Watch Timber Tina Chop Down The Competition on Survivor!

Here at Fishboy we are all going to be rooting for Timber Tina on the upcoming Survivor series. Tina is a great local personality and runs a fun "LumberJill" show for the tourists each summer. She has survived a terrible personal tragedy this past year that will make Survivor a piece of cake. I expect her to go far in the show with her great woodsmen skills, maturity, and great personality. Go Tina, Go! Yoohoooooo!

Timber Tina on ‘Survivor’
By Sarah Hinckley

TRENTON—Maine Lumberjack Show founder “Timber” Tina Scheer will try to saw her way to the top of a new competition on “Survivor: Panama – Exile Island,” set to premiere on CBS at 8 p.m. Feb. 2.
As part of the international circuit for lumberjack competitions, Ms. Scheer has become known around the world as one of the top athletes and advocates for women in logging sports.

Tina Scheer of Trenton, owner of the Maine Lumberjack Show, is a contestant on the hit television show “Survivor: Panama,” which begins on CBS on Feb. 2.

This 12th season of the reality television show has a new twist in which 16 contestants will be divided into four teams, according to age and gender. Each week a contestant will be banished to a nearby island to fend for himself or herself – a situation unlikely to faze Timber Tina.

She spends the summer in Trenton running the Maine Lumberjack Show. The nightly show, which runs one hour and 15 minutes in length, involves such stunts as wood chopping, ax throwing and speed climbing, skills that could come in handy in the wilds of Panama.

Ms. Scheer was originally scheduled to participate in “Survivor: Guatemala” which concluded Dec. 11, 2005 on CBS. But her survival instinct was put to the ultimate test when her 16-year-old son, Charlie, died in a car accident a week before she was to leave for filming.

“He was her wing man,” said Judy Hoeschler, of Lacrosse, Wis., Ms. Scheer’s older sister and seven-time world logrolling champion. “She had this horrible grief that she couldn’t talk to anyone about.”

Comment could not be obtained directly from Ms. Scheer about the upcoming show because contestants are sworn to secrecy. The CBS network was great, said Ms. Hoeschler, to give Ms. Scheer time to grieve and to hold a spot for her on the next show.

While preparing for “Survivor,” Ms. Scheer’s son (and her only child) was her greatest confidant. For a 16-year-old boy, what could be cooler than your mom being on Survivor? Ms. Hoeschler asks rhetorically.

“She really felt she needed to do it,” Ms. Hoeschler said Tuesday, “to finish something that she and Charlie had started.”

When “Survivor: Panama” begins next month, Ms. Scheer will have fans cheering her on from around the globe, especially those she has touched personally.

“She’s got thousands of friends around the world and has much love,” Ms. Hoeschler said of Timber Tina. “She’s very funny and wise and strong … anyone who can swing an ax is a good contestant in the survivor part of it. I’m very interested to see the outcome of this.”