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    Lumberjacks lead difficult lives in isolated forest camps as they harvest timber. They build temporary houses called shanties in the autumn and work throughout the winter, felling trees with axes or saws. Different lumberjacks specialize in high-risk tree climbing, log transport down rivers using poles to separate logs, or hauling logs to sawmills. While challenging, lumberjacking provided wealth for some who became lumber barons, and tools have modernized though the work remains dangerous.

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    Lumberjacks lead difficult lives in isolated forest camps as they harvest timber. They build temporary houses called shanties in the autumn and work throughout the winter, felling trees with axes or saws. Different lumberjacks specialize in high-risk tree climbing, log transport down rivers using poles to separate logs, or hauling logs to sawmills. While challenging, lumberjacking provided wealth for some who became lumber barons, and tools have modernized though the work remains dangerous.

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    Lumberjacks lead difficult lives in isolated forest camps as they harvest timber. They build temporary houses called shanties in the autumn and work throughout the winter, felling trees with axes or saws. Different lumberjacks specialize in high-risk tree climbing, log transport down rivers using poles to separate logs, or hauling logs to sawmills. While challenging, lumberjacking provided wealth for some who became lumber barons, and tools have modernized though the work remains dangerous.

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    Lumbering refers to the harvesting of timber and finally chopping them into required
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    shapes and sizes. People associated with this practice are called lumberjacks.
    b. A lumberjack leads an isolated life which is full of hardships. They set out in autumn to
    live in temporary wooden houses, or shanties, with steep roofs. Sometimes, constructing
    a house becomes a problem due to permanent frost on the ground. Therefore, in
    summer, the lumberjacks build many kilometres of rough track roads deep into the
    forest. This track leads to the lumber camps, which consist of a few a
    buildings with
    kitchen, a dining room and a bedroom. Earlier, their houses used to be crudely built log
    cabins, but In the past, lumberjacks returned home
    today, they are more comfortable.
    walking many kilometres after several months of stiff work in the forest.
    c. After a whole day's hard work in the forest, they seek relaxation in activities such as
    swapping stories, fighting, and socialising

    d. High riggers do the high-risk work of climbing the tall coniferous trees, such as spruce,
    balsam, fir, pine, hemlock and poplar, and cutting the branches. They wear spiked
    shoes and cling to the tree with the help of a safety belt slung around them and the
    tree. Finally, the top of the tree is chopped by their axe or saw. The cut-off branches
    are lifted and carried with the help of cables and pulleys7Sut today, with extensive
    mechanisation and scientific methods of lumbering. the axe has been replaced by cross
    cut saws to fell trees faster.
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    e.l Haulers are the lumberjacks imvolved in moVing the logs down the stream. They wear
    to clear janmming. They use long spiked poles
    niked boots to move on the floating logs
    the saw mills. This work starts when the ice
    to separate
    the logs as they tloat down to
    the logs become loose and can roll, over the lumberiacks
    thaws in springBy this time,
    occasions. T herefore, the lumberjacks have to be quick,
    leading to their death on many
    in order to avoid such dangersP'resently, their work has
    clever, daring and vigilant
    that regulate the tlow of the water and direct it towards the
    been made easier by dams
    saw mills and paper
    mills. On large rivers, the logs are looped or chained together to
    controlled.
    make rafts and thus, their movement is
    is on the way to modernisation. Following
    fThe life of the Canadian lumberjacks
    modern scientific tools and new techniques of
    the introduction of a wide range of
    has become much easier than that of their
    lumbering, the task of the lumberjacks
    amount of money after working for several
    predecessors. Many lumberjacks earn huge
    a
    Some of the richest people in
    years in the log
    farms. They are called lumber barons.
    standard of livingarlier,
    Canada today are the lumber barons. They enjoy very high
    a

    but today, they are more comfortable.


    their houses used to be crudely built log cabins,
    Their tools have been modernised as
    well. The axes they used have been replaced by
    saws driven by power to make
    their jobs easier.
    cross cut saws and chain

    as coniferous forests
    6. a. Lumbering 1s one of the major occupations of the people in Canada
    raw material
    cover about 60 per cent of the total land area of the country and provide
    veneer, etc. Abundance
    of timber has
    for industries that produce paper, pulp, plywood,
    commercial practice in Canada. Canada
    made lumbering a productive and profitable
    is the leading exporter of wood. About 31 per
    cent of the world's forest products are

    obtained from Canada.

    be classified into four categories based on the kind of work they do.
    b. Lumberjacks can

    These are:

    Sawyers or buckers Skidders .Haulers


    High riggers
    the tall coniferous trees, such as spruce,
    High riggers do the high-risk work of climbing
    balsam, fir, pine, hemlock and poplar, and cutting the branches. They wear spiked shoes
    belt slung around them and the tree.
    and cling to the tree with the help of a safety
    Finally, the top of the tree is chopped by their
    axe or saw.

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