You could use a reciprocating saw (Sawsall) as a manual saw, but why would you? Turn the thing on and let it do all the work. There is no need to go to the expense of buying an electric saw, only to expend energy sawing the thing back and forth, in a manual fashion, off. You are penalized because you have spent money on the saw, the blade is too short for long cuts, and the thing is heavy and unwieldly. This same experience can, and does happen with WordPress, my favorite CMS development tool.
