Grand Tetons • Yellowstone Park • Jackson Hole

Time to relax

BWB Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:50:54 +0000

Spring

BWB Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:55:07 +0000

May and June are a wonderful time to see wildlife and spring flowers

Summer

BWB Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:58:48 +0000

Beautiful summer days spent horseback riding and fishing.

Fall

BWB Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:02:45 +0000

Fall is a great time to get out and hike and enjoy the beautiful colors.

Winter

BWB Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:08:01 +0000

We have beautiful moonlit nights in the winter.

Introduction

BWB Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:21:52 +0000

We have done most of the construction of the cabins from start to finish. This is a collection of pictures that we thought you might enjoy looking at.

The Ranch

BWB Admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:30:28 +0000

The cabins have been constructed on part of Joanne’s family’s original ranch.

Before construction began

BWB Admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:29:06 +0000

We started our foundations the spring of 1992. We have done the construction from start to finish. My brother Danny & a cousin Larry Luton helped in logging & most of the building process.

We got the entire family involved at times.

The only thing harder than working with concrete must be peeling logs!

Logging

BWB Admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:29:30 +0000

We used our draft horses to pull the logs out.

During the summer of 1992 we went to the timber and got house logs. The logs that were used in the construction of the cabins were fire killed. A forest fire burned the trees in 1988. They are lodge pole pine.

Brad straightening logs out on the log deck. We would skid the logs down to the road with the draft horses and then use a tractor to deck them up. We then had a log truck haul them home.

Hand Peeling

BWB Admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:30:01 +0000

This is the single most difficult job of building a log cabin!

Once the logs were home we cut them to length and hand peeled every one. We also did a lot of log work in the winter. We are peeling these logs however the temperature was below zero which made them almost impossible to peel. We first covered them with tarps and put a heater under the tarps to thaw the logs.