Log cabin construction workshop offered

March 22, 2011

Photo courtesy of UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences. This cabin was built at last year's log cabin building workshop.

Nancy Tarnai
907-474-5042
3/22/11

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will offer a log cabin building workshop May 16-31 at the Matanuska Experiment Farm in Palmer.

The workshop will run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with one day off after every five days. Robert Chambers, world-recognized authority on handcrafted log home construction, will lead sessions on how to build with green logs. Participants will practice basic procedures and techniques.

Cost is $1,200 for a 10-day class on building log walls and $500 for a four-day class on building roof trusses. The cost to take both classes is $1,400. Contact Valerie Barber, director the UAF forest products program, at 907-746-9466 or vabarber@alaska.edu.

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