"Stacked" Cabin Is Built To Last

"Stacked" Cabin Is Built To Last AG WORLD 30-5-21 Bill Taylor built a 2-story, 480 sq. ft. cabin that's so solid even a tornado might have trouble knocking it over. He simply stacked 2 by 4's flat on top of each other, nailing them together. The method is called "cribbing" and was used for decades to build grain elevators. Taylor uses the lower floor of the little cabin for his woodworking tools and the upper floor as a playhouse for grandkids. It took 9,000 linear ft. of 2 by 4's, a 50-lb. box of nails and a lot of hammer work to complete the cabin. "I laid it out on Feb. 17, 2005 and by the end of the fall, I had it done," says Taylor. "I designed it as I went. I never knew what I was going to do until I did it." The first floor is 14 by 16 ft. with a 7 1/2-ft. ceiling. The second floor is cantilevered out two feet on one side for an area of 16 by 16 ft. On the opposite side, Taylor brought the wall up 2 ft. before cantilevering it out 18 in. to provide a built-in seat. The ridge pole of the roof is about 16 ft. from the ground. "It got to be sort of an obsession," admits Taylor. "Usually I would add 1 1/2 to 2 ft. to the walls. One day I worked most of the day and added 4 1/2 ft. to the walls." On the lower half of the cabin, 2 by 4's overlap flush at the corners, but as the wall height progressed, Taylor began extending the overlaps out by four inches or more, giving it more of a log cabin look. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bill Taylor, 15026 Highway 52, Fort Lupton, Colo. 80621 (ph 303 908-6697).

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