I am very happy with this wood splitter. I'm a pensioner and I built a J tube rocket stove oven and use wood to heat it. It was very hard when using my axe to split wood, and I was worried about missing a finger or a thumb one of these days. So I purchased this splitter and it is brilliant. It arrived on time and was well packaged. It's strongly made with cast iron and came with nuts and bolts. I put it on a chunk of wood to hold it down. I have had no problems, so I would recommend this product.