In Louisiana, Shelby and his assistant Bob head out looking for logs on his newly repaired two-ton swamp buggy. In Central Florida, the Chapman crew goes to battle against the legendary "Gump" log - the biggest challenge of their career. In Washington, Rygaard fights to stay in the load count race, but their equipment doesn't cooperate. In Alaska, Joe's forced to take over as Papac's yarder operator. North of the border in Canada, Triack Resources races to get out as many loads as they can before an upcoming storm threatens to shut down their operation. And in Wyoming, David Zitterkopf is known as the workhorse, but an illness may have him down for the count.
s08e01 - Logged and Loaded
s08e02 - Falling Fast
s08e03 - Failure to Communicate
s08e04 - The Swampman Cometh
s08e05 - Hire Wire Act
s08e06 - The Log and Winding Road
s08e07 - Swamp Man Boogie
s08e08 - Teepee of Death
s08e09 - Old Log, New Tricks
s08e10 - All's Fair in Loggin' War
s08e11 - Don't Cross The Boss
s08e12 - Davi and Goliath
s08e13 - Jet Logged
s08e14 - Log Runners
s08e15 - Cuts Like a Knife
s08e16 - Fall of a Legend
s08e17 - Rock Bottom
s08e18 - Great Logs of Fire
s08e19 - All Hands on Deck
s08e20 - Axpocalypse
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.