World's best axemen to contest standing block event

By Lana Best
Updated December 28 2017 - 6:26pm, first published December 27 2017 - 11:41am
Final blow: 80-year-old Stan Sainty of Launceston in action at a standing block event. The woodchopping legend will compete at his 50th Thousands carnival at Invermay on January 6 and then retire from the sport.
Final blow: 80-year-old Stan Sainty of Launceston in action at a standing block event. The woodchopping legend will compete at his 50th Thousands carnival at Invermay on January 6 and then retire from the sport.

In 1978 Launceston’s Stan Sainty won the Eric Reece Memorial Thousands at York Park by demolishing a 300mm block of wood off a handicap of around 9 seconds.

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