SPECIFICATIONS FOR A LOG HOUSE. 



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lookouts, braces, or trusses together and 

 bolt same with Yz inch bolts, where needed. 



The log joints are to be chinked with 

 oakum, ram packed with caulking tool to 

 make cabin tight. Supply enough extra 

 oakum so owner may have it repacked after 

 logs have shrunk one season. 



Make door and window frames of 2 

 inches pine, planed ; rebate on inside for 

 screens of window and outside for screen 

 of front door ; rebate outside for sash and 

 inside for front door ; rebate for inside 

 doors one side. 



Doors to inside to be made of ^x6 

 inch pine planed one side. Put 1^x5 inch 

 chamfered battens on one side; 2 cross bat- 

 tens and one brace batten ; nail batten to 

 boards with wrought iron nails, so to clinch 

 same. Place half strins of one inch birch 

 saplings over joints. The front door to be 

 made of I V2 inch pine, surfaced one side. 

 and framed as shown. Put half strips of 

 one inch birch saplings over inside joints. 



Birch saplings to be sawed in halves and 

 to have bark left on. Place 1^ inch thick 



sash in top of door and hold in place with 

 Yz inch birch sapling strips. 



Hinge doors on wrought iron T-strap 

 hins-es. Supply each door with wooden 

 latch, and operate with rawhide string. 

 Supply each door with iron lock and key. 



The sash to be 1 1 / 4 inch thick pine. Two 

 wrought hinges each sash. Rebate sash at 

 center and hook shut with heavy wire hooks 

 and eyes, one at top and one at bottom. 

 Hold open with wooden bar attached one 

 end to sash by staple, and other end to 

 sills over iron pins. 



Screens % inch thick. No. 14 wire 

 mesh, hung on 2 wrought hinges, and held 

 closed by wooden buttons. 



Lay floor of house and veranda of ^6x4 

 inches pine, matched and planed. Cut 

 joints only on sleepers — smooth butt joints. 



Lay roofboards of %x5 inches pine or 

 hemlock strips, laid with one inch space. 

 Lay in filling logs over top olates with 

 small logs. Shingle roof with 16 inch 

 shaved spruce or pine shingles ; lay 5 inches 

 to the weather. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY ANGELLO BREWER 



SETTING OUT THE DECOYS. 



