Came across this thread, and I've got lots of questions for anyone who might have answers: My woods are mostly far too rough in terrain and too steep to consider using a tractor. With a great deal of effort, I have been able to use the DR Powerwagon on some of the property, but some of it is just too steep for the Powerwagon to come back up. Have rolled the thing on a couple of occasions and that's not really a good thing to do.
I wonder if anyone out there uses winches or some other type of equipment to get logs out of rough woods. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. There are huge amounts of firewood that I haven't been able to access.
"or some other type of equipment"
ONE draft horse - though this is probably not what you wanted to think about (-:
There are still some folk who do this, SOME could almost be described as "hobby loggers", they just like working the woods with horses.
That doesn't mean they're available for exploitation, but you might be able to have them get wood out for quite a bit less per cord than anyone else would do it for.
Option B; Cables, winches, chains, but you are probably looking at a LOT of length for that, i.e. CO$T.