No Joke - Log Home Chinking Is Best Left To Women
I came across a humorous post at a website that deals with such manly things as log home building and restoration, and the post sets the record straight when it comes to women and log home chinking. Chinking [wikipedia] I learned is the stuff that goes between the logs on log cabins. When I think of log homes, let alone building one, I picture these rugged flannel shirt wearing, lumberjack guys manhandling logs and the stuff between the logs. I just always looked at it as a guys thing like working under the hood of my car. But here, in one fell swing of an axe he’s chopped that image down to a stump.
I had to laugh as I read the article as he deftly turned upside down the notion of chinking being a man’s job. This guy lays out 5 reasons why women are better at log home chinking than men and does it in such a way that I’m sure that there will be a number of those lumberjacks grumbling. Exposed.
Checking out the site further I learned that chinking a log home is no easy task either. Further still theres a great deal more to building a cabin than I had ever thought about. I always just pictured Lincoln Logs like I used to play with as a kid but the site dives into quite a bit on the subject. Most of the posts deal with restoration how-to such as replacing a rotted log.
But I got to hand it to him, he throws it out there: Men, if you want your chinking done right she is the right man for the job. Check out www.BearfortLodge.com for all the details.
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