Making support beams with the saw

[Azdoine 218]

It's just a bit of glaring inconsistency that a saw (which is shown to be even better than the axe for precision woodcutting) can't cut logs into support beams.

At least, last I checked you can't do that, and that was yesteday.

[fred da kiko 28]

a support beam is essentially just logs that are chopped into sections. an axe is much better for blunt work such as making a square than the saw.

[Ryudo 0]

Well, in my mind being able to make support beams with either makes sense, but I don't see why you'd want to waste your valuable metal with something you can do just as efficiently with a normal stone axe.

[fred da kiko 28]

If you've ever sawed through a log, you'll know that it's a bitch. Making planks would make sense, as you need precision that doesn't come from swinging around an axe, but you aren't going to saw down the length of a log to make some timber struts that could be done more efficiently by splitting bits off with a log.

[Ryudo 0]

If you've ever sawed through a log, you'll know that it's a bitch. Making planks would make sense, as you need precision that doesn't come from swinging around an axe, but you aren't going to saw down the length of a log to make some timber struts that could be done more efficiently by splitting bits off with a log.

By efficiently I meant that using either produces 8 units of support beam, but I see your point

[Jed1314 420]

If you've ever sawed through a log, you'll know that it's a bitch. Making planks would make sense, as you need precision that doesn't come from swinging around an axe, but you aren't going to saw down the length of a log to make some timber struts that could be done more efficiently by splitting bits off with a log.

I disagree with this slightly. Namely because you are trying to apply real world logic, to a process which gives you 8m of wooden "strut", from a section of log which is a maximum of 1m3 .. Show me any tool, axe or saw, that can do that and I would be impressed

I agree with Azdoine, you really should be able to make struts with a saw. But as Ryudo pointed out, why bother ?

(coincidentally, (IRL) it would actually make more sense simply to cut the logs to size with an axe and use the whole log as a support strut, or (if you're feeling neat) you would lay the log over some workhorses and hew it to a square post using a hewing axe, which is designed for such tasks, although all of this presumes you don't have access to pre-cut lumber/lumber mill equipment )