posted 12 minutes ago
You say some logs are starting to decay, which probably means they are damp? If you are not in a hurry, you may want to get them off the ground to let them dry out more, they would be a lot lighter. Depending on the size, species and general conditions it may be months before there is a real difference, though. A good steel digging bar / pry bar would be useful - I don't know if there is an exact english language equivalent for the tool I am thinking of, they are usually about 1,2-1,5 m long, octagonal or round for most of the length, but the last 1/4 or so of one end is square, thicker than the rest, and wedge shaped at the very end. They are super useful for manipulating heavy stuff, like getting stones out of the ground or into a specific position, taking out or breaking up stumps, or in this case, lifting the end of a log or rolling it over.
I'm not very familiar with non-metric units, but 8' seems to be something like 2,5-3 m, and you are not moving them more than a few hundred meters (very roughly the same as yards?) - in which case, by far the lowest tech solution, rolling them, seems completely doable. Unless the logs are too crooked to roll or even tip over repeatedly, or the ground is very uneven.
I would not try to pull them on a tarp, it would likely be ruined (and leave little pieces of plastic all over). Unless you get frozen ground and good snow cover there, and are willing to wait until then!