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Posted by PeterD on August 10, 2007, 10:33 am
wrote:
>Reid Fleming wrote:
>> There's a little one-story "Lincoln Log" house in my area that's up
>> for sale, and given how every new buyer around here just tears down
>> whatever house that's standing and puts up a f-ugly mc-mansion (gawd
>> I hate those things), I was thinking of making a deal with the new
>> owner to take it apart and cart it away for him.
>>
>> Never having done this sort of thing before, I'm wondering if anybody
>> else has, and what suggestions they might have about doing so.
>>
>> Thanks muchly!
>>
>Yes, I helped take apart the Loomis Tavern in Port Angeles Washington.
>It was in '95, the leaders meticulously labeled every log and were able
>to reconstruct it perfectly. You will need to come up with a labeling
>system and buy a bunch of long metal cutting recipro saw blades to cut
>nails. I think they used tags with wire string on them to label logs.
>You will need a boom truck and of course a digital camera(which we did
>not have).I would say a crew of 3 maybe 4 and a boom operator. TonyG
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Add to Tony's reply:
Take digital photos. Upload them to a notebook, and annotate anthing
that is not obvious on a copy of the photo! The more information you
have the better when it comes to putting it back together. When
disassembling things, I often mark 'joints' with a number, and add a
letter for each part at the joint. (so two logs that attach end to end
may be joint 123, giving 123A and 123B. I mark the ends (as it is easy
sometimes to mix ends and have things not fit right) at the joint if
at all possible. A sharpie works in many cases, stick the markings in
places where the joint will cover them when the item is reconstructed.
Take pictures of each joint. Knwo what a movie 'clap board' is? Make
something like that to label each picture (a small 12x12 whiteboard
works well) and put information such as the joint number, and any
notes ("three pieces, brace and sealing strip" for example.)
Pictures, pictures and more pictures is the answer to making life
easier later when you put the thing back together. You won't remember
much (if anything) from the disassembly phase when you reconstruct,
trust me!
Also carefully measure the foundation, how flat it is, dimensions,
level etc. If the foundation is different when you reconstruct, it
won't go together the same! <bg>
Good luck!
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