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