Ax men

[Solo33]

Anybody else getting a kick out of the crew running the cable skidder? Sure way to tell its set up eh?

[Gearbox]

How about the guy who shoved a pole into the back window of the boss's pickup . AND DIDN'T GET FIRED .  Gearbox

[Jeff]

I quit watching that embarrassment a few years ago.

[Banjo picker]

me too.  Banjo

[redprospector]

The people on that show are the prostitutes of the timber industry (just my opinion).
They've sold out the integrity of the industry for a little fame (attention), and a little money.

[snowstorm]

i was told by someone that knows rygard  that they get a little over $500,000 a year to do the show

[snowstorm]

and that they really know what they are doing when they are not on tv

[scleigh]

You couldn't pay me enough to act like Gabe :

[redprospector]

i was told by someone that knows rygard  that they get a little over $500,000 a year to do the show

and that they really know what they are doing when they are not on tv

That just solidifies what I said. They're just half million dollar prostitutes. The problem I see is that they got half million for their integrity, and we lost a good part of ours too. I've had customers ask me if we were going to act like they do on Ax Men. My standard answer is; "Absolutely not!"

[terry f]

   Pure entertainment for the other 99%

[LittleJohn]

i was told by someone that knows rygard  that they get a little over $500,000 a year to do the show

I love how the "story" goes that they are barely making it by; yet every season, maybe every other season they all have NEW trucks, with big shiny rims, etc....

[Jhenderson]

Try explaining to a landowner that the tree their cutting on tv isn't  worth $3 grand.

[timberlinetree]

We don't have cable TV(the whole town) but every Christmas I get some sort of logging show. When our son has a problem with a chooker we call him brad from the show( the guy from cal. That was having trouble getting the hang of it)for fun. One of those shows everything was breaking down and that helped us feel like we don't have it that bad.
When these shows first popped up and got popular seemed like every time I wrote a check( timberline logging and tree was on it) people would start asking guestion. Now it's seems like they ask if we sell firewood. We'll have to see what Santa brings this year.

[Solo33]

I just recently started watching it again since I have dish now and heard there was a cable skidder crew. Needless to say I no longer watch it.

We don't have cable TV(the whole town) but every Christmas I get some sort of logging show. When our son has a problem with a chooker we call him brad from the show( the guy from cal. That was having trouble getting the hang of it)for fun. One of those shows everything was breaking down and that helped us feel like we don't have it that bad.
When these shows first popped up and got popular seemed like every time I wrote a check( timberline logging and tree was on it) people would start asking guestion. Now it's seems like they ask if we sell firewood. We'll have to see what Santa brings this year.

The couple shows I did watch does make a bad day in the woods feel not soo bad haha

[Al_Smith]

Like most so called "reality" shows it's highly scripted .

For crying out load if people acted like that the fight would be on .If those gaffers tried that yelling nonsense on a construction crew the whole bunch would pull the pin .I doubt loggers are much different than construction workers .

[Brad_bb]

It's too "Jerry Springer" for me.  It's a turnoff when you know it's phoney and scripted.  Initially I liked Airplane repo, but they quickly became so obvious about the setups.  "Reality shows"  are the least real thing out there...and I'd rather see real stuff and maybe learn something once in awhile.

[WH_Conley]

They are the same Al. I have been on both. Try yelling and cussing people like that somebody is going to pack a butt whipping.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

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