On Sep 13, 3:55*pm, "Bob Daun" wrote:
Since I know a lot of people cut up their own bowel wood, I have a question.
I was cutting up some pieces from a downed Maple tree in my son's backyard
last week. *The pieces were already about 15-20" lengths and I used his
chainsaw to slice these down the middle to provide more useful starting
pieces and allow me to carry them by myself up to my car. *In doing this, I
noticed that it was much harder to saw the pieces down the middle than to
cross cut them. *Is this typical? *If so, are there chain designs which
would cut better when cutting a block vertically down the middle as opposed
to cross cutting?

Hi Bob, the reason is because you were cutting in line with the wood
fibres and not across them , cutting in line tends to bind the wood on
the saw teeth and makes cutting a log vertically so to speak bloody
hard work and will also kill the blade teeths temper pretty quickly
making it an expensive or if you sharpen your own chains a real hassle
as the metal has lost its temper and will not hold an edge for long
anymore . The best way to get around this problem is to either buy or
hire a log splitter, you can get one at a pretty modest price nowadays
and it will pay for itself very quickly as you can split other guys
logs for a small fee to pay for it .