| If you ever wanted to enjoy living in a log cabin this | | | | patterns, keep the logs dry at all times. The back wall |
| is for you! | | | | is all stone so the rain, snow, and sun can reek havoc |
| I always wanted to build a log house, but for one | | | | on that all it wants! |
| reason or the other the need to live and my desire | | | | This was a very labor intense build by hand and little |
| could not come together. | | | | help, but the out come was so satisfying and |
| Then one day I had an idea, why not put an addition | | | | rewarding! The look is very 1800s with a touch of |
| on and make it out of stone and logs! | | | | 21st century Tec knowledge, vinyl windows and poly |
| This would be my own little log cabin that I always | | | | filler for joints made it warm and cozy. |
| wanted. I needed an extra bed room so why not? | | | | The cost was very affordable because all the |
| I began building the house in 1983 and added on in | | | | material was free except shingles, windows rafters, |
| 1993 and 2003 (2003 log addition) | | | | and sheeting. |
| Finally my dream was going to come true. After | | | | Estimated 100 + tons of stone and 75 logs that |
| some research and numerous in curries about logs | | | | were all hand cut, and laid with love and compassion. |
| from manufactures, I decided to go back in time and | | | | Inside the fire place is10' wide by 14' high and 14'' |
| do it the way they use to in "the Olden Days". After | | | | thick out of sand stone that was harvested in the |
| all I self taught my self to hand cut sand stone with | | | | area of my travels in western Pennsylvania. |
| a Hammer and Mason chisels, why not do the logs | | | | The entire house is heated with a wood fired boiler in |
| my self! | | | | the basement that my dad and I built out of junk |
| Laying up 3-6 feet of hand hewn foundation stone I | | | | that was lying around. The water is pumped through |
| began to lay up the logs only on 3 sides. The reason | | | | pipe into the old cast iron registers that someone |
| for this is I used pine logs that were dead for a few | | | | was throwing away! All but the log addition has piping |
| years yet were not rotten or bug infested. I needed | | | | in the tile floor and the fire place. We keep it about |
| to keep them out of the weather as much as | | | | 75-80 degrees in mid winter with no extra heating |
| possible, with over hangs and prevailing weather | | | | cost. |