08-16-2022, 08:19 AM
Yeah Charlie, I can understand the memories. Those "Barnwood Builders" have taken down many log cabins that were sheathed in siding and finished walls to the point that people living in them didn't realize there was a log cabin underneath all that. Newspapers used as insulation was a common thing. MY SIL and her husband lived in an old farmhouse in upstate NY and took some of the newspapers off the walls and donated them to a local museum. Their house had a hidden room that was used as part of the underground railroad. You all were living in history....
It is interesting what these guys find when they take a log cabin down. One guy has a passion for finding marbles that rolled between the floor cracks, others find old tools, some used to make that very cabin. Can you imagine what it takes to square up and notch a 40' log with nothing but hand tools? Then do it so perfectly that the notches on both ends fit tight onto the logs below it. Then hand saw floorboard that are over an inch thick that are flat and smooth.... I get tired just thinking about it....
It is interesting what these guys find when they take a log cabin down. One guy has a passion for finding marbles that rolled between the floor cracks, others find old tools, some used to make that very cabin. Can you imagine what it takes to square up and notch a 40' log with nothing but hand tools? Then do it so perfectly that the notches on both ends fit tight onto the logs below it. Then hand saw floorboard that are over an inch thick that are flat and smooth.... I get tired just thinking about it....
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD