The Chelsea Fair offers lumberjack shows throughout the week. I have yet to see a full show, but on Friday I arrived in time to catch part of one.

This chainsaw was craaaaaazy loud:

This chainsaw was just regular loud:

He was carving a chair for the crowd between events.

The last event was the boom run. This involved the two lumberjacks running across a set of logs. Here’s how it looked:

Notice the spiked shoes. The logs are held in a line by a rope, but they’re free to spin and bob, and they’re (obviously) wet, so the shoes are important.

For the spectators, part of the fun of this event is that the lumberjacks don’t always make it across the logs.

Sometimes the falls are…a bit more cringeworthy.

Mostly, though, they run across and back in a big hurry without incident.