Dangle a carrot just out of reach?
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I noticed two buckets on the ground in front of the horse—maybe some horse feed.
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Free 16” cut wood about 5 miles from home, maple and hemlock about 36” at base… really tough splitting, sometimes 3 wedges.
The big hemlock loaded with the hoist on my truck.
I started splitting them at home with my little 12000 splitter, gnarly knotty #@$& wood. 1/2 hr for one 24” piece.
I am about to donate some to heating the crows!
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Which wood gives that orange color on the cut sides? Does it go that color when sawed into lumber and dried?
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I would guess you are looking at the trailer that is hard maple. About the best fire wood you can get. Stained with an oil stain it should look about the same.
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I have noticed alder turns red on the fresh cut ends, the wood in the trailers is maple
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That is how I have been handling big old knotty hard maple. Roll the big chunks in the bucket and then the bidirectional splitter with the narrow wedge will literally cut the knots. Flip them over once and you are throw about anything. I have an older wood splitter 3 point hitch which is a wide wedge single direction I grew up with and have hammered more than on stuck chunk off it. Those narrow bidirectional spliters are the best I have ever seen jam them up put a stick on the other side and the wedge pulls itself out while splitting the next piece of wood.
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Notice the treadmill is at a slope. I think the horse has no other chance but to walk, otherwise it wuld slide back. Clever.
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That is probably how it works I didn’t think about that. The horse power I have seen in the past is the old pole and circle method.
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A well trained horse will walk on its own if its told to.
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Could be I have definitely never seen a well trained horse. I have seen many well trained horse owners though. Lol
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The treadmill will operate easier on a slope then on a flat, if you stand on a flat one no movement if on a slope your weight causes it to move. The more mass weight and horse power the better…
Bob
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That wasn’t my experience with a treadmill. When the thing was flat it was a heckuva lot easier to walk then after it inclined. I started huffing and puffing the first time it did that and I pulled the safety switch. 
I actually liked using the treadmills but I stopped because I realized my knees hurt after using it. It is in the scrap pile.
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Last year I bought a Palfinger f3 forklift, a marvel of technology, there were quite a few repairs but it paid off
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Is it by chance 4 directional operation as well?
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Those are great little units! Used them a lot when I was framing. Now for home use I have access to either a mini skid steer with short forks, or a fullsize skid loader with forks for heavier lifting needs
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That makes for a very versatile unit there. Not familiar with palfinger brand but Princeton and Haib . At work we used them to deliver trusses and engineered wood products to job sites rough terrain,mud, and such.
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Happy days 
Got rid of a batch of limbwood from the top of the firewood load. Turned into miles and smiles.
The chunking required a lemon as well 
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Hi Sean,
Is there any chance we could see what you made? Why did your knees hurt?
Rindert