have used a Northern vertical/horizontal splitter. Dad got it in the 70's.
You can split heavier blocks in the vertical position, but you spend most of your time in a squatting position. Your back lets you know about it for a few days.
With truly large blocks, you roll them close, flop them over on the plate and run the wedge through them. Then you have to drag the chunks around on their ends to split again.
Also, with this particular splitter you have to lift probably 60-75 pounds of beam and cylinder to tip it up.
It is at a more convenient height than some of the MTD models when it is horizontal though. You have to lift the blocks pretty high onto them.
I have had the opportunity to use a Timberwolf TW-6 with log lift and table grate. That is the way to go if you can afford it.
The lift can raise the logs up to the beam, and it also makes a dandy place to rest the other half of the block while you finish splitting the one half. It also can be equiped with a 4 way or 6 way wedge. With a table grate, the oversize chunks that need to be split again don't have to be lifted all the way back from the ground to split again.
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