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Bears Den is a home-based business,
operating from a log cabin near Pierre, SD since 1996. Bears
Den Log Homes offers pre-cut, custom log home packages that
include milled, double tongue and grove, red pine logs with
saddle-notch corners, full length spring-loaded thru-bolts
and on-site log construction help for owner-builders and
local contractors.
Mike Sines is a retired Police Captain
and experienced log home builder working in North and South
Dakota and surrounding states.
Ann Sines is a free-lance writer and
quilt-maker. She creates custom quilts, teaches quilt
classes, and produces the newsletter.
Bears Den Newsletter is thoughts on
quilts and logs, books and dogs, brilliant insights, acts of
stupidity, and practical solutions tumbled together in no
particular order. To receive the newsletter, enter your
email address at right and click SUBSCRIBE.
Report from the Jobsite --
June, 2009
Mike picked up Christian Sabatino at
the airport in Rapid City Tuesday, June 2 and headed for the
jobsite of Jason and Jennifer Erickson's
new log home near Lead, South Dakota.
Their logs were machined
at the Beaver Log Homes mill in Michigan and arrived on four
fully loaded semis. The foundation was prepared by Loren Lewis
of LL Construction, Nisland, SD. Lewis is the general
contractor.
Don Sparks, who works with Beaver Log
Homes, drove out to work with the crew the first week.
June 16 the log walls for the first floor were stacked and
the crew began building the second floor. When they've got a
place to stand, they'll continue stacking log walls.
Enercept panels for the roof are scheduled to be delivered
Thursday, June 18.
Final blue-prints are complete for Aaron and Sonya Faken's
log home in Minot, ND. Built of 10" logs, their home will include three
bedrooms on the main floor, with a loft to take advantage of
the view. As the owners/operators of Adventure Divers, Fakens' plans include a three-bedroom apartment over the
garage for divers passing through on their way to projects
all over the upper Midwest.
They are getting bids from
sub-contractors to finalize their plans before ordering
logs.
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To get the best results and provide
the best service, Bears Den treats all plans as custom
plans. Gathering information and sending preliminary
drawings back and forth for approval usually takes two to
three months. If you would like to begin construction in the
upcoming building season, work on the plans needs to begin
soon. A plan deposit and rough ideas are all that is needed
to get started.
Plan deposit amounts are based on the
size and complexity of your project. They usually run from
$1.50 to $2.50 per square foot of estimated living space.
The plan deposit is credited to the log package cost when
the order to cut logs is placed.
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Mike Sines, Owner
Bears Den Log Homes
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Bears Den
Newsletter
An eclectic mix of articles
and essays that I record as I stumble through life.
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90 days I've got a lot of stuff. Other people would
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Mato & Sophie
The business name came from our
first Alaskan Malamute, Bear. Now Mato, which means Bear in
Lakota, and Sophie rule our lives.
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