Frank Boyer
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Is there a listing of the logger competitions around the country. I am interested in N. CA. I thought that I saw one for June 23, 2007 and can't seem to find it again.
THANKS
THANKS
I'm not sure what ALA you're referring to? I live in N. CA and have logged here for over 35 years...being retired I may be out of the loop but still I am not familiar with ALA....
American Lumberjack Association, you too busy thinking about work instead of play.
http://www.usaxemen.com/usaa/idxcontacts.shtml
stock saw is probably all I will do, for I work for an excavation company and we log in the winter and I cant really afford to have a hoped up saw and a race saw, maybe someday. A worked over work saw would be nice, the ms361 or the ms440 I just bought might be fun to mess around with. I might have to find a rusted out double bit to chuck around to. Anyone know anything about cross cut saws? how to sharpen and keep or put kerf back in one?
Thank for the info. I didnt expect anyone to give away secrets. and if I end up kicking ass somewhere you wont catch me giving away any of mine either!
The best way to learn about timber sports is to get out there and compete, buddy up with the other competitors and learn. Be warned though,no serious competitor is going to give away any winning secrets and you will probably get alot of bad advice. You have to be smart and take all that different advice and average it out and decide what is fact and what is fiction. You are 28 and have many good years of chopping ahead of you. The best choppers usually peak out in performance around age 35. But then former 7 time world lumberjack champ Ron Hartill was still breaking chopping records past age 60, But I must say Ron was an exceptionally gifted man.
Hell Red, that's the way it should be. Good Luck in your next race. I would rep you, but I'm out off ammo.I would agree with some of what you said, but you will find competitors that will bend over backwards to help someone getting started and is putting out the effort. I've met several, one in particular who "took me under his wing" and taught me a lot about building race chain. Heck, he even gave me a Silvey grinder. Now when we meet at a competition we are neck and neck, sometimes he wins, sometimes I do. But above all we are still best of friends.
Maybe we aren't as serious as some though.
Andy
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