As far as the inverted splitter is concerned I made one about four years ago and love it, we split about 50plus cords a year with it and would never handle firewood onto a conventional splitter again, yes you have to handle the pieces after they are split but then they are smaller and easier to handle, we can keep two people busy throwing split pieces aside while one lines up the blocks and one splits them or if we are short on help we line them up and split them then take a log and pick it up with the splitter and shove the split pieces up onto a pile with the skid steer splitter with a log locked in the wedge and use it like a blade. We also pick up logs 10 plus feet long and hold it up in the air while two people chainsaw the log into blocks while standing up eliminating bending over and running the saws in the groundand then split the cut blocks and get the next log and shove the split blocks out of the way and hold the next log to be split. Once you get the hang of running it I'd never go back to lifting blocks onto a splitter. We do it in the winter when the ground is frozen and don't worry about dirt or tearing up the ground because its frozen. Once you master running it one person can split it as small as you like without ever getting out of the skidsteer and shove them aside it just speeds the process up if you have help lining up the blocks and throwing them aside. We cut all the logs in the summertime while doing landclearing jobs and haul it in and during the winter we cut them up and split them.
