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[Ford850]

The biggest challenge when noodling is keeping the noodles flowing out of the saw. The saw will hog through an incredible amount of wood fast, and those long strings pile up directly below the saw if you try to cut the log laying on the ground. Within a few seconds the pile is plugging the saw from the outside, with no place for the noodles to go. A pain to clear the saw once it's plugged. If you can, lay 2 logs together for a table, and a 3rd log laying on top of those. That way you have plenty of room below when you cut that top log.

 

[dodge man]

Much better today, I came at it from the side. Seems obvious now what I was doing wrong but what’s the saying, the only stupid question is the unasked one. I was doing this several months ago correctly and like Ford850 said, the saw did plug up once in a while. The MS261 seems like a heck of a saw for its size and weight, pretty happy with it.

 

[kenmac]

Much better today, I came at it from the side. Seems obvious now what I was doing wrong but what’s the saying, the only stupid question is the unasked one. I was doing this several months ago correctly and like Ford850 said, the saw did plug up once in a while. The MS261 seems like a heck of a saw for its size and weight, pretty happy with it.

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Cutting against the grain as you are doing is tough on a chain and the saw. Yu need to have some good HP to do it.
A skip tooth chain will help a lot when making cuts such as this. You aren't taking as many bites of the log

 

[dodge man]

Just to be clear my last picture is not how I made my cut, I just have the round oriented that way to show the chips. I made the cut going through the side, the bark side. In the pic I have cut about 90% of the way through it and flipped it so the saw would not hit the dirt. Doing it the correct way is actually really fast and easy on the saw as long as the chips do not plug up. I have noticed the newer MS261 vs my older MS250 seems to have a touch more room under the cover to clear chips better.

 

[jaxs]

The biggest challenge when noodling is keeping the noodles flowing out of the saw. The saw will hog through an incredible amount of wood fast, and those long strings pile up directly below the saw if you try to cut the log laying on the ground. Within a few seconds the pile is plugging the saw from the outside, with no place for the noodles to go. A pain to clear the saw once it's plugged. If you can, lay 2 logs together for a table, and a 3rd log laying on top of those. That way you have plenty of room below when you cut that top log.

If he were able to stack these logs he would just put them on the splitter and be done with it. They are heavier than he want's to manhandle for fear of straining a butt muscle or smashing a foot.

 

[dodge man]

Smashing a foot? I’ve had steel toe boots for years but only one pair just for certain jobs at work. I started wearing them when splitting wood now. Should have been all along. I never drop anything heavy enough to break anything but just dings that hurt a little. No problem with the steel toes. I’m not sure how heavy some of these rounds were, I can lift quite a bit, but I’d guess 70 to 80 pounds. Like a lot of people I have had back trouble so why push it.

 

[Budweiser John]

A splitter with a hydraulic log lifter is worth it痴 weight in gold.
At 77 if I can roll it I can split it. I love my Splt fire 227 splitter,

B. John

 

[KennyG]

A splitter with a hydraulic log lifter is worth itç—´ weight in gold.
At 77 if I can roll it I can split it. I love my Splt fire 227 splitter,

B. John

At 71, if I can't lift it (or don't want to), it can rot in the woods. :laughing:

 

[dodge man]

I bought a cheaper splitter. It’s only a horizontal unit, it only has a beam, no table to catch anything that is splits, no lift, and the wedge needs to be taller. It’s only something like a 17 ton but it splits about anything.

 

[ericm979]

A table really helps in horizontal mode.