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lumberjack
Also known as logger, woodcutter, jacking lumber, logjammer, forestry technician, lumberer, lumber harvester, sawyer
250px|right|thumb|A lumberjack Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
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20 sectionsContents
- Term
- History
- Lifestyle
- Division of labour
- Machinery
- Culture
- Evolution
- Tie hacking
- Modern technology
- Safety
- Loggersports
- Lumberjack fashion
- Popular culture
- Folklore
- Music
- Songs
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
250px|right|thumb|A lumberjack Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
The work was difficult, dangerous, intermittent, low-paying, and involved living in primitive conditions. However, the men built a traditional culture that celebrated strength, masculinity, confrontation with danger, and resistance to modernization.