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