I can only speak to my own experience of doing this professionally in northern climes without power tools for ~5 years, but both of your suggestions are foreign to me. I take this as a nice reminder that there is lots of regional variation to this craft around the world, which isn't surprising.
Even then, building a barn with dried pine or hemlock is much more tedious and incurs many more trips to the sharpening wheel. It is in no way easier.
Even then, building a barn with dried pine or hemlock is much more tedious and incurs many more trips to the sharpening wheel. It is in no way easier.