I have a couple mining type industries that need a few shacks for housing the workers, since my complete layout is nothing but mountains and bridges these houses will be placed on the side of the mountain so they will have stilts so I can fit them to a certain spot. Each cabin will either have rock trails or have board walks joining each other to the outhouses and the main trail or road to the mine. These cabins are made out of Redwood. I have the oppurtunity to use several piecec of CNC equipment at work. I routed the horizontal siding to represent SLAB wood siding. I saw some cabins built in Alaska that used slabwood straight off the saw mill that was cut from small diameter logs, and not edged, the ones I saw still had some bark on the siding but most the bark had fallen off. I drew up the shack in cad, because I will make from 6-10 shacks of this design. I make little trusses from 1/8" plywood, the trusses are made with a slot on the wall ends so it kind of snaps or locks together. I glue together with either titebond 3 or a gorilla type glue. These shacks will be outside all the time so all the items I used will withstand our southwest Mo elements. The siding has been cut down to .150 thousands so the shrinking and swelling will be very little, and redwood moves very little anyhow.
The basic building, the walls are slotted so the trusses will glue in place with the need of no clamps. Plywood bottom has small slots for ventilation the bottom has an opening that allows me to get in for lights, The vents are small enough to prevent most bugs like mud daubers from entering and building mud homes.
This picture shows a good view of the siding, the nail heads are lasered.
The trusses are notched so the nailers or perlins can be glued into. The front porch floor has been added. The front and back walls are verticle batten siding.
The porch top, the rafters are all notched with the front beam, the rafters are all mortise and tennon in the back nailer that is fastened to the building. the perlins or nailers are glued in place.
A view of the building with a corragated metal roofing. Dennis
