A friend of mine sells firewood and has a machine that splits pine l Iike it's no one's business .
Then another that wraps bundles of firewood for campers .
I used a normal log splitter when I was in the firewood business part time I miss it as it kept me in shape even if I wore out a lot of cotton chore gloves and a old grocery store shopping cart hauling the wood to where I stacked up the cords of wood at .
this was the best machine when i was in the business:
bigger logs than 40cm diameter could be pre-split whole length with hydraulic cone. looks like easy work but the logging period in oct-dec was partly manual, and i eventually had to quit because of my back problems. i miss it too, there's something very satisfying in working with wood (hence my nickname, skogstokig = forest crazy)