Talk:Lumberjack/Archive 1

Logger vs. Lumberjack

Now that the page is fairly decent, perhaps we should think about moving the modern jobs related stuff onto its own LOGGER page, and keep LUMBERJACK for the historical/cultural aspects. I think that there is a lot of content about career, safety, regions, owls-vs-jobs, etc. which would go well onto a LOGGER page but not onto a LUMBERJACK page. -- The Gomm 19:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Not American

I'd suggest this article to get de-americanized a bit. For example, the school mascot section merely lists USA states and cities but doesn't mentiont he country itself. This is an English language article, not culturally from US or UK. (Tag: Worldwide view) Joonas Mäkinen (talk) 22:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

puppies

Whoa, the last part of this article is totally inappropriate, or else needs a great deal more clarification as to why exactly this shih-tzu is relevant to the world at large and what it's getting media attention for and who else besides the person who wrote it has heard of it. I really think it should just be eliminated altogether. --Techgeist 04:59, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Its looks like patent nonsense to me, so I've been bold and removed it. Gwernol 21:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Historical Logging Content

There's lots of good historical content about logging on this page that might be transferred and extended to a new Historical section on the Logging page. Is there somebody out there with the knowledge and resources to do this? -The Gomm 03:17, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Content yes---but lacking in a historical perspective of what the industry and the work was all about.Rvannatta 03:31, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

High school mascots

A user recently deleted the section on high school mascots as "not needed." I have restored the section, as I feel that it adds value to the article and I feel that there should be at least some discussion before such a large chunk is removed. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 14:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Featured article status?

Any interest in a collaborative effort to bring the Lumberjack article to Wikipedia:Featured articles status? Leave a message here or on my talk page if interested. This article was a frequently vandalized stub for years and now that it's starting to look good I'm all up for showing it off on the front page..how about it? Dragomiloff 11:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Tool

I was under the impression that a "lumberjack" is also the name of a specific tool that looks something like a long crowbar but with more of a hook at the end. It is used to literally "jack" up a log. I don't know if that is the origin of the name lumberjack or if the tool is named after the name of the workers. The dictionary doesn't seem to clarify what sense of the word "jack" is the source for the term. It could mean "jack" as just a term for a laborer or in the sense as a tool for lifting. Either way, it seems worth mentioning the tool, but as I am not a lumberjack I don't know for sure that such tool exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.208.128.13 (talk • contribs) 17:36, February 24, 2007

The term is an alice in wonderland reference. I've lived and worked in the timber industry all my life, as have several previous generations my my family, and the term is simply not one used in the Pacific Northwest.Rvannatta 03:19, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I've seen the term used in children's storybooks, but in no other context.Rvannatta 03:19, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I think that the tool that you are speaking of is a canthook. As with most things, commmon names can cause confusion. But, from you discription of the tool, it sounds like a cant-hookGrebber 14:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Gender

Not for the sake of political correctness, but for accuracy, from the opening paragraph: "A lumberjack or logger is a man..." Do you have to be a man to be a lumberjack, or are they just usually men?--Sabrebd (talk) 08:55, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I found some and changed this to fit in with Wikipedia:Gender-neutral language.--Sabrebd (talk) 07:41, 18 June 2009 (UTC)