State the functions of Lumberjacks in brief. (3-4 sentences)
• Lives of Lumberjacks:
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Lumberjacks are mostly North American workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. 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.[1]
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Lumberjacks worked in lumber camps and often lived a migratory life, following timber harvesting jobs as they opened. ... Lumberjacks were exclusively men. They usually lived in bunkhouses or tents. Common equipment included the axe and cross-cut saw.
According to the work in which they are involved , the lumberjacks are divided into four categories - the high riggers , the sawyers or buckers , & the skiddres & the haulers or transporters