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> However it was still a lot of work to cut the wood (log cabins required you to square all the logs - round logs will roll off each other and make for large ga
by throw0101a 2y ago
> However it was still a lot of work to cut the wood (log cabins required you to square all the logs - round logs will roll off each other and make for large gaps
Square logs are not needed if you notch your round logs:
* https://www.logcabinhub.com/log-cabin-notches/ https://www.logcabinhub.com/log-cabin-notches/
- mattlondon 2y agoThe notching is great for the hypothetical 100% circular log, but there will still be undulations and curves and twists and weird bumps and lumps etc that would make for quite large gaps between layers. You would need to either flatten/groove the entire length of the log, or find some other way to fill the gaps. I am no expert but I have vague recollection of watching westerns etc where there appears to be clay packed into the joint between the logs which I guess would make a decent join.
- AlgorithmicTime 2y ago[dead]
- bluGill 2y agoThey did use clay, but the logs were still squared off so they fit. Westerns were generally filmed by people who had never lived in or seen a log cabin (or if they did the walls were covered with something else and so they didn't know what was inside) and so they are not a good guide to what was really done.
- bee_rider 2y agoIn their diagrams it looks like some of the logs still have flattened tops and bottoms for some of the designs. Doesn’t the average thickness of the wall depend on the flatness of the logs? (If they are perfectly round geometry-universe cylinders, I guess they will only be touching along a one-dimensional line).
- bluGill 2y agoThat is a modern take. Even back then they would have known it was not a good idea. People in the past were not stupid, they knew it was a bad idea to save too much labor.