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I have a neighbor that cuts his firewood out of what I pull out for him on my landing. He noodles every piece, some times down to stove size. I swear he leaves half his wood in spaghetti on the landing. And he needs a 5 gallon gas can. For me this is the fastest and easiest way.

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I use my method because I don't relish ownership of two splitters. But you're right, this is probably the easiest and bestest way for large rounds.

 

[ericm979]

Arrow's pics show what I was doing with the Eucalyptus rounds. They were already cut to firewood length. 4' diameter rounds that are 6" high would still be hard to handle and would be tougher to give away as firewood. 18" long 1/4 pieces can go right to the splitter.

 

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Totally off topic, but great looking boxer you've got there. Serious looking clowns, they are.

You're not Hank Williams junior right? Thanks. They certainly are clowns. Peedy loves to be out there with me. It was 16* when this picture was taken so after about 20 minutes, he had had enough and went back home. Big help he was.

 

[John_Mc]

I split pieces this size without noodling or pre splitting. If they get much bigger I noodle them. Is there a chain that works better for noodling? My saw tends to bite off more than it can clear and gets clogged up.

You get the really long noodles if your saw is parallel to the grain (cutting along the grain, and laying down almost flat along the bark). Lift the powerhead up so the bar enters the log at about 30-45˚ and the noodles with not be long and will clear more easily.

 

[goeduck]

I do not get the noodling instead of splitting. I just noodle if I can not lift it into the truck/trailer. Then split as normal.

 

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I have a neighbor that cuts his firewood out of what I pull out for him on my landing. He noodles every piece, some times down to stove size. I swear he leaves half his wood in spaghetti on the landing. And he needs a 5 gallon gas can. For me this is the fastest and easiest way.

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Back before I had log splitter I would split everything by hand except for rounds that had crotches or super knots, which I noodled. Well one year I got a load of oak that had a lot of crotches and burls in it, and my splitting axes and mauls were useless. So I noodled that whole tree and boy did that make a lot of "spaghetti". I took it and used it like bark mulch under the stairs to my pier and it worked great for that. But it seemed to waste a lot of firewood.

 

[terryknight]

noodles work great as fire starter especially when soaked with a little diesel fuel.

why i noodle

 

[dragoneggs]

I do not get the noodling instead of splitting. I just noodle if I can not lift it into the truck/trailer. Then split as normal.

I'm not much of a noodler (actually never heard the term before this thread, but I am wondering if noodling part way through and then wedging is an effective method to splitting large chunks?

 

[motownbrowne]

I'm not much of a noodler (actually never heard the term before this thread, but I am wondering if noodling part way through and then wedging is an effective method to splitting large chunks?

Yep, very effective.

 

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I'm not much of a noodler (actually never heard the term before this thread, but I am wondering if noodling part way through and then wedging is an effective method to splitting large chunks?

Before the current method I'm using now with wedges, I used to cross cut the round on top maybe 6" deep making a "+" sign on top of the round. I could split an 18" oak round with a 12 lb maul in one shot most of the time as a result of these cuts. When I began trying this method on larger diameter stems like my initial pic, I was using way to much saw fuel to accomplish the feat. I'm preferring my current limited cut/ smash wedge method as a result. It goes really fast.