I rent a wood splitter about once a year. Actually it's not a big deal because they're hydrolic and not much work to split the logs. It's kinda fun. The real work is rolling the big logs into position and then humping the split wood over to the wood pile. My late husband used to work for a tree company so we always had plenty of wood to get us through the winter. Now my son & I have to put some effort in just finding wood to split. Worth it though when you look at how much it costs to get someone to deliver already split wood.