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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Log cabin URL's, long list
  • Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 22:21:10 -0800

We have an old cabin on our property. It's about 12 x 16 and I'd say a good
150 years old. The logs have never been treated/sealed and they look just
about brand new. I'm thinking they are Doug Fir. There's not any kind of
pest damage. We did have to knock a few dozen old wasp/hornet nests down
and shoo out the bats but we'll be using it next summer (it's right by the
creek in a real pretty meadow setting). That is after we do a lot of brush
clearing since we got yowled at down by the cabin by a mountain lion a
couple of weeks ago!

The outbuildings are all old log buildings also. Some of them are madrone
and are hard as a rock! You can't hammer anything into them, you have to
drill and use screws. I learned the hard way <g> when I converted one into
a small greenhouse a couple of weeks ago. Good thing I did as it is down in
the 20s at night now and a lot of my plants are used to coastal weather
where "cold" is in the 40s <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: WF Smith <WarrenSmith AT PalmettoBuilders.net>
My
> Grandad's house had a smokehouse built of logs in 1825 in the backyard
which
> were sound until Granny tore it down in a landscaping project a few years
> ago. I can say with certainty that no preservative of any kind was ever
put
> on that wood. I think old growth timber was denser and tougher
>






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