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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:23:51 +0000
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On 27/12/2024 15:42, TJ wrote:
> I'm not a professional logger. I'm just an old farmer who over the years 
> has used both, and if well maintained the saw is faster and more 
> accurate for putting the tree where you want it instead of on your 
> pickup truck.
> 
> I've also bucked the tree into pieces with a chainsaw and with a 
> crosscut hand saw, both one-man and two-man, and the chainsaw is easier, 
> faster, and better.
> 
> I've also split many a log into firewood with a hammer and wedges, as 
> well as with a gasoline-powered hydraulic log splitter, and the log 
> splitter will split tangled logs into usable pieces with ease that a 
> hammer and wedges won't touch no matter how long you beat on them.
> 
> Perhaps you believe that the exercise from using hand tools is better 
> for health. Well, anybody who thinks you don't get a workout when using 
> power tools to put up a winter's supply of firewood clearly has never 
> actually done the task.

+1 on all counts.
If God had given us chainsaws we would never have invented the axe.
-- 
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid decision or more dangerous way of 
making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people 
who pay no price for being wrong.”

Thomas Sowell