Feedback on wood cutting
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My last comment relates to the basic belief of most
homesteaders: simplicity with economy. The act of using a
chain saw is complicated by oil, gas, chains, noise
pollution, danger . An axe and a crosscut saw,
with a pair of sawhorses, are preferable by far . . .
because the tool which is most adequate to do the job, with
the least complexity, is the right tool to use.
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A tractor may outperform a brace of horses, but a team will
comfortably and adequately care for the needs of the
average family and leave a nice surplus for market. Do you
want to be a Kansas wheat agribusiness, or a part of the
earth? A matter of personal taste, finally.
And that suggests some other points: When all the gas is
gone, what do you do with your combines and your tractors?
When the air is foul and stinks in your head, what will
your children have to live with? When you finally come to
die, what memories will you carry into the sod with you:
ghostly images of a tractor that belched and roared 12
hours a day, or of the gentle tinkle of horses' harness?
Our time on earth in tenuous and fleeting, and is gone
before any of us realizes it. Simplicity brings us closer
to the fundamentals of all life, and is more akin to our
basic feelings. People in the city are divorced from life
and die regretting it . . . or become automatons. We of the
land shall endure.
J.
West Virginia
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