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
logging industry to refer to the operator of a
chainsaw (or still in some limited applications, a
crosscut saw) for harvesting,
wildfire suppression,
trail construction and related work. In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a
concrete saw.