Photo: Rural Games
Get ready to hear the roar of the chainsaw and the call of the dog whistle in Palmerston North this weekend, as the Rural Games fire up this weekend.
The free event runs over two days in The Square, with the best of the country's shearers, woodchoppers and tree climbers all in competition.
It's also one of the few events in the country where coal shovellers test their mettle.
One of the judges is Brian Coghlan - who incidentally still holds the world record, along with Piet Groot, that they set in 2004... using a banjo shovel to shift 508 kilograms of coal into a hopper in just 14.8 seconds!
