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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.
[1] [4] However, as many as 99% of professional competitors don't build their own hot saw, instead buying them from specialist engineers, with 80% of saws on the American circuit built by Russ Lemke; Lemke's saws match reliability with power and have been called "the Stradivarius of its ilk" by Stihl. Several are also built and sold by event ...
Andreas Stihl designed and hand built his first chainsaw in 1926. [5] The saw was electrically powered, and weighed about 48 kg (106 lb). [6] Stihl grew slowly initially, as the chainsaws came to the market about the same time as the Great Depression; with manpower cheap, and old two-man saws proven, there was no need for power saws.
Between 2005 and 2010, he was a five time world champion participating in the Stihl Timbersports Series. In 2013, he officially resigned from participating in those championships. [4] 2007 and 2008 he was European vice champion and 2006 and 2007 European champion with his Swiss team. At the world championship in Oberstdorf, Germany he was third ...
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 ...
Brad De Losa (born 1979) is an Australian fitter who is a champion at forestry sports such as wood-chopping and sawing. In 2015, he set a new world record, cutting through four tree trunks in less than 58 seconds. [1]
The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg, Ontario, Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossacks of Upper ...
A chainsaw cutting a small wooden board. A chainsaw (or chain saw [1]) is a portable handheld power saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar.