My 046/460s are all ported, and I love em ported, 461 are VG saws. But all of those posts & beams (some 27') were all cut with the 441 & 044. Would have gone must faster with the 460s and square file chain, but I learned about that later.
We just stacked them and held them down with tie down straps. We lost a few of them due to warpage, but it was obvious as soon as you cut them. One of them warped so badly you heard it cracking and it just seemed to implode! I think we only lost 2 or 3 pieces out of 22 that we cut.
To build the cabin we used 8 - 12' posts (4 on each side), 2 - 17' posts (one front & one back, Center), 4 - 20' cross beams, and 3 - 27' beams going front to back.
I adjusted the beam machine to make them all 6.5" X 6.5", except the ridge beam which is 3" X 9.5". The excess wood cut from the ridge beam was used to make the stairs. The tree used to make the ridge beam and stairs was over 50 years old, and about 14-16" in diameter.
We did not have any heavy equipment. We stood the walls up with a hand cranked Rope Come Along. It was a lot of work, but we did it.
All of the Ash trees had blown down in storms, and I feared they would never re grow due to the Emerald Ash bore, so I felt I had to do something with them, and we needed a bigger cabin anyway. I remembered my Aunt's barn was post & beam, and still had some of the bark on the corners of the posts, so I figured what the heck! It is all Ash except for one post which is Cherry. It is a lot easier to drill holes in that one.