[DentsRun]

I wonder why the survey calls the group with the higest fatality rate "timber cutters" instead of the traditional and much more evocative "lumberjacks"? More political correctness gone amok? A fear that millions of female lumberjacks would feel excluded? Why can't a female be a lumberjack? Or should female lumberjacks be called lumberjills?

[AlbertWang]

I'm a Lumberjill, and that's OK?

I'm a timber cutter, and that's ok?


I want a nice checkered timber cutter shirt for Christmas?

Wait whilst I lace up my Lumberjill boots?


None of these things seem right........

[rogator]

Timber cutter or faller is a more specialized and descriptive term.
Cutters actually fell the trees. Buckers cut them to length and trim branches. Various other occupations; choker-setters, chasers etc. do other things with the downed trees.
Cutters work fast often using specially tuned saws and chisel sharpened chain for maxium production and in this area (OR and WA coast) normally only cut six hour days to insure maximum alertness.
All the cutters in my acquaintance do not want their sons to be cutters.
I have never heard of a cutterette but have seen an article in the local liberal newspaper about a choker-setterette.

[Doctor Stochastic]

A train is allowed to stop in the forest to let a timber cutter off.

[tubebender]

They are call Timber Fallers here behind the Redwood Curtain but I think Choker Setters are hurt more often...