I've got the 4T Ryobi. Of course I believed the statement it could handle logs up to 14" diameter...won't do it, at least not with Cottonwood. Cottonwood is so light and soft it actually bends instead of cracks, rendering the splitter useless.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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