How far away is this wood pile? just saying if it wasn’t ridiculous far away, by the time you attempt to go drive through three feet of snow you might have hauled back several sled/tobaggan loads with much less effort. I don't know your situation though, your stacks might be a mile away or something. edit: meant to add you need snowshoes. Not wading through 2 to ten feet deep snow, that's silly...... once it got past knee high, snowshoes!
When I lived in maine in a little cabin I did all my personal firewood for heating, cooking wood and maple sugaring wood by hand, including dragging it out. Bowsaw, axe, some crosscutting. Winter time was snowshoes and a plastic sled andf a junky toboggan and sometimes a car hood. I cut and hauled year round. All my wood was stacked in what passed for a front yard. A weeks worth went on the porch, a rotating 3 days inside on the back wall behind the stove, and up on an over the stove combo food drying rack and winter time last dry before in the stove rack. The main stacks outside covered with whatever crap I could scrounge. I never used a motorized anything to do that wood, 4 cords to five for heat and sugaring, one to two extra for year round cooking. ! lol it's only 3 feet to my firewood door t6o the wood box to the wood stove!! oh yes if I take the short way around the south eighty acres before I drive around the other side of the house??? or something like that..... ???? lol
I had a small chainsaw then, that's was for paid work, fenceposts and a couple cords a year to sell some small quantities now and then. Totally different, that I did in the summer with a real old small tractor and a manure spreader to haul stuff out and a buzz saw. My own stuff, 100% done and hauled out by hand. No snowmobile or anything. Heck, didn't even own a car then, just a bicycle.
Anywho, I found dragging out wood was easier in the snow then during the dry non snow season. Less friction and mess, no bugs.
Of course I had to go back later in the summer and cut the stumps off, get a little more wood that way. I cut at snow level.
