Lesson learned: Buy a chainsaw

I grabbed a great looking log today from the dump pile of the local power company. It's about 12" in diameter, and I needed to saw it in half to make some bowl blanks. This is the first... and last time I will ever saw a 12" dia. log with a bow saw. What could have taken 2 minutes with a chainsaw took 45 by hand. Lesson learned: Buy a chainsaw.