When Craig Rygaard comes to the logging site for a surprise visit, the crew gets on their game. The Zitterkopfs face a major challenge to complete their biggest job ever and are forced to get to the root of the problem to keep the wood moving. Papac continues to battle the "Longest Yard" unit, which has a mile long sky line. Greg Chapman finds an unexpected treasure in his quest to find the Lost Log Train.
s09e01 - Shelby Strikes Back
s09e02 - Shelby Gets Schooled
s09e03 - Life & Limb
s09e04 - Sloppy Joe
s09e05 - Family Tree
s09e06 - Madman of the Mountain
s09e07 - Root Canal
s09e08 - Rygaard's Revenge
s09e09 - Log Eat Log
s09e10 - Every Log Has Its Day
s09e11 - Getting a Leg Up
s09e12 - Take This Log and Shove It
s09e13 - Reunited and It Feels Like Wood
s09e14 - Back in Black
s09e15 - All Hail The King
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.