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Lumberjack facts for kids

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Finnish lumberjack in 1944
Finnish lumberjack in 1944

A lumberjack is a person who cuts down trees to be made into lumber. Lumberjacks used to cut with axes, but now lumberjacks use chainsaws.

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  • A lumberjack standing at the base of a huge tree showing a cut in the tree, ca.1900 (CHS-3368)

    A lumberjack c. 1900

  • A Maine Logging Camp

    A Maine logging camp in 1906.

  • Felling axe

    Felling axes

  • Logging Scene Near Bellingham, WA

    Lumberjacks near Bellingham, Washington, c. 1910

  • Hodler Holzfäller

    Lumberjack, painting by Ferdinand Hodler, 1910.

  • Lexington Barbecue Festival - lumberjack 2

    Double cut competition at the Lexington Barbecue Festival

  • Lightning presentation Wikipedia Day Chicago 4

    Example of urban lumberjack fashion

  • Paul Bunyan Statue in Portland Oregon in 2004

    Statue of Paul Bunyan (Portland, Oregon), listed on the National Register of Historic Places

  • Nätti-Jussi portrait

    ”Nätti-Jussi” (”Pretty-John”) was a legendary Finnish forest laborer and lumberjack. The stories told by Nätti made him a very famous figure, particularly in Lapland.

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