Giant Log Splitter

[imagineero]

Those cone style splitters have been around forever. Used to be you could get some that would bolt onto the hub of your car, then jack the car up and use that as a splitter. I don't know how well that cone style one would work on properly big wood especially if the grain was twisted or had forks in it. A buddy who runs a big firewood operation built a big splitter, the rams are vertical and the blade is about 4' wide. It has a lot of tonnage behind it and isn't quick. But it's all fed by conveyors and guys just keep loading rounds into it. It'll split 3 or 4 smaller rounds at once or one really big one. Wouldn't work for the OP though who needs his splits long. He bought one of those automated cutter splitter type affairs from the states for a few hundred K, but found it was too fussy on the type of wood it would take and kept jamming up which required the operator to get out of the cab of the loader constantly to clear the thing.

One of the quickest setups I've ever seen for firewood was a bobcat atachment, but it needed a really big bobcat with the high flow hydraulics. It was basically a cutter/splitter mounted on a bobcat. Only took logs up to about 24" from memory, but boy was it quick and easy. You could pick the log up, and hold it over a truck and it would cut/split the whole thing in short order. Needed pretty clear wood though.