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Can we talk about the old climber who told me to learn on a handsaw before touching a chainsaw?
He was 68 and had been climbing since the early 70s, and he watched me fumble with a top handle saw on a small maple in his backyard. He said the saw makes you fast but the handsaw teaches you where the wood actually wants to go, and after doing it his way for about a month I finally felt the difference in the hinge. Curious if anyone else here came up that way or if that advice is pretty much gone now.
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jenny_lane124d ago
Honestly I used to roll my eyes at that kind of advice, figured it was just old guys gatekeeping and that a saw is a saw so why not learn on the real thing. But then I spent a few weeks doing nothing but a handsaw on small stuff and it totally changed my mind, you feel every bit of the cut and you learn to read the wood instead of just ripping through it. The hinge thing is real too, with a handsaw you actually notice when you've left too much or too little because you're working for every inch. Ngl I still grab the chainsaw for anything big but I'm glad somebody made me slow down first.
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