Todays log rollers use specially designed spiked shoes. These spiked shoes help them to maintain balance and quickness. The log rollers have two minutes on each size of log to prove there stuff. When the time limit is reached the rollers move to a smaller log. The first roller with two falls wins.
Most matches are best two out of three, some are three out of five.
Virtually every event in modern timbershows got there start somewhere in the history of logging, choker setting is no exception. Loggers are required to run an obstacle course, sometimes over water, set the choker and run to the finish. Throwing an axe requires a steady hand and focus. The axe throwing target should be 20 feet from the foul line. Axe throwers throw their axes over their head, two handed, one handed, over their shoulder and underhand.