Sven saw. The silky may be sweet, but do you want to make a side trip to Japan or Walmart for a replacement blade?
I don't think you'll be cutting much firewood. Are you going to be cooking over it? Is it for environmental warmth? Something to tell stories around and toast your smores? Only option three is a reasonable excuse for a fire night after night when you're traveling.
Cooking over a wood fire is ... a challenge. A long time consuming, inexact, fuel intensive, romantic ordeal. At camp, after hiking all day, I want something hot to drink and eat, and right quick. That means a camp stove. I **LOVE** my
MSR Dragonfly. It is loud, granted. That is its only "flaw". It has a great range from candle flame to SR-71 on afterburner. It runs on white gas, unleaded, kerosene, diesel, and jet fuel. No, I'm not exaggerating.
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“The perfect do-anything stove.” The Dragonfly offers terrific stability, and impressive flame range. It can go “from a bic lighter flame to a raging inferno”, enabling you to cook much as you could at home. Even in tough weather conditions, it lights without a problem. Be prepared for the noise level, one camper described it as sounding like “a jet plane was taking off, constantly.”
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I love it. I'm never going back.
I'll only mention in passing that open fires are often not allowed at all, when a camp stove is. I guarantee you'll find that to be true as you travel west, especially as fire season starts.
For the record, I have the Gerber version of the Fiskars (one company bought the other...) and I love it. It is scary sharp, light enough to pack and goes on ... one trip in ten, and I camp a lot. The Sven saw goes on every trip. Much much much more practical and useful.