PAST Chardon Ohio 2018 Chainsaw Races videos

[Definitive Dave]

I mostly filmed and ran in the chainsaw events.
This is my first attempt at adding all the related videos from one event to a "playlist" in Youtube so they are easier to find.

Chardon Ohio maple Festival 2018 info:
first place pays $125 for each event, sixth place pays $20 each event, costs $6 to register for each event and there are all sorts of timber sports events as well as the chainsaw racing.
Qualifying n all events is the first day and the top 6 competitors in each event move on to race Sunday for the money.
Stock appearing at this event means all the stock covers are on the saw and muffler, any fuel or porting or chain is fine. Chaps are required. Chainsaw events are cold start on the ground with a warm up immediately before each heat, three cuts in 8" fresh tuplip poplar cants. The race is for time, so beating someone on teh other end of the cant is not as important as going as fast as you can.
Being the earliest major race the weather plays hell with the guys running alky fuels, it was snowing Sunday morning.

This is the link to the event "playlist and all heats will be in the order they happened.
There is an individual vid for each race and they should run in order f you use this link:

I filmed some of the axe throw but not uploaded
Three cube qualifier round is uploaded
only bow saw race i filmed is uploaded
Five cube qualifier round is uploaded - Nate's 5 cube ran away and broke the chain in this

more to come, I will update this as more gets uploaded
Dave

 

[P.M.P.]

Guessing this is what Shawn said..." Dammit Dave get that saw to fire"

 

[fossil]

Good compilation Dave.

 

[Definitive Dave]

that 3 cube has me shaking my head
I fueled it up and fired it that morning, then fired it at least once more before the race time
then we fired them up at the block and as i reached for the kill switch it sounded like it ran out of fuel, WTF??
I got set and then of course the damn thing wouldn't fire at all, Ryan filmed that heat for me.
So i went back to filming while Shawn and Jody and Nate took my saw over to the parking lot, gave it a prime and pulled it about 30 times , no go
They handed it back to me, and i pulled it one last time in disgust and bam it fired right up, WTF #2.
So just for the sake of testing the rig in the poplar they had I ran it in the Cant on video, *s-word i would have been last anyway
I stole Ryans squirt can too

 

[fossil]

I have some saws like that.

 

[Definitive Dave]

Poulans?? Sorry i had to

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Thx for the vids Dave! Just you and Ryan the new comers to this event?

 

[Definitive Dave]

Yep most of the other guys there actually have done it enough to be considered professional lumberjack competitors, if you look at world records for events, a lot of the other names will show up who where competing that day.
Shawn competed last year in 3 and 5 cube.

The 5 cube preliminary round with pipes have been uploaded but I haven’t gotten them added to the “playlist” yet.

 

[cus_deluxe]

So @Definitive Dave, who is the stocky bearded guy in the vids with the spinning pirouette move after every race?

 

[Definitive Dave]

Ken Freeman, he is a local to Chardon and a good operator plus he runs some Stihls and wins in races
His dad is the announcer on the videos

 

[fossil]

Poulans?? Sorry i had to

I'd call you a wanker but it could be anything. I don't run them enough.

The tuner may be lacking expertise as well.

 

[cus_deluxe]

Ken Freeman, he is a local to Chardon and a good operator plus he runs some Stihls and wins in races
His dad is the announcer on the videos

I did notice the fast stihls for sure. Haha that guy announcing sure has a distinctive voice. Seems to get confused sometimes too haha.