08-02-2022, 01:58 PM
Anybody remember Lincoln Logs?
Charlie, those small "logs" look like skewers...I bought a package of them years ago for some now forgotten project...might have been for telephone poles or maybe fence posts.
That large log at the eaves should have been place on the ground as a mud-sill. Our garage, in the backyard, had mudsills, but they're pretty-well gone, not surprisingly, as the structure is over 180 years old. They were rough-hewn squared logs, about 12"x12" in size.
A properly-sized needle file would likely make easy work of creating notches for interlocking the logs together....the deeper the notches, the less chinking required.
My grandparents, when the came to Canada, got a 300 acre land grant from the Federal government, on the condition that they would clear some set amount of the land and also grow crops, so that they could feed themselves. They also had to build their own house, which was, of course, a log cabin.
Among their options, one of their choices was to grow peanuts, which apparently did work. I was somewhat surprised by that, as the location was in Golden Valley, near North Bay, Ontario...not exactly what we'd call the far North.
Wayne
Charlie, those small "logs" look like skewers...I bought a package of them years ago for some now forgotten project...might have been for telephone poles or maybe fence posts.
That large log at the eaves should have been place on the ground as a mud-sill. Our garage, in the backyard, had mudsills, but they're pretty-well gone, not surprisingly, as the structure is over 180 years old. They were rough-hewn squared logs, about 12"x12" in size.
A properly-sized needle file would likely make easy work of creating notches for interlocking the logs together....the deeper the notches, the less chinking required.
My grandparents, when the came to Canada, got a 300 acre land grant from the Federal government, on the condition that they would clear some set amount of the land and also grow crops, so that they could feed themselves. They also had to build their own house, which was, of course, a log cabin.
Among their options, one of their choices was to grow peanuts, which apparently did work. I was somewhat surprised by that, as the location was in Golden Valley, near North Bay, Ontario...not exactly what we'd call the far North.
Wayne