I've had the Bahco Laplander for years and it's a decent saw for small logs. It cuts on both the pull and push strokes.
Last year I got two Silky saws, both curved blade models, which cut better than their straight blade Silky equivalents even according to Silky's own literature. Both saws simply blow away the Bahco for ease of sawing and speed due to their curved and triple tapered blades. Silky's work only on the pull stroke, and you can angle the blades in two different positions for overhead and ground cutting.
The 14.2" curved blade
Silky BIGBOY 2000 can go through 6"-8" logs quite easily and can handle bigger ones with more time. At 16 ounces and 15" folded, it is more canoe packable than an axe, but it may have a little more length than the average campfire maker needs.
The 9.5" curved blade
Silky ULTRA ACCEL will go through 3"-4" logs like butter and can also handle larger than that with patience. Anything 2" or smaller are usually severable with one well-placed slice of a good wood chopping machete, parang or golok. It is only slightly heavier than the Bahco at 10.4 ounces and is 10" long folded.
I've watched many YouTube saw speed contests and the Silky Big Boy 2000 and Ultra Accel are the second and third fastest performers from my observations. The first fastest is the really large
Silky KatanaBoy, which may be too long for most canoe trippers.
I use my saws very frequently on my 11 acres of woods, swamp and jungle, where packing and portaging is not a concern. Frankly, I pick the Big Boy 2000 much more frequently than the Ultra Accel, except when I have limited room when pruning the branches of a conifer.
Here is a picture from another thread where I showed my most used edged tools, including the two Silkys, two parang machetes, and a Bark River fixed blade I carry as a neck knife.
I've never been an axe person, though I own a nice one, and I really can't think of any canoe trip wood processing I couldn't do very rapidly with my longer parang and Silky -- though I might take the shorter version of both for gram weenie weight and packability reasons.
My Bahco has now unused but not unloved. If I were backpacking, it's the one I would take for size and weight.
