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Jill and Jill

Two women hand bucking a log while a crowd watches. The log is attached with nails to a larger log in a bracket.

Photograph, 1990
Courtesy of Steve Savoie and the Sooke Region Historical Society

Hand bucking can be defined as a person cutting through a log with a saw, in this case using a crosscut saw (doing so with a chainsaw would be called powersaw bucking). In the exciting Jill and Jill competition, women compete in heats to see who can saw through a log the fastest.