TRUNK ROAD -- Forget the air compressor. Leave the cordless drill at home. All you really need to build a good quality, ultra-efficient heat-retaining log building is a muscular chain saw, a few hand ...

This is the beginning of a series discussing tools used in the process of log building. Of course, a lot of these tools can be used for many other applications, but log building will be the main focus ...

"I got it out of the lower part of Delaware, near where the Pocomoke River terminates," said retired auctioneer Otho Mears, 92, of Parksley, gesturing to the weathered little log building in his back ...

In the last couple of entries, we’ve covered a range of hand tools used to peel and prep logs to use in log cabin building. This time, we’ll look at some mechanical or power methods to do this job.

For the next two weeks, the U.S. Forest Service and volunteers will work to rehab a historic log building in the Superior National Forest. The building is called the Kawishiwi Pavilion south of Ely.

Protected inside a workshop hidden among Clackamas County farmland is a mysterious log dwelling that may prompt a rewrite of Oregon's long-held history. If experts' theories pan out, the 18-foot-wide ...