From Canada to Louisiana, desperate times call for desperate measures. At Lemare, a washed out road threatens to trap their logs on the landing... until Gord decides to blast half the mountainside to make new gravel. At Rygaard, Gabe's got a surprise for his crew to put them back on track, while in Oregon, Jay Browning has a close call with a barberchair. In Louisiana, Shelby's bringing in a surprising new assistant: his wife Donna. And in Florida, Joe and Swilley hook a bigger log than they can handle and end up sinking their boat in the process.
s04e01 - Alaska
s04e02 - Sink or Swim
s04e03 - Day from Hell
s04e04 - Manhunt
s04e05 - Battle for Survival
s04e06 - Judgement Day
s04e07 - Under Fire
s04e08 - Overboard
s04e09 - Lock & Load
s04e10 - Fallout Zone
s04e11 - Tipping Point
s04e12 - King of the Hill
s04e13 - Fraying at the Edges
s04e14 - This Means War
s04e15 - The Mouth from the South
s04e16 - Blast Off
s04e17 - Man Down
s04e18 - Final Countdown
s04e19 - Fever Pitch
s04e20 - Down To The Wire
Ax Men is the first-ever non-fiction series about the treacherous life of Pacific Northwest timber cutters. From History and Original Productions, the same team responsible for the mega hit, Ice Road Truckers, this series looks at the legacy that the pioneers of our country laid for the present and future generations of loggers.
Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, rugged men make their living doing one of the most dangerous jobs in history... Logging. Their mission: to retrieve timber perched on mountainsides too steep to access with machines. But this is no easy task.
For more than a hundred years, larger than life characters, many of whom are members of logging families that go back to the time when the West was being settled, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. Ax Men will tell remarkable stories detailing the history of the logging industry, showing how technology has transformed life for today's logger, while the struggle of man versus nature stays the same.