We drag our truck-bed trailer (1 ton chassis) behind the tractor into our property or surrounding forest, staging it in an accessible area if we need to skid logs. After dropping the standing-dead tree or trees, we buck on site or skid (but as little as possible!), fill the bucket on the ground and load the parked trailer from the tractor until full. Sometimes we can park the trailer next to the downed tree and simply roll the rounds of mainly Doug Fir, Birch, Larch, and some Rocky Mountain Maple right up a HF motorcycle ramp into the bed. We then rehitch to the trailer and either fill the bucket with rounds, but usually rocks and boulders for my .5 and drive back to the shop area. We wheel the Craftsman 27T log splitter out and split right out of the trailer and into my truck for transport back to my home
, or we simply stack into the 10' "bays" of the lean-to off the shop if it is to stay at the cabin.
Wood that stays at the cabin is seasoned a minimum of three years, two years if it goes to my place.
We split the wood for the cabin over several splitting parties, but it never touches the ground...we split right into the bucket and transport over to the cabin deck. We roll the hand-built wood racks to the stairs at the end of the deck and load them from the tractor bucket, then roll them into place on the deck for the winter.
Pictures of our racks being built can be found in my thread history.
Handling wood multiple times sucks, so we do as little of this as possible.