This is the best way to plan a large cabin if you intend to erect one. In your hand and proceed to experiment by building miniature log cabins. The ground with a pile of little sticks alongside of you and a sharp jack-knife Study these diagrams carefully, then sit down on This is called "chinking the cabin."Īnd wind out, the cracks may be "mudded" up on the inside with clay or These cracks may be stopped up by quartering small pieces of timber ( Y and W, Fig.įitting these quartered pieces into the cracks between the logs where they are 162 E, while theįormer, on account of their unevenness, will have largeĬracks between them like those shown in Fig. Logs can seldom be made as tight as one built with the straight spruce logs of the virgin forests. With this arrangement the logs may be rolled off without much trouble as they are used.Ī log cabin built with hardwood logs or with pitch-pine That the logs may be more easily handled they should be piled up on a skidway which is made by resting the top ends of a number of poles upon a big log or some other sort of elevation and their lower ends upon the ground. To build a log house, place the two sill logs on the ground or on the foundation made for them, then two other logs across them, as shown in Fig. 166) so that their ends fit snugly together and are also securely locked by their dovetail shape. When these are locked together they will fit like those shown at Fig.Īway up North the people dovetail the ends of the logs (Fig. When fitted together these logs look like the sketch marked 164 F which was drawn from a cabin built in this manner.īut the simplest notch is the rounded one shown by A, B, and C (Fig. 164 J, made to fit into a triangular notch shown by 164 H. Or you may use the Pike notch which has a wedge-shaped cut on the lower log, as shown by Fig. This is called after General Putnam because the log cabins at his old camp near my farm at Redding, Conn., are made in this manner. Making the General Putnam joint shown in Fig. Hold the logs together, as shown by 162 E or you may only flatten the ends, You may cut flat notches like those shown in Fig.
To make the logs hold together at the corners of ourĬabins it is necessary to lock them in some manner, and the usual way is to Of our own, a log club-house for our gang, or a log camp for our troop of Remember that every time you hurt yourself with an axe I have a yellow ribbonįor you to wear as a "chump mark" but, joking aside, we must now getĭown to serious work of preparing the logs in order to build us a little cabin
It without chopping off their toes or splitting any one else's head open. Of them could wield an axe by the time they were eight or nine years old and do General Grant, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Billy Sunday-all More skill and more muscle, and it is time to begin to handle the woodsman'sĪxe, to handle it skillfully and to use it as a tool with which to fashionĪnything from a table to a two-story house. Of shack making, you are older than you were when you began, you have acquired Boys you have now passed through the grammar school
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