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Interesting

I find the show to be interesting, and logging as a business is much more dangerous in that terrain, and is harder than I expected. Here in Iowa most of the cutting I do is on relatively flat ground, with the occasional wicked steep hill or ravine, but nothing as long as some of the mountains they are working on. Sure would be nice to see more actual cutting as some have already stated. Also would be nice to see some of the cutters talk about which saw they use and why. As a firewood cutter my hat (helmet) is off to you guys who do this for a living. JR
 
Yea dude

I was thinking it was the same as here, we're very mountainous also, until that dude said it was 4200' of ascent. I was like, UMMMMMMMM, holy snikes. We don't have to deal with that crap by any means. That's some rough stuff dude...

:popcorn:
 
Does anybody know any of these guys??? (double hockey sticks)!!!!! Anybody else having this same problem in the NE??? Man it's been a rough year.
:cheers: eh?

Yeah its global warming Ive burned more firewood heating my home than in the last four years actually 10 years,,,,,

Yeah Global warming/ Carbon foot print!!!! Sheesh!!!!! :dizzy: :confused:

Stuff a sock in it Al Gore!!!!!!!!!! :buttkick:
 
Is that what you're waiting for...the "near fatal action stuff"? Will that be good enough for you or would you rather see somebody actually get killed?
I'm sure there's a lot of people like you watching for just that reason.
Pay a little more attention to how tough these guys are and how hard they work. Learn to appreciate the skill with which they do their jobs. Try to recognize how inventive and multi-talented a lot of these people are. I doubt you could stay up with them.
There might be a lot of ignorant, sensation seeking, poorly informed, and morally bankrupt people such as yourself watching this show for the same reasons you are. I'm glad I don't know any of them.

+10...im watching the show to get educated...how the equipment works...and how it is set up.

when i tell people around here that im a logger most of them don't know what that means.

I believe that being a logger(in the broadest spectrum) is being an inventor, welder, metal fabricator, mechanic, doctor, equipment operator, often times a truck driver, timber cruiser, log scaler, forester, hard worker, accountant*, salesman*, businessman*, and human relations specialist*(*-especially if you are running your own operation), independent and a bit crazy.

People don't relize that...they just think, "O, so you cut trees?"

logging is enough of an adrenaline rush the way it is.....you don't need it to be "exciting"...and its prolly better if there isn't any "excitement"-cuz that typically leads to disaster
 
The only complaint I have with it is I would like to see less talk and more working I was looking forward to seeing some professional fallers dropping some trees. But it aint over yet I will be tuning in again next week. I really enjoy watching this kind of stuff the hard part is getting past the soap opera set up.
 
I believe I would have to give the one yarder op. a attitude adjustment. If someone had pitch a fitt like he did when the old tank got stuck then that would be his last day on my job. Doing work like that you don't need someone makeing everyone else misrable. If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem.
 
I was thinking it was the same as here, we're very mountainous also, until that dude said it was 4200' of ascent. I was like, UMMMMMMMM, holy snikes. We don't have to deal with that crap by any means. That's some rough stuff dude...

A couple of decades back I was in upstate NY on business. I had an intervening weekend, so some of the locals said "let's go to the mountains!" Since I was a kid I'd read about adventures in the Adirondacks, and was anxious to see the fabled area.

We were driving along and chatting as we got into some really pretty foothills. We stopped, and the driver announced "here we are!"

I looked around at the gentle landscape and asked when we'd get to the mountains. They explained that we were smack dab in them. Apparently my youthful surprise overcame propriety, as I exclaimed "Mountains?? Where I'm from we farm flatland like this!"

They were not amused. Then again, that was back in the days when I'd taunt boast-ful Texans by telling them to pipe down, or we'd cut Alaska in two and make Texas the THIRD largest state!

I keep my mouth shut these days...some people have no sense of humor!

-=[ Grant ]=-

(Yes, I know the word for "tendency to boast" does not have a hyphen; the anti-bad word filter, for some reason, nixed it. Sheesh.)
 
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Typical mainstream 'reality junkie'

I for one, want to see the techniques & machinery that they use. I dont want any drama, that ruins a good show.

Agreed. I wish they would spend more time on technique and process. Kind of sucks when the guy revs up a saw, you see it touch the tree, then it falls over. All the details get blown past. I want them to say "We've got to drop these trees this way because....", then do it. "We've got to trim these blowovers and pull them up the hill, not just some random yarder shots.

Maybe that's what frustrating me, the randomness of it so far. Trying to get too many crews on one show. They should have run each show on two crews rather than 4, but I understand their trying for some continuity between shows for character development.

Mark
 
I didnt get to see the show, however, I did catch the last 10 mins of it, which seemed a lot like the ice road truckers type show, more drama, less action than there needs to be. Of course, we're not the majority of people that watch this type of show. They've got to cater to the masses. But, still, I want to see chips flying!
 
I believe I would have to give the one yarder op. a attitude adjustment. If someone had pitch a fitt like he did when the old tank got stuck then that would be his last day on my job. Doing work like that you don't need someone makeing everyone else misrable. If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem.

It is sometimes called A Riggin' Fit. It is a common occurrence. I grade them.
I won't give a perfect grade on a fit unless a hardhat gets thrown or flung on the gound. The most memorable one was the owner operator jumping up and down standing on the yarder sheathing swearing at the yarder engineer who needed to either set or release the brake. Pretty good form, but no hardhat throwing so no perfect score.:) Misery is a cherished memory later on.
 
I'm with the majority of y'all. They seem like they want to build up the characters through their interactions with each other rather than document what loggers do. I think if they had focused on the PBS audience (something like NOVA), they would have done a better job of editing the show for that type of focus. These shows are typically made by independent film companies and then sold to a network for broadcast. I.e., you have to appeal to the type of viewers that network has. Unfortunately, THC seems to think it needs to get some of the reality show demographic in. I will continue to watch, but I don't have high hopes for seeing a focus on the hard work these guys do. I expect alot more salty one-liners, running, jumping, sliding and crashing than I do safe logging practices. All the safe, technique stuff will be on the cutting room floor.

If I had to bet, someone is going to have to go to the hospital with that injury the previous yokel was carrying about. It will probably be one of the guys that they feature alot. I am not looking forward to that episode :monkey:
 
I was surprised at the end by the 'money out of the bush' that day. What was it $5,000? $8,000? for the entire crew plus a bunch of very expensive equipment. Didn't sound like they are getting rich.

Harry K

They're not. The only thing you can harvest in the mountains and make big money on will get you arrested.
 
It is sometimes called A Riggin' Fit. It is a common occurrence. I grade them.
I won't give a perfect grade on a fit unless a hardhat gets thrown or flung on the gound. The most memorable one was the owner operator jumping up and down standing on the yarder sheathing swearing at the yarder engineer who needed to either set or release the brake. Pretty good form, but no hardhat throwing so no perfect score.:) Misery is a cherished memory later on.

And don't forget extra points for drop kicking the hard hat...distance counts more than accuracy.
Also figure in bonus points for creative and original language. And volume.
 
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Keep in mind that is a 1-hour show. Just like "Deadliest Catch" this will probably take a couple of episodes to give the history of each logger, outfit, equipment, etc.. Then I'm sure they will make with the explanations of why they do things a certain way and the cool simulated videos of why directional-falling is important (much like those CGI's on "Deadliest Catch" showing crab migrations, terrain, etc...).

I thought it was hilarious when Jesse Browning stated that he's going to make his kids work their a$$es off. "They better be out on the block setting chokers, earning their own f**king keep." My gf & I both LOL'ed.
 
The only complaint I have with it is I would like to see less talk and more working I was looking forward to seeing some professional fallers dropping some trees. But it aint over yet I will be tuning in again next week. I really enjoy watching this kind of stuff the hard part is getting past the soap opera set up.

+1
 
Does anybody know any of these guys??? Thats my first question. I got news for ya, what they are doing my friends is the easy way of doing things... OMG. We've worked on alot of mountains like that. We'd take our skidders back and forth and go a little ways, then pull the logs little by little up to the clearings and the skidways. We deal with everything that they do out there here, but dang, we never had the nice equipment like they do... DAMN!!! This show rocks too!!!! Only thing, trekking through about 3+ feet of snow makes things a bit different here in the NE. I was cutting logs last week and couldn't believe how deep it was trying to get through. Snow was up to my waist in most places and trying to run was he(double hockey sticks)!!!!! Anybody else having this same problem in the NE??? Man it's been a rough year.

:cheers: eh?

Yep Cisco,

Same deal up my way. Been a tough one. Either big snow or scathing rain and too soft to work. Todays the first day we got back to work (6 hours) in about 2 weeks and tomorrow should be ok too only cause it's cold and solid enough. :clap: Got a good bit of wood landed that we need to get out of there.
 
I think there should be one *** OFFICIAL The History Channel: AxMen THREAD *** stickied somewhere.

All other new AxMen threads that are created will be met with everyone else typing the following:

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