![]() The insulating properties of the solid wood were a great advantage over a timber frame construction covered with animal skins, felt, boards or shingles. As the original coniferous forest extended over the coldest parts of the world, there was a prime need to keep these cabins warm. They developed interlocking corners by notching the logs at the ends, resulting in strong structures that were easier to make weather-tight by inserting moss or other soft material into the joints. Log saunas or bathhouses of this type are still found in rural Finland.īy stacking tree trunks one on top of another and overlapping the logs at the corners, people made the "log cabin". a small gabled-roof cabin of round logs with an opening in the roof to vent smoke, to more sophisticated squared logs with interlocking double-notch joints, the timber extending beyond the corners. Their log building had undergone an evolutionary process from the crude "pirtti". accomplished in building several forms of log housing, having different methods of corner timbering, and they utilized both round and hewn logs. Although their origin is uncertain, the first log structures were probably being built in Northern Europe by the Bronze Age (about 3500 BC). Historically log cabin construction has its roots in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. 1912 photo of a log cabin in Russia by color photography pioneer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky ![]() He noted that in Pontus (modern-day northeastern Turkey), dwellings were constructed by laying logs horizontally overtop of each other and filling in the gaps with "chips and mud". Log cabins have an ancient history in Europe, and in America are often associated with first-generation home building by settlers.Ĭonstruction with logs was described by Roman architect Vitruvius Pollio in his architectural treatise De Architectura. Tin Snips, for cutting airplane fuel cansīrace, for drilling (didn’t appear in the film, but he probably had one), with various bits.A log cabin in Ruka, a popular ski resort area of North Ostrobothnia, Finland.Ī log cabin is a small log house, especially a less finished or less architecturally sophisticated structure. Round Point Shovel, for gardening and cutting moss for his roof.īricklaying Trowel, for cementing the fireplace. Other tools seen in Dick Proenneke’s filmĬrowbar, for un-boarding boarded up windows after winter. Wide-bladed small cold chisel, used to tack moss between the cabin logs for insulation Smoothing Bench Plane (number 4 Stanley?) Oil Stone ( honing stone), and perhaps a Lansky puck, used on his axe, hatchet and draw knife Keyhole saw, to saw the elaborate latch and lock for his Dutch door also likely used to saw the crescent on the outhouse door and wooden spoons. ![]() Short Panel Saw, approximately 12 inches long, and with an aluminum handle Handsaw (ripsaw) to saw logs into planks ( 26” Disston D 8?) ![]() Large Crosscut saw (36 to 40 inch one man tree saw) Hammer, framing claw hammer, for hammering nails and chisels L) Flat Socket Chisels he made the handles out of spruce for his various chisels K) Drawknife, for debarking, flattening and shaping logs and poles H) Augers, for building furniture, the saw horse, and door latch (1 ½ inch wide auger and other large auger) These are the tools that Dick brought to build his cabin and test himself:į) Chalk and Chalk Line, for marking logs for boardsįiles, including saw files for sharpening his tools He also filmed Alaska, Silence and Solitude, and The Frozen North in addition to Alone in the Wilderness, which shows the process of building his cabin. Here is a fragment of Alone in the Wilderness, the film about his time out there : He returned to Twin Lakes on May the next year to build a small cabin and spend more than 30 years living there.īecause he made his cabin, in a remote area, by himself, and only using hand tools I am curious to know what methods and tools he used. During July 1967, he harvested spruce logs for his cabin. In 1968, Dick Proenneke (1916-2003) set out to build his cabin in the Alaskan wilderness with only hand powered tools.
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