The magazine “MOTOR & MASCHINE” in its issue 3/2016 tested a HMG wood splitter HSP 18ML-DZ and “very good” the device as a “master class” with a grade of 1.3. An excerpt of the judgment: “… makes working with the HMG 18 tonnes log splitter only fun. The device works like the proverbial clockwork. The question of more power comes on at any time – on the contrary pleased about ….. “