While at the Craig competition, the mayor of Frederick, CO asked Bob and some of the other wonderful carvers, to come to his town and join in on the first ever Frederick, Colorado Chainsaw Carving Competition. After some thought, we decided to go. After all, that is why we are full-timing it, to be able to do whatever we want at a moments notice. Ahh, freedom!
We arrived in Frederick on Tuesday the 18th. The wonderful Frederick city workers were just getting the giant logs put in place. This was a nice row of logs and plenty of room to carve!
Bob got a good sized log. He was going to carve two peace frogs, but after looking at the huge log, he decided to do something a little nicer.
Log number 3. Has to be lucky, right?
After turning half of the tree into sawdust, a beautiful sculpture is starting to emerge.
The first quick carve was fast and messy. It was in the town's brand new gazebo in the park. Rick and Jon, carving up a storm.
While waiting for these wonderful carvers to finish up, those of us that do not carve find other things to entertain us. Boredom makes you do strange things!
Planking!
Owling!
Tebowing!
Monkying! Hehe
Finally they announced the winners!
And
guess
who
took
???!!!FIRST!!!???
!!!!!!THE BEAR GUY!!!!!!
And here is that carving!
BASKET DANCER
I am so proud of you Babe! What a fantastic job!
But there were other winners. Deservedly so. All the carvers did a fantastic job!
These are very unique, fun and caring people. I am proud to be part of this very unique group.
Faye Braaten-2nd Place winner and the only woman carver here. She does fantastic work. One of the best carvers I've seen.
www.chainsawmama.com.
Bongo Love-3rd Place and People's Choice-"We Found Love"-Bongo's carvings are always unique and wonderful.
Jon Parker-"Out of the Darkness"-Jon is an excellent carver and soo very goofy and sweet. I just love Jon. His piece was awesome.
Rick Burgess-"Prairie Prayer"-Nice work! Even though he had an awful time with his brand new Husqvarna saw.
Dee's piece-"Standing Tall"-was kind of unique just for the fact that one minute it was an owl and the next it was an awesome eagle. This was also Dee's first carving contest.
Poof an EAGLE! Ok, not poof! He worked really hard on this to make it perfect.
Nick Smith did a very nice piece.-"Rocky Mt. High"-The two baby bears on the bottom are so adorable. And the way he carved it so the eagle was not attached but stayed put was really neat. I wish I would have taken a better picture of this one. What I have does not do it justice.
