Wash state: 'Ax Men' crew salvaged logs illegally

SEATTLE — The state Department of Natural Resources has seized more than two dozen logs it says a timber crew featured on the History Channel's reality show 'Ax Men' salvaged illegally.

DNR chief enforcement officer Larry Raedel says officers served a search warrant Friday on S&S Aqua Logging to retrieve timber the company had pulled from the Hoquiam River.

Raedel says the company didn't have a permit to salvage those logs, and DNR officer were tipped off after watching the show.

Calls to the company were not immediately returned. The company is one of several timber crews featured in the second season of "Ax Men."

OHMYGAWD.

I only just tonight caught a re-run of the guys you were talking about. I was prepared to cut them some slack... but wow, those “aqua logging” guys are a catastrophe.

First, they’ve got no business being on the water. He clearly knows nothing about driving boats, especially in rivers. He’s gonna get people killed. Next, he’s got homebuilt equipment that just isn’t close to what he needs for that kind of work.

That “winch” has what looks like polypro line for most of it, though it also looks like a few different lengths of different kinds of rope have been tied together... wrong way to do it. That stuff will break and snap back something furious. Those logs outweigh him and his gear by many, many tons.

But more than anything they just don’t know what they are doing. It looks like he doesn’t even have a plan for what to do when he gets a log rigged up.

Yikes... He’s going to lose that boat and whoever is on it. But at least they’ll catch it all on video.

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