I’m a fan of timber frame and post and beam construction. Wish that I had the talent of Jacob the carpenter.
There’s a log house in my family that dates back to 1840. One of my cousins built a modern house that incorporates the log house into it. Like Jacob’s house it was built without nails or any other metal, just wood.
You and me both. I would have to have straight edges, laser levels, and God knows what else to make good joints. How someone can do that by eye is simply amazing to me.
There’s a log house in my family that dates back to 1840. One of my cousins built a modern house that incorporates the log house into it. Like Jacob’s house it was built without nails or any other metal, just wood.
It was probably harder and more expensive to get nails back in those days, and perhaps a lot of people simply wanted it done that way for the craft of it.
It certainly appears more sturdy built than would a regular sawed board and nailed structure.