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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.  


 

   
 


Mike Sines, Owner
Bears Den Log Homes

 


 

   

 

Bears Den Newsletter

An eclectic mix of articles and essays that I record as I stumble through life. No advertising, no pop-ups. I write every day and in 90 days I've got a lot of stuff. Other people would probably throw it away. I email it to you if you sign up.

 

 

Mato & Sophie

Mato & Sophie

The business name came from our first Alaskan Malamute, Bear. Now Mato, which means Bear in Lakota, and Sophie rule our lives.

 

 Sophie and Mato

 
 

 
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