Electric Wood Splitter?

 Ok, like in the video below, we bought a fire pit last year and splitting all the wood we cut down turned into a real pain. Of course, just like the guy in the video, I'm not a young guy anymore.

So how did the wood splitter work? Great but for three pieces that came from the same tree. These three pieces were had tight twisted grains in them, so the wood wouldn't actually make a clean split and it did stop the splitter, but I did get them split making smaller passes through the wood. Overall though, the splitter did a real good job.

Video of the YardMax 9-Ton wood splitter: YardMax YS0952 Log Splitter - YouTube

The only other thing that I can say is a negative about the wood splitter is it's weight at 165 lbs. Although it has wheels on it, the wheels are not on the ground when the splitter is in use, the back end sits on like little blocks the keep the wheels off the ground when in use, I take it that's so it's more stable and doesn't try to roll?

So if you move the splitter, you have to pick it up by its handle at the other end and lift it high enough that the wheels come in contact with the ground so it will roll. If you use this in a driveway, where you have asphalt, or concrete to roll it on, its probably not so bad to move, but if you move it through a yard where the ground is even or soft, and being the wheels are pretty close together, it might tip over on you if the ground isn't even.

What I did was I bought a wagon to mount the wood splitter on at least for the time being. On the front of the wood splitter there are two holes in its legs where you can bolt it down, which I did with it mounted on the wagon. In the front where it bolts to the wagon there is a board on top and under the wagon bed, so the weight of the splitter is distributed across the wagon, and not pushing or pulling in one little spot where the legs are bolted down. 

In the back there is only one piece of wood which the splitter sits on being there is no way to bolt that part down. I did run a big headed screw in an angle on each side of the blocks the splitter sits on to help hold it in place, so it doesn't try to slide. The strap you see on it is only on when moving the splitter from one place to another to help support it.

Will be cutting more trees down before to long, so the splitter will be moved and put to use again.