I give up ... By your logic all splitters have the split at the same rate? And having two extra sets of hands will not speed up the time ..and stop with the face cord bs... I know what a cord is in one previous post a guy tells me he split 10 cords by hand, now your telling me its impossible to for 3 guys to do 2 in an hour???Are you guys really talking about splitting 4-6 full cords (not face cords) in 2 hours??? I can't see how you can do it. If the logs are easy to work with (not too big) it takes me a couple hours to split 1 cord with my hydraulic splitter. I've cut, split, and stacked 14 cords in the last year. I move at a solid pace and I have no idea how you could come close to splitting 4-6 cords in 2 hours.
You guys are all correct I am going to buy a splitter, and a truck to get it home , and for good measure a tractor to move the wood and grade the area where I removed trees , when I'm done grading ill put in a new garage for the truck,tractor and splitter. And since money is no object I'll quit my job to free up time.
I bought a stove because I have over 100 trees to take down and the cost of removing the wood was insane, I figured I'd burn . I don't want to turn my house into green acres, and spend thousands on equiptment.
My math was this ... 1 day, spend say 150for 3 hours of labor, with the 2 cords I already split lets say the can do 5 ... That's about $22 a cord and I'll I have to do to get ready is fell and buck trees that need to come down.