![]() ![]() Well, that's cool and all, but how long would such a structure withstand the elements if the logs weren't treated? In any event, the main reason I posted the link was the building technique, not the method of log treatment. If your chances of winning the Lotto were that high, it'd have a positive EV almost every day. Not to mention that 1 in 100,000's not all that low. If the lifetime risk of arsenic-related cancer (and exposure to arsenic can cause a host of other maladies as well) is 1 in 100,000 just from playing on treated-wood structures, how do you think that compares to living in a house built from the stuff? Since kids don't spend at least 8 hours a day on the playground, I'm willing to bet the latter risk is considerably higher. This building is finished on the inside with heat and air conditioning.Ĭontact: FARM SHOW Followup, Clyde Barnhart, 13637 Angell Rd., Athens, Ohio 45701 (ph 740 592-4203).Īccording to the article ".the lifetime risk of an arsenic-related cancer for children who play frequently on CCA-treated structures could be as high as one in 100,000." How does that compare to the lifetime risk of driving say, to the movies with your kid? He calls it his "lab" and he uses it as a place to do glasswork, metal machining, repairs and inventing. double door, which he uses as a blacksmith shop. It's much easier than building a conventional log cabin."īarnhart has made four landscape timber buildings so far. "Landscape timbers are only about $3 each and one person can lift them without any problem. "You frame out the doors and windows like you would with any building," he says. hole at each end of the timber and then drives pole barn nails down through into the timber below. The inside doesn't have to be covered either, depending on what you want to use the building for," he explains.īarnhart fastens the timbers together by drilling one 3/16-in. Since they're treated, you don't have to paint it. The timber itself is the frame for the building. There's no notching and no framework to the building. "At the corners, I stagger them and let them stick out. long treated landscape timbers which are most often used for flowerbed edging. He calls them "landscape timber buildings." He recently came up with a low-cost, relatively easy way to put up buildings that have a "log cabin look" to them. in entomology and is retired from a career in research. The 88-year-old says the Depression taught him to be frugal and innovative.īarnhart has a Ph.D. And soon we will have ourselves a house, and hopefully have helped some others in this alternative building style.Being born in 1916 may have something to do with Clyde Barnhart's ability to find economical, inventive ways of doing things. I plan on posting lots of pictures, and do's and dont's (hopefully not that many don'ts). Anyway tomorrow, or I guess later today, as it is 3:00am, we will go to Lowes and purchase the landscape timbers for our first wall. Now first let me say I really don't have very much home building experience, so it's a lot of research, and a lot of learn as you go. I have only come across one home that tells how to accomplish this feat, so I decided to start this blog, so that if anyone else might decide to take on this project, maybe we can help. We are even going to construct the interior walls out of landscape timbers as well. At any rate, we discussed, and discussed, and discussed this option a lot, and we finally decided to go with it. And since we can only spend about $400.00 per month, this was very attractive. No exterior siding needed, no insulation, no sheet rock (unless you want it). You simply stack the landscape timbers, and of course secure them in place. The principle of it is the same as log homes. So we were fixing to purchase the 2 X 4 studs to start framing the walls, when I stumble across this landscape timber house. ![]() We have the sub floor built for the kitchen, which is roughly 16 ft X 18 ft. (which may take quite awhile) Anyway, the house we are building is a pier and beam foundation. The plus side, it will be paid for and ours when it is done. We are trying to build our house, one room at a time, as we are paying for it out of pocket. It just so happens, that we own an acre and a half of heavily wooded land, and are currently living in a very small cabin with our 5 children. So I began to search online for landscape timber yard art, and came across a house made completely of landscape timbers. We had been thinking about starting to do some yard art made out of landscape timbers. So my wife and I own a small woodworking business.( We do mostly scroll saw art, however sometimes we tinker with some yard art as well. ![]()
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