A hand-scribed log barn with a red metal roof in summer, forest behind and open ground in front

Northwest Montana

Hand-scribed log barns and post-and-beam structures.

“We take it from the raw log to the finished product.”

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What we do

One crew, from standing timber to a finished building.

Worthnest scribes and raises log and timber structures in the Flathead and across northwest Montana — barns, shops, cabins and homes. We also move the dirt, cut the road and pour the pad, which means a project doesn’t stall in the gap between trades.

We work direct for the owner. We don’t take cost-plus work — we price a job, and we build it.

We also take on remodels and log restoration — the Polebridge cabin had stood unfinished for twenty years before we redesigned it and took it through to finish.

Log Work

Full-scribe, chinked, post-and-beam and timber trusses. Logs selected, scribed and fitted by hand.

Site Work

Excavation, access roads, building pads and utilities. The ground gets ready before the logs arrive.

Development

Raw parcel to buildable site — siting, clearing, drainage and the sequencing that keeps it moving.

“I’m a goal-oriented builder.”

Loyd Jessop

That is why we quote a job rather than run it cost-plus. You get a number, a scope and a crew that owns the result — not an open meter.

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Log stair and stalls inside the barn
Scribed log stair, Cotton barn
Four of the crew raising a framed wall by hand
Raising a wall, by hand
Chinked log wall with a hand-cut corner notch
Chinked wall and corner notch, Polebridge
The Livingston Range at last light, snow on the peaks above dark forest

Northwest Montana

Building in the Flathead?

Tell us where the site is and what you have in mind. We’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a job for us.

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