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    Log Cabin Technology

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    The origin of the log cabin dates back to northern Europe in the Bronze Age, around 3500 BC. When Europeans settled in America, they brought techniques of building log cabins that were common in Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia. Early American settlers commonly used wattle and daub construction, weaving wood branches between upright stakes and chinking the walls with clay or mud. Over time, settlers began using log notching techniques instead of wattle and daub, interlocking stacked logs to form stable walls without additional framing. Famous early American log cabins included the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and residences of Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore, and James Garfield.

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    The origin of the log cabin dates back to northern Europe in the Bronze Age, around 3500 BC. When Europeans settled in America, they brought techniques of building log cabins that were common in Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia. Early American settlers commonly used wattle and daub construction, weaving wood branches between upright stakes and chinking the walls with clay or mud. Over time, settlers began using log notching techniques instead of wattle and daub, interlocking stacked logs to form stable walls without additional framing. Famous early American log cabins included the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and residences of Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore, and James Garfield.

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    The origin of the log cabin dates back to northern Europe in the Bronze Age, around 3500 BC. When Europeans settled in America, they brought techniques of building log cabins that were common in Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia. Early American settlers commonly used wattle and daub construction, weaving wood branches between upright stakes and chinking the walls with clay or mud. Over time, settlers began using log notching techniques instead of wattle and daub, interlocking stacked logs to form stable walls without additional framing. Famous early American log cabins included the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and residences of Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore, and James Garfield.

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    Log Cabin Technology

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    The origin of the log cabin dates back to northern Europe in the Bronze Age, around 3500 BC. When Europeans settled in America, they brought techniques of building log cabins that were common in Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia. Early American settlers commonly used wattle and daub construction, weaving wood branches between upright stakes and chinking the walls with clay or mud. Over time, settlers began using log notching techniques instead of wattle and daub, interlocking stacked logs to form stable walls without additional framing. Famous early American log cabins included the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and residences of Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore, and James Garfield.

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    History

    The origin of the log Cabin is uncertain. It is probable that it began in northern Europe sometime in the Bronze Age (c. 3,500 B.C.). By the time Europeans began to settle in America, there was a long tradition of using logs for houses, barns, and other outbuildings in the Scandinavian countries, Germany, and Northern Russia. The techniques of how to build log cabins came to America with these immigrants or settlers.
    Wattle and Daub the 1st Chinking Techniques The wattle and daub technique was used already in the Neolithic. It was common for houses of the Linearbandkeramic and Rssen cultures of Central Europe, as well as in North America Mississippian Culture. Its usage dates back at least 6000 years. . The walls could be made with wattles, woven from brushwood or withies (thin wands) coppiced from nearby woodlands. The Log Cabin was built in such a manner utilizing local woodland materials and clay or mud for chinking .

    Stake and Weaving to Log and Notching


    The wattle is made by weaving thin branches (either whole, or more usually split) or slats between upright stakes. The wattle may be made as loose panels, slotted between timber framing to make infill panels, or it may be made in place to form the whole of a wall.

    Neolithic Structures to Log Cabins


    The following pictorial examples show the evolution of wood structures of the Neolithic period to 1800s pioneer style cabin.

    Famous Log Cabins

    Figure 7. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace

    Figure 4. Neolithic House Figure 2. Wattle and Stake


    The Log notching acts as the weaved branches in the wattle by also providing a stable wall and interlocking the logs with one another as from one stake to another as with the wattle.

    Stone Tools
    Figure 8. General Ulysses S. Grant

    Figure 5. Frontier Log Cabin

    Metal Axe

    Figure 9. President Millard Fillmore

    Figure 10. President James Garfield

    Figure 6. Modern Log Cabin Figure 1. Wattle and Daub Figure 3. Log Notching

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