Log home

[TraditionalTool]

The pole cabin has a frame and insulated wall inside of the logs, completely sealed from the logs. Notice how thick the walls are?

That's an odd design. Might as well use log siding at that point, or "milled logs". For me anything that is milled and/or run through a moulder/shaper produces a piece of lumber, IMO.

Now, the pole cabin uses poles that were machined round, so kinda similar to me. Once you remove the natural profile of the tree and especially after you cut it up into smaller pieces, it's not a log any more. It is timber or as I point out in some cases no more than lumber. You will see mills advertise d-shaped logs, with an soft arch on one side and flat on the inside...I often wonder where do they get those d-shaped trees from?

Nothing wrong with timber framing, IMO, which I would do readily before I would use some milled and/or moulded/shaped logs. In fact I plan to build a carriage house with timber frame after I get the log house in place.