I don't understand the second guessing and armchair quarterback comments in regards to the chainsaw. People up here in Northern Canada live in a very hostile environment and if a chainsaw can make a difference for possible survival then why not? In -40 weather, I would rather be cutting wood with a chainsaw to fuel a survival fire then to be cutting wood by hand.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock