Friday, May 2, 2025

Great Lakes Log Crafters Association Meeting in Land O’ Lakes, WI

April 25-26, 2025 members of Great Lakes Log Crafters Association met in Land O’ Lakes, Wisconsin. GLLCA members Dan and Mary Wait of Frontier Builders, Inc, assembled a great list of speakers speakers talking about Epitome Composite Foundations, Wood treating with Booge, H Windows, Building Codes, and insurance issues impacting construction/manufacturing sectors.

The most interesting topic, was Robotic Solutions, Inc. providing software for log and timber manufacturing industry and ABB Robot Demonstration: Design to Log Panels. Of course a group of handcrafted log professionals were certain to have varying opinions on using robotics in handcrafted log building, but the presentations were informative and interesting for all.

While the robotic portion of the conference was in Frontier Builders, Inc., yard, most of the speakers and conference events were held at the historic Gateway Lodge in a nostalgic timber structure that dates to the 1930’s. The annual conference typically rotates between locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan every year, but at the annual meeting the consensus was to return again to the Gateway Lodge for the 2026 conference. An educational fundraising build to jointly use robotics and handcrafted techniques is being discussed to explore how old and new technologies can be used together in the name of crafting logs. Find more information at www.gllca.org

Questions on maintaining the legacy of your wood structure? Give us a call- 1-800-359-6614

Pickup in store - or ship to your door -in whichever woods your cabin dwells.

 Schroeder Log Home Supply, Inc. 

1101 SE 7th Avenue

Grand Rapids MN 55744

1-800-359-6614

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