You need wood that'd fit into your stove but only have (maybe fallen) trees around?
Well, duh. That's what you do. You cut it to the convinient length, take an ax and split 'em.
The crafts and stuff grow from that. How do you think boards were made before sawmills?
I mean, really, people were building log cabins for thousands of years before vikings. How do you think the logs were cleaned of bark and brought to more or less uniform diameter for that? This same technique and instruments.
Well, duh. That's what you do. You cut it to the convinient length, take an ax and split 'em.
The crafts and stuff grow from that. How do you think boards were made before sawmills?
I mean, really, people were building log cabins for thousands of years before vikings. How do you think the logs were cleaned of bark and brought to more or less uniform diameter for that? This same technique and instruments.