content: I've seen a couple of these things in action irl. Some of them were massive, some were no bigger than an old school tractor. Granted, modern versions that use gasoline are faster, but it's amazing to watch a machine like this operate. I remember once, a guy had one the size of a locomotive. They rolled a cross section of tree about three or four feet across and about five feet long up onto the splitter, and i remember thinking there's no way it would split that. I thought the piston would get jammed in the wood. That engine busted that log up in no time flat. What might've been hours of work with hand tools was cut down to about 45 minutes once you ignored the time it tool to reposition the pieces of wood. In a lot of ways, it really sums up human ingenuity: the question has always been "How can i get all this work done as quickly as possible so i can do what i actually want to do with my time ans energy?" The answed is almost always: "Build a better tool."