Wood Chopping In Tasmania
Found this opinion piece in the age about Wood Chopping in Tasmania. The article is written by Martin Flanagan.
Below is an extract:
The first noise I hear beyond the babble of the crowd is the sound of axes biting into wood. I don’t want to be chauvinistic but woodchopping is indigenous to Tasmania. It started as a sport in the backyard of a pub in Latrobe, or so I’ve been told.
Lots of Tasmanians became world champions. One of my cousins on my father’s side, Henry Steers, was a prominent axeman. So was the father of former Melbourne and West Coast footballer Andy Lovell.
Then came giant axeman David Foster, a sort of latter-day Friar Tuck, who rivalled only Boonie in the eyes of the island’s sporting fraternity until Punter Ponting came along (incidentally, if you want to read a good book on Tassie, try the newly released Van Diemen’s Land by James Boyce).
David Foster In Action
