Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner helps, from left, Rowan Wisher, Gavin Baker and Cooper Pelc cut a saddle notch as Schreiner's eighth-grade history students construct a log cabin on ...

This produces a milled log look-alike, complete with saddle-notch ends, that is close to indistinguishable, once installed, from the walls of actual milled log homes (milled logs are cut to be ...

Builders raised walls by stacking logs and joining them at the corners through notching techniques: half-dovetail, V-notch or saddle notch. Logs ranged from large to small and from unaltered, ...

The last 10 joists, supporting the front porch, are notched differently to allow overhang for more floor space and better protection from rain, using simplified saddle notches over the porch girder.

There are the saddle notch and the dovetail type fittings. Ashcraft has made quite of few homes and works with any type of design or material depending on what the customer wants.