Rhode Island Lumbering

^Old Pictures of Logging^ (I know it is not 1700's but it is cool)

Rhode Island Lumbering

You need to be strong and able to survive in the wilderness.You have to know how to make your own tools and ride horses and work with oxen. You have to be a male and healthy; estimating age of thirteen.

Job Requirements

When you go lumbering, you have to cut wood. You also transport trees, make roads to get to other trees, loading trees onto wagons, running sawmills and working in teams.

Job Description

Allrouts.to/Logging HistoryMedieval Technology and American HistoryRural Heritage-logging with oxenThe journal of the Colonial Williamsberg Foundation

Citations

There's very little information about how much salary a Lumberjack gets, but it is a estimate that s is somewhere around 75 pounds to 300 pounds a year. (pounds is a form of British money)

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