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Stihl Timbersports Series
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 terms 'timbersports' and 'timber sports' are trademarked by Stihl Inc. History Stihl Timbersports began in 1985, and the earliest broadcasts were made from a field in Wisconsin, United States, using a single camera on a forklift. At this time, there was no overall Series championship. Instead, awards were given for performances in individual events on venues around the country. Stihl, however, had a vision of a series that would bring the best athletes together and let them compete in several events and thus determine who was the best overall lumberjack. With the help of Granite State Lumberjack Shows, the Series evolved and has become a very prestigious competition. Athletes fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad De Losa
Brad De Losa (born 1979) is an Australian machinist, 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. In May 2017 Brad De Losa managed to win the Stihl_Timbersports_Series, Stihl Timbersports Champions Trophy for a third year in a row. De Losa won his first competition at the age of 16. dailytelegraph.com.au, 28 October 2013. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stihl Timbersports Logo
Andreas Stihl AG & Co. (commonly referred to as Stihl and styled as STIHL, , ) is a German manufacturer of chainsaws and other handheld power equipment including trimmers and blowers headquartered in Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart, Germany. Stihl was founded in 1926 by Andreas Stihl, an innovator in early chainsaw production. Stihl claims itself to be the world's best-selling brand of chainsaws and the only chainsaw manufacturer to make its own saw chains and guide bars. Andreas Stihl AG is a privately held company owned by the descendants of Andreas Stihl. Stihl operates the Stihl Timbersports Series. Company history Andreas Stihl designed and hand built his first chainsaw in 1926. The saw was electrically powered, and weighed about . 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. In 1930, Stihl created the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurosport
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territories, and streams on Max (streaming service), Max and Discovery+. Originally a joint venture between the European Broadcasting Union and Sky Television (1984–1990), Sky established in 1989, it was briefly shut down in 1991 following complaints by competitor Screensport. It was subsequently acquired by TF1 Group, and later merged with Screensport. For a period, it was a joint venture between TF1, Canal+ Group, and Havas Images. TF1 Group later bought out the other owners' shares. In 2012, Discovery, Inc., Discovery Communications began to take an ownership in Eurosport, eventually leading to a full buyout in 2015. Eurosport is the main rights holder of the Olympic Games in most of Europe, as well as, with some exceptions, the tennis Grand S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumberjack Sports Players
Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers. The work was difficult, dangerous, intermittent, low-paying, and involved living in primitive conditions. However, the men built a traditional culture that celebrated strength, masculinity, confrontation with danger, and resistance to modernization. Term 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 Canada, who, having been reared among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidder, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or trunk (botany), logs onto logging truck, trucksSociety of American Foresters, 1998. Dictionary of Forestry. or flatcar#Skeleton car, skeleton cars. In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used narrowly to describe the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard. In common usage, however, the term may cover a range of forestry or silviculture activities. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain that provides raw material for many products societies worldwide use for housing, construction, energy, and consumer paper products. Logging systems are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferry Svan
Ferry Svan (born 2 October 1996) is a Swedish professional woodchopper and logging sportsman, and the son of champion skier Gunde Svan. He is the first Swedish person to compete in a World Championship in logging sports, the first Swede to win a World Championship, and the youngest person to compete in logging sports as a Senior athlete. He has previously held four Swedish national records. He competes in the Stihl Timbersports Series. He participated as a celebrity dancer in Let's Dance 2025 broadcast on TV4. Logging sports Junior career Svan was introduced to woodchopping as a sport when he was in high school, attending a ', a special Swedish Forestry high school; he had also spent time working on his father's "farm" — tending to 1000 hectares of forest — before he began it as a sport. In 2014 he went to his first Nordic games for logging sports, where he took gold as a junior, repeating this feat in 2016. It was at this point that Svan took up logging full-time, returni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bolstad
David Kelvin Bolstad (12 May 1969 – 19 November 2011) was a New Zealand representative woodchopper. He was Stihl Timbersports Series champion five times between 2001 and 2008. His father Sonny Bolstad was also a New Zealand representative axeman. David Bolstad died suddenly in 2011 after winning a competition in the town of Waiuku Waiuku is a rural town in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the Waiuku River, which is an estuary, estuarial arm of the Manukau Harbour, and lies on the isthmus of the Āwhitu Peninsula, which extends to th .... ''TV3 News,'' 23 November 2011 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolin Eslinger
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 terms 'timbersports' and 'timber sports' are trademarked by Stihl Inc. History Stihl Timbersports began in 1985, and the earliest broadcasts were made from a field in Wisconsin, United States, using a single camera on a forklift. At this time, there was no overall Series championship. Instead, awards were given for performances in individual events on venues around the country. Stihl, however, had a vision of a series that would bring the best athletes together and let them compete in several events and thus determine who was the best overall lumberjack. With the help of Granite State Lumberjack Shows, the Series evolved and has become a very prestigious competition. Athletes from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Lentz
Mel, Mels or MEL may refer to: Biology * Mouse erythroleukemia cell line (MEL) * National Herbarium of Victoria, a herbarium with the Index Herbariorum code MEL People * Mel (given name), the abbreviated version of several given names (including a list of people with the name) * Mel (surname) * Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras, nicknamed "Mel" Places * Mel, Veneto, an ex-comune in Italy * Mel Moraine, a moraine in Antarctica * Melbourne Airport (IATA airport code) * Mels, a municipality in Switzerland *Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), the intercommunality of Lille in France Technology and engineering * Maya Embedded Language, a scripting language used in the 3D graphics program Maya * Michigan eLibrary, an online service of the Library of Michigan * Ford MEL engine, a "Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln" engine series * Minimum equipment list, a categorized list of instruments and equipment on an aircraft * Miscellaneous electric load, the electricity use of appliances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Sullivan (lumberjack)
Michael Sullivan (or variants) may refer to: Politicians * Michael Sullivan (U.S. attorney) (born 1954), former Boston-based federal prosecutor and acting ATF Director * Michael Sullivan (Canadian senator) (1838–1915), Canadian senator * Michael Sullivan (MP) (1809–1878), UK MP for the Irish constituency of Kilkenny, 1847–1865 * Michael D. Sullivan (judge) (1938–2000), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi * Michael J. Sullivan (mayor) (born 1956), mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts * Michael J. Sullivan (Wyoming politician) (born 1943), Wyoming labor commissioner * Michael A. Sullivan (politician) (born 1959), former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts * Michael A. Sullivan (judge) (1879–1937), chief justice of the Massachusetts Land Court * Michael T. Sullivan (1924–2007), American lawyer and judge in Wisconsin * Michael Quinn Sullivan (born 1970), president of Empower Texans and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility * Michael S. Sullivan (1876–1929), Newfoundland, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Anstey
Dan Anstey (born 19 December 1984 in Brisbane, Queensland), is an Australians, Australian Radio presenter, radio and television presenter. He is currently host of ''Triple M Brisbane, Triple M Breakfast'' in Brisbane, weather presenter on Weekend Today (Australian TV program), ''Weekend Today'' and the Brisbane Lions number-one ticket holder. Previously, he hosted the Nine Network television series ''ManSpace (TV series), ManSpace'', the 7mate ''Stihl Timbersports Series'', various radio shows across the Nova (radio network), Nova and Southern Cross Austereo networks, and has appeared on The Project (Australian TV program), ''The Project''. Personal life After graduating as Valedictorian, dux of Nambour State High School in 2001, Anstey attained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with Latin honors, Honours from the University of Queensland in 2005. He has a verified IQ of 134, making him eligible to join Mensa International, Mensa. On Christmas, Christmas Day, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
