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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

 On Nov 19, 2007 9:22 AM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> Crosscut saws have long been made in both one-man and two-man
> versions. I learned as a teen to make firewood with a crosscut saw
> before we got a chainsaw.

My mother and I took down quite a number of large trees (2-foot
diameter or so) with a two-man crosscut saw when I was in my teens. In
retrospect, that we were not killed or maimed is just more proof that
God protects children and fools.

Marie