Its a viable option yes. What do you want to discuss? Do you know anything about hydraulics? If you do, there shouldn't be many questions... Can you even access the rear hydro shaft? Or is the tin-work in the way? There's other issues with this idea. Reservoir, system relief, what do you do with the pump when not in use.......
A ported pump probably wouldn't run a log splitter well. Not enough oil in the reservoir for one. As big as a splitter cylinder is, the pressure probably wouldn't be an issue. Power steering pump, same issue. Not enough oil. Your best bet, use a tiller gearbox turned 90 degrees as a PTO and power a pump off that. It can be direct coupled that way and easily removed. We can discuss this more if the idea interests you.
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