Author Topic: Ax Men makes me want to puke (Read 21782 times)

madmari · « **Reply #240 on:** January 12, 2012, 06:47:05 pm »

What is the logging "season"? They always talk about load count competition from one outfit to another.
I work year-round; there is no season. As far as load counts, how can you compare that with different geography, wood quality, equipment, etc?
The tease for next week is Gabe dropping a tree on a truck with a misdirected felling. He then goes into a hissy-fit of epic proportions, on camera obviously,smashing a thousand dollar saw repeatadley.
Wooodbiscuit.......Now I have to watch.
There is also the threat of showing a New Hampshire outfit. That may keep me watching. I'dlike to see a cable skidder/chainsaw team working in -10 weather. Maybe I could learn something.
I have learned that I have no desire to visit the swamps of Louisianna- a man could get shot there in boat-by shooting.....

LOGDOG · « **Reply #241 on:** January 12, 2012, 08:40:04 pm »

Trust me ...you won't miss a thing by never visiting the swamps of Louisiana.

isawlogs · « **Reply #242 on:** January 12, 2012, 09:19:14 pm »

I like visiting them throught the tv, aint to sure about riding around them for real.

WDH · « **Reply #243 on:** January 12, 2012, 09:41:49 pm »

The season here is all year. It is also all year on the West Coast because the Loggers that cut for my Company harvest all year. The "season" is just a figment of the TV show.

Bogue Chitto · « **Reply #244 on:** January 13, 2012, 02:45:24 am »

I live in Louisiana and these idiots make us look bad. You can't run a business like these fellas do fighting and cursing each other out all day long. This is all scripted, scripted, scripted!!!!

LeeB · « **Reply #245 on:** January 13, 2012, 08:20:21 am »

The oilfield one that was called Black Gold was just as horrendous as the logging shows. Maybe a little bit of the show was true to history from when I first started in the late 70's, but those days are long gone.

Paul_H · « **Reply #246 on:** January 13, 2012, 10:05:37 am »

There is a season many places on the coast,just inland unless the companies chart area has good areas for winter logging shows.Our season was mid March through Nov-Dec depending on weather.
We were taking the equipment off the hill one year in the Pemberton area and the tank drill threw a track so we moved it into the ditch side of the road(steep) and couldn't get back until late May.The heavy gauge hood over the compressor and engine was bent like an old swayback horse and there was still 7' of hard packed snow in the shadows.
Our chart area just an hour and a half South was clear through most of the winter but we didn't always have clear blocks available.

Steveo · « **Reply #247 on:** January 14, 2012, 10:33:45 am »

Quote from: beenthere on March 03, 2009, 02:31:07 pm

PS I turned the sound off and enjoyed the rest of the show scenery, equipment, and logging.

. I don't watch much tv, and very little to no reality tv, and had never heard of this show. However, being new to this forum, I did recently read parts of this thread as my introduction to this show.

Last night, my family went to a new Indian restaurant in our area, and Ax Men for some reason was on their tv (with the sound off). Even with the sound off, it was quite clear that it was poor, over-dramatic show. I just caught the end and people were fighting and choking each other, and involved in all sorts of non-logging activities. I had to laugh out loud when I realized that it was the show that I had just read about.

I will have to watch it (or American Loggers) sometime with the sound on, to see the scenery and to see what you guys really do (in the rare minutes that they allow between the drama).

Cheers
Steve

Bogue Chitto · « **Reply #248 on:** February 19, 2012, 09:38:26 pm »

Sitting here watching Ax Men and Shelby is trying to cut down a rotten cypress. He is using his 44 mag as a wedge. How can this man stay alive working this way? I know it is all show but he is a IDIOT!!!

Jeff · « **Reply #249 on:** February 19, 2012, 09:46:57 pm »

For you Ax men fans, we have one of Melvin Lardy's stumpbranch logging hats in the forestry forum auctions right now. You could win it and pretend yer one of the guys.

Buck · « **Reply #250 on:** February 19, 2012, 10:38:10 pm »

dont wanna be associated with any of em $:-\$

Migal · « **Reply #251 on:** February 19, 2012, 11:26:28 pm »

Dang I thought this was my competition !!!

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #252 on:** February 20, 2012, 05:06:46 am »

Where I worked on the Charlottes there was a chance of a blizzard right around Christmas time and often the camp was shut down for 2 or 3 days and soon the snow was all gone again and it was like spring time the rest of the winter.

thecfarm · « **Reply #253 on:** February 20, 2012, 07:13:01 am »

I did watch it a few Sundays ago just to see the Swamp Buggy!! I like that rig.I see the Father and son still don't know nothing. The Son is dumb enough to put up with the abuse from his Father. I could treat that poor kid alot better. I call him a kid because he don't have the get up and go to go find a real job and get away from his so called Father. I recognized a few others. Some just don't change.

bedway · « **Reply #254 on:** February 20, 2012, 09:07:54 am »

While channel surfing last night i watched about two minutes of ax men. Way back when we were all looking forward to this show with much anticipation little did we know how bad it would evolve. With all the contrived drama and every other wood having to be bleeped i havent a clue how it stays on the air.

Rocky_Ranger · « **Reply #255 on:** February 20, 2012, 10:11:29 am »

It's just an entertainment ploy; can you imagine how stinking boring it would be for the general public to watch loggers? You and I would be glued to the set, but most folks would surf off into "The Simpsons" or "Hoarders" or some other reality smack. I find Shelby at least entertaining from a "redneck" perspective - I am one so I can say that

lumberjack48 · « **Reply #256 on:** February 20, 2012, 12:49:57 pm »

I have to say Shelby is quite the timber feller, BANG-BANG, then used the gun for a wedge, he got it down, hes very entertaining.

I went to work on a yarder in Montana in 66, i was running chockers. They ran it about the same way as these guys on tv. The guy with the beeper didn't wait on till i was out of the way, i ran my butt off. I was the new guy they thought it was funny, i worked two days, then told them where to put their job.

Paul_H · « **Reply #257 on:** February 20, 2012, 01:58:02 pm »

Quote from: lumberjack48 on February 20, 2012, 12:49:57 pm

The guy with the beeper didn't wait on till i was out of the way, i ran my butt off. I was the new guy they thought it was funny, i worked two days, then told them where to put their job.

I worked for a guy like that in 82 that would blow the whistle and say "run or die" to the last man out of the turn.He could take what he dished out and I learned a lot from him and he taught me how rigging backspars.

Jeff · « **Reply #258 on:** February 20, 2012, 02:08:56 pm »

Sounds like it would suck to be slow eh?

Paul_H · « **Reply #259 on:** February 20, 2012, 02:19:27 pm »

Indeed.

What I didn't like about that job was I was the youngest by 10 years and conversation in the crummy and at lunch revolved around mortgages and bank rates and dirty diapers.Not very stimulating for a 20 year old.
The good part was the teaching and discipline learned from working alongside them.The older guys were early 60's.

The fastest rig up we had with the 90' Madill was 45 minutes from the time we dropped the pad til the spar tree was standing and rigging in the air.Jay had already notched the stumps so we just had to run the strawline and guylines out.

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