I sometimes wonder if the Amish don't have it all figgered out better than anyone...
Sort of reminds me, I love my chainsaws, and have a few cheap bowsaws, but I really want a modern day big crosscut saw (and a turnbuckle bucksaw..), something made with real fine quality modern almost tool-steel quality alloy. They make them still, sorta pricey.
Ya never know, and I know for a fact you can cut some decent amounts of firewood with one, I used to own one and cut with it. Get that badboy sharp to begin with, touch it up with a fine file and check the "set", and they just rock. Could be wake up one day and liquid fuels be unobtanium or so pricey and restricted that it wouldn't matter.
I already have a two handed old timey but modern made scythe, and I *also* can use one quite well. Had one years ago and got real good with it. This one here I keep put away, fully sharpened. I could scythe and rick enough hay by myself to keep a few critters going over the winter. Not our full herd, but "enough" to keep it sustainable.
Back in the not real far away olden days, the US was logged over by guys wielding one and two man crosscuts, and axes, and that's it. Here is a *white oak* that came from west Virginia, with the lumberjacks who did it. Just lookit the size of that thing! http://www.patc.us/images/hist_3log.jpg Those guys had to eat upwards of ten thousand calories a day and still stayed fit and trim, not skinny, but no extra poundage on them either. Them old timers could do some work...
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