Jimmy Smith is smitten with his new assistant, while rivals Uncle Buck and Swilley push their equipment to the breaking point. Shelby Stanga scouts his newest log order with his darling wife Donna. Bigballoon Logging faces an uncertain future when owner Levi Brown is admitted to the hospital. And at Rygaard and Papac, the chainsaws bite back.

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.