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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6055936" data-attributes="member: 70">DISCLAIMER: I realize this post is pedantic, overly-detailed, and obsessed with the minutiae of a hypothetical comparison.  I totally understand the point being made.  But leaving the hypothetical comparisons uncorrected hurts me.  Deeply.  In my heart. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Blame it on my father, who has a workshop stuffed with hand tools (and sawdust).  A hacksaw is a finely-toothed saw used to cut plastic or metal.  It would be excruciatingly slow in wood, and the teeth would clog quickly.The cuts would, however, be cleaner and more accurate than you would get with a hammer.  (Which is not to say that I haven't made some lovely splits with the claw side of a a hammer...)There are 6" hacksaws.  A better comparison, however, might be an 18" toolbox saw, or if you want to stay really small, a keyhole or drywall saw.There are no 4' handsaws.  There are 4' (and larger) two-person saws, used for cutting logs and beams, but 4' is too large.  I'm not sure I've ever seen a handsaw longer than 32", maybe 36" tops.    There's just not enough depth in the human arm to use a saw that big effectively.Edit: OK, wikipedia has a picture of a 5', single person crosscut saw, so I'm wrong about them not existing.  In my defense, my father has two old two-person felling saws, but we never had occasion to use them.  I will also note that as pictured, it's clearly a two-handed weapon.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosscut_saw" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosscut_saw</a>OK, that's out of my system.  Resume your day!</blockquote>

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