The Ax Men are back to take on North America's deadliest job. Without his father Craig, who suffered a career ending injury last season, Gabe Rygaard struggles to keep the family operation in business. Papac Alaska travels to a remote and mountainous island to tackle one of the biggest jobs in company history. Meanwhile, Greg Chapman is on a quest to find a lost logging train, but only if he can get enough money. The Swampman may be in over his head when he takes on an impossible job for a client that has deep pockets.
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.