Mistress GoaT - June 25th
13Hey, hey, hey
Today is National Log Cabin Day! Log Cabin Day brings you back to a quieter, simpler, more rugged era. A couple hundred years ago, life was far more rugged. Americans moving West (west at the time may have been Ohio, or Tennessee) found an untouched wilderness, filled with pristine forests. They built their homes out of logs. These log cabins were solid, long lasting, and served them well.
Oh how I love log cabins, I find the rustic feel very relaxing - spending time in the mountains, preferably in a log cabin centers me.
If I ever win the lottery, you will find me here!
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Log cabins, yes or no? Ever stay in one? Have an interesting story?
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/image Lincoln Logs
@mfladd hhuummm you old enough to remember this commercial? Lol
@tinamarie1974 No, but I really want a vintage 40’s, not 70’s one of these for my kitchen. I bought one on ebay not too long ago, but the seller cancelled the transaction without a reason, and would not answer emails. I blasted them in the feedback.
(yes, there is a way to leave feedback to a seller cancelled transaction, but it is very hard to find it)
@mfladd do you collect vintage syrup bottles?
@tinamarie1974
LOL…No, I just like certain vintage kitchen things that catch my eye. This would go in my 1963 Coke crate shelf I have on the wall.
@mfladd ooohhhh, now it makes sense. A 1963 Coke crate, kinda cool!
Sure. A log home would be nice.
@daveinwarsh I really would love a small, but nice log cabin! That thing is monstrous - too much upkeep and cleaning.
@mfladd It’s gotta be large enough for the theater room, bar, gourmet kitchen, rec room, space for family & guests, workshop and indoor pool.
My uncle actually built a “log” cabin (honestly, they were telephone poles, because even way back then, actual harvest-able trees for logs the size needed were no longer available in northern Wisconsin and he somehow got a deal on a couple hundred 20 ft utility poles) and did it for real - notching the poles, very few nails were used, lots of wood joints and peg-work, pine pitch sealant, it was really beautiful. His family and his friends and all their kids worked on it for about three years. It had some modern concessions - a cinder block foundation, electricity and running water, but only a wood burning stove. Two bunk rooms, with double bunks made from the split logs. It was the weekend lake cabin, but still, pretty impressive. Made me much more appreciative of my Lincoln Logs.
Two of them on my grandmother’s farm. Original, ancient ones that were finally mended by using the barn when it finally fell over. Prior to the fixing up of them they just looked old and tired. Now they look nice.
One is 2.5 stories high with a basement with a stone foundation. The other one is 2 stories but only one room on each story. It is the older of the two and was the original house.
Neither had any plumbing until the mid 1960’s or so. Water from a spring that was diverted from going into the stream that started on the property via a small pit and then it went into the stream. In the smaller cabin the small bathroom that was put in was under the hole in the ceiling that was there to let the heat rise from the wood stove. Well the other thing that rose was kids going upstairs to peer down through the hole to torment people using the toilet.
Plus one outhouse attached to the side of the smaller log cabin. It had a metal roof. The other, bigger log cabin was originally covered in fake brick roofing looking stuff.
I’ll have to hunt for photos in the morning.
@Kidsandliz those are fantastic! It’s great they were able to be fixed up and preserved. What part of the world is that?
@Kidsandliz beautiful! Thanks for sharing
@stolicat PA mountains
They seem nice, so yes. I’ve never been in one. Interesting story: I’ve seen a log cabin from the outside.
@eonfifty you promised us an interesting story but gave only a factual sentence. Where’s the rest?
/image where’s the beef
@mollama
Edit: Interesting story: I’ve seen a log cabin from the outside. The cabin is located underneath a six-lane steel arch bridge beside a river.
Hope that helps the lack interest
@eonfifty it did, thanks
Like @daveinwarsh, I’d like log cabin luxury. Preferably something like this on the slopes of Deer Valley where it’s ski in/ski out. (Note: Only $9,998,000)
http://www.bestskiproperty.com/listing/11900225-bald-eagle-club-real-estate-for-sale-at-7841-falcon-ct-park-city-ut-84060/
@cinoclav i was going to get it, but there is no school district listed…so close.
@therealjrn Says it right there on the listing page:
SCHOOL INFORMATION
District Park City
Let me know when I can come visit.
@cinoclav Wait, just 6 bedrooms? How can I squeeze into that tiny space?
@cinoclav um, that is beautiful!
@therealjrn Yeah, I see where you’re coming from. This bedroom seems a little tight.
@cinoclav @therealjrn WTF? No vestibule? Pass.
During my youth, I once got to stay 2 weeks in Colorado at something like 6-8k feet. In an original log cabin that has once been the 2 room local schoolhouse.
Used mostly for summer at that time. Electricity and plumbing had been added in, and a bathroom, but heat only came from the cast-iron (if I remember) stove in each room.
Wonderful place. Gorgeous area. Esp nice to hang out there in summer. At that altitude, nights were quite chilly.
My house is made of logs, but they took a trip through the sawmill before construction. I have several more houses growing in my woodlot.
I own a cabin outside the Smokies, however, it’s cedar planks and not logs. Logs require chinking regularly to keep the outside out and the inside in. It’s not easy to find people that still know how to chink logs these days. Here’s a shameless plug https://cabinonacreek.com/
@allergycheryl visited the Smokies YEARS ago, absolutely breathtaking
@tinamarie1974 I just got back yesterday. They are absolutely beautiful in all seasons. Just can’t figure out why God decided to decorate them with so much poison ivy and so many chiggers!
Instead of a log cabin, I live in a log home. Tomato, tomahto, right? 16 years I have lived in a log home. And boy, have I learned some lessons. You need to like wood, A LOT. And be ready for things to move. And corners to not really be square. The biggest lesson we learned is to not buy a used log home from someone who isn’t OCD about maintaining it. And be ready for a fair amount of maintaining it.
But as much as there have been hard knocks in owning it, our location is beautiful. The logs are beautiful. Our acreage is peaceful. The view out the dining room to the west is a sight to behold, especially sunset in October. Ours is smaller, 1800sft about. I wonder if I can find a picture…!view from the Dining room to the west]1
@JnKL In what general region do you live?
Can you say more about the maintenance and upkeep issues you have encountered?
A+ post. Would read again.
@JnKL
Woah! Gorgeous.
@Limewater we live in eastern Iowa just outside of Iowa city. And to be fair, log homes in the cornbelt face a constant battle with humidity. It makes for much more work to keep the logs protected.
@JnKL wow beautiful
@JnKL I assume you mean that you have to keep the logs coated with something to prevent expansion and contraction and/or wood rot. Is this correct?
@Limewater rot is the biggest threat.
@JnKL Those cabins up in Alaska on that TV show get some kind of fungus too. So much so that they have just burned one down and built another. Raw wood needs a sealant of some sort.
@Limewater our project from years ago. Home inspection when we bought the house didn’t catch the rot. and this is one of the better walls.
@JnKL oh my gosh! Terrible.
@JnKL You should blame someone for that.
@JnKL @mike808 don’t give him any ideas
/giphy trouble
@mike808 I have been neglecting the blames. Gonna have to get on that!
@JnKL @mike808
/giphy annoyed
