The “Skid”
is two or more logs laid on the ground, upon and across which the other logs are piled up for use. Common-sense will direct you to select only the timber which comes nearest being straight, and also to cut the logs considerably longer than the length marked on the plan.
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Fig. 93 shows the plan of a simple cabin, 6 feet wide by 10 feet long, inside measurement.
Figs. 93 and 94.
Fig. 95 is a rough sketch and plan of two such cabins under one roof, with a hallway, or “gallery,” as they call it in the South, between them. Fig. 96 is a plan of the saddle-bag. In this sketch you will see how your house may be enlarged, at any time, by the addition of a duplicate house, with a roofed space between the two.
Figs. 95 and 96.
First decide upon the exact spot where you intend to