Log Cabins

[IRE David H]

Does anyone who likes these cabins watch the barn wood builder programme, kinda interesting take down 100 year old cabin in one place move it somewhere else and rebuild for another 100 years

[WesD]

1 minute ago, IRE David H said:

Does anyone who likes these cabins watch the barn wood builder programme, kinda interesting take down 100 year old cabin in one place move it somewhere else and rebuild for another 100 years

Not seen that, you got any links?

[IRE David H]

 

[Rough Hewn]

Is it on a wooded plot?
 
If so you can have a caravan for up to a season at a time.
 
Its been to court & a "season" is defined as a period of less than one year.

That's if you're engaged in "Agro forestry".
Amateur or professional.
You can put up a cabin, if made without brick, concrete etc.
No indoor toilet.
Only portable wood burner allowed.
And it's "the wood season" which is less than one year.
Got a feeling the plot has to be registered as woodland too.
Otherwise 28 days a year.

[Justme]

34 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

That's if you're engaged in "Agro forestry".
Amateur or professional.
You can put up a cabin, if made without brick, concrete etc.
No indoor toilet.
Only portable wood burner allowed.
And it's "the wood season" which is less than one year.
Got a feeling the plot has to be registered as woodland too.
Otherwise 28 days a year.

You have added a lot of things that are not actually in the regulations 

[Rough Hewn]

What's changed?

[Billhook]

21 hours ago, WesD said:

Some nice work there!

 

If you know how much does something like the 3 bed cost?

At the time there were schemes with funding to train local people in various rural activities and I had to do the paperwork and assemble a team which proved to be quite easy.  The poplar I owned anyway and it needed thinning so apart from my own time it cost very little in monetary terms.

I was looking for a use for the timber since nobody smokes any more, butane lighters came in and the match industry collapsed.  A friend had been living in Oregon and told me of log cabins out there being built of white poplar and that there was a log built church out there over 100 years old

 

I was well aware of poplar's tendency to rot when in contact with the ground so there about two and a half feet of air beneath the floor and there are no signs of rot after 17 years

The decking was made of Turkey oak, another wood that benefits from being off the ground  and the floor of the cabin was not ash as I said but copper beech which has also lasted well.

 

Give Dan Franklin  @ woodenways a call and I am sure he will give you an idea of the cost.