Log cabin

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I am planning on erecting a 100+ log cabin and would like a recipe for an easy reliable mortar I can make myself in a 5 gallon bucket or something.It is not a big cabin and will be only one story.Has anyone made mortar using sheep wool? They used hog bristles and horse hair in the mortar in pioneer days.I cannot believe there is not a more economical way of mortaring a log cabin than the $1500 to 2000 it cost the last time I had one done.Also does anyone know a good source for cedar shakes for the roof here in the Midwest? I bought my husband a froe but I know he will not have time to make those shakes. Thanks, Terry

-- Terry Lipe (elipe@fidnet.com), March 17, 2002

Answers

I don't know how much "perma-chink" is now but, it would be a much better insulater. You may be against it. That's fine. It's only a suggestion.

-- Katie S. (cashcrop90@yahoo.com), March 17, 2002.

Hi Terry,

I found the neatest web site yesterday... You sound like just the person. I bet they would even give you some advice. Here is the site. I would make it a link, but i dont have chucks computer brain....LOL

www.rusticloghomes.com

It is the coolest thing I have ever seen....

-- Kristean Thompson (pigalena_babe@yahoo.com), March 17, 2002.


Yes I have been to this site before. I would love to have that water wheel next to the cabin.If I cannot get my husband to make those shakes I bet it would be harder to get him to build a water wheel.Terry

-- Terry Lipe (elipe@fidnet.com), March 17, 2002.

When I was growing up on the farm, we used cement. Now Perma Chink is the stuff to use because it is flexible and insulates too. http://www.permachink.com/

-- al (yr2012@hotmail.com), March 18, 2002.

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