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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 Southern Forestry Conclave is an annual competition among students from 15 southern forestry schools in a variety of physical and technical events. [1] It typically involves more than 250 contestants.
Sponsors for the Lumberjack World Championships have been numerous over the years and include Zeilies, Enbridge, Future Wood, Decked, and Wisconsin Lottery, among various other companies such as Stihl, Plum Creek Timber, and SBI Pepsi. Regional and local businesses and local radio stations have or do participate each year as well and all ...
"Stihl" is burnt into or marked on the log and brands the resulting cookies In Stihl Timbersports , the hot saw event sees competitors race to cut three cookies from a horizontal log. The first cut is going down, the second back up.
Wood chopping competition at Avilés, Spain, 2005. 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.
Stihl says it is the world's best-selling brand of chainsaws and the only chainsaw manufacturer to make its own saw chains and guide bars. [4] Andreas Stihl AG is a privately held company owned by the descendants of Andreas Stihl. Stihl operates the Stihl Timbersports Series.
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Woodchopping is practiced in regions where forestry is or has been an important part of the economy: In North America: in Canada and in the north of the United States.; In Europe: in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, England, Slovenia, the Alpine region of France, the Basque Country, other parts of Spain (mainly in Asturias and Cantabria, but also in ...