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Help in Lumbering in canada
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Lumbering is the total process of cutting trees, felling trees, dragging the logs, loading into trucks, transporting the logs, cutting in to finished or semi-finished logs, finally manufacturing wooden planks, boards etc. In canada lumber generally could mean the wooden planks, boards etc.

They follow silviculture practice, that ensures very little deforestation. The forests are regrown/regenerated in a systematic manner so that the productivity, quality and health of the forests is maintained.

Lumbering or logging is a life endangering profession as compared to other occupations in Canada. It involves felling of trees, moving among heavy moving weights, handling heavy equipment on uneven lands.

There are certain standards of the sizes of the boards or planks. The sizes of boards for doors could be 2 feet by 4 or 2 feet by 6 feet. The thickness of standard boards is 1 inch. There are longer sizes for other purposes like partitions. The lumber is produced in high quality and multiple colors.

National Lumber Grades Authority of canada is responsible for the creation and maintenance of lumber grades. Lumber Standards Accreditation Board monitors by inspection the way of evaluating grades at various manufactures.

Preservatives are added/applied to the wood in order to prevent termites and decay of wood in time. These preservatives are regularly monitored for health safety by Pest management and regulatory agency,

Answer 2

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Lumbering has four phases: logging, driving, manufacturing, and transport. The details varied depending on whether a homesteader was carving a farm out of a forest, an independent logger was felling and selling logs to a mill, or a commercial mill handled the entire process from logging through sales.

Early on, logging was generally limited to the winter months, mid-November through mid-March weather permitting, when horses or oxen could drag felled and trimmed logs and sleighs of logs on snow-covered ground to collection points at the edge of a nearby river, lake, or later a railway stop. With the invention of big wheels, logs could be more easily moved throughout the year.

Driving involved getting logs from a collection point to a sawmill. Early on this generally meant floating logs down a river after the spring thaw, which was a dangerous ride for the men called "river hogs." When a stream was not available as was the case for Arcadia, railroads were used to get logs to mills throughout the year and much more safely.