lumberman

A salesman pulls out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to sell his latest tractor to an old-fashioned lumberman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

They told him they needed somebody to fire up the crowd and that his muscular build fit the image of the lumberman they were looking for.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2017

Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015

“And if you don’t find any nuts there, keep on a little farther,” the lumberman had said.

From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Laura Lee Hope

In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2015

Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013

Latest case in point is that of the Pacific Northwest's softwood lumber industry, which has been losing its traditional East Coast markets at a spectacular rate to Canadian lumbermen in British Columbia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month Hatfield and Governor Neil Goldschmidt convened a meeting of lumbermen, environmentalists and federal officials to try to forge a logging plan that would be fair to both sides.

From Time Magazine Archive

Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown