Kentucky Camp Cabin A Fixup            

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April/May, 2013

We recently identified a worrisome crack in the exterior adobe wall of Cabin A that requires immediate stabilization. Cabin A is the northern-most building at the site which has not been rehabilitated but we still want to keep standing!
The crack runs vertically through the northern corner of the building and has allowed a section of wall to bulge outward about four inches around the north window and door.
Notably, when the Forest acquired the property in 1989, the rear of this house had been covered by several feet of earth by the slumping of the hill behind the house. One of the first projects at the site after acquisition was to clear the earth from the house, and create a stabilized wall to prevent further hill slumping.


New bricks were made at a special work day on April 4th.


Mark and Chris preparing the adobe - dirt/clay from near Fairbank, sand from a wash near the Abbey.


Bob (recent new member) and Steve (caretaker extraordinaire) filling in the forms


Donny (NSF employee) scraping and Steve troweling


The adobe makers: Bob, Chris, Dave (NFS Archeologist), and Donny


On May 1st and 2nd, David (Mud Man) Yubeta and volunteer Tam inspect the partial takedown of the wall


Tam and Mark stabilizing the base and "keying-in" adobe bricks at the corner. (apologies to Mark for photo)


On the May workday, May 11, Chris begins the final tuck pointing.
A sacrificial coat will be applied before the summer rains.


Everyone here helped in some way during May 1st and 2nd.
From the left: Gregg Sasek, Kathy Makansi, Kim Yubeta, David Yubeta, Ron Parrish, Chris Schrager, John Weiss, Tam Do.

No hair nor straw was used in the making of the adobe bricks.


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