garycrum:  When I cut firewood, I cut BIG.  I mainly cut 5-6 ft. in dia. Oak, 2-4 ft. in dia. Alder, same for Maple, every now and then Ma drone.   When going up on landings I find that a majority of people can NOT cut the larger logs because their saw is too small.  Choice Logs for me.  When I get  the BIG Saw out I actually have people come over to me and offer me $2-$3 dollars per cut to cut up a big log for them, Sorry, I have to cut my own as you know how much work it is.  Bring it home, run it through the 37 ton log splitter and enjoy, nothin better than wood heat.  I have a lifetime friend who lives in Lorane right at the start of the Coast Range mountains, he has 100 acres of flat,  heavy timberland  so thick  that you have to cut your way thru it.  Its many lifetimes supply of wood and in his 34 years of living there he has not even had to think about replanting.  Just cutting the oak and maple and alder and  not even touching the fir.  I have been there the last 20 years.