"Great bunch of fellers: the heroic wartime lumberjills – in pictures "

[dgdrls]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/feb/11/great-bunch-of-fellers-the-heroic-wartime-lumberjills-in-pictures

Some WW2 logging history,

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[TreefarmerNN]

Interesting to think of the increased logging in Britain during WWII.  Obviously manpower was extremely limited with many able bodied young men in the military but I never thought about logging there.

The US logging industry went all in during WWII to provide all sorts of lumber for construction, cribbing and shoring, boat building, even airplane construction but I never considered what was going on in Britain.

Thanks.

[Ron Scott]

I remember some forest products such as mining timbers being critical during WWII. Some local loggers were given draft deferrals to rapidly produce the increased number of mining timbers needed to expand and increase the production of the iron ore needed by our steel mills in Gary, Indiana. 

[rusticretreater]

Wood, natures do-it-all miracle material.  Great pictures documenting what people did to support a critical war effort and keeping up the British end as they say.  Rosie the Riveter with an axe.