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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> > Bowsaws and pulpsaws are excellent firewood tools but now of days, 
> > when no one uses them seriously, the toolmakers can get by with 
> > offering only crap sawblades.. . . . I researched as best I could and 
> > came up with one Swedish company saying its blades were acutally made 
> > to cut wood:  Sanvik - sold in the US as Bahco. . . . Wow! . . . . 
> > 200K people within 40 miles of here and notone saw fit to cut wood to 
> > be had.
>
>
> Good story; good info. Thank you.
>
> Dad taught me to make wood with a crosscut saw. I still remember him 
> saying, "Don't ride it!" As I recall, we had a couple bow saws but 
> they were only used to cut small stuff in a sawhorse. Anything of 
> firewood size was cut with a two-man or one-man crosscut saw, which 
> were hand sharpened with a file as necessary. I have three crosscut 
> saws just in case but am your typical lazy American geezer; I prefer 
> the noisy, smelly, gas-and-oil-guzzling chain saw.
tvoivozhd---the best measure of work output is energy input.  Human 
muscles put out about one-quarter horsepower, and get tired.  Midsized 
chainsaws put out 3.5 horsepower and don't get tired.  So they will 
outcut James" bucksaw or the much faster two-man crosscut by three or 
four factors.  However, I remember the days on the farm when all the 
wood was felled by a double-bitted axe (kept sharp) and blocked by a 
two-man crosscut (kept sharp), until we arranged with a nest-door 
neighbor to bring us his Model A Ford engine-powered cut-off saw which 
could do in an hour more than we could cut with a two-man crosscut  in 
half a day.  All a matter of energy applied---saws of any kind don't 
care what is the energy source, just respond proportionally with output 
according to energy input.