Two Week Log Cabin Course Spring 2019
Posted on April 27th at 13:30 by Brigite
!!!EXCITING NEWS!!!
After many requests and much anticipation we are pleased to anounce that we will finally be hosting another of our renowned log cabin courses this April!!!
The woodenways team have been busy the last few years focused on other things so dont miss the opportunity to join us on our first Log Cabin course in years!
Dan Franklin and the Woodenways professional log building team have been running these courses successfully since 1996.
These courses have taught some of the best cabin builders in the counrty and have a reputation far and wide.
On this course you will learn how to build your own log cabin, it is intensive and no holds barred. We will share our knowledge and experience to help you build log cabins. Be prarpered to learn learn so much more about timber aswell as log cabin building.
Many of our past students have gone on to successfully build their own log cabins and there are now at least ten successful log cabin building companies in the UK whom we have trained.
We have three experienced builders who share up to 8 students. We cover foundation layout, walls, windows, doors, roof structure and settling issues.
The sight is beautiful, particularly at this time of year where we hace accommodation in (rustic) caravans or cabins or you may camp on site
Alternatively there are many B&B's available near by.
An excellent lunch is also included.
THE 2 WEEK LONG COURSES WILL INCLUDE:
- Risks involved in Log Cabin Building, Log Handling and general safety issues.
- How to select logs (UK and Catalan species specific)
- Building with round logs using centre line method
- Peeling logs and the various techniques
- Full scribe method, rough and final scribe
- Cutting cheeks "Scandinavian/ Canadian saddle notch"
- How to use a chainsaw and chainsaw techniques for brushing, plaining and cutting etc
- Hand tool techniques including; axe, chisel, grooving knives and their use in log cabin building and how to sharpen.
YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING TO ATTEND
- Chainsaw certificate - maintenance and cross cutting
- Your own chainsaw with 5" bar and protective safety equipment
- Full equipment list supplied upon booking.
- Specialist tool available upon request.
THE COST
£1000
Places are limited.
Please contact Dan to book or for more information.
Heathcoat Cricket Club
Posted on April 1st at 22:00 by Dan
In the late summer of 2012, John Smith Chairman of Heathcoat Cricket Club contacted Woodenways and asked to look at some outline drawings for a new Cricket Pavilion. Dan Franklin our chief designer looked over the plans and suggested a real timber frame (as an alternative to the initial imported timber designs), built from the timber lying in the woods on Knightshayes Estate. The idea was taken up by the cricket club, the funders (Viridor Waste and the ECB) and land owners The National Trust.
We started extracting trees on Knightshayes Court in November 2012 with the aid of Yabsley Contracting and converted all timbers on site with our Serra Bandmill. All the timber was kindly donated by the National Trust at Knightshayes Court, and was a mixture of windblown chestnut and phytophera diseased larch. Whilst one Woodenways team winched and milled the timber on site the timber frame was being designed, constructed and clad to suit the timber coming out.
Thanks to the amazing team at Heathcoat Cricket Club who worked night and day on the foundations, roof and finishings. The Pavilion was completed before the cricket season of 2013.
Log Cabin Course In Dunnet Forest Scotland.
Posted on August 6th at 11:15 by Dan
Woodenways recently returned from Dunnet Forest in Scotland where, In June this year Dan Franklin lead a log cabin building course. Funded by Calthness Environmental and North Sutherland Funds, we offered locals the chance to learn the skill of log cabin building, using the scribing method. All of the students taking part in the course where new to it and many of them claimed to have never done anything like it before. However everyone showed a high level of skill and with allot f hard work we managed to finish the cabin ahead of schedule. The shelter will be used by the local trust to display information on forest news and artwork by the schools in the area. Project manager Annette Ward states that it will be an invaluable addition to the woodland and hopes that it will be used in many events.The shelter was built using only local materials -windblown spruce from Dunnet, Brittan’s most notherly forest- and is currently being fitted with a living roof of turf.
Design services offered from Woodenways
Posted on October 20th at 20:15 by Admin
We offer a 2D design service using Autocad. Specifically suited to surveying and drawing from scratch green oak extensions and Garden Rooms, Dan has a great deal of experience in making things FIT existing structures. Alternativly New build houses, barns etc are also catered for e.g Ed and Connies , Steve and Lisa's, John Scrivens etc. in the gallery, designed by Dan Franklin, and the customer and timber sawn built by the Woodenways team.
New Timberframe in Catalunya
Posted on October 20th at 11:30 by Admin
A Woodenways Team, including youngest member Capability Cann, are have been working back in Catalunya at Mikki Casas place , building a semi- octagonal 2 story oak frame from local oak at the site of last years job, shown above. A 27 hour drive door to door was worth it to wotk in the sun and eat the food and enjoy our Catalan friends hospitality!