Download e-book for iPad: Timber!: The Story of the Lumberjack World Championships by Lew Freedman

By Lew Freedman

Each summer time, women and men shuttle from all around the globe to the Lumberjack international Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin, to compete sooner than millions of spectators and end up who's the easiest at cutting and sawing logs, log rolling, and growth operating. the development, with its notable overseas fan base, has develop into the main prestigious trees game amassing within the world.

Timber! chronicles the background of the championships in view that its inception in 1960 and highlights such well known athletes as J.R. Salzman, Ron Hartill, and Peggy Halvorson, all of whom are stalwarts in various occasions from the new observed to the springboard chop. those glory-seeking opponents represent a connection to the previous days of logging in Wisconsin and in the course of the usa, while timber-felling helped construct the country.

Lively and informative, bushes! indicates how those bushes activities preserve alive the spirit of the logging international and a dead ringer for the logger as a pioneer.

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