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.
I remember a friend in Yellow Springs, PA, had an addition put on his home by Amish workers and his joints looked like this. Not nails or screws were used.
A friend builds post and beam structures, he employs steel templates for tracing out his joints, uses a 3 foot "slick", big arse chisel and a wood mallet to do the roughing then smaller ones for finish, looks similar to his joinery. Works of art no question.
Grandfather's island cabin had one on an inside cornerand it had two more steps and built turn of the century. huge 100 foot long redwood logs. They called it a "Finnlander joint, still can't get a sharp blade into it.
At 17 years old in 1978 I helped my uncle build a modified A frame log cabin. A pair of McCulloch Chainsaws were used to cut out the logs and used on a portable sawmill. They were toung and grooved to fit together with a simple end joint for fitment. Chainsaw fitment and almost 50 years later it is just as solid as the day we built it.
impressive work
ReplyDeleteI’m thinking power tools were used.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering why they didn't put a foundation under that fine log work.
ReplyDeleteLooks like ground contact under those shavings.
Slaps logs:
ReplyDelete"That ain't going nowhere"!
Dick Proenneke would be proud.
ReplyDeleteSlow here...at 1st, I was all "HEY! How do you assemble that?!? Then, I was "OH, just stack it!!!" n sheeit. Locked together like a MOFO, when done!
ReplyDeleteEscape the ghetto did ya?
DeleteI don't think that's a cabin, I think it's a wooden box, for planting perhaps.
ReplyDeleteGood eye.
DeleteI remember a friend in Yellow Springs, PA, had an addition put on his home by Amish workers and his joints looked like this. Not nails or screws were used.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a dovetail. What is it called?
ReplyDeleteCompound Dovetail
DeleteA friend builds post and beam structures, he employs steel templates for tracing out his joints, uses a 3 foot "slick", big arse chisel and a wood mallet to do the roughing then smaller ones for finish, looks similar to his joinery. Works of art no question.
ReplyDeleteGrandfather's island cabin had one on an inside cornerand it had two more steps and built turn of the century. huge 100 foot long redwood logs. They called it a "Finnlander joint, still can't get a sharp blade into it.
ReplyDeleteAt 17 years old in 1978 I helped my uncle build a modified A frame log cabin. A pair of McCulloch Chainsaws were used to cut out the logs and used on a portable sawmill. They were toung and grooved to fit together with a simple end joint for fitment. Chainsaw fitment and almost 50 years later it is just as solid as the day we built it.
ReplyDeleteI had a set of Lincoln Logs when I was a kid.
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