Gentlemen, I have been splitting by hand for a bunch of years, at least thirty five. So last week my wife insisted I buy a splitter that our Massey Ferguson dealer had. It is a new Troy Built 28 ton with a used splitter price. I noticed that the splitter wedge was almost five inches wide where some splitters have a thin knife like wedge. It looks to me like the thin knife wedge would work better and go through the wood easier. Was wondering if there are different width splitter wedge blades available. The splitter works fine but the wood makes a lot of noise when the big wedge splits it. The thin blade wedges I have used make no noise. All this is telling me that the thin knife wedges put less stress on the splitter and work easier. Wondering what you all thought. David