My wife and I had the pleasure to spend four days in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. This is the area near Houghton/Hancock and is on the way to Copper Harbor, Michigan.
Chain saw carving bench and cordwood wall
Camp Cordwood near Lake Linden, MI
We stayed at the home of long time cordwood builder Wayne Higgins. He took us around to a number of fine cordwod buildings and introduced us to the owners. We also undertook to help and learn on a cordwood building site that was using Lime Putty Mortar. More information on Lime Putty Mortar’s use in cordwood construction in a future post.
Two story cordwood with large round pine logs
My purpose in writing here is simply to publish a few pictures of the cordwood we saw as a kind of cordwood eye candy posting.
Bathroom bottle ends and shells
I hope you enjoyed the images.
Richard Flatau Cordwood Construction Resources
Merrill, WI 54452 Flato@aol.com www.daycreek.com/flatau
Cordwood Information and books
http://www.daycreek.com/dc/html/dcrflatau3.htm
Tags: Chapter 9 - Cordwood
If you are in Europe in July 2010 you could join a cordwood roundhouse workshop in Poland. The project is lead by Tony Wrench a well known roundhouse builder who has built homes all over Europe. You can get details about the workshop at http://greenhamlet.com?whatson
Regards, Oliver
This is my first glimpse of Cordwood Construction and it’s definitely peaked my interest. Although we have been looking at building with straw bales for years this is now another alternative for us to consider. Being in the Maritimes, though, I think the insulation factor of straw bales will win out.
Thanks for the awesome pictures.
At least some bloggers can still write. Thanks for this blog…
Abnormally well executed piece!!