Makeing progress on my shop built firewood elevator

Lots of stuff going on around here with my daily hospital visits, the garden, keeping up mowing the lawn, and chaseing parts, so it it hasn't progressed too fast lately.
I decided to bite the bullet and buy all new 62H conveyor chain, and new hyd. hoses
I found some old never used 16G. galvinized silage conveyor covers down in the lower barn, to use for the trough sides. I will mill a peice of 1" thick Ash lumber to form the bottom and provide a slide for the chain to run on.
I got the winch all made, from an old Cub Cadet steering shaft and wheel, and spooled on a broken HF winch cable to raise and lower the bed. Fabed up a bracket to mount the salvaged orbit motor to. I need to get the bed chain in place and then build the bottom slide chute, and extend a hitch frame further forward. Also need to build an upper adjustable slide chute, and then get it all painted up pretty. (Case colors of course).
As I said before, the orbit motor will turn only when the splitting cylinder bottoms out on the return stroke. I have a one way check valve on the power stroke side to prevent it from turning when splitting. The elevator will hook into the splitter with SAE hyd. couplers, to power it.
I had thought about mounting the elevator and splitter on a common frame, but that design would have been hard to manuver in the woods where I make all my firewood.
The next to last two pics are of the inside of the wood shed and my saws. I have about 3.5 cord left to start next year with, and stack my wood in sections so that I can access first cut first throughout the shed. By the end of july the firewood section of the shed will be filled to the rafters (17.5 cord)
I am real fussy about the length the wood is cut so I simply clamped PEX tubeing on the saw handles, for quick refrence and all the blocks run from 19-20". The splitter will accept a 21" block. The last pic is our central fireplace. Temps took a nose dive here today and wifey was cold and wanted some heat. Dang!!! more firewood to cut. Hope the heating season will end soon.
Loren, the Acg.

Nice job! I managed to score a belt conveyor from a millwright friend. Another friend put it all back together. I added wheels to one end and hung the other off a chain falls fastened to the rafters of building housing my boiler.

Can't beat the Stihl chainsaw. I have a 361 and a 362.

Loren, it looks great, the entire set up, so I assume that conveyor though not mounted to the splitter, will go to the woods to load the trailer, as well to feed the shed when loading ?

Nice work Loren. You would be an interesting neighbor, and I mean that as a complement.

A local guy, in the firewood business, had a modified ear corn elevator to stockpile his firewood. He rigged the transport wheels to "steer", so he could turn them to 90 degrees and rotate the elevator output in a circle. He'd make an almost complete circle, leaving enough room to get the elevator out, then move to another nearby spot and start over. BIG piles of wood! He sold lots of wood, and didn't attempt to shed it.

Loren, ACG,

I've two simple questions:

1. How is that wood gonna stack itself like that using the conveyor? Just a joke.

2. Why did you fasten the tubing to the handle instead of the chain brake? Not a joke.

D.