I was splitting wood with a normal splitting maul when my wife came home from a shopping spree. She told me to look in the back seat of the car. She had bought a 5 ton electric log splitter. After a quick look I asked her if it was some kind of joke. I had to eat a bit of humble pie as it turned out to be a very good splitter. That was ten or twelve years ago and it's all I use now.
I built a stand to set it on about chair height and I use it while sitting in a chair. I don't have much hard wood in my area so most firewood is pine, fir, larch or spruce. It has worked well on the little hard wood I have used it on. It was $250 very well spent.