044 noodle issues

thanks it will look better very soon i got a full wrap handle coming in the mail and i will be doing more work to the clutch cover more pictures to come soon!

 

member: 3"]Wow.. Look's great!! Nice setup![/QUOTE]
Here she is with her 3/4 wrap. Man I can only say good things about the 3/4 wraps it's like you are using half the saw without it.

 

I generally turn the saw about 10 degrees from perpendicular, which seems to shorten the noodles just enough to keep from jamming (still get a few). It does make the pieces less than square for stacking, but does the trick for me.

 

Cutting at about 10 to 15 degrees from the grain will load up my Stihl 026 but will not load up my Husky 555 nearly as badly. I clear both saws at the end of each cut but that old Stihl sure loads up compared to the newer Husky. My guess is the manufacturers are learning to make their saws deal better with noodles.

 

Noodle clogging does vary a lot by brand and model. Just vagaries in the design I guess. I wouldn't buy a saw based on its noodling ability but have considered having one on hand especially suited for that task. I don't noodle all that much unless I'm testing saws and am short on logs.

 

Good thing its cheap to buy an aftermarket cover to modify

 

I bought the "west coast" cover for my 044, in hopes that it would noodle better. Little did I realize that the cover is only fanned out on the bottom and isn't any wider than a stock cover. I started noodling with the nose down a few degrees and it made a world of difference. Now the side cover only gets clogged when I get down to the bottom.

 

I want to buy another cover one of those $10 ebay ones and cut a notch in the back to help clear noodles.

 

Do it for sure, man. My ugly 064 is a designated noodle saw that I put a salvaged clutch cover on. It was smashed, so I just cut it down a bit. Does a great job clearing noodles compared to my other saws.

 

Yep, I noodle with the bar tip slightly down. Green wood clogs worst. I also make sure to keep the area under the clutch cover from piling up because that causes clogging.

Also take your time - don't fully load the engine but don't let it WOT either.

 

I just noodle deep enough place a wedge and sledge my way through. Couple of crude shaped wooden wedges after that then usually just a bit down at the bottom to clear the cut.
Less mess.

 

I have tried that as well. Not as much fun as using a BIG saw

 

I'm with ya Clem, but less noodles means less to clean up and more wood to split...!!!
The 066 w 36" will have to wait till the "real" big stumps get dropped off.

 

I'm with ya, but I spend a fair amount of time with wood that's big, green, and burly. Nothing to do but cut that.

 

True dat. Round these parts the only stuff that gets that big is red oak, poplar, and some ash...very "splittable" stuff. Elm gets tossed to the side for when I'm bored out of my mind and feel like wood wrestling. Sycamore will get big too but I don't want any of that stuff dropped off at all. Wood snob here for sure.

 

I had to noodle some 40" or so redoak more than normal. It had a strange twisted grain although it was pretty much big knot free and straight. Splits would not split straight but kind of into triangles?

 

My 044 also clogs pretty bad. My 590 doesn't clog. Well it hasn't yet. Guess I need to take both off and compare them. Maybe the echo cover is a good bit wider?

 

I see that when I split rounds that were close to the stump....or were the stump.
Stumps are bad ....

 

I do too, but this was 6-8 foot up or so