Logging has been called North America's most dangerous job. Logging giants throughout Oregon are falling. Two of the biggest--J.M. Browning and Gustafson Logging--are fighting to survive. Jay Browning, usually flush with lucrative deals, is forced to make tough decisions. Gustafson Logging is down but not out. Smaller outfits, like Stump Branch and Pihl, find winning strategies in their young leaders.

AX Men Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Man vs. Mountain
• s01e02 - Risk and Reward
• s01e03 - Storm Season Strikes
• s01e04 - The Big Hit
• s01e05 - Market Meltdown
• s01e06 - Reversal of Fortune
• s01e07 - The Close Call
• s01e08 - Loggers Under Fire
• s01e09 - A Logger's Thanksgiving
• s01e10 - Black Friday
• s01e11 - Storm of the Century
• s01e12 - Picking Up the Pieces
• s01e13 - The Final Haul

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.