Louisiana Forest Festival 2019

Results

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Photos

All photos taken by Jeremy Stovall

SFA News

The SFA Sylvans competed in the collegiate division at the Louisiana Forest Festival, held in Winnfield, LA from April 26-27. We beat out tough competition from Southern Illinois University (2nd place) and Louisiana Tech (3rd place). Donny Moon and the Louisiana Forest Festival staff did a great job hosting this competition, which also featured a pro competition with many Stihl Timbersports professionals, and a 4H competition with a couple of Parish teams. Our team did a great job representing SFA and our programs, and made a positive impression.

1st place – Jack & Jill Crosscutting – Crystal Alexander & Chris Longman – In both of their final Sylvans competitions, Chris and Alex won by almost 2 seconds.

1st place – Single Buck Crosscutting – Mitchell Meyer – This was Mitchell’s first time competing, and he managed to beat out an experienced competitor from SIU by a couple tenths of a second.

1st place – Axe Throwing – Tyler Jones – Following his record setting Conclave performance, it’s no surprise Tyler won. It was surprising to us that he’d be throwing from 20 feet instead of 15, but he adjusted well.

2nd place – Standing Block – Daniel Fichtel – Daniel’s hard practice for the Stihl competition this spring paid off, as he severed the block in only 48.82 seconds.

2nd place – Log Chopping – Daniel Fichtel – Daniel chopped a 12 inch white pine round in 1:37.90.

3rd place – Men’s Crosscutting – Ian Erickson & Jake Hill – Chris and Jake hung up on their first cut of two cookies, but finished strong. This was Jake’s first cut with the comp saw.

Chris and Crystal also entered the professional division for Jack & Jill Crosscutting, and ended up placing second against the pro field of 6 teams!

Other students supporting our efforts in Louisiana included Will Alders, Brandon Baker, Alanna Crowley, Kayla Farley, Kaitlyn Gass, Jamie Hooker, Rebeca Rodriguez, Reid Viegut, Dylan Williams, and Chris Williamson.

Notes

Thanks to the fine folks at the Louisiana Forest Festival in Winnfield, Louisiana for inviting the Sylvans to compete each year!

Competitions generally use lathed eastern white pine brought in by Mike Slingerland, with sizes apparent in the photos. Square wood is often sweetgum, but sometimes eastern white pine. Time starts with a signal rather than when the teeth of the saw move. Teams may enter either two women or two men in double-buck crosscut sawing, which changed starting 2022 with more women's events. A starter cut is used for single buck usually. Axe throw has more scoring rings than at Conclave. Competitors get four throws, top three count. Bowsaw (some years) is on a lower cant holder than Conclave. Scoring awards are inverse to placing (i.e. 3 points for first if there are three teams). Unlike Conclave, timing out earns no overall points, same as a did not compete. Otherwise rules are very similar to Conclave.