Or your wife and daughter stop helping /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I agree that if I have one clearing and one feeding me I can split at least as fast with a maul as a splitter, on straight grained stuff. Toss in a knoted red oak or a twisted choke cherry and the speed rops right off. I still split with a maul, but I dont need to split that much. The door on the firebox is 18 in /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I do split my dads, he has a horz/vert splitter. When I use it it stays horz