Mudflap,
I don't think you can really appreciate what you have in your lap there just yet. I would cut them and get them racked up as fast a I could then come back and check the bark on a weekly basis. Right now the bark might come off pretty easy as it is spring. You do not want to let this opportunity slide by. Get yourself a cheap axel wiith wheels and tires even if you have to buy a $200 car from the junk yard.
BTW
There is nothing wrong with interesting trees. That kind of taper makes things a little bit harder but not so much if you do square. You might have to try to access 3 long straight White Pines or Tulip Poplar for your cap logs and RP or do a split RP or other some other interesting thing but you have got your house logs IMHO
One more thing Mudflap,
I admire the just do it thing more than most people do. It is how I have learned a lot of things through life, but-t-t, if you haven't done logging before, I beg you go get some experienced help. There are reason why it is always either 1 or 2 on the list of most dangerous jobs in the world. We did do our own logging in very difficult mountain forest but Gary has been logging since he was 16 yo doing it with his dad and that was 50 years ago. And it was still probably a really dumb thing to do. We still had a number of really close calls. One very large tree came down on the bulldozer blade and rocked it so hard it slammed me off the rollbar and nearly knocked me out. Another small one kicked back and knocked me down and pinned me down with the butt on my chest and so on.
Just at last Thanksgiving an 8 yo friend of my granddaughters was killed by a falling tree. Daddy and Granddaddy thought they had done everything right. They were pushing the tree with a machine as it was cut. It uprooted and twisted around and came down right at the corner of the house where the children were hiding behind killing the little girl and injuring her brother.
A tree is kinda like a horse, it has a mind of its own, you can persuade it to do what you want to most of the time but then there is that time it makes it's own choice. Get some help. Stay around for those cute kids there.
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