In places where they do a lot of logging we do have real log homes. We rented this one in North Dakota.

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These are built off site, disassembled and reassembled on the customer's lot. These were the tract home version of a log cabin with a simple joint

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Back in the olden days they used a more sophisticated joint that sheds water and lasts 100 years or more

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In retrospect I am guessing they predrill the electric after the initial fitting of the logs when they take it apart for delivery.


Greg Fretwell