[arturocamembert]

I can only speak to my own experience of doing this professionally in northern climes without power tools for ~5 years, but both of your suggestions are foreign to me. I take this as a nice reminder that there is lots of regional variation to this craft around the world, which isn't surprising.

Even then, building a barn with dried pine or hemlock is much more tedious and incurs many more trips to the sharpening wheel. It is in no way easier.

[ofalkaed]

The joints used in dried are dictated by the operations which are easier to do in dry wood and are not influenced by what the wood will do as it dries. Dried you get to use a saw with considerably less kerf and a thinner plate, augers can be more aggressive and take better advantage of lead screw and spurs. Chisel work will be a bit slower when chopping across the grain but not harder and if it incurs many more trips to the sharpening stone you are most likely trying to chop that mortise as you would in green wood.