>>9411055All of Tamiya's Sherman kits come with a lot of stowage parts out of the box. Those logs on Fury are actually plastic logs that came with the kit.
>>9411070My Meng Sherman actually came with pins already precut that fit pretty tightly. Have you tried using quick setting CA glue to glue the wire in? or maybe you could try a thicker wire? To fit on the track shoes you could just cut off the excess wire from the end and use CA glue again.