(a) Discuss the climatic conditions required for lumbering activities.
(b) Give a short note on skidding.
(c) What do you know about the life of lumberjacks ?
(d) Name and explain the buildings found in the temporary camps of lumberjacks.
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a)Climate: Climate in temperate region is conducive to lumbering. As the temperature is cool and pleasant, workers can continue their activities longer without much tiredness. Easy transportation: As trees are un-branched, shorter and lighter, transportation is easier.
b)take turn of more radius with slow speed to prevent from ur vehicle to get slip...
c)Lumberjacks worked in lumber camps and often lived a migratory life, following timber harvesting jobs as they opened. Being a lumberjack was seasonal work. Lumberjacks were exclusively men. ... He often wrote colourfully about lumberjacks in his subsequent books, romanticizing them as hard-drinking, hard-working men.
d)The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the word comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossack's of Upper Canada, who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws."[6]
The term lumberjack is primarily historical; logger is used by workers in the 21st century.[7] When lumberjack is used, it usually refers to a logger from an earlier time before the advent of chainsaws, feller-bunchers and other modern logging equipment. Other terms for the occupation include woodcutter, shanty boy[8] and the colloquial term woodhick
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