Interesting facts about log cabins

There are many important facts to be learned about log cabins. It would be great to know that they are friendly to the environment. Knowing this can help those who are not yet fully convinced to build a log house, to finally do it. This is due to the thermal mass characteristics of wood that often exceed the minimum energy efficiency code criteria. Also, almost all the materials used by most log house producers are renewable.

There are two types of log houses, the handmade log houses and the milled log houses. Among the log houses already built, only 10% are those built with logs individually handcrafted with the use of hand tools. A log house, which is made by hand, is made from logs that have been peeled but still retain their original natural appearance unchanged. On the other hand, 90% of the wooden houses built are made from milled logs. These milled logs, also known as machine logs, are used to build milled log houses. These logs have gone through a manufacturing process that removes the natural characteristics of the tree or log, creating lumber that has uniform appearances and sizes.

Do you know that in 2003, which is the most recent year that much of the numbers on log homes were actually filled in, the states that are most popular when it comes to building the most log homes were Texas, Pennsylvania , New York, Ohio? , Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Orlando, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Also in the same year, the popular states that are home to the largest number of log home growers or manufacturers are Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Idaho, Tennessee, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New York. These are the states you can go to to find your home producer or even your home location.

Aside from Lincoln and Jackson, as mentioned above, there are said to have been 5 other US Presidents born in log cabins, including James Buchanan and Adlai Stevenson. This is why log cabins became a symbol of the humble beginnings of American politics. William Henry Harrison made use of log cabins along with the “Whigs” to show Americans that he was a man of the people. Some of these US presidents made use of the fact that they lived in a log cabin or worked in one to lead them to victorious presidential elections. Stevenson, in fact, after declaring that he was born in a log cabin and confessing to his bad beginnings, won a landslide victory over Dwight Eisenhower.

Interestingly, there is now a toy available in the market called Lincoln Logs which is fast becoming a favorite among youngsters. It is obviously named after Abraham Lincoln, who must be the most famous figurehead associated with log cabins. The toy has a variety of notched rods that can be snapped together, allowing its owner to build a miniature-only scale structure of a log cabin.