The splitter is for home use, plus friends and family to use. All have access to a 30a 240v circuit and it can also run from a dryer plug if you had to. I have a 100' cord on the splitter. I could also run the splitter from a large gen set if i had to. But I dont for see the need.
I'm an electrician by trade so I got the motor through work. Building it was half need of a splitter, and half fun project. Working with hydraulics was all new to me.
Yeah the control location was the hardest part. It looks a lot worse from the angle in the video then it really is. You hardly have to move to reach them and their at a comfortable height. I located them there to limit the chance they might get inadvertently knocked.
In practice we keep the log lift in the up position 90% of the time and use it like a table, with someone stacking the wood there while your splitting. The next thing I'd like to do is make a firewood conveyor to your right. But that's years away.
It's a build once have for a lifetime splitter.
