Build a Six-Sided Oak Cabin For Just $120

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Diagram 1: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
Diagram 1: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
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Diagram 2: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
Diagram 2: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
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Diagram 3: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
Diagram 3: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
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Diagram 4: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
Diagram 4: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
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Diagram 5: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
Diagram 5: Building a six-sided oak cabin.
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Learn how to build a six-sided oak cabin for pennies on the dollar.
Learn how to build a six-sided oak cabin for pennies on the dollar.

Learn how to build a six-sided oak cabin using these helpful homesteader tips.

Build a Six-Sided Oak Cabin

Cheryl and I are lucky,” says Bushrod James of Witter, Arkansas. “We’ve not only been able to move back to the land . . . we’ve also managed — with a little help from our friends — to build the kind of home we’ve always dreamed about: a beautiful, comfortable, multi-sided log cabin made entirely of Quercus alba . . . white oak! And the whole house cost us just 17¢ a square foot!”

It’s a gray and rainy day today in the “holler”. Everything — including the moss-covered fieldstones, the mist that hangs like a blanket over the trees, and the slumbering, silent forest itself — is gray and wet and quiet. And we’re viewing it all from within our warm, comfortable log cabin fortress . . . the cabin that Cheryl and I and our two sons built ourselves using that superlative all-purpose construction material of the Ozarks, white oak.

As a cabin log, oak has no superior: I know of several oak cabins close by that are well over 100 years old, and their logs are still in perfect condition. (If anything, the lodges are more stone-like now than they were when they were built.) The oldtimers in this area have a saying about oak logs: “Keep ’em dry and they’ll last ya forever!”

  • Published on Sep 1, 1977
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