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The event began in 1960 and is held at the Lumberjack Bowl. There are 21 events for both men and women to compete for over $50,000 in prize money. Contestants come from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The events include sawing, chopping, logrolling, and climbing to test the strength and agility of over 100 competitors.
The Stihl Timbersports Series is a series of woodsman or wood chopping competitions where the athletes compete in the use of axes and saws in manners typical for lumberjacks. It was founded in 1985, and currently includes six different disciplines, with both professional and collegiate divisions. The terms 'timbersports' and 'timber sports' are ...
The Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show is a lumberjack show performed in Ketchikan, Alaska. Established in May 2000 by Rob Scheer, the show is put on by the Wisconsin-based Lumberjack Sports International. Located near the Ketchikan Creek, the show's venue has 475 seats and is at the former site of the Ketchikan Spruce Mill, which closed in 1993.
The Ohio Forestry Association hosted The Paul Bunyan Show, bringing vendors, demonstrations and lumberjack competitions. Paul Bunyan Show attracts world-class competitors in lumberjack sports Skip ...
The lumberjack competition includes a series of events such as axe throwing, bow sawing, block chopping, and a Jack and Jill style cut. Both men and women can participate in all of these events. The Jack and Jill race involves one man and one women on each team competing to see who can saw through a piece of wood the fastest.
Woodsman (also, woodsmen, pl.) refers to the title of competitors participating in competitive timber sports. Woodsmen participate in various events that replicate real skills used by lumberjacks while cutting down trees and preparing the wood. Woodsman Competitions are a competitive, co-ed intercollegiate sport in the United States, Canada and ...
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers. The work was difficult, dangerous ...
Category:Lumberjack sports. Appearance. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lumberjack sports. This category includes items related to lumberjack sports and competitions, both collegiate and professional.