I built a sideways log splitter for my skidsteer. I no longer try and man handle those big rounds. I drive up with the skid steer and set the splitter down on top of the log. I can tighten the log into the splitter and pick up the log and carry it over a trailer, for example, and then hit the button on the thumb control and split that huge round like nobodies business. It has a 30 ton ram and can split rounds that are 3 feet long. It has a massive I-beam on it. The thing is built like a tank. Don't use it often but when I do it makes quick work of those huge rounds!
Sometimes when I get done with a 30", 200# round I wonder if it was worth it! Maple mostly in my case, or ash. All that is forgotten in January, of course. Glad to see all the parts working together. When is the conveyor 2.0 build?
Jim