I always get in arguments with my cousin about which way is best to split. He swears he can split faster than me, him sitting on a bucket, vertical, and me with an adjustable 8' long feed table, horizontal. With my replaced knee I can't sit on a bucket and reaching out to pull blocks to me would kill my back. He says standing by the beam kills his back. Back in the 70's he bought a Vermeer vertical splitter, one of the first on the market. I had a Bliss horizontal that went on a 3 point hitch. It took 40 HP to run it and would cut in both directions. He got 40 years of use out of his old Vermeer and just bought a new 14 horse splitter form the local Kubota dealer. I now have a TSC 22 ton. My feed table will lower to 7" off the ground with a 24" ramp, so I can roll big rounds on it, then raise it to beam height. So, virtually no lifting. So, anyway, how do YOU prefer to split? Joe.