Sawyer also known as sawmill worker is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pitsaw"Sawyer" def. 1 formerly "Sawer" def. 1. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition. either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job is the occupation of someone who cuts lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now often done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores.20 Jobs That Have Disappeared, By Miranda Marquit, Main Street, thestreet.com, May 3, 2010.
The term is still widely used in the logging industry to refer to the operator of a chainsaw (or still in some limited applications, a crosscut saw) for harvesting, wildfire suppression, trail construction and related work. In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a concrete saw.
See also Hewing Wood splitting
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