HURSDAY,:MAY 23, 1974 The Herald - Loggers Supplement:

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action-packed. minute of. the. |
: Downtown Lions 14th annual
~ Loggers’ Sports Day
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Greatest thing in the woods

This year 's fourteenth annual
Terrace .Downtawn. Lion's
Loggers: Sports competitions
offer not scaly six novice events,
a Bull of the Woods trophy and a
Canadian ‘Championship event
{Obstacle Pole’ = Bucking) but

-for the first time ever-a world -

sored event will bring together
top loggers fram throughout the
world to compete , not only for
the $300 first prize but for the

pride and prestige thal goes Loa -

world champion.
The Canadian Championship
this year is really a test of

the action will come fast and
furious. . The obstacle pole

“bucking championship also
_ offers $300 in lop prize money

and is co-sponsored by Madigan

‘Equipment Rentals and Twin

River Electric and Heating
Limited.

Nail Drive and the six novice
event. through exe throwing,

standing block shop, cable eye”
. Splicing, tree topping, then

Chokerman's Race, log chop-
ping, tree climbing, the open
local bucking race, log burling,

-double hand buckin ¢ and the

the biggest number of- points

during the weekend of thrills’
The Bull of the™

and skills.
Woods receives the Al's ‘Shoes

Trophy and $250 in cash donated .
by Terrace Equipment Sales on -
lop of his cash winnings in the...

individual events.

LOG BURLING rr ee

Log burling i is another crowd
pleaser, ".". Two competitors
meeting onthe same log, each
using agility, speed and skill, to

keep the log rolling in the water

and keep from getting dunked:
Faster:.and faster. the _ log.

spins,:now ‘this way, now that,
well arms flay: and Feet back- ~

track; then < lunge ahead.
Ultimately one of the two must
go.down and in some cases its
only a matter of seconds before

- ‘the second follows.
Log burling was most likely .
: barn on the booming grounds. ft
as these areas Ahat, single ;

logs which ‘were floated

* downstream were gathered and —
. formed into booms. From there .
~ they were lowed to the mills for

processing inta timber. -
The burlers were the men who

: lept from log to log in the water”

with long ‘pikes' and ‘peevees,’

-coralling the. logs and forcing
them into place in the hoam. Out ,
.. bere a man Jearned fast or -
- wound up awfully: wet at. the,

very least...
Again; it was a simple ‘step

from the’ days .work tothe ©

competition . with agility
deciding the winner. ©

STA NDING BLOCK
at CHOP .

: The standing block chop is
similiar to':the pole - falling
falling contest but rather than:
falling a ‘gigantic “pole, the-
competitors - hack their; way
through a‘six foot high block ‘of
limber. © The --Lions .. Park
resounds with the echoes of the
“-blows and the chips pile up,
‘ egvering :-the loggers and the
judges ;nearby. - -
The standing block chop isa
(good test of-strength and the.

aan loggers, oily with a0 axe.

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championship Logger Sport strength and stamina - obstacle The two events are jusl part = inevilable men's tug-o-war. All the action is at Lions Park:

event. Pole Falling. pole bucking. The loggers will of the 21 different. contests .af- And you can’t forget the Bull in Thornhill. Don’t miss the

This Finning Tractor spon- - have a lot of fun inthis one and fered, ranging from-the Ladies of the Woods trophy which will show folks, it’s the greatest
weer , — 5 a prcccen . vecpanneauasmaesan, — #0 10 the logger who amasses thing in the woods.

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