Tim Bullock is the President of Bullock & Company Log Homes in New Lowell, Ontario and technical advisor for his wife’s company Tamarack Log and Timber Homes Inc., located in Jane Lew, WV.  Tim was a sawmill drive designer for a company in BC until the idea of building log homes came to the fore when reading B. Allan Mackie’s book.

Not content with just building, Tim has also been designing Log Homes for the past 30 years resulting in many outstanding examples featured in magazines such as architectural Digest, Log Home Living and Log Homes Illustrated. It is a passion that cannot be denied and, thankfully, clients have allowed Tim to explore the limits of Log Home Building of which there are none. Anything is possible just as dreams are limitless.

Tim’s involvement with GLLCA started in 2005 where he served on the Membership Committee resulting in a 20% increase in members and will serve in this capacity as a Director for the current term.

I became interested in log building after visiting Anderson Log Homes while vacationing near Leech Lake, Minnesota. I enrolled in the Great Lakes Log Building School. Upon returning to Iowa, I built my first building while continuing a farming operation in southwestern Iowa. I’m continuing to build along with pursing other business interests.

I feel the knowledge and contacts I have gained through the GLLCA have been invaluable to my ability to progress in the log building business. I would hope to contribute to the association in my upcoming term as director to pass along some of the knowledge and friendships I have gained as a member. I also think it will be important to grow the membership by adding new members, along with an added emphasis on retaining present members, plus having past members rejoin to use their experience to move GLLCA forward.

On a personal note, my wife, Julie, and I have 2 sons; Luke 16 and Jake 13. I received a BS in agricultural from Iowa State University and presently hold a position on the board of directors of West Central Coop, a local agricultural entity, with an emphasis on bio-diesel production.

Thank you for asking me to serve on the board of the Great Lakes Log Crafters.  I am honored by this and plan on serving to the best of my abilities.

We are all competitors in one fashion or another; however, we are first members of a great association that can help us all.   My goal as a member first and a board member second is to unite us all in the preservation and growth of our industry.  I hope to do this through marketing efforts that will preserve the art of our craft. I plan to provide information that will help us to make important decisions and to monitor the outside influences that will affect our businesses.  In doing this I hope to identify and provide opportunities that we can use to grow our business.  This I hope will make us as good as the best and better than the rest.  Thank you again.

Personal Background
46 years old
Father of two boys            Outdoorsman
College degree in marketing
Conscious person who is fair, honest and open to change
Not afraid to speak my mind
Have worked in the building trades’ since high school
Trained my own crews

Level of Experience and Qualifications
Licensed and insured builder
Owner of Merritt Contracting, Algonquin Log Homes and Marketing with Merit
Constructed and repaired over 55 fine log homes from 400 sq ft to 11,000 sq ft
Managed commercial and residential building projects from $200 to over a $1.5M
Contracted to repair faux pas created by other builders
Homes featured in local papers and Log Home magazines
Served as an Inspector for log homes
Constructed a 80’ timber framed bridge over Ausuable River
Evolved the business to include restoration and remodeling
Developed a glass blasting and re-finishing business
Experimented with media blasting and created a new method of repairing chinks
Experienced in data base marketing, telemarketing and printing,
Published articles- associations’ news letters and log home publications
12 years in the advertising & marketing business- consumer and business to business.

Memberships and affiliations
Great Lakes Log Crafters Assoc
International Log Home Builders Assoc
National Association Home Builders Assoc
Livingston County Builders Assoc
Michigan Home Builders Assoc

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I have attended the Junior College in Ely, Minnesota studying Natural Resource Technology. My education includes several log home building schools and seminars.  The first school I attended was the Minnesota Trail Bound School of Log Building (1977).  I taught several basic and advanced courses at the Minnesota Trail Bound School.  To further my knowledge, I attended Mackie's School of Lob Building (1981) in British Columbia.  I attend the annual meetings of the Canadian Log Builder's Association (ILBA) serving as a board member more than once.  In 1983, I was a founding member of the Minnesota Log Crafters Association.

Hi:

I am Kay Sellman the Business Manager for the Great Lakes Log Crafters Association.  I am sure you all know my husband, Duane Sellman, a charter member of the Association.  I volunteered to help out the Association in 2001 and have helped with setting up conferences, newsletters, maintaining professional and associate membership records, general correspondence and most recently setting up the GLLCA website.  Duties connected with the website include working with our website designer to maintain the professional builders list, forward inquiries received on the website for log home builders to our professional members and answering general requests for information.  I also send out our professional membership list to the many magazine inquires we have been receiving due to advertising in the Log Home Illustrated and Log Home Living Magazines.

I also coordinate financial reports with our treasurer, Steve Greer.

On a personal note, I have worked for a large mechanical contractor for 27 years and I really like my job.  I enjoy cooking, being with friends and relatives and watching Duane create beautiful log homes.  My hobby is taking my little Pomeranian to agility trails.  She is my little champion with 8 blue ribbons in one year.  I enjoy the outside while snowmobiling and camping.

It is my goal to help make the Great Lakes Log Crafters Association a success and if anyone has any ideas and suggestions, please contact me at (651) 464-6506 or e-mail me at info@gllca.org.