gable-logs

Updated: June 14, 2025

"On the third day, Cudjo notched the logs, and on the fourth we raised the walls up to the square. On the fifth, we set up the gables and rafters, which, you know, is done by shortening the gable-logs successively, as you go upward, and tying each pair of them by a pair of rafters notched into them, at the ends, precisely as the wall-logs below.

Mayne Reid - The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness