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I have one of those tools that rolls logs. It wont help much with short pieces that you have which have been cut to length and are ready to split. What those tools are best for is rolling a log up off the ground using the fulcrum built into the tool and then cutting off what is raised. I buy log length wood then cut and split it. If you need to move those heavy pieces just roll them, or flip, then cut where they rest. If they are as big as you say get help. Those big pieces cause hernias.
If getting, renting, a splitter is an option do what one of the others posted, which is rent a vertical splitter. I know when I have huge pieces to get up onto the splitter I have (horizontal) it can be a *$*&()(*% awful job. Usually what I do it take a log piece allready split in half and place that cut wood down up against the deck of the splitter. Then I roll the big log up onto the splitter using the bark of both trees for traction against each other. I have a small commercial splitter that fits on the end of my small tractor, which has never failed splitting any piece of wood. When I buy a load of wood it is usually about ten cords or so big. That last me about two years.
There are drawbacks to the vertical splitter and one is if the splitting edge gets wedged into a big chunk of wood you may find it difficult to draw the splitting edge back out of the wood. Whereas if the wood is laying on a horizontal splitter there are many ways to get the splitter unstuck.
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