They Thought His "Double-Wall" Rock Cabin Was Crazy — Until the Blizzard Hit
Building a solid stone cabin on the frontier is incredibly labor-intensive and usually results in a freezing home, as solid stone conducts the cold straight through to the interior. An eccentric pioneer solved this by building something that baffled the town. He constructed a standard, small log cabin, but then built a massive, continuous wall of loose, un-mortared river stones completely encircling his home, leaving a crucial two-foot gap of empty air between the rocks and the logs. He essentially placed his cabin inside a giant rock basket (a Gabion wall). The town mocked his "paranoid rock fence." But he had engineered the ultimate aerodynamic wind-breaker. When the terrifying "Black Norther" arctic gale struck the territory, the 70mph winds violently sucked the radiant heat right through the chinking of the exposed wooden cabins in town. But when the freezing gale hit his loose rock wall, the jagged stones shattered the wind's velocity instantly. The air gap trapped the dead air, and the logs never felt a single draft. His cabin remained perfectly silent and tropically warm.
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