The first public birling match was sponsored in 1888.
From their daily work of leaping from log to log, prying and pulling to keep the logs moving and to prevent jams at bends in the river, on sandbars, rocky narrows, windfalls, and deadheads, the sport of birling developed.
Birling rules became standardized, and camp championship contests were held, followed by intercamp and eventually intersectional contests, finally culminating in national championship tournaments, called rodeos.
The lightning-fast skill set of the lumberjack — and the lumberjill, as the women are known — has evolved into a popular national competition, with events like speed climbing, chopping and birling (logrolling) held at the collegiate and professional levels.
Birling, also called logrolling, outdoor sport of the North American lumberjack.
Birling contestants wore their work clothes shortened overalls or jeans, woolen shirts, and high-topped calked boots.
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'We don't live alone – we are members of one body," the furious police officer informs the members of the Birling family in JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls.
Good news, Birling Gap! Brian Kay's Sunday Morning has already been scrapped.
It wasn't the relentlessly succeeding revelations about the Birling family's collaborative doing-to-death of Eva Smith, sacked, shamed and driven to suicide by bourgeois callousness and hypocrisy, that gave my 12-year-old head the dramatic equivalent of an earworm.
It's 24 years since, while between jobs at the Gate and the Royal Court, director Stephen Daldry took a theatrical sledgehammer to JB Priestley's moral thriller with considerable help from designer Ian McNeill, who substituted the Birling family dining room for a dinky and fragile Edwardian doll's house perched precariously in a desolate post-blitz landscape.
