When: Next Saturday. Preliminary competition starts at 8 a.m.. Events officially begin at 10 a.m. and run until 6 p.m. Why: Because you'll never look at a knotty pine, or someone wearing a flannel ...

Loudest and perhaps most popular of all are the hot saws, oversized homemade or self-modified chain saws that, according to SAF promotional material, are “10% chain saw and 90% alcohol and ...

The scent of woodsmoke could be traced to a backyard temple of towering elms, tangled bushes, logs like ruined columns, coins of wood, berms of wood, shavings, bark. And partly hidden by flora was a ...

DARBY – If there is an event that embodies all that Montana stands for, Darby Logger Days is it. The premier community festival of the year for the southern Bitterroot Valley, the 12th annual Darby ...

Before chain saws came into the picture - the first one invented circa 1930, trees and all the lumber and paper products were felled by hand. Logging companies would buy timber and build camps in the ...