The race for logs is heating up as Papac heads onto their most daunting site yet. Loggers fall through ten-foot holes in the brush and high stumps smash as the crew pulls some of the biggest, most dangerous turns of the season. At Rygaard, the crew attempts to string a road over a steep draw using a device called a knife-but Jeremy can't seem to figure it out, inciting Gabe's rage. At Zitterkopf, Ethan is out to prove that he's a valuable member of the crew, but after a near-miss while falling trees, he questions his place on the team. Up in Canada, Dave's son Cory shows up to help out and his first job- just turning a truck around-puts his brother in mortal danger. And down in the swamp, Shelby and his niece Stephanie run into Shelby's uncle Bobby on Lake Ponchartrain, who has some inside scoop on where to find some massive logs-but they may be too big for the Go-Devil to pull!.
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.