Building a yurt for free/as close as possible?

[sinanskydog]

I started to get some wood from my forest after seeing how you can just trim the sides of branches and have started getting some 1.5 metre or so by 1 inch or so for the lattice wall.

After watching a video, I see how people are using complicated technology to make a circle out of wood, and put holes into it, and frankly I am low on cash and looking for a way to make yurts much cheaper.

Also the prospect of phoning up tons of people for spare wood sort of bothers me a little.

Is yurt making really requiring complicated, expensive machinery or can I do it fairly simply? excluding canvases?

Thank you