Originally Posted by
Ronj
I don’t think the pioneers and other generations that built log cabins to live in and raise families left gaps of five to six inches between the logs knowing that they would have to be filled with mud or something else and mud to seal them from the winter weather. Barns for livestock were built with gaps between the logs but not cabins. I saw a couple of log cabins many years ago that were over a hundred years old at the time. All the gaps between the logs were filled with mud and dirt.