As the logging season winds down, the pressure to produce, heats up. In Alaska, a family emergency takes Mark from the yarder seat and with no time for a shut down... Papac calls on the only guy with experience running the massive machine: Joe Linderborg. Meanwhile the men of Rygaard are feasting at the Honey Hole, pulling big wood and riding high. Down south on the Suwannee, Jimmy and James try to close the gap in the Log-Off while Joe and Swilley just try to get back on the water. And in the Louisiana bayou, a ghost threatens to derail Shelby.
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.