You young blokes just can't hack it, can you?
Here I am at 70 still enjoying a wood fire - even enjoying getting the wood and splitting it!!
I might have told you this before, but here goes again...
A friend (who once built his own sawmill - a multi saw two man op that cut timber (lumber for my yank friends) into framing sizes 8 or 9 studs/planks/timbers at a time), well this friend gathers up fallen trees, limbs, etc throughout the year, and early autumn (fall for my yank friends) we have a day cutting, splitting, loading trailers and utes (pickups for my yank friends) and a great BBQ to boot!
The splitter was designed and built by the same friend and runs off the PTO on the tractor.
The only negative for the day is if someone slams a 600mm (two feet for my yank friends) diameter chunk of wood into one's thumb. (I think I showed the pic before, but it is a good reminder to keep one's thumb out of the way, so here it is again;