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Lumberjacks : Discovery

What is a lumberjack ?

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What would a lumberjack be called in Tasmania

today? _________________________________

What tools and skills would a typical lumberjack use

100 years ago?

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FAST FACTS

How wood was once harvested:

Lumberjacks worked in lumber camps and often lived a migratory life, following timber

harvesting jobs as they opened. They also had to take a long time to move the logs from

place to place, because of low technology. Being a lumberjack was seasonal work.

Lumberjacks were exclusively men. They usually lived in bunkhouses or tents. Common

If there’s one thing lumberjacks love more than cutting down trees it’s bad

equipment included the axe and crosscut saw. Lumberjacks could be found wherever

jokes about lumberjacks cutting down trees!

there were vast forests to be harvested and a demand for wood. In the U.S., many

lumberjacks were of Scandinavian ancestry, continuing the occupation of their parents

and grandparents.

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