Video: The Tin Mans of Hayward: World Lumberjack Championship
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Woodcutter - it sounds proudly: it is this profession, and not at all a thief, watchman or prostitute, is really the oldest. But not everyone will be able to earn a living with force and an ax: only the most severe men are taken as woodcutters. Chopping trees is not easy anyway; and doing it in a race is even more difficult! That is why they win at the World Forestry Championships true woodcutters … How do lumberjacks compete? Let's tell you now.
The World Lumberjack Championship has been held every year since 1960 in an American town Hayward, Wisconsin. Participants from the USA, Australia, New Zealand - and, of course, legendary Canadian lumberjacks come here to measure their strength and axes.
And if you think that all the action consists in the dull chopping of wood with two-handed axes, then you are mistaken. Over the years, the organizers have come up with dozens of amazing contests. Participants saw trees on high fixed planks (the higher - the softer the tree), wielded chain saws in pairs and singly, run with logs, split huge logs with axes, chop knots … One of the most non-standard competitions - running on a log rolling in the waterlike in a cartoon.
Surprisingly, women are also included in the number of "iron woodcutters"! The championship has a separate category and many competitions for ladies lumberjacks … For example, multiple champion Nancy Zalewski can cut a 40-centimeter pine in 11 minutes and chop wood from a foot thick in half a minute; well, just a dream woman. There is even a special doubles nomination "Jack and Jill": a man and a woman sawing a log in tandem.
In principle, this championship is not so much an entertainment event as a real competition between lumberjacks. And nevertheless, the competition attracts tens of thousands of spectators every year … but still, the action does not reach the proud title of "world championship". Because there is no Russian "iron woodcutters"who would definitely give the heat to their overseas colleagues! So if you are a master of saws and axes, go to the USA: the championship will begin the day after tomorrow, and the winners will receive a prize of $ 50,000.
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