Main entry:

Fickes, Clyde P. (Clyde Phillips), 1884-1987, author.

Title & Author:

Building with logs / by Clyde F. [i.e. P.] Fickes and W. Ellis Groben.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1945.

Description:

56 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Series:

Miscellaneous publication / United States Department of Agriculture ; no. 579

Notes:
Cover title.
Contribution from Forest Service.
"Issued September 1945."
Includes bibliographical references (page 56).
Building the foundation -- Preparing the logs. pp. 1 -- Dimensions of the building. pp .2 -- Framing the corners. pp. 3 -- Door and window jambs. pp. 7 -- Floor joists -- Laying the wall logs. pp. 12 -- Window and door openings. pp. 14 -- Window and door frames. pp. 16 -- Roof framing. pp. 22 -- Partitiions. pp. 23 -- Flooring. pp. 24 -- Interior wood finishing -- Calking. pp. 25 -- Chinking. pp. 27 -- Chinkless log-cabin construction. pp. 28 -- Hewing timbers -- Fireplace framing. pp. 31 -- Oiling and painting -- The finished structure. pp. 35 -- Furniture. pp. 39 -- Building plans. pp. 53 -- Additional information. pp. 56.

Summary:

This publication covers the topic of building with logs and assumes that the reader is familiar with the ordinary frame building methods used where wood is the principal construction material.

Subject:

Log cabins.
Building construction.
Cabanes en bois rond.
log cabins (houses)

Added entries:

Groben, W. Ellis (William Ellis), 1883-
United States. Department of Agriculture.
Miscellaneous publication (United States. Department of Agriculture) ; no. 579.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43242
Call No.: 856; ID:89-B3040
Status: Available