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Matt Cogar, 2013 STIHL TIMBERSPORTS U.S. Champion

The top 20 U.S. professional lumberjack athletes converged on Pigeon Forge, Tenn., June 7-9 to compete in the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series presented by Ram Trucks U.S. Championship hosted by The Great Smoky Mountain Lumberjack Feud...

Go to U.S. Championships Swing into Pigeon Forge

05/29/13 U.S. Championships Swing into Pigeon Forge

America’s top lumberjacks will converge on The Great Smoky Mountain Lumberjack Feud in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. June 7-9 for the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series U.S and Collegiate Championships presented by Ram Trucks, the nation’s premier lumberjack competition.

Keeping Sharp Upstairs

Keeping Sharp Upstairs

In the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series, the mental aspects of the competition can be just as taxing as the physical ones - perhaps even more so. Just ask Chris Henning and David Moses.

Let's Go to the Video

Let's Go to the Video

The man fills the computer screen, hovering over a single buck saw, its teeth perched on top of the log. Suddenly, man and saw attack the log.

2013 Applicants

9/24/2012 2013 Applicants

Welcome to the 28th season of the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series! This past year was a success again as the premier event in professional lumberjack sports and we have no intention of slowing down...

Honoring the 50th Anniversary of The US Navy Seals

5/16/2012 Honoring the 50th Anniversary of The US Navy Seals

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- The STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series, the nation's premier lumberjack competition, announced today it will honor the 50th anniversary...

Make The Perfect Trim

3/26/2012 Make The Perfect Trim

RALEIGH, N.C. -- There is one man on the Granite State Lumberjack Shows deck crew whose job is valued more by STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® athletes than the casual fan might expect.

David Bolstad Remembered

11/21/2011 David Bolstad Remembered

Dave Jewett remembers an interview David Bolstad did with a television station after a STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® competition that not only changed the way he competed, but in a way summed up Bolstad's life.

Granite State Sets High Tech Pace

11/9/2011 Granite State Sets High Tech Pace

Matt Chagnon remembers when the critical tools for determining STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® competitions would fit in a file box -- stopwatches, scoring sheets, pencils and hand-held calculators.

Mike Fox Remembered

9/28/2011 Mike Fox Remembered

Even without meeting him, you can discover all you need to know about a man by talking to his co-workers. When you spoke with the late Mike Fox's co-workers at STIHL, you quickly understand what a gem he was.

Life Comes First

8/27/2010 Life Comes First

SALEM, Ore. -- Forgive Jenny Atkinson if she gets a little misty around the first cash register at Costco -- that's where she found out she had cancer. "Surprisingly, I was really calm," she said. "I teared up."

Talking Timber

9/8/2009 Talking Timber

Matt Chagnon: professor and lumberjack competitor of STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS®, Thanksgiving dinner and what it means to be a forester.

Hot and Heavy: The Mechanics Behind Hot Saws

8/21/2009 Hot and Heavy: The Mechanics Behind Hot Saws

They roar like a parade of Harleys in a concrete tunnel. They throw sawdust in twenty-foot roostertails. The operators are decked out in chaps, protective glasses...

Style Over Smash

3/31/2008 Style Over Smash

For baseball pitchers, they call it mechanics. On the free throw line, it's all about the release. And when it comes to wielding an axe, running a chain saw or sawing through a log of wood, the size of the lumberjack really doesn't...