Book : Log house construction
In 1974 I took a course offered by the University of Washington's Experimental College called "Log Construction". It was taught by a man named Skip Ellsworth, one of the few truly original characters I have ever met. This guy was living on a five acre ranch near Redmond, Washington surrounded by log structures he had built for demonstration. He only had one completed structure but it was sure pretty. He was an amazing teacher, an anarchist of the first water, a prodigious collector of strange artifacts and a sly and generous soul. I can really say he changed my life.
He told us that all a person had to do to secure their own destiny was to build their own house. Without the burden of a mortgage to suck up a person's money for 30 years and tie them to a job and a bank, real freedom could result. He taught us how to do this by building log cabins but his message was really much bigger than that. His class was about how to build freedom.
Now I didn't run out and build a log house, but I followed his advice using stick construction. Many years later I'm sitting pretty, so I thought maybe I'd try and spread the word a little bit. I've also finally gotten around to building my own log cabin so if you want to follow the links, I'll take you through the steps.
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