As the season enters the homestretch, everyone is risking more to stay on top. Jimmy Smith braves the depths of the Suwannee River for the first time in three years, but his fears may get the better of him. In the swamp, Shelby also takes on an old enemy--the log that flipped his winch last season. In Montana, the boys of Siderius are playing fast and loose, while at Rygaard, the crew pushes their yarder to the brink of disaster.

AX Men Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Ax Is Back
• s05e02 - Damage Control
• s05e03 - No Pain, No Gain
• s05e04 - Hell Hole
• s05e05 - Cowboy Up
• s05e06 - Fists of Fury
• s05e07 - Wake-up Call
• s05e08 - Out of Control
• s05e09 - Rygaard vs. Rygaard
• s05e10 - Down & Dirty
• s05e11 - Let 'Er Rip
• s05e12 - Burning the Bear
• s05e13 - Where's Willy
• s05e14 - Falling Apart
• s05e15 - Up in Flames
• s05e16 - Family Rivalry
• s05e17 - Swamp Gold
• s05e18 - Up in Smoke
• s05e19 - Betting It All
• s05e20 - The Ax Stops Here

AX Men Show Summary

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.