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 ...

Early on it seemed like [Workshop From Scratch] was putting together a fairly simple log splitter, which in the most basic form is nothing more complex than a hydraulic cylinder pushing a log ...

The first step toward diagnosing your log splitter's malfunction ... you can remove the hydraulic motor by unbolting its main cylinder container from the splitter and propping that up on a wooden ...