Sawyer (occupation)
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Sawyer also known as sawmill worker is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pitsaw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a s
Sawyers in Japan, circa 1800. Nishiki-e print after Katsushika Hokusai.
Saw pit
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A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which timber is positioned to be sawed with a long two-handled saw, usually a whipsaw, by two people, one standing above the timber and the other below. It was used f
Sawyer (occupation)
…Sawyer also known as sawmill worker is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pitsaw 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…
A saw pit in use near Kalomo, Zambia, in 2007
Large logs would usually be hauled to the site by horses.
The main surviving retaining wall of the pit with the collapsed wall in the foreground
Looking along the pit towards the Glazert Water