I think the basis of ones consideration for a splitter depends on how they will process firewood. You can look back on this site and see a lot of posts about making firewood and how its done in many different ways, tools used, accessories like a log lift or things used to make the work easier.
If you prefer to split in the woods and haul it back to the stack, say from your own land, and you have a small fuel efficient tractor with the hydraulics that match the needs of a splitter, that's one consideration.
Tow behind is stand alone, more portable if it is road worthy, and there are a lot of them out there to look at, from the typical homeowner models to the more commercial ones that are higher priced, before you get into processors etc.
Personally, I have enough woodland available to me, that I can tow in logs right to the house and prefer to do so, process in close proximity to where its stacked, convenience of being close to home etc., though I can set up to do same on location, which may be desirable if the logs are so big its easier. If I did not have the available forest, I'd have it delivered in log length, do the same near the house.
I think the speeco/huskee line of splitters are decent for the price, I remember looking over all the different brands and the fact that a huskee 28 ton model with an easy starting GC190 Honda engine, that's easy on fuel, allows for a drop on 4 way wedge, and a decent bolt on log cradle, does horizontal and vertical, can be towed on the road, though they are 45 mph max, covers a homeowner doing say... 6 + cord annually very nicely. Some like the wedge on the beam, not on the cylinder like the huskee, for higher production and an end table to push the pieces onto, or a conveyor. Depends on what you are doing, the wedge on the cylinder does allow you to clear a stuck piece easily by retracting, for most other purposes I like it and have used both, the other and old style Didier, I like my huskee 28 ton much better, even more so for gnarly elm and similar. I also have set up to keep most if not all handling of wood, off the ground or easily worked with, makes it easy on the back and you can go all day, definitely pays to work smarter by virtue of the tools you have.
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