.

Contact woodmizer sawmills to get a list of owners near you. 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. I was very surprised at how well it works. 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 cabin with a portable sawmill reader contribution by billy reeder the wood mizer team 12 24 2015 8 24 00 am. A good source may be someone who has a portable sawmill in your area. The cedar log that i cut up next revealed an awesome purple heartwood. 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.