just for a rundown on what you see here: (a bit of repetition from earlier)
This is initially to be where the cheese is made, and where my receiving station is. Later this will serve as my store, with other operations to be housed in another building to be built in the future.
This is a log building (not a log cabin) built in the Alpine style (interlocking passed corner joints, square logs, chinkless construction, posted ridge beam and hung rafters) which is quite a bit different from the log building style used in the Eastern United States.
Architecture is typical of what you would find in an agricultural building in the alpine and pre-alpine regions of most of the Canton of Bern (rough, unfinished logs, very generous roof overhangs)
We hewed the wall logs by hand from white pine logs. Eastern white pine is, in many ways, the closest thing we can get to the Alpine fir they use in Switzerland.
Other timbers are salvaged barn timbers from an old timber framed barn I dismantled.
The roof is decked with siding from this same barn