Forget Paul Bunyan. These are the real American originals! Working the remotest, least accessible tracts under every imaginable condition, their bottom line is measured in trees felled and days survived.

Logging in the Pacific Northwest is the most hazardous job in America, twenty-six times riskier than the average U.S. job and over 50% more dangerous than #2, commercial fisher.

In a thrilling series, The History Channel brings you the day-to-day lives of dedicated loggers in intimate and thrilling detail. Modeled after the blockbuster Ice Road Truckers show, this new series takes you deeper into the lives of the men who lay it all on the line for their jobs. Filmed on location (at great risk to the film crew itself) entirely in High Definition, Ax Men breaks new ground in getting close to the action. You’ll be ducking your head as logs swing by and wincing as entire trees crash onto the cameras!

Through the experiences of the veteran bosses and their crews — stalwart men like Dwayne Dethlefs, Jay Browning, and Darrell Holthusen — you’ll know the ceaseless exhaustion, thrilling triumph and relief of living another day that can only be felt after a stretch “pulling wood” out of the hills. You’ll learn the innumerable risks and great rewards awaiting the Ax Men.