That sounds like an awesome family activity. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We also have a bunch of down trees in the NW with recent storms. I am taking an evening hike that hopefuly will also be a moonlight hike tonight <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />. Going to keep my eyes open for anything good while daylight. Where is best place to purchase one of those beasts and if not being rude how much should one expect to pay ? Thanks

With all of the floods and avalanches and mudslides up here, there's going
to be a lot of downed trees around here. Maybe we need a battalion of those
up here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Do they come in a motorized version?

Cheers <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Yaeh- but no exercise- and not much fun.

Somehow, I don't think that the guys cutting up all those trees would mind
a chainsaw.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Reckon a DFCG would kick it's a*s! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Or an S6 !! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Naw...you're doing that overkill thing again...an SS4 or a Mud Puppy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

As I mentioned in a previous post, this is the one I got... Difanis

If I hadn't found it used at a great price, I probably would have gone with this one instead.

If you do a search for "one man crosscut saw" you'll see several other options. Some German made saws look to be decent quality for a bit less, but many claim to come unsharpened - you'd then have to send them out for sharpening, which brings the total price back to what the second one goes for. Again, I'm no expert yet, but I had an itch that needed to be scratched!

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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This article does a great job of describing differences and uses of crosscut saws:

The Crosscut Saw

My one-man saw is most appropriate for bucking softwood trees that are already down. For felling, a thinner, longer saw would be more appropriate.

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.