Most Incredible Chainsaw Carvings from A Cut Above

The incredible master carving sculptures from the world's best chainsaw carvers. Watch these top chainsaw carvers from around the world compete for a $50,000 cash prize in the wood carving competition show, A CUT ABOVE, Sundays at 10a ET/PT on Discovery.

"I went with hope on this one. Social media and TV is so much negativity. I'd hope we could get back to that child that's all in us. That little boy that's in a grocery store that's in his Halloween Batman suit that doesn't have a care in the world."

"The ouroboros snake is a snake that eats itself. I think of that as my life. I make mistakes, and the way that we grow is actually by moving past a lot of stuff."

"If you look carefully, it's like someone playing drums. In Africa, the drum is the heartbeat."

"It's me as a tree being knocked down, getting back up, creating again."

"Since I've been a young boy, I've been taught honor the people of this land. It's a chief's headdress."

"I like to carve abstract. The bottom describes my family. The cuts are the things that hurt me because whatever happens, you have to go up."

"I had an accident. I couldn't carve for three, four years. Slowly coming back. I'm the tiger, comes out from the fire."

"It's an hourglass. This upper section talks about my hard work. Then, it's heavier because the sand falls down, and that's my family."

"The bottom is the universe's flow coming up through me, and what the hands represent is me opening up my mind."

"It's about my dad as an angel. "

"I try to honor the tree every time I carve. I kind of feel like it's in my blood. The veins are going into the roots. These are my tools."

"I carved seven pickup sticks. I like to be playful, but also, there's ups and downs in life. I pick myself up from that experience, and go on. "

"All the animals featured have a trait that I have myself, too. The beaver, he's a bit of a wood guy. He likes building things. The barn owl, he likes working on his own. "