Shelby's nighttime mission brings him face-to-face with an alligator; Jimmy and James push their luck to get one of the biggest logs in the Suwannee; Dave goes down with an injury; the Colonel goes out in a blaze of glor...
Ax Men
Show summary:
It is a material we see in almost every structure and it is essential to many of us for furniture; wood. Ax Men is an unscripted reality series about men who deal with the everyday dangerous environment of logging.
It is a material we see in almost every structure and it is essential to many of us for furniture; wood. Ax Men is an unscripted reality series about men who deal with the everyday dangerous environment of logging.
The fourth season of Ax Men returns and this year, the stakes are higher than ever. Father-and-son team Craig and Gabe Rygaard are back to take down reigning top dog J.M. Browning... but newcomer Papac Logging is gunning...
It's an all-out fight to the finish for Browning and Rygaard, as Gabe mounts a last minute surprise comeback. Shelby vows revenge on the lake log, and at Conner, it's up to the junior pilot to save the season. In Florida...
Craig storms off the Rygaard site and Dave fails to show up, leaving Gabe to manage a shorthanded crew alone; after Jimmy's log-poaching last week, James goes out on the Suwannee by himself to hunt timber with Collins' o...
Dave persuades Gabe to give him one last chance at Rygaard, but a careless error puts Craig on the verge of firing him; Jimmy's desperate decision to snatch a log already marked by the other Collins crew has Joe question...
Jimmy and James come face-to-face with the 12-foot gator that has stalked them for weeks. In the swamps of Louisiana, Shelby goes solo on a challenging mission. At Rygaard, greenhorn Dave disappears and at Browning, a st...
The loggers struggle to get back on track after losing a man. At Browning, a weak cable threatens to kill half the crew, while the only remaining greenhorn at Rygaard is in the line of fire during a log-alanche. Shelby's...
Loggers are fired, and one disappears; Shelby takes a risky job searching for a sunken raft of logs; and Jay Browning gets some bad news.
Tempers erupt, especially among the Pihl loggers; Jay Browning suffers shock from an allergy; and a Rygaard greenhorn is let go.
Melvin endangers other crew members with his recklessness; Jimmy has an encounter with an alligator; Shelby battles debris caused by Hurricane Katrina; and Jay Browning collapses while working.
Mistakes at Browning threaten the safety of the loggers; the Rygaard greenhorns receive an ultimatum; Melvin and Leland compete for the yarder seat; and Jimmy has a dangerous first dive.
Jimmy and James arrive in Florida and realize that the challenges are tougher than they expected; Rygaard runs into problems when a cable snaps; and Browning learns that rapid production has a high price.
Greenhorns are tested by Rygaard; Jay Browning hires a new yarder operator; and an argument brews between two members of the Pihl crew.
The third-season opener introduces new locations as crews begin work in the summer. In addition to sites in the Pacific Northwest, loggers will battle the terrain and heat of Florida and Louisiana.
The loggers toughest season begins to wind down; Jesse begins to wonder about the family business; rumors begin to spread, to the other crews, that the Gustafson crew is pulling out.
The loggers try to put the storm behind them, so they can get back to work; Darrell makes a discovery that startles the crew; Jay struggles to motivate his crew without phone service; the Pihl crew comes to the rescue of...
The Gustafon crew faces a deadline that is nearly impossible; half of the Pihl crew skip out on their duties; and with the Stump Branch's mistakes and inexperience, they put profits and lives at risk.
Some loggers have more reasons to be thankful, than others do, as Thanksgiving approaches; the Pihl crew loses some men to a sudden illness; and the first snowfall of the winter is a warning for the Stump Branch crew.
The loggers from all the crews hang on to survive in the struggling logging market; an old-hook tender returns to the Browning crew, halting Jesse's promotion to management; the Pihl crew loses an important member.
Browning and Gustafson Logging, two of Oregon's longest running lumber companies, fight to survive, following the storm; the smaller logging companies look for other ways to make money.
News of upcoming layoffs worry the crew members; the Pihl crew is under pressure to finish its work on the pig farm.
After the storm hits, with a vengeance, some crews shut down while others struggle to stay afloat; the slumping housing market hits home for the crew members.
The loggers race to stay ahead of an approaching storm; muddy roads trap the Stump Branch crew's trucks.
