Electric log splitter

This year we had our first chimney fire, second year with the woodstove in the camp. It was no big deal, roared like a jet engine for a few minutes then went out. The stove pipe is 6" up through a 12" pipe up through the roof, its a pretty safe setup actually.
The fellers had been burning green spruce for a few days because I cut a bunch of it last fall both because those trees needed to go anyway and because I could split it better.
We don't need so much wood that investing in a gas powered splitter is worth it. In a really heavy year we might burn a half cord of wood...

So pricewise the electric splitter is really the way to go, otherwise I'm thinking the rental route will be the way. I could cut smaller trees but larger rounds add up to more wood in the same time because there isn't as much limbing involved.

That and hit every sawmill around to get hardwood scraps that'll burn hot.

Acutually in retrospect when dad and I were talking about the chimney fire we realized that as long as the fire doesn't get hot enough to melt/burn through the stovepipe its actually not such a big deal since the secondary pipe protects the camp from the heat. The outer pipe used to go down to a big old franklin stove. We couldn't find a sizer to fit it so we just ran the 6" pipe up through the center, sleeved it at the top and put a cap on the 6" pipe...