First you need to site out the place for the cabin. Then you quickly build an open faced shelter. Then a sided - lean to having a sloping roof of poles covered with brush, grasses, and clay. The settler went to work by him, self unless he had a teenage boy that would cut down trees and logs as straight and uniform in in size as possible, in lenths required for the sides. Ends and gables of a cabin comily from 16 to 20 feet long and from 10 to 16 feet wide. Each pioneer had a job in building the log cabin. First you would build the foundation of four big logs to make it,then you would add a chimmney. It took at least six or seven people to build it. It took at least three people to lift up the logs, and at least one person to make the shingles, then it would take another man to make the notches here are some different types of notches the v notch, the saddle notch, and the half dovetail notch, and another person to make the floor. When a wall or log was rolled to a pair of them they notched the underside near each end, so that it fit snugly upon the ends of the cross logs and, if possible left little or no space between itself and the one beneath it. Most of the time after the walls have been put up. and the ridge pole and rafters, or longitudinal roof poles, had been put up. It was the owners job to finish the cabin. He had to chink the walls with slints of wood held in place by clay, moss, or crude lime morter.
