How to operate farm equipment on steep mountainsides - I think that goes into the category of local, practical knowledge one learns by experience. I mean, I always find it so fascinating how people living in different surroundings develop specific local skills to cope with their environment.

Well, hehe, while I was having my lunch break I thought that this would be exactly the kind of work I originally wanted to have a horse for. It would be practically possible to load the logs on a sleigh and draw them with a horse. But since my first horse died, and I've been so irregular and non-systematic with training Raiku, so at the moment I don't have a horse who would be familiar with this kind of work. (Especially if one is working alone, the more the horse needs to know what to do. Like, when to stand still while the human is moving things behind the horse's back, and when to start dragging. And how to handle the weight of the loaded sleigh in up- and down-hills.)

My friend running the mill said that they can handle the transportation with their farm equipment. I think they even have a hydraulic arm which can be used to load heavy logs.