You can do it all with hand tools, but if you’ve got big enough logs ... From Scratch] was putting together a fairly simple log splitter, which in the most basic form is nothing more complex ...

The most common powered log splitter is a hydraulic design. These are the same types of splitters you might see for sale at your local big box home center. A steel I-beam, hydraulic cylinder ...

On most machines, the hydraulic ram pushes the log into the blade ... so this isn’t the best splitter for big jobs. But it’s easy to carry, and you can cover it with a tarp and leave it ...