They chose not to show anything but the drama. I was upset at first. My views have changed as I have received fan mail from all over the world. Most letters are asking about logging.
Huge stands of trees from aerial footage. These viewers have now seen a forest. They are seeing that forest's are not all gone. Many fans have the idea that forests are basically gone and dying. We, as Oregonians, take for granted that forests are easy to access and enjoy. We do not realize how many people living in large cities have never seen a forest. They cannot dream what a real forest smells like or feels like. The variety of logging equipment featured on the show is enormous.
If you were teaching people what a sky-car was and how it works -- without a video, the degree of understanding goes down. It takes a lot of words to describe a sky-car. Watching it work on video explains how it works without any words. Like equipment, men come in different sizes and shapes.
Some are more playful for the camera and some are boring and efficient. Being followed by a camera crew and producer is very exhausting mentally.
There are times you are asked to say the same sentence different ways. This is not all fun and games. It equates to longer hours and more work when the camera crews are filming. Ax Men profiles rough-and-ready river logging crews from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to the waters of the Deep South. Share Share. Edit Edit. Help Help. Man vs. Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, rugged men make their living doing one of the deadliest jobs in the world -- logging.
Risk and Reward. Just days into the fall logging season, the Ax Men are already being put to the test. Browning races to meet a big deadline. Storm Season Strikes. As a storm closes in on the Oregon coast, the Ax Men race to stay one step ahead. Jesse continues to push the J. Browning crew to meet its looming deadline. The Gustafson team is mostly out of work except for two loggers operating a feller buncher on a flat tract of land.
But they return to traditional methods to bring down a year old spruce measuring 5 feet in diameter. The Pihl crew deals with a storm. The Stump crew encounters a few sticks while bucking logs while Melvin scopes his next job thinning bad trees from the forest.
S1, Ep9. The Stump crew sees there first snow. The greenhorn gets to do some cutting but has more equipment trouble. Jammerlogging in the snow and fog proves risky. Pihl Group's yarder operator shows up sick and is soon relieved for safety reasons. But his replacement has a bad reputation and is under the weather himself.
Browning is hunting for work as all they have is a small blow down site. S1, Ep Mistakes lead to some very close calls including a falling skyline, a leaner, a stump obstructing the skyline, getting stuck in the mud and a stolen chainsaw. A greenhorn and a supervisor come through strong when they are put to the test. Gustafson spends near an hour in dangerous low gear hauling up a massive tree that turn out to be rotten.
Then two storms converse off shore blasting Oregon with strong winds and causing floods and blocked roads. Ax Men looks back at logging's toughest season. The crews of Stump Branch, Pihl, J. Browning and Gustafson Logging have battled the elements, each other, and themselves in the race for green gold.
Remember that era when the History Channel was the place to go to watch history come alive? Still, it was a tremendous educational resource for many viewers. Some of the first companies to agree to participate in Ax Men first felt that they were signing on for a traditional History Channel program.
Instead, Ax Men became a personality and drama-fueled reality show. Not everyone felt that was the direction it should have gone in. The veteran logger connected with fans of the show through his gruff nature and tendency to speak his mind. The fact that he also had a prosthetic limb designed to hold a chainsaw also lent him a certain blue-collar mythical status that kept many tuning in. The funny thing about Browning success is that Browning resented the show he helped make popular for quite some time.
In interviews that followed his departure from the show, Browning talked about his displeasure with the History Channel and how they insisted on running things. According to the bosses, this presentation fostered the perception that loggers were universally unprofessional and not reliable. In retrospect, the Gustafson crew were a comparatively dry bunch who rarely engaged in dramatic television moments.
Colantuono was a well-liked and personable worker whose helicopter antics were usually an episode highlight. Those familiar with the case reported that the investigation was partially based on the fact that Colantuono was often seen on Ax Men participating in less than ideal acts on the show.
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