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The 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 woul
by mattlondon 2y ago
The 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.