Voting no on this, not because I like the tactic, but because having to carry a log makes someone extremely vulnerable. The limited player base on YO servers tends to make for many bases of few players. In reality all bases should have guards up, and those guards would easily pick off log carriers.
Further, once the MMO comes out, there will be very little griefing on YO servers. They will all be on the MMO servers, and bases on the MMO server should never be safe from raiders unless players make it safer through participation, not relying on structures.