And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Very nicely done. Those shelves adjacent to doors is very handy feature - nice to put stuff down to manipulate door mechanism. I wish I were talented enough to build the same for a ranch cabin build. An 8' x 10' with covered front porch would be awesome !
Cordwood construction is very straight forward - we built one using the discarded butt ends of telephone poles, cut off before they were creosoted (we got them free to haul off). That was about 30 years ago and the building still stands. We did the thing with the bottles too, creates nice high-lites.
The other thing to note CW is that oriented this way, end-on, and with the mortar, the cordwood won't burn - it's highly fire resistant. Something to think about in PG&E land.
Very nicely done. Those shelves adjacent to doors is very handy feature - nice to put stuff down to manipulate door mechanism. I wish I were talented enough to build the same for a ranch cabin build. An 8' x 10' with covered front porch would be awesome !
ReplyDeleteCordwood construction is very straight forward - we built one using the discarded butt ends of telephone poles, cut off before they were creosoted (we got them free to haul off). That was about 30 years ago and the building still stands. We did the thing with the bottles too, creates nice high-lites.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing to note CW is that oriented this way, end-on, and with the mortar, the cordwood won't burn - it's highly fire resistant. Something to think about in PG&E land.
DeleteLots of thermal mass too.
ReplyDeleteI'm always surprised that those don't develop lots of cracks as the logs expand and shrink.
ReplyDeleteOne word, termites. Maybe they don't have them there.
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