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262543 | Tom Dugan <tom_dugan@h...> | 2017‑06‑23 | About all those axes you have stashed in the garage ... |
Check out https://tinyurl.com/ybu86tnk "After a soft opening June 10, Valhalla is accepting both scheduled competitions and walk-ins at 6781 U.S. Route 30 during the hours of noon to 10 p.m Tuesday through Saturday. It’s hosting a grand opening next Saturday. For $20, you can throw as many axes as you want in an hour. Groups of six are $100 for an hour or $200 for 2½ hours, with $35 for each additional person. Ms. Metz said they don’t recommend groups larger than six for one-hour events. “You’re not going to get the full experience,” she said. The range will also host league nights, in which ax throwers can compete once a week for eight weeks. At the end, the winner will be crowned the Ax King or Queen and be awarded $1,000. ... In Canada, the Backyard Axe Throwing League — or BATL for short — has been gaining traction since its founding in 2006, growing to more than 1,500 members by 2016. In the United States as well, indoor ax throwing has garnered a wealth of recent attention. Urban Axes, a league based in Philadelphia (with plans to open in Baltimore, Cincinnati and Austin), has recruited between 90 and 120 members since its inception last year, the National Axe Throwing Federation claims on its website. ..." etc. But really, who amongst us hasn't already chucked an ax or two? -T |
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262544 | galoot@l... | 2017‑06‑23 | Re: About all those axes you have stashed in the garage ... |
Quoting Tom Dugan |
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262545 | Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> | 2017‑06‑23 | Re: About all those axes you have stashed in the garage ... |
If they are anything like me, I would hit someone. So a duller axe would just increase the chances that everyone would leave with the number of appendages they showed up with - maybe not the same amount of blood, but appendages, yes Ed Minch |
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262552 | scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> | 2017‑06‑24 | Re: About all those axes you have stashed in the garage ... |
>> A couple years ago at Pennsic I discovered that axe throwers don't want their axes to be _too_ sharp, can't remember why. I don't know for sure. But I'd imagine its because a sharp ax would chip much worse on accidental contact with a rock. Ax throwing was smokin hot 40 years ago here. In fact logging competitions were hot altogether. Log dancing (on water), ax chopping races, hand saw races, chain saw races, pole climbing and tree topping races. Much of Bigfoot days revolved around the logging competitions. It suddenly died out without a trace even before widespread logging generally disappeared. Then in the late 90's, mostly because of one popular guy, there was a resurgence of ax throwing. One guy got into it, and pretty soon he had friends, and pretty soon after that it spread. Before you knew it, ax throwing became part of the Bigfoot Days celebration once again. This only lasted a few years though. The one guy who started it was killed in a logging accident and interest began to wane. Sometimes it only takes one. yours Scott |
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262553 | Christopher Swingley <cswingle@s...> | 2017‑06‑24 | Re: About all those axes you have stashed in the garage ... |
Scott, On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 9:49 AM, scott grandstaff |
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262561 | scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> | 2017‑06‑25 | Re: About all those axes you have stashed in the garage ... |
my wife tried to get me to enter > in the crosscut sawing competition, After the demise of logging here (3 full time sawmills closed and about 30 logging crews all moved away), at a yard sale, I found a high grade racing saw. A one man saw. It came it a ridiculously heavy canvas case trimmed in thick leather all around. Quite the outfit. Well I used to know a man named Crazy Richard. Richard earned his name. Drunk and disorderly much of the time for years. Then one day he got tired of that decided to clean up. He began to eat and take care of himself and turned into an entirely different person. He met a girl and fell in love (a former Playboy centerfold) and in time they had a darling baby. Well Richard, about 6' 5", decided to take up saw racing. He got serious and I eventually gave him my racing saw. Sadly within that same year he went back to his former life, lost the girl, and went back to sleeping under the bridge for the rest of his life. sigh. I never did hear what he did with the saw. Richard did have one redeeming quality. He never, ever, brought his trouble to my door. When he was drunk I never saw him, unless an accidental meeting on the street. And even then he would politely excuse himself and disappear. -- ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039 scottg@s... http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html |
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