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Woodworking is the activity or skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (Cabinetry and Furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests and associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environment benefits.

Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands.

The science of forestry has elements that belong to the biological, physical, social, political and managerial sciences.

A chainsaw is a portable, mechanical saw which cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain that runs along a guide bar.

It is used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, cutting firebreaks in wildland fire suppression and harvesting of firewood.

Chainsaws with specially designed bar and chain combinations have been developed as tools for use in chainsaw art and chainsaw mills.

Specialized chainsaws are used for cutting concrete.

Chainsaws are sometimes used for cutting ice, for example for ice sculpture and in Finland for winter swimming.

Someone who uses a saw is a sawyer.

A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.

Prior to the invention of the sawmill, boards were rived (split) and planed, or more often sawn by two men with a whipsaw, one above and another in a saw pit below.

The earliest known mechanical mill is the Hierapolis sawmill, a Roman water-powered stone mill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor dating back to the 3rd century AD.

Other water-powered mills followed and by the 11th century they were widespread in Spain and North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, and in the next few centuries, spread across Europe.

The circular motion of the wheel was converted to a reciprocating motion at the saw blade.

Generally, only the saw was powered, and the logs had to be loaded and moved by hand.

An early improvement was the development of a movable carriage, also water powered, to move the log steadily through the saw blade.

A forest product is any material derived from a forestry for direct consumption or commercial use, such as lumber, paper, or forage for livestock.

Wood, by far the dominant forest product, is used for many purposes, such as wood fuel (e.g. in form of firewood or charcoal) or the finished structural materials used for the construction of buildings, or as a raw material, in the form of wood pulp, that is used in the production of paper.

All other non-wood products derived from forest resources, comprising a broad variety of other forest products, are collectively described as non-timber forest products.