I hauled this manual hand log splitter to the ranch a couple weeks ago. It works very well and at this remote place I don't need much for wood so it will be a great fit for me. A couple cord per year is all I will ever use. I get a cardio work out and wood split is a win win. I thought it would be a lot of work but not at all. Swinging an axe is work and I don't care to do much of that any more.

Never seen or heard on a hand hydraulic splitter. Great.

Thats Awesome

Is it fairly fast?

One hand is about 3 inch stroke and one is about an inch then a release that retracts with springs and go back as far as you want it too. I just didn't want to have another gas engine wetting around the whole year or an electric one that I would need to run a generator. The thing fits my needs very well.

Here we call a hand log splitter an axe.

My Dad had a hand log splitter....it was me.

is that ash all that hard to split when you cut it that short

I cut stuff short for the smoker then it dries fast and splits easy with an ax

Never saw one like that. That thing both looks neat and well built also.

Glad you found something that worked for you....

In the wood splitter post you made, I wondered if one of those hand splitters would work for you. Like I said in that post how much you are going to split makes a difference in what you need. I am glad you are happy with it.

Yes if you need to split wood for a year it may not be your first go splitter. They are about a foot long and this is ash, I have a small stove in the remote line shack so the size work good for me. Fill it up and add a few ash pieces work well for me. The axe work is becoming more work for me and this takes that out of this job.

Not trying too convince anyone this is the product for them but that it took the work out of running an axe.

Harbor Freight I have one and it will split my Osage Orange and other general trash trees here in my back yard….

I have been around all kinds of log splitter electric, tractor run, gas ect.. and the most thing I like about it. It is quite and I and can enjoy the sounds of nature. Lol

They work great, but the O-Ring seals blow out pretty quick.

You could build one of those.