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A chainsaw is fast and easy but it disrespects the tree. You can cut through something in less than 50 seconds that took 50 years to grow. Using a muscle powered saw makes you work, and gives you a better appreciation for what you are doing. And when you're done, you can sit on the fallen giant with your body pleasantly warmed and limbered, and feel like you really accomplished something. Plus the crosscut saw is as noted quieter, lighter, it doesn't stink, and it's cheap to maintain.

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Thoreau said cutting firewood warms you twice; once when you cut it, again when you burn it. There is no record of the man warming himself with a chain saw.

Most of the modern teeth patterns for logging saws were developed to deal with the vast forests of North America. The clearing of European woodlands happened over centuries. People took small nibbles of the forest to open land for a farm or village or monestary. They never faced the volume of cutting demanded by settling the eastern woodlands of North America. New circumstances required new tools. Old saws got new teeth.