Out, Out Strength and Skill Quotes

Why is there an inversion here? Doesn't the saw "make" "stove-length sticks of wood" and "drop" "dust?" The inversion is meant to make you pause and consider the point of the activity—isn't cutting the wood just delaying the inevitable invasion of death?

Does this mean that nothing happened out of the ordinary? Or is the production in the poem somehow implied to be futile? After all, the boy was chopping wood to survive. What is the speaker's perspective here? Is the finality so early in the poem meant to lull us into a false sense of security?

If you think about it, the saw is basically an instrument of the boy's work. So in giving his hand to the saw, what's happening? We get some confusing blending in this line, as if it's hard to tell the boy's intentions apart from the saw's intentions.