Axe Men

Yeah, I've worked on many a jobsite, without hugging anybody.

Oh, and anytime you knock your hard hats together, somebody usually says, sorry, or ouch.

Mike L said:

yeah, they got some of the French Canadian accent. I liked it because I could relate to working in the woods, but by season 3 the show focused on the restaurant and the trailer shop and the drama just wore me out.

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I think i only caught the first season or two.

wilko said:

I wasn't too fond of the Pelletiers either, but the swamp loggers seemed like a good bunch of people with a well-run outfit.

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He seemed pretty legit, nothing fancy, got the work done. I read an article about him and he has a pretty rough past so I think thats what keeps him level headed and motivated.

The boss was telling me about attending a logger's conference, where Bobby Goodson gave a short talk. He told them the television crew wanted him to start picking fights with his brother-in-law, "we need more drama", he refused so they cancelled his part in the series. He said that was ok with him, he made a living before they showed up, he would survive just fine without them.

A while back I wrote and complained about all the "fast motion" they were using with the machines. I said kids thinking of getting into that line of work would get the wrong idea. I think they toned it down a bit.

Okay so I'm watching modern marvels and just saw the preview for Ax Men this Sunday. If you all have an hour of your life to waste or 45 minutes with DVR Thank god, you may want to take your blood pressure meds and watch it.

Not sure if anyone is following season 7. I record them and watch them when I'm laid up a bit after chemo. It's terrible but it's gotten so bad that I watch it more like a dumb reality show than anything. This whole deal they started with Oakes logging and Rygarrd has been terrible from day one. Now I see they are throwing trucks off the landing with the skyline and such. Conveniently they are not driving their new trucks when this happens haha. I actually kinda liked that they brought Gabes brother in, I think its the reason I dont fast forward through them. Gabe just cries, Jason is definatley his brother but seems a little more level headed with less drama. Craig is a lot different which helps too. Just kind of a quiet old retired guy now. Listening to Joe and Coats gets kinda old. Shelby seems like the producers must have got to him as he seems more scripted really. Still seems like the same crazy guy but I think the producers must be taking advantage of it. The extra oil in the engines was pretty dumb.

I Still Dont Get This River Logging stuff. What's so alpealing? I like how they had to add some eye candy to the dread knots. Now captain awesome and kraken split up and there's the old guys with their sonar and swilly.


Like I said, it's to the point for me that it's actually not bad entertainment for being a dumb reality show. Better than Jersey Shore, or keeping up with the kardashians or any of the dumb shows TLC and MTV have. Certainly not interesting for the logging side of it.


Now that I have Netflix and Hulu at my house I went back and started watching season one of Ax Men. I never watched it back then and like most of these shows the first season is actually somewhat interesting because they just let the people work and do the talking. Once the producers figure out there's only so much to say about cutting wood then it changes. Haven't gotten that far into that season though. Season 4 is on Hulu too and I watched some of that too and obviously wasn't as good.

Netflix has Swamp Loggers and American Loggers. I watched most of the first season of American Loggers and there was some over dramatization on the part of the producers and editors but nothing scripted by the actual loggers it seemed. It wasn't a bad season and as I said before their accents always keep me entertained anyways. They don't seem to have brain donors working for them either. Some of the guys may seem rough but actually appear to be good operators unlike what you see on Ax Men.

Only watched a couple episodes of Swamp Loggers. Like most on here have said, you can tell Bobby is the real deal but I was surprised at the amount of dramatization in the first season. Overall though I like watching him and reading a bunch of his back story with his struggles in life gives you more respect for him too. The pelletiers haul their stuff back to a nice shop to fix it, Bobby plays in the mud with his old beverage truck tool trailer. I'm more of a fan of a shop myself but have a lot of respect for the guys who can make anything work in any conditions without cobbling it too bad. Plus I never get tired of seeing their nice W900 s.


When is real TV going to come back so I don't watch this crap. I think its sad that most of the educational stuff I watch is broadcast on UK channels. Americans must be done learning.

I watched axe men for a year because my dad was a logger and I worked in the woods several summers. Originally we came from the NW corner of Oregon within forty miles of where Rygaard and Browning were logging. The equipment was interesting, but the conflict, the language and the drama was just BS. I couldn't stand to watch it after one year

Watched that episode today, wow. Its like they try to make it look fake. When Oakes pushes one of Rygarrds trucks off the road with a Dozer you can see the truck is obviously from a junkyard and staged as it's missing the fuel tank, driveshaft and a license plate lol. The best part is the camera man and editors screwup, if you watch it slow you can see the entire Rygarrd crew up in the corner of the screen watching it all happen. Later on in the show though they act as if they were working the whole time and never knew it happened. Then majically Kelly Oakes shows up in some old beater Ford instead of his newer pickup and that becomes the one Rygarrds tie to the skyline. Its so stupid.

I went and read some comments on their Facebook page and I think this may be their last season. There wasn't one comment on there that was not flaming the show for how fake it is. And these were just run of the mill people that knew nothing about logging. I commented that Thom Beers ruined History and Discovery channel for all of us with his dumb shows.

I couldn't agree more its like my 2 favorite cable tv channels have developed a terminal case a diarrhea.