Building the Log Home of Your Dreams -- Timber Tech.

Welcome To Timber Tech !

Timber Tech is owned by Mike Jones, President Timber Tech, Inc. (top-left photo, seated) and Dexter Webb, Owner and CEO Tennessee Log Homes, Inc. (bottom-left photo).

Mike is pictured with his wife, Sandee (standing-center), and their children, Shannon (left) and Brent (right). Mike and family operate Timber Tech on a daily basis. Mike has 25 years experience in log home manufacturing and is considered to be one of the USA's most knowledgeable log home manufacturers. Tennessee Log Homes and Timber Tech are proud to help you build your dream.

Take this brief tour to see how we manufacture the Tennessee Log Homes LOG WALL SYSTEM.

Timber Tech is located between Athens and Decatur, Tennessee. The twenty-acre facility has been in existence since 1975.

Timber Tech boasts one of the finest and most up-to-date log home manufacturing facilities in the United States. Timber Tech currently produces in excess of 200 log home packages per year for Tennessee Log Homes.

The first step in maufacturing a quality log home is to use high grade logs with a low moisture content. Tennessee Log Homes carries a huge inventory of top quality cants and allows them to air-dry for many months before being used. We believe this slow, natural process is the best method of drying a log. Our logs generally boast a moisture content equal to or better than kiln-dried logs. Since the tree sap-moisture is removed over a long period of time, the logs are more stable than kiln-dried logs and are less apt to shrink and swell. Shrinkage of the log after manufacturing is minimal, and log settling in the finished home is very slight. Also, checking, or cracking, is much less pronounced than with kiln-dried logs. Tennessee Log Homes maintains a log inventory over 1,000,000 board feet ($500,000.00) at any one time.


Pictured (above-left) are freshly cut logs stacked on sticks to allow air-flow around all sides of the log. After a few months of air-drying, the logs begin to change color (above-center), and after nine months or more, air-dried logs will turn almost black in color (above-right).

Once properly air-dried, the logs are run through the planer and are shaped into one of the various log styles offered by Tennssee Log Homes. Timber Tech's planer is a very precise machine made in Germany by the Michael Weinig Corporation. It is a computer controlled, four-head machine and is accurate to within 1/1000th of an inch. Bottom-right photo shows moisture readings of the planed, air-dried logs to be 17.8% at one-inch deep. Typically, kiln-dried logs are 19% at the surface, 30% at the core.

At Tennessee Log Homes and Timber Tech Manufacturing, we do not pull a customer's logs out of an inventory of pre-cut logs in some warehouse. No, OUR HOMES ARE MANUFACTURED ONE-AT-A-TIME, HOUSE-BY-HOUSE. Our customers need not worry that their logs have been sitting around collecting dust. Each house is cut from freshly planed logs.

		(Top Left) >From the planer, logs are stacked upside down. This allows the certified log grader to see all four sides of the logs as they are fed into the "cut-off line" (Top Right). All defect in each log is marked and removed.
		(Bottom Left) The first end of the log is sawn square. Using the log-layout sheet from drafting, the operator determines which log in the house he will make. The proper measurement is punched into the computer, which measures the log, and the second end is cut to length.

Tennessee Log Homes and Timber Tech Manufacturing subscribe to TIMBER PRODUCT INSPECTION Bereau (TPI), the nations leading lumber and log grade enforcement agency. TPI officials make two unannounced visits to our plant each month to check our finished log home packages. If any logs are found to be below the LOG WALL 40 grading standard, the TPI official can fine the plant, or even shut us down. We are proud that we have a perfect record with TPI. We want our customers to have the best logs. Each log in our pre-cut log home packages carry the TPI LOG WALL 40 grade stamp.

Once a log is cut to its proper length, the dado's (or spline cuts) are made (Top Left). Wherever two logs butt together in our log wall systems, a wooden dovetail spline is inserted. This provides a seal at the butt joints of logs. Logs are pre-drilled for 3/8" spikes or lag bolts. Holes are countersunk (Top Right).
Notches for the log wall corner joinery system are then made in applicable logs. Shown at right is the D-log Saddle Notch being cut. The finished notch is shown at far right. We also offer butt-and-pass and dovetail corner joinery configurations.

Logs are sorted and bundled by vertical position in the log wall system. The first three courses (or layers) are bundled together, then the next three, and so forth. Finding the log you need on the jobsite is very simple.
The finished logs are packaged and taken to the dip-tank where they are soaked in a solution of TIMBOR^�. This process treats the logs with an environmentally safe fungicide to repel penetration of the logs by insects and pests, and to destroy any fungus or insect larva which may be in the log.

The above is a brief demonstration of where and how your Tennessee Log Home LOG WALL SYSTEM is manufactured. We are very proud of our partnership with Timber Tech, Inc., undoubtedly one of the best log home manufacturing plants in the world.