Shinnlinger I am glad you posted, I was wondering about the 2X4 or 2X? when you are building a building do you frame it up without drying the 2Xs at all? Do you dry your sheeting first or do you put it up green also? The questions that I asked is pertaining to building a house to live in and not just an out building. The idea of nailing one side and then nailing the center of the baton was a good one, that would help stop splitting as the wood expanded and contracted according to the atmosphere. I built a coal house about 4 years ago or longer and I built it straight from the saw mill without any drying and it is still in good shape with no problems. Does it make any difference how the growth rings is turned to help make it more stable when you are sheeting it and also how they are turned when putting on the batons?
There is a rough built house not far from where I live that the man that built it framed it up just like a regular house [with rough framing] and when he sheeted it he used rough lumber but instead of running the boards up and down he ran them parallel and then he put the batons on over the cracks between the boards. It looks like a log house and has been up for I guess close to 20 years and it still looks fine but I was concerned about the batons being a place to catch water and causing rot but seemingly that hasn't happened. The way that he built it though got me to thinking if you built a house that way and instead of using a baton between boards, if you cut a rabbit on each side of the board but one of them on the front side and one of them on the back side and had some of the rabbit showing between each course and filled that in with silicon caulking. and did the nailing just up above the edge of the bottom boards rabbit, do you believe that would work? It would for sure make it look more like a log house done that way. Any suggestions are welcome from anybody.
There is a rough built house not far from where I live that the man that built it framed it up just like a regular house [with rough framing] and when he sheeted it he used rough lumber but instead of running the boards up and down he ran them parallel and then he put the batons on over the cracks between the boards. It looks like a log house and has been up for I guess close to 20 years and it still looks fine but I was concerned about the batons being a place to catch water and causing rot but seemingly that hasn't happened. The way that he built it though got me to thinking if you built a house that way and instead of using a baton between boards, if you cut a rabbit on each side of the board but one of them on the front side and one of them on the back side and had some of the rabbit showing between each course and filled that in with silicon caulking. and did the nailing just up above the edge of the bottom boards rabbit, do you believe that would work? It would for sure make it look more like a log house done that way. Any suggestions are welcome from anybody.