The first thing you could get or make is a log/timber transporter, for getting your logs/timbers out of the woods to the site where you'll cut your joinery.
One great tool is a log lifter like this:
This is a small one that can be used by hand or there are bigger ones at this site:
Click here for link to Future Forestry products. Once at your site you can make a timber cart as mentioned above.
Here is one I made but need serious improvement:
Here is one a customer made after seeing my design and his worked much better than mine:
Once you have your timbers near your site and need to move them around you can just put a roller on top of a sawhorse like this:
With the roller attached to the base plank and the base plank screwed to the sawhorse top it makes it very stable and will work well to move timbers.
Here is a shot of us using a roller and sawhorse at a customers site to move a 7x10x22' timber off the mill and into the pile:
Once you have a set of rollers on base planks and using saw horses as bases you can move lots of heavy timbers by swinging and balancing them.
Good luck with your research.
Jim Rogers
