Wow! sorry guys, didn't mean to start such a debate! I also didn't realize people would be so critical on measurements. So let me give you all the information I have so you don't have to guess.
9 feet long was an eyeball estimate... I didn't put a tape on it. It was certainly over 8 feet. But maybe my estimate wasn't perfect.
40" diameter was again an estimate. My 37" bar on my chainsaw could not cut all the way through the thick end (facing the camera). My 37" bar did barely cut through the thin end. So maybe the log is 38" at the fat end and 36" at the thin end. It is close to 4 foot at the bulge in the center. And it is not round, more of an oval - so figure out square footage on that!
The wood was perfect. No rot. But it was also very dry standing wood. Barely alive. So dry that I could throw it right in my fire and no visible steam, bubbles or any sign of water would come out. It was seasoned before it was cut. I know some on here don't believe that is possible. Believe me, with ash it is. This is not the first Ash I've cut that was this dry.
I could not pick it up without the rear blade on. I tried and lifted the rear (with filled rears and a 200 pound cage, so an extra 1200 over the rear axel and it still picked up the rear).
My hydraulic pressure may be a tad on the high side of spec. I've never checked it but I asked the shop that installed the loader to check hydraulic pressure and make sure it is as high as is allowable. They said they'd take care of me "wink, wink".
The stump bucket that I used actually allows me to get big logs closer to the pins than my forks. The back of that log is behind my pins and I curled fully using the curved bottom of the bucket on the ground as a fulcrum before I lifted with the lift cylinders. So the weight was far back.
That's about as much as I can tell you. I doubt it was much over 3,000 pounds if that and that is well below my rated lift at ground level - however, the center of mass was a bit farther out than the pins. I could have lifted it higher but for safety kept it as close to the ground as possible.
I can tell you that I have lifted heavier. I had to cheat to get the rock in the picture off the ground. This was roughly 5' x 3' x 22" and irregular (as you can see in the picture). With both the log and the rock, I did not need to go far, and no hills to speak of.
Some additional pictures of the same log that I showed before so you can see how solid the wood is on the other end and get a feel for length.
