05-09-2019, 10:47 PM
Somewhere in my travels around the net researching alternative building methods I came across houses being built of sawn boards but otherwise like a log cabin. The boards overlapped and were notched at the corners like in a log cabin. I don't recall them being tongue and groove. My vague recollection was that this was somewhere in asia or the pacific (not North America) and that it was "native" architecture updated to accommodate sawn lumber.
Didn't the early people of the PNW build houses out of planks? I think they did and were able to do so without sawn lumber because of the kind of trees they had which they were able to split into giant shakes. I remember that the doorway was typically a roundish hole that a person could fit through but not a bear. If my recollections are accurate, I wonder how they attached the planks. Stands to reason it would be log cabin style.
Didn't the early people of the PNW build houses out of planks? I think they did and were able to do so without sawn lumber because of the kind of trees they had which they were able to split into giant shakes. I remember that the doorway was typically a roundish hole that a person could fit through but not a bear. If my recollections are accurate, I wonder how they attached the planks. Stands to reason it would be log cabin style.