What it has going for it
What changes at the woodpile
10 tons, per the listing. Our planner puts that at rounds up to about 8 in in seasoned hardwood, or about 12 in in seasoned softwood. Knots and green wood ask for more. Tonnage is the maker's rating at the ram, not a measured result, and our tonnage guide explains why two "10-ton" machines can feel different.
Logs up to 18.5 in. Cut your rounds to 18.5 in or shorter; that leaves little slack for a crooked chainsaw cut. Measure your firebox before you measure anything else.
Up to 15 in across. The diameter limit is what rules a round out before the force even matters. Bigger rounds get quartered with a maul first.
Stove wood or big rounds?
For stove wood, 10 tons is sized for seasoned stove-length rounds, by our planner's rule of thumb. Logs up to 18.5 in suit the usual 16 in stove length. A 2-second claimed stroke makes short work of a pile of straight rounds. It runs from a household outlet, right in the garage doorway. At 138 lb stated, two people can carry it to wherever the wood is.
On balance it is a stove-wood splitter; whole trunk sections are another machine's job.
