If I ever build my own, I would like to have it split like that one, but I would make it like a press. We have these tables at work, called load formers. It has a 1" thick stainless sheet, about five feet wide and six feet long. We stack the boxes from the line on it and hit a button and it retracts. That way the loads are all uniform and we dont have to try and stack them by hand. Think of it like a waiter pulling the table clothout real fast. I wanted to design a splitter with twin rams that you could put the logs on a sheet, it would retract leaving the logs on a grate. Then the rams would push them through the grate. I took a 600# grate from a rock quarry grinding machine last year to the junk yard
Heavy heavy steel on that sucker.
By having it push down through a grate, you would eliminate the need to chunk off the logs like this machine does. Oh the dreams I have.