I would completely agree with you on the fact that if this was my house I would not be even thinking about it. At the beginning of my posting I said it was for a 14x16 cabin that we would use occasionally to go sleep in to get away from the norm. There are many log homes that are legitimately decent size but not huge that were built on stones that are still in the same shape that they were built in many years ago. And this is a much smaller cabin not using giant logs like what I see in some of the videos that you posted links for which are in some cases 40 ft long and up to 10,000 lbs with a diameter of 18 to 24 in. The logs I'm using will be 16 to 18 ft long because the entire cabin is only going to be that size inside, completely off grid with no electric or water because my house is a short walk away but I do plan on putting an outhouse first so during the Builder we have somewhere to go. I'm having a hard time telling whether or not you are being sarcastic or getting frustrated with this conversation. Maybe I'm in the wrong place, I'm not sure if my questions that I've asked are being taken as I'm trying to get something for free? If that's the case I thought that what this form was about helping others but maybe it's just strictly for legitimately large log homes that if I were building I would have slowly pay to take the course but being what this is just a small off-grid cabin on our 40 Acre Farm I've built many things in the past including homes so I'm not taking building this lightly and I understand everything has to be compacted but at some point the line has to be drawn as to the cost of it because the trees are free and all I'm cutting down are forked trees which will get blown down in the wind anyways at some point and I'm leaving all the single trunked maple trees standing