Lumberjack sports

250px|right|thumb|A lumberjack Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.

traditional Scottish athletic event

thumb|Two lumberjacks at work on a tree on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia, 1890–1900 thumb|A completed undercut in a Pinus lambertiana|Sugar Pine tree in Madera County, California around 1911.

Woodchopping (also spelled wood-chopping or wood chopping), called woodchop for short, is a sport that has been around for hundreds of years in several cultures. In woodchopping competitions, skilled contestants attempt to be the first to cut or saw through a log or other block of wood. It is often held at state fairs and agricultural shows. Participants (especially men) are often referred to as axemen. thumb|right|Woodchopping competition at Avilés, Spain

climing activity

sport of throwing axes

Aizkolaritza is the Basque name for a type of wood-chopping competition. They are a popular form of herri kirol (rural sport) in the Basque Country. Competitions are commonly held at most festivals, especially town festivals and usually involve at least two individuals or teams competing against each other.

thumb|right| Limbing a pine tree with a manual pruning saw

process of cleaving wood into lumber along the grain

process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs