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On 12/27/24 11:23 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, such objective discussions are beyond old "Farley" here; 
the appropriate analogy more akin to that he believes that one must only 
use one's teeth, because that's how a beaver does it.

He's in YA cycle of building a new PC, which instead of taking hours to 
get up & running has already consumed a few weeks...


-hh