
Ax Men
Rygaard Logging races to complete four settings and three yarder moves in a single day.

Rygaard Logging races to complete four settings and three yarder moves in a single day.

Rygaard's greenhorn faces his fears when he must climb a 100-foot tree.

Though the battle has just begun, men are already bowing out of the race.

Loggers race to cut the most timber during the most dangerous season of the year.

Men of logging companies work in dangerous conditions in Oregon.

Jason Rygaard races to clear a hillside; Jay R Harkness fights to control the untethered Tigercat.

Jason Rygaard fights the weather; Danny Pihl and his crew drop 250-foot, old-growth cedars.

Rygaard Logging races to complete four settings and three yarder moves in a single day.

Danny Pihl relies on the experience of veteran cutters Dwayne and Chuck.

Frank Harkness is caught in a whiteout while moving the excavator on a mountainside logging road.

Rygaard Logging fights to fix a crooked skyline, crossing a deep valley on their longest road yet.

Danny Pihl gambles on horsepower.

Brandon Harkness fights his way up a mountainside; Mike Pihl get his yarder lodged between trees.

Jason Rygaard faces his biggest test as the new boss; the Harkness crew battles winter storms.

Frank Harkness makes a name for himself; Billy Ray risks his life to keep other people safe.

Danny Pihl relies on the experience of veteran cutters Dwayne and Chuck.

Frank Harkness is caught in a whiteout while moving the excavator on a mountainside logging road.

Rygaard Logging fights to fix a crooked skyline, crossing a deep valley on their longest road yet.

Danny Pihl gambles on horsepower.

Brandon Harkness fights his way up a mountainside; Mike Pihl get his yarder lodged between trees.