Sawyer Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pit saw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job is the occupation of someone who cuts lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now often done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores. The term is still widely used in the log...
Norway Mill (Norjan saha)=The Norwegian industrialist Hans Gutzeit erected a sawmill on the island of Kotka, which was opened on November 16, 1872. Hans Gutzeit came from Norway, where the company W. Gutzeit & Co. had built Norway’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1858.The new mill at Kotka had six frame saws and two circular saws as well as auxiliary machinery of the most modern design at that ...