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2013

Go to Germany to host 2013 STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship

05/03/13 Germany to host 2013 STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship

Nearly 10,000 fans and international spectators are expected to converge on one of the biggest and most attractive event sites in Europe, the Porshe-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany Oct. 25-26, when it plays host to the 2013 STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship...

04/17/13 The Series Makes Final Qualifier Stop in Missoula

The STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series presented by Ram Trucks brings its final qualifying competition of the 2013 season to Missoula, Mont. for the Professional and Collegiate Series Western Qualifiers. As part of the 74th annual Association of Western Forestry Clubs conclave, top professional and collegiate lumberjacks from the west will converge on the Missoula County Fairgrounds (1101 South Ave West, Missoula, MT 59801) Friday, April 26 at 2 p.m. PT to compete in the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series Western Qualifier.

04/12/13 Northeast Qualifier Heads to Finger Lakes

The STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series presented by Ram Trucks brings its popular lumberjack competition to Canandaigua, NY for the Professional and Collegiate Series Northeast Qualifiers. As part of the 67th annual Northeast Collegiate Woodsmen Conclave hosted by Finger Lakes Community College, top professional and collegiate lumberjacks from all over the region will converge on Friday, April 19 at 4 p.m. ET to compete in the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series Northeast Qualifier.

04/07/13 Haywood Community College Hosts Mid-Atlantic Qualifiers

The STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series presented by Ram Trucks brings its third lumberjack competition of the 2013 season to Clyde, NC for the Professional and Collegiate Series Mid-Atlantic Qualifiers.

Go to Michigan State Hosts the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series

3/26/2013 Michigan State Hosts the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series

The STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series presented by Ram Trucks brings its second lumberjack competition of the 2013 season to Michigan State University for the Professional and Collegiate Series Midwest Qualifiers.

3/26/2013 Southern Hospitality

3/26/2013 Southern Hospitality

The results are in for the 2013 Southern Qualifier! Who advanced to the US Championships this summer in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?

Go to Fantasy Lumberjack

2/28/13 Fantasy Lumberjack

Test your lumberjack chops with the first-ever Fantasy Lumberjack game for the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series.

International Judges Meeting

2/13/13 International Judges Meeting

Head judges from the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany all met at the foot of the Kitzbühel Horn in Austria to prepare for the upcoming season...

Go to 2013 Professional Lumberjack Competitors

1/15/13 2013 Professional Lumberjack Competitors

STIHL Announces 2013 STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series Professional Lumberjack Competitors: The Original Extreme Sport will return...

2012

Go to Competitive Disadvantage

12/27/12 Competitive Disadvantage

Mike Eash has put himself in a conflict of interests on the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series Presented by Ram Trucks. Instead of doing anything possible to gain a competitive edge, Eash is...

Go to Evolution of the Hot Saw

12/20/2012 Evolution of the Hot Saw

If you believe in fate, Dennis Cahoon's 62 years on this earth might serve as an example. He raced motorcycles as a young man, before embarking on a 32-year career as a logger and timber-faller...

12/10/2012 Tailoring Crosscut Saws

12/10/2012 Tailoring Crosscut Saws

Jim Taylor has an appropriate surname. It would fit even better if it were spelled "t-a-i-l-o-r." Taylor's sartorial skills, however, are applied to steel rather than cloth. No one has a better reputation for...

11/21/2012 Keeping Sharp Upstairs

11/21/2012 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.

10/18/2012 Let's Go to the Video

10/18/2012 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.

9/24/2012 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...

5/16/2012 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...

3/26/2012 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.

Archives

Go to 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...

Go to 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.

Go to 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...

Go to 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...

Go to 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.

Go to 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...

Go to 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...

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