Debarking Cedar Logs- Any tips or tricks or gadgets?

In the attached photo we are looking at about five hundred 2-foot cedar logs (6"-13" diameters) that are slated to go into my cordwood home.  I have another five hundred on the way.  They were cut in the past couple months of winter and I have about eighteen months or a bit longer before they go into walls.  Once our snows melt I will get to work debarking them.  For those wondering why I did not debark the cedar when it was tree-length, the answer is that I did not do the cutting and we only had a pickup truck for transport.  Thus, the cutter did them in 2-foot size since he could load them up easily and because that is my wall thickness.  I live in northern Maine.  I have experience in building with cordwood, but somehow it never happened to me that I had to debark, especially a zillion small logs.  Of course, it would have been easier if they were tree-lengh.  But it is what it is.  Worse, I am doing this solo.  There is little chance that I will find helpers where I am at.  So... Please feel free to give me even your wildest guesses as to how I might get these logs debarked without knocking myself out.  I have various tools handy: draw knife, blades, etc.  I can likely manage to build a shave-horse.   Thank you in advance!

Hi Alden;
Luckily, Cedar is one of the easier trees to debark.
With them already cut at 2' and you have 18 months until needed, they may debark easily if your lucky.
Cedar bark likes to come off in sheets, I would take a hatchet / axe,/ chainsaw and chop /cut thru the bark from top to bottom.
At that point you may find the bark peels off or not...
They may need to sit in the weather for awhile.
With the bark split like that they will come off sooner or later... hopefully sooner.

I think your job won't be that hard since it's cedar and you have some time. Some options:

1)  Struggle to debark them the normal way
2)  Wait till late spring/early summer when the bark starts to get loose.  Get under the edge of it with a peeling spud, big flat head screw driver or metal driveway ice scraper and unroll it
3)  Wait till next late spring/early summer and kick each log.  The bark should fall right off.  I've peeled year old logs on their second spring and all it takes is fingers.

I should add, I have a buddy who peels lots of cedar logs.  His process is to have an elevated, two rail system that he can set a dozen logs on at waist level.  Roll the closest one towards you and use a log dog or cleat to keep it from rolling.  Take a hemlock peeling spud and slice under the bark the whole length of the log.  Then work back and forth and peel the bark off in one big piece (working up and away from you).  Roll the log towards you as needed till it's peeled.  

Check the log stash weekly in the late spring until it starts to "slip". No sense fighting it before it wants to come off.  

I would move towards Mike Haasl's #2. A barking spud and your foot to roll the segments would be quick work in my mind. The length of the spud would be key to a good ergonomic position and make life so much easier.

Yes, I like the idea of letting nature do most of the work.  Would there be much benefit to spreading out a large cheapo tarp and spreading the logs out for better exposure?  Or, maybe stack them like firewood?  Just leave them in the mountain as they are?

The ones I peeled on year two were jumbled up along a logging trail in moderate shade