NEW FOR 2010
ADAMS AXE MEN
The Adams Axemen is the country's best known lumberjack display team. They are a team of professional showmen who enjoy nothing more than entertaining a crowd.
The Adams Axemen were founded in 1966 as the New Forest Axemen, making them the longest running lumberjack display team in Great-Britain.
Members of the Adams Axemen have competed around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada and Europe.
It was back in 1966 at the New Forest Show that Reg Adams first saw his everyday forestry skills had been developed into a sport. Giving a display was a team of Australian Axemen. Their equipment and techniques were totally different to those that Reg was used to. In his job as a forester, he was used to working with axes and crosscut saws. Chainsaws were just starting to mechanise the falling of timber. So Reg thought this new sport was a way of keeping alive the old skill of axe and crosscut saw.
The Adams Axemen remain today the best known lumberjack display team in the country, regularly performing at over 50 shows a year.
BEN POTTERS VULTURE SHOW
At the age of 14 my obsession with birds became my job and life. I began to volunteer
at a small Yorkshire falconry centre and later was employed full time.
Over the past
14 years I have trained and flown; Hawks, Eagles, Vultures, Kites, Buzzards, Falcons,
as well as some more unusual birds such as Ravens, Kookaburras, Pelicans, Serums
and even Ospreys.
The off site display work I did took off in a big way, I even flew
a Golden Eagle over York city centre. Two years ago at the age of 26 I decided to
leave where I was and go out alone.
I have a large team of big birds which are not
usually seen at off site demonstrations. They are all free flown every day regardless
of the weather conditions, and are at a great standard.
Ben no enjoys and provides the following, Main arena displays for country shows, School displays and workshops Eagle & vulture handling experiences. His birds are available for photo workshops and TV