As another reviewer has said, the splitting wedge is only for scrap. Which piece of wood has been exactly the extent that it can be split so that 4 in perfect halves? The rest, however, works great and the splitter may also - by 7 tons splitting force - much thicker pieces of wood (also with ingrown branches, ie those where it manually with a wedge very troublesome is) columns, as stated in the description (tried with over 1 m diameter, of course you have this piece of wood several times start). The table (for the assembly still supplied with no description - this is a but to a sent email immediately) to mount's just a good IDE, if you want to split kleichte wood pieces, because very heavy pieces have to otherwise raise from the ground much higher. Compared to a large, 10-20x so expensive, stationary splitter, the splitter is the handy one at that only works with power easy to move and put away and recommended for home use it if you do not want split an entire forest.