I get my firewood and the neighbor has a gas powered splitter that is awesome! I am glad I didn't have to shell out the $1500 for it. I use it free, but we do cut wood up on the mountain and split it for the local widows and poor. We gave away about 30 cords last year.
I brought home about 3 cords for my own use. We must have cut down 30 -40 dead trees from one spot. the bark beetle is hard at work.
I would love to find more than Aspen, Pine, Cedar, and Cottonwood. We do get some oak, but very rare here in Southern Utah.
I like the little electric splitter, I might consider one. Hard to pencil the expense because it is not hard to borrow one here and to rent one is pretty cheap too.
Mel