Powerful, but disadvantages through the two-hand operation

Positives:
The log splitter is an inexpensive and powerful device because I have experience with a 4 tons splitter, I could see the difference in performance on this 7 tons splitters significantly. He split hardwood such as beech and oak and is easily bogged down during the entire operation only twice. If you then something else attaches the wood, then he also splits this wood easily. Class performance!

Disadvantages:
the new device is a two-hand device, this new safety technology arising unfortunately very many disadvantages.
It is easy side of the device with the nose just before the wood to be split. If then this pops apart wood and flies away, you can only pray it to get anything in the face (I was lucky twice). My age 4 tons Cleaver had foot operation, you stand away and right behind the device far enough, that was significantly safer. In addition, the heavy wooden parts that we need now to lift the large gap woods on desktop and going to cross, even when falling of large wood chunks should be careful that you have to walk not in the vicinity and the floor will fall also by the affected. The splitting table is a few centimeters too low, so you can only slightly bent operate the unit after 30 minutes leaves the spinal sincerely and I'm really only 170 cm tall. Even more people are likely to get even more problems since.

Conclusion:
The device is class, but the two-hand safety system is to run away. The gentlemen who so mortise nonsense have certainly never worked with such a device.
Probably EU Schreibtischtäter.
Because you have a risk that something might happen when splitting is not reduced, but increased by the proximity to the cleavage fracture by 100%.
One should allow these people to punish even a couple of weeks working with the unit, then know that what you did wrong.