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AMERICAN
RESOURCES, Inc., doing business
as
the American Resources Group®
374
Maple Ave. E., Ste. 310,
Vienna, VA 22180
Phone: 703-255-2700 ♦ Fax:
1-800-808-0160
info@lookouts.us
Firetower Definitions
D-6
cupola: The first U.S. Forest Service standard, the prototype constructed on
Mount Hood in 1915. This was a 12'x12' frame house with windows on all sides and
a glassed-in second story.
D-1 cupola: First constructed in 1922, having a 14'x14'log cabin with framed
glass cupola.
R-3 log cabin with cupola: Had hand-hewn dovetail-tenon notched corners.
L-4 cabs: 14'x14' frame cabs were made to live in and could be placed atop tall firetowers. Earliest models have a gabled shingle roof and heavy shutters. Those
built in 1933-1953 have hip roofs, with bolts from extended ceiling joists
instead of 2"x2" pine struts to hold the shutters open beginning in 1936.
L-5: 10'x10' cab.
L-6: 8'x8'
Aermotor towers: Heavy galvanized steel 7'x7' towers from 34 to 175 feet tall,
built by Aermotor of Chicago.
R-6 flat roof cab: Tarpaper-topped cab constructed of plywood
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