The Country 14/10/25: Jack Jordan talks to Hamish McKay

The Stihl Timbersports World Championships are on in Milan next week. We catch up with New Zealand’s top axeman before he takes off for Italy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Righty, ho, will we standing by to talk to Jack Jordan.
Of course they're Still Timber Sports team heading to the
World Champmas in Milan on Saturday. They take place next week.
Of course, Big Jack, I mean he's a beast. He's
a beheamoth of a human being. Silver medalists of individual
World Championships in twenty twenty, fourth, three time one of

(00:20):
the World Trophy, four times national pro champion. We can't
get a hold of Jack at the moment because you
know those big saws that they have where they they
are hybrids, so they create their own saw, their own
chainsaw with these amazing blick and engines on them. The
rural day here in Palmerston, all the rural games back
in March. I was lucky enough to be part of

(00:41):
the Still Timber Sports team. And we might even give
Phil Roperha. If you're listening Phil Roperha from Still, we
should be get he's the commentator. He'd be given. He'd
give us the drill on these guys. So we will
stand to get a hold of Jack, and of course
he's hitting off for Cleveland. Cherry, Chris Lord and Quentin
awset off their to those World Champs in Milan. Been

(01:01):
great on the show today. We've had a good discussion
with both sides of the fence. Damian O'Connor farmer desperately
going into bat for the labor side of the things
on the methane reductions. And also well Kate Ecklund too
from Beef and Lamb, New Zealand down there at the
council meeting in Balclouth today where it's a beautiful day.

(01:23):
How interesting to see those poles out yesterday overall rating
down a little bit, or Christopher Luxen down a little bit.
We'll labor hipkins a little, you know, but at the
end of the day a big drop from him from
the start of yet but what are these poles? What
are these poles really matter? Oh he's turned his big
hybrid chain saw off as he he has. Okay, well

(01:45):
let's go and have a chat to him. We got
you there, big Jackie there, Yeah, there would go on
Harves Mackay here Jack We met earlier in the year
at the Rural Games in Parmeerston, North. How are you
keeping your fit and ready for the World Champs?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, as really as I can be. I suppose going
not too bad so Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Now what sort of fine tuning have you been doing
of that wonderful physical specimen of yours Without getting too
much man love on the air.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, it's plainly all season for us over here in
you one as far as wood chopping and timer sports goes. So,
I had a bit of a break and it's sort
of been getting back into it, trying to find some
form that I had at the end of last season.
So yeah, just been going all the events again, and yeah,
bit of gym stuff on top of that.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, so you do the gym stuff, but I guess
a lot of this is muscle memory, isn't it. You're
sort of highly tuned and trained athlete, Jack. I mean,
it must come back to you pretty quickly, does it.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah? For sure. Like the best thing we can we
can do as far as timmer sports nothing goes, is
just doing the events and the fitness that we get
from doing the sport. Nothing. Yeah, nothing sort of replicates
that to the same that cann as wood shopping.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, yeah, you got to do it to be good
at it. I mean, I don't know that anybody could
go out there and not share sheep and be prepared
to be at a competition through any sorts of other training,
same thing I think for wood shopping. So you're going
there with Cleveland, Chris and Quentin. So what's the format
like at these still at the World Champs there in Milan.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes, on the first first night we'll have a four
man teams race where we do the cut one disc
with the still m S six six one. It goes
to the underhand being across to the single buck where
they do the handsaw and the finishes with a stand
block cut the log stand next to year. So yeah,
it sort of elimination process through to the final starting

(03:40):
what's the doubt? I think it's about sixteen countries we
start with here.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, so how many days? What a couple of days
of competition?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
No, so it's supposedly all it's supposedly getting there in
all the build up. That's that's what seems to take
the most time. The actual competition only goes for about
three hours, so at about six o'clock over there, I think,
and yeah, I'll.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Tell you what, that's a that's a lot of travel
and a lot of preparation. You got to get it
right in those three hours. You must be pretty focused.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, for sure, it's it's it's obviously pretty hard flying
for so long and then getting up for such a
short period of time, but I guess that's what the
preparation goes in forward to be ready on the night
when it.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Jack, you're not a small carcass. Do you get sort
of further up the plane? You got a comfortable seat
so to speak?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, No, we're sort of in the kettle class as
far as I did see on the way over there.
One time I was right up in front of the plane.
I thought, bloody beauty. I thought it must have been
in business class sitting up there and row number one,
But the plane was two stories, so I'm still in
kettle class.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Who are you flying up with?

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think, well, well with Emirates this year. We're usually
with those year, so I think we got a boy
first and then across the Germany running and we're actually
driving Germany to Italy this year, so a bit of
a different one.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, okay, ol you see a nice bit of country side,
and no doubt not out a bit of forest, raight forest. Jeez,
I can't even get the word, not even see a
forest or too and you want to get out there,
get the Axe out Hey, we might have the bound
to be somebody from the good team at Emirates listing
for our for our wonderful team going off to the
World Championship, our New Zealand still Timber Sports team that

(05:32):
might be able to look after Jack, Jack, Jordan and
the team. Thanks very much for joining us Jack there.
Jack is off with Cleveland Cherry, Chris Lord and Quentin
force it all the best in Milan, Italy for the
World Champs for our Timber Sports are still Timber Sports
team