Log Chop
Once again the Kelmscott Annual Show will see competitive log chopping held over two days.
Competitive log chopping has for many years been an essential attraction at the Kelmscott Annual Show. The art of log chopping itself represents what our early settlers had to endure when establishing farms and town sites out of virgin bush land.
The first known competitive log chop, which had a truly Australian appeal to it, happened in the late 1800’s in a hotel in Tasmania. Two timber workers of the day challenged one another to see who could sever a log in half the quickest. Who the timber workers were and who won is still a mystery, but this paved the way for a sport which has become world renowned.
This years log chop at the 2009 Kelmscott Annual Show is shaping up once again to be the biggest competition that the show has ever seen with the state’s best axemen and women competing.
Log chopping is for all ages with one octogenarian, Scotty Curtis, still a ferocious competitor. It is also for both sexes, with Sandra Stokle, Western Australia’s only female axe-women, representing Australia in the women’s team as a singled handed sawyer.
For those of you that swing by the arena either on the Friday night or the Saturday, we hope that you enjoy watching the log chopping and hope that you come back each year to experience this truly Australian sport.
For the log chop time on Friday click here and for Saturday click here.
The Kelmscott Agricultural Society would like to thank the Progressive Axemen's Association of WA (Inc) who run the log chop. They can be contacted on 08 9296 4479 and 1654 Gnangara Rd, HENLEY BROOK, WA, 6055.
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