Ax Men: Logging Reality Show Starts March 9th
12 Comments Published by Joel February 19th, 2008 in Jobs, TV. Share This
From the people who brought you the Dangerous Catch knock-off Ice Road Truckers comes “Ax Men,” a new reality show about loggers premiering March 9th. Watch a preview video on History.com. As far as I can tell, I didn’t see any owls crushed under boot heel or zombies beheaded by a spinning gravity-gun sawblade.
One thing we’re already sure to see more of than we’ve seen on other shows of this type: missing limbs. One of the loggers in the preview video is missing a toe, while another has lost most of his hand.
Preview Page [History.com via Toolmonger]
Is Dangerous Catch the generic Wal-Mart version of Deadliest Catch?
Ax Men ,35 years ago it was a way of putting food on the table in rural America. Three bucks and a half an hour of freezing cold and falling death.It was fun for a guy in his 20’s and the bars and booze after hours even better.But you learned to read a tree,the one you are cutting and everyone elses.Spinners and buckers and pin ballers alike.They were all killers and knee deep in snow at twenty below zero you could not afford to be sleepy or slow.I loved every minute of it.Would I do it again.NO way!
Someone might suggest a reality show on hemp growers, but that’s clearly not as exciting as the potential of getting crushed under a tree or cutting off your hand.
i saw the show and really liked it i am a logger and i know the risk of working in the woods but it beats going out and sitting in an office for 10 hours a day
I SAY SHOW I IT GREAT. BUT IT NEEDS TO BE MORE AIR TIME.
I was raised in the gypo logging industry in the 50s, 60s in columbia gorge , mt adams, mt st hellens foothills. started as cat skinner on family operation at 10 years old. drove logging truck summer 16 year. when out of high school went to work as a choker setter, got my back broken twards end of season. after a term in army , drafted early viet nam era, went back to the brush as a feller and bucker on a high lead side out of cottage grove, or. worked till snow shut us out for winter. went back to school to be an arch. loved the outside work and all but the bad weather . am working in construction site management at present, not near the challange of the brush but a lot safer. logging is safer today than years ago, in fact i think all industry is safer now, accidents cost too much. i have enjoyed the ax men , sorta makes me homesick. some of these loggers went to high school with my kids, they have my respect for their dedication in a tough profession.
To: rick h~
Can you tell me, where the term “Gypo Logger,” came from???? And what it means???
I asked a Weyerhaeuser Mill Manager with a “Masters Degree” and he didn’t know??
I am old “Retired Vietnam Vet,” that worked the State Prison System…in which I would not consider as dangerous as working in the “woods” everyday..
Respectfully,
This is the real deal i lived in Vernonia for 16 years and these guys do what it takes to bring the timber in so we can build our houses. without this industry and theses men we would be living in mud huts and sitting on the ground.
this show is not for the tree hugging leaf leaf lickers
A term used to describe a logger with his own equipment, and who mostly acquired small timber hope this helps
Oh yes, I heard about this show before it came on t.v. Yet I could see how good it was going to be. And low and behold I was right, I watch it all the time now, its awesome! Nice post by the way!
What is the name of the ‘airhorn’ used to signal the yarder operator? where can you get them from?
Gypo or Gyppo comes from an uncomplimentary expression for the Irish traveling people. These guys are gypo loggers for the most part.