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Rainbow People (Hardcover)
Christina Allen; Charles Long
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Writer Charles Long has a well-earned reputation as one of North
America's self-sufficiency experts. More than 20 years ago, he and
his wife, Elizabeth, fled city life and conventional employment for
the country, and have flourished there ever since. Now back by
popular demand Long's The Stonebuilder's Primer is a highly
readable account of the couple's successful effort to build "a
house that will outlast anything made of wood."
Developing a compromise method of stone construction that is
both simpler and truer to the stonemason's art than the popular
slipform method, the Longs built an aesthetically satisfying home
of stone on a limited budget and no previous construction
experience. In this classic how-to book, the author describes the
complete building process in clear, easy-to-follow steps and, in so
doing, dispels the myth of difficulty that surrounds stone
construction.
Now completely revised and updated, B. Allan This classic is
still considered the best book ever written on making a full sized
log home. This enlarged eighth edition, revised in 1997, is filled
with numerous major construction improvements, and clearly shows
the novice and experienced log builder how to select logs, plan
both the site and financing, and then build a handsome log
structure from the foundation to the ridge cap.
The concept of modern log building was born 25 years ago with
the first edition of Building with Logs. All who loved log homes
could, for the first time, learn how to build one. With over
100,000 copies sold, this book inspired thousands of owner-built
homes.
Building with Logs covers: financing, the site, planning a good
home, acquisition of logs, how to fall a tree and trim it, storage
of logs, safety, foundations and basements, first logs and floor
joists, hewing and the broad axe, cutting a round notch, sealing
between the logs, setting allowance, gable ends, electrical wiring,
finishing touches and much more.
The author has continued to teach, design and build. His
schools have trained thousands of good craftsmen, some of whom
formed companies to build internationally, with the result that the
world-wide standard for excellence in log building is now a
"Mackie" log house.
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