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Log Cabin Terms 1. Single pen - A log dwelling consisting of one room. 2. Double pen - Any log house consisting of two log rooms. 3. Dog Trot House - A double pen log house separated by an open passage way covered by a single roof. 4. Saddlebag House - A central chimney double pen log house. 5. Hand Hewn Log - A log that has been flattened on the sides with an adze or broad axe. 6. Hand planed - The process by which lumber was smoothed before machinery. 7. Ceiling Joist - The beams which the upstairs floors are laid on. 8. Pit Sawn - The process of cutting lumber from trees with a two-man saw; one man on top of the log and one man underneath in a "pit" on the other end of the saw. 9. Chink - The space between the logs. 10. 1-1/2 Story - Typical term for an Appalachian style log cabin meaning that your upstairs log wall is only about waist high You get your usable height from a peaked ceiling. 11. Caplog - The top log on a log house which the rafters rest on; also, called plate log. 12. Pole Rafter - A rafter left in the round, unhewn.
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