Usually a cordwood cabin’s mortar is prone to cracking if it is moved. Ernie Burgener has figured out a method of moving a small cordwood cabin (for short distances). He has devised a set of sturdy skids on which he built the frame. Then he has applied “stay in cross bracing” into the actual walls to stabilize them for an eventual change of scenery. 
This 10′ x 12′ cordwood cabin has been lovingly built out of cedar this past summer. 
Ernie is a northern Wisconsin horizontal log cabin builder and knows a thing or two about how to make a cabin warm, sturdy and safe.
Ernie is going to sell this cabin, so if you are interested please send me an email richardflatau@gmail.com
Ernie farms, logs, hunts, fishes, builds and gardens. He is 80 years old and still going strong. 
The inside shows how the bracing extends all the way through.
The viewer can see from the inside and out that the cabin is well braced. Since it hasn’t been moved yet, we are not sure how it will hold up. When that happens I will report back to the Cordwood Construction Blog page. Note: As of December 2020, it has not been moved.
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If you have questions that aren’t answered on the website you can email me at richardflatau@gmail.com
Readers have requested a brief bio, so here goes:
“Richard & Becky Flatau built their mortgage-free cordwood home in 1979 in Merrill, Wisconsin. Since then, they have written books, conducted workshops, facilitated the 2005, 2011 and 2015 Cordwood Conferences and provided consultation for cordwood builders. Cordwood Construction: Best Practices DVD, Cordwood Construction Best Practices (print) and Cordwood Conference Papers 2015 are the newest publications available from their online cordwood bookstore.” www.cordwoodconstruction.org
Here is a photo of the new Cordwood Construction DVD cover available at https://cordwoodconstruction.org/bookstore
