Well I think the idea of an inertia splitter is a good idea and uses from what I hear very little gas. Great! To be honest, unless you live in the area's that have easy to split wood like oak, pine, ect and have a huge abundance of smaller say 12-20 inch wood to feed it than it just doesn't make the most sense. They work, not saying they don't but they struggle when the wood gets larger diameter and do not have a big enough work table. I do not want to lift every round over and over to split it with no room for the half's to sit when you do split. Then you have to bend over pick up the splits that are to big that fell off the table and re-split. I personally would rather have a big hydro with multi wedge that will split the round with one stoke into useable sizes.
When you watch this video from the manufacturer keep in mind how many times this thing stalls, how many times the log gets stuck on the wedge, and how he struggles to first lift the log then later to reposition the log, and also how many "too large" splits hit the ground and will need to be picked up and re-split. Like I said for a lot of you guys out there is the best thing since sliced bread. Each person and situation is different but I am betting a good hydo with multi wedge will out perform day in and day out this unit every time. If I was to get a SS I would go with the log rite trailer, very slick, but also very high dollar and you can almost buy an entry level processor for the same $ as one.
Watch video from about 30 seconds to when he finished that round
[video=youtube_share;FnqVeaKj23c]http://youtu.be/FnqVeaKj23c[/video]
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