Employment History

Idaho, New Homestead Log Homes 2010 - Present

Don Leith 641-347-5678  http://newhomesteadloghomes.com/

Build any size Log Homes across the country and live on site or off site; I am available to build your next home. Worked with owner in building a 5,000 square foot 8 inch Swedish Cope log home with 4 dormers.

 

Idaho Springs, Colorado Jeremiah Johnson Log Homes 2009-2010

Dennis Anderson 303-570-1243  http://liveinlog.com  

Head Log builder. Hand Scribed Natural Logs into turn key Log Homes. Custom side jobs for beds, trusses, mantles.

Big Bear Lake, California Brad Lindley Log Homes 2004-2009

Brad Lindley 909-584-7358  http://www.lindleyloghomes.com/

Built and Notched Log homes from start to finish. Worked with Sierra Log Home Company and Rocky Mountain Log Homes. Completed side jobs for custom, chairs, mantles and base boards.

 

Cohasset, Minnesota Alaska Log Structures 2002-2003

Greg Anderson 907-344-5647  http://www.alaskalogstructures.com/

Helped in building yellow cedar and western red cedar logs for the walls and sitka spruce for the roof logs, the ridges and purlins. The logs were between 18 inches on the small end and 36 inches on the butt end. I did extensive notching and scribing for this company.

 

Grand Rapids, Minnesota Dennis Louge Creative Concept Construction 2003-2004

Dennis Louge  218-244-4304

Helping in building New construction and remodeling homes. Dennis was a really fine craftsman and really pushed for perfection in every detail and I learned a lot from this employer.

 

Grand Rapids, Minnesota Paul Durocher / Building Contractor 2001-2002

We did mostly remodel work and some new construction doing houses start to finish including the cement work.

 

Grand Rapids, Minnesota   Al Sibly of Legnedary Log Homes 2000-2002

I helped build log homes with the kind of logs that are milled flat on two sides and were hand peeled on the other two sides. Al Sibley also had a Mill, so we cut and peeled all of our own logs and built houses from start to finish along with providing log kits for other contractors. I traveled a lot during this job and helped build a couple of houses in Colorado and Wisconsin. He liked me working for him so much he asked me back to work to help build his retirement home and repairs on previous houses he had built .We also made a lot of fancy deck railings out of Natural aspen from Colorado.

 

Cohasset, Minnesota Kris Prestidge / Building Contractor 2000-2001

Helped with Roofing, remodeling and framing houses. This experience taught me a lot about working hard.