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5 year old buck +
Could just put plywood down under the floor.
Cabin restoration (Updated 07-14-2022)
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Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
This is a very cool project, thanks for sharing! It's a good thing there are folks like you keeping nice things like this around, not always easy when evaluating the money involved.
Triple C
5 year old buck +
07/28/2022...Latest progress on log cabin restoration. All carpentry and woodwork is now finished. Next project is for the stone mason to re-chink the logs and rebuild the fireplace.
After much back and forth, I decided to cover the old flooring with new tongue-groove pine flooring in order to make it more useable and seal up any critter gaps that were present in the old flooring. I left the old flooring planks intact and had new flooring put down over the old. As stated earlier...definitely a money pit just to preserve the history of the original logs and flooring. But, once mason finishes and we have it refurnished, I think I'll be glad I completed it. I'll post pics of the article the local paper did on the cabin back in the '70s. Pretty cool story.
Bonus track...Pole barn/Shop is finished except for a little wiring still left to do. 40x26 with twin 14ft lean-to's and one of those poured in concrete to use as a porch. Still have a little trim work left.
After much back and forth, I decided to cover the old flooring with new tongue-groove pine flooring in order to make it more useable and seal up any critter gaps that were present in the old flooring. I left the old flooring planks intact and had new flooring put down over the old. As stated earlier...definitely a money pit just to preserve the history of the original logs and flooring. But, once mason finishes and we have it refurnished, I think I'll be glad I completed it. I'll post pics of the article the local paper did on the cabin back in the '70s. Pretty cool story.
Bonus track...Pole barn/Shop is finished except for a little wiring still left to do. 40x26 with twin 14ft lean-to's and one of those poured in concrete to use as a porch. Still have a little trim work left.
Triple C
5 year old buck +
Thanks @roymunson! Few updates since I last posted:
Chinking is 95% finished.
Footing poured for rebuild of chimney. I had decided to go with a pre-fab and rock around it to make it look good but after much thought...decided to go back with a masonry fireplace. Just couldn't bring myself to the point of putting a pre-fab in a restored log cabin with original logs that date back well over a century.
Replaced window shutters with new ones and used new pine doors with windows to add a little more light in the interior. I'll post more pics as they build the fireplace.
As for the new barn…had asphalt put down from where I ended it on the service entrance and ran it to the barn.
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omicron1792
5 year old buck +
Really cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Troubles Trees
5 year old buck +
Very nice work Triple C, everything looks so nice man!
hillrunner
5 year old buck +
That looks really good, ready for the next 100 years.
hillrunner
5 year old buck +
Great work
cedar ridge
Yearling... With promise
Looks AMAZING! Great work on this. Love it.
