Saturday, September 1, 2012

Lumber games roll into Allentown Fair

The Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show, with its chain saws and ax-throwing, thrills young and old.


Lumberjack Web Beckstead throws a double bladded ax during the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show at The Great Allentown Fair on Friday, August 31, 2012. Announcer Lee LeCaptain calls out Beckstead's score
(BEN MORRISON, THE MORNING CALL / August 31, 2012)
By Marion Callahan, Of The Morning Call
from: mcall.com
August 31, 2012
It's not every day you win a chip off the old block — literally.
So Linnea Blood clutched her prize, a hand-size wood chip, after guessing that it would take lumberjack Web Beckstead just 20 seconds to saw through a log.
"You don't get to see something like this every day," said Blood, 34, who sat in the stands at the Allentown Fair on Friday afternoon watching the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show.
The 30-minute performance featured two world champion outdoorsmen who showcased lumberjack skills, typically tested in competitions across the country, including chopping and sawing wood, ax-throwing, log-rolling and more.
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