I found a few of my chain sawmuscles here this week
it kept raining every time I was going to go out and cut and I like to get it all in the shed by the time it gets too hot to work. somewhere around 75*

30 , dry with sun , little to no wind and frozen ground very little snow is the perfect time to cut , we didn't get much of that this year.

I have been doing this for years. On big stuff,2-5 feet in diameter I can usually cut them in half and "walk" them to the splitter. It's best to put the cut edge next to the beam because the the center is harder to split than the sap ring.
If you pick up a couple 5 gallon buckets of the shavings and add a gallon or so of used oil to them and stir it up good, you have excellent homemade firestarter.

Noodles from Sitka Spruce or Yellow Cedar will burn very well, even from freshly fallen trees.

Learned about pulling noodles for fires from a logger in Hoonah in the early 1980’s.

Just did some noodling this passed weekend.
Had a big Ash tree that the Emerald Ash Borers killed.
Have one more to get sometime soon.

I've had to cut them like that too if there too big.got a 24 inch bar so it doesn't happen to often but has.since I put that lift on the log splitter it's made life alot easier.

that is a 24 inch bar I also have a 28 for that saw
it isn't too big to cut it is too big for me to lift onto the tailgate to haul home in once peice
at home I back up to the splitter and work right off the tailgate this limits the lifting

I've noodled some big chunks.
Like 30" diameter Burr Oak cut into 20" Cobbs.
The noodles make superb fire starters when dry.

I could save noodles for fire starter , but it mostly gets left in the woods.

the post office drops off most all the fire starter I need 6 days a week and I have to do something with all that junk so much of it is stuff that would need to be shredded if I didn't burn it

beyond that I get cardboard boxes at the grocery store to carry my groceries home in fewer trips in than bags and already something that was a waste product of shipping , I cut those up into strips and burn them also

old clothing also makes good fire starter , socks with holes in them and stuff that has too many holes to keep wearing out

the bits of wood from splitting that pile up around the splitter pick up some of that and put it in 5 gallon pails and let it dry out mostly covers kindling

This is very common when cutting shingle blocks. Often sawed on all sides. Shingle mills like it better than splitting as there is less waste especially with eady wood. Shingle block cutters usually cut out the back of the sprocket cover so it doesn't plug up.
I also used to rip a little bit of it at work when I was short of TP. Stay away from pitchy wood in that case.

Nice old school saw.
We used to call those shavings tow.
Then came the web and we were wrong again.
My sword is still bigger though.

Wore out chains,
sharpened to twenty degrees work well for this.

No kidding!! Those knarly knotted up crotches are great burning when you get them busted up.
I now leave them for easier splitting wood. Now they form the base for habitat brush piles.
I can split a wheel barrow full of easy wood in the time it takes to chunk one of those up.

I wouldn't call it wrong at all like all things lumber , timber , cutting areas developed regional terms
like a bunch tools have east coast and west coast names

Looked up images of chainsaw tow and toe.
Not pretty lol.
Was ripping the other day. Not everyone
has option of leavings.
Husky offers a reasonable priced kit of wrap handle,
bigger spikes and wider clutch cover.
To me the cover was worth the cost.
When I sell this one the original parts will be mint.

You need a really sharp chain to cut with the grain like that.

no sharper than you need to pull decent chip on a cross cut

I cut that entire tree up so far without touching up that chain and it still pulls nice curls and chip

my tools to sharpen are absolutely nothing special , just a round file and when I am not pulling nice chips if a bit too small of chip , then a flat file to lower the rakers.

Those "Noodles" make outstanding kindling!