Swedish Cope Log Homes

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What makes a Swedish Cope log home unique? Swedish Cope logs are round on the inside and outside. The top is also left round. A half moon shaped groove is cut into the log along the bottom. This concave groove provides overlapping one log to the next when the log wall is stacked and gives this log style it’s name, Swedish Cope.

The log corners of a Swedish Cope home are full saddle notch. When the corner of the home is viewed, the end of each log is visible. The other common method is butt and pass corners where every other log end is exposed. Swedish Cope homes only stack with the full saddle notch corners.  Our Swedish Cope logs  have a consistent diameter down the entire length of the log. The log sizes come in either 7, 8, 9, 10, or 12 inch diameter. The logs can be hand peeled to provide a draw knife pattern surface, upon request.

Log Samples with Sizes

The Swedish Cope log shells can come either random length or precut with the door and window openings and the corners premade. Different log sizes yield different log stack heights. Most of the log shells are between an 8 and 9 foot high wall. Taller wall heights are available upon request.

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For most log homes we recommend the 8 inch log size or larger. About 90% of milled log homes are built with logs of up to 10 inches. Very few are 12 inch log diameters.

A popular addition to Swedish Cope log packages is the log roof system. The log roof system typically utilizes a 10 inch or 12 inch log size and includes the ridge beam, purlins or rafters, and log trusses (as per plan).  If you desire more exposed timber in the roof extra members can be added.

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If a floor plan is extra long or wide sometimes an interior log wall is incorporated into the plan. Occasionally we have even constructed homes with all interior log walls for the partition walls.

It usually takes about 6 to 8 weeks to get the logs and other materials ready to ship to the job site so planning ahead is essential. There is also a separate delivery charge for the logs and other materials.

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Any projected costs, cost estimates, material costs, and estimated construction/ building costs, are only the opinion of Cowboy Log Homes and are drawn from our experience. Every home is custom tailored to meet our individual client's wants and desires. The construction of a log or timber home is based on two primary costs: material provided by the log home company and construction costs contracted with Cowboy Log Homes as the builder or another builder of the customer's choice. Final costs are obtained and contracted with each respectively. Cowboy Log Homes is simply the "glue" that helps bring these two together to provide a final culmination of a customer's project. *Please note floor plans may differ some from photo or elevation. The level of log shell pre-cutting depends on what customer orders.