University of Maine Woodsmen Host Home Meet

Ryan Spencer

April 15, 2010

ORONO, MAINE - Saturday March 27, the University of Maine Woodsmen team hosted the yearly home meet. Teams from the University of New Hampshire and Unity Collegecame to compete against the UMaine Men's and Women's teams.

The teams compete in a variety of woods related events. The events are based on how lumberjacks used to cut wood. Overall at the competition The University of Maine Men's team A finished in first place with the B team finishing in second place, University of New Hampshire's first team finished in third place. For the women's competitions UMaine finished in first place, Unity finished in second place and UNH finished in third place.

Some of the competitions that the UMaine teams placed first in were single buck, ax throw, fire build, pulp pit and cross cut. The meet went from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and took place on the field near York Village.

University of Maine alumni team members were also present to compete in some events for fun. Alumi Matthew Galambos demonstrated how to do a standing block cut. Alumni also competed in underhand cut and fire build.


Fire build was the final event of the day which is a team event made up of two people. The object is to build a fire and to be the first team to make a can of water boil. UMaine men's team finished first with this event and the women's team also did.

The team will next compete at Paul Smith College in New York on April 24. The meet at Paul Smith will be the final meet of the year for the team.