FRYEBURG – The 36th annual Saco Valley Woodsmen’s Field Day saw three records broken.
Records were set in Springboard Chop, Women’s Chop and Master’s Axe Throw. Ninety woodsmen and women competed in the fields events while 30 truckers and loggers competed in the truck and skidder events.
Champion Woodsman: Mike Sullivan of Winsted, Conn.
Master’s Champion: Maurice Molleur of Greensboro Bend, Vt.
Champion Trucker: Stephen Verrill of Porter
Champion Logger: Heath Taylor of Cornish
Women’s Bucksaw: Dany Boulanger, Valleyfield, Que., 14.42 seconds.
Master’s Bucksawing: Gilles Levesque, St. Prosper, Que., 8.065 seconds.
Men’s Bucksawing: Donald Lambert, St. Gilles, Que., 5.09 seconds.
Women’s Bucksawing: Dany Boulanger, 14.42.
Springboard Chop (record): Mike Sullivan, 42.635 seconds.
Master’s Underhand Chop: Maurice Melleur, 22.57 seconds.
Women’s Underhand Chop (record): Nancy Zalewski of Plymouth, Wis., 47.55 seconds.
Men’s Underhand Chop: Rich Jordan of Sterling, Conn., 16.52 seconds
Jack & Jill Crosscut Sawing: Rich and Rebecca Jordan, Sterling, Conn., 7.455 seconds.
Men’s Crosscut Sawing: Paul Pfenninger, Scottsville, N.Y., and Mark Schaub, Apulia Station, N.Y., 5.425 seconds
Women’s Crosscut Sawing (new contest): Nancy Zalewski, 9.935 seconds.
Stock Chainsaw: John Postemski of Windham, Conn., 4.015 seconds.
Open Chainsaw: Moyal Conrad of Queens Co., Nova Scotia, 3.58 seconds.
Tree Felling: Moyal Conrad, 27.035 (direct hit).
Log Rolling: Mike Sullivan and Jerry Gingras of Milan, N.H., 24.885 seconds.
Axe Throwing: Mike Sullivan, 24.
Master’s Axe Throwing
(record): Dave Geer, Jewett City, Conn, 25.
Cable Skidder: Bruce Cox, Peru, 1:06.31
Grapple Skidder: Mike Humphrey, Cornish, 1:02.45
Log Loading (record): Stephen Verill, 2.29.41 seconds.
Pulp Loading: Stephen Verrill, Porter, 4:36.13 seconds.
Hydraulic Loader: Brian Winn, West Newfield, 4:56.31 seconds.
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