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2nd November 2013, 03:35 PM #1.
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Aussie wins Recent World Timber Sports Championships
Checkout new Aussie Timber Sports world champion Brad Delosa in this clip.
Brad Delosa at various Timber Sports events - YouTube
New Zealanders must flinch to see him beat their champ by fractions of a second in a couple of events.
NZ won the team event, Aussies came third.
Gidgee, check out the logo on his singlet
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3rd November 2013, 08:28 AM #2
Bob, that must be pretty old - Dave Bolstead died two years ago.
Also just saw the vid was posted in 2011, But still friggin coolI love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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3rd November 2013, 09:04 AM #3.
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That was the clip linked to the story by the ABC probably because the official video released by Stihl about the 2013 championship shows bugger all of Brad in action.
2013 World Championship Team Relay Highlights - YouTube
The timbersport Youtube page (STIHLTIMBERSPORTSfan - YouTube) is dominated by vids from 2013 Septic preliminary events and only has the same vid as Stihl for the 2013 championship event.
Brad's page )Brad Delosa) shows the result but not much more.
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4th November 2013, 06:14 AM #4Skwair2rownd
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Always believed that wood chopping as a sport arose in Australia,
although it should be obvious that wherever a bunch of blokes
pursue a common task there will inevitably be some form of
competition.
We have taken it for granted that world champions in the arena of
wood chopping were Australian. There were examples when I was
a few years younger of Americans coming out here and being
humiliated at various woodchop events.
Then the Yanks acquired the Guiness world record thing and everything
changed. Suddenly Mel Lentz was a world champion. Bullshyte!!! Cutting
white pine compared to our stuff is child's play.
Big David Foster doesn't rate a mention as far as th Yanks are concerned.
I would love to see him up against their so called world champions!
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4th November 2013, 10:27 AM #5.
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According to Wikipedia.
The modern sport of woodchopping is said to have had is genesis in 1870 in Ulverstone, Tasmania, as the result of a £25 ($50) bet between two axemen as to who could first fell a tree.[1]
The world's first woodchopping championship was held in 1891, at Bell's Parade, Latrobe, Tasmania.[2] This event was celebrated and commemorated with the selection of the site to be the home of the Australian Axemen's Hall of Fame and Timberworks.
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