[AT] Swamp loggers

Richard Strobel Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com
Tue Jan 19 19:54:21 PST 2010


Hear  ya Charlie..  way over dramatized IMO.

RickinMt.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers


> To me Ax Men is nothing more than a TV show.  I see very little reality in
> it and can barely stand to watch it.  Having worked for many years in
> construction and other dangerous jobs I'm sensitive to some of the crap 
> they
> pull on that show.  If I was running that crew I'd have to fire about half
> of them and if I worked on that crew I think I'd have to quit.  To much
> un-necessary dangerous stuff going on to suit me.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Meulenberg" <msm10301 at juno.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers
>
>
> > Yes it was Ax Men
> >
> > ---------- Original Message ----------
> > From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:25:45 -0500
> >
> > Mike that was on Ax Men right?
> >
> > Charlie
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Mike Meulenberg" <msm10301 at juno.com>
> > To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers
> >
> >
> >> What cracked me up the other night was how they were training the
> >> "greenhorns". This kid was a hard worker,and needed the job. His
> >> assignment was to unhook the cables from the logs after they were 
> >> brought
> >> up the hill. The owner was running the crane and his son was "teaching"
> >> the rookie. Well the logs barely touched down and the son was hollering
> >> to
> >> hurry up go, go, go, like 5 seconds was going to make or break the
> >> company. So on the next turn the rookie runs in there to unhook the
> >> cables
> >> too soon and a log about takes his head off, which of course infuriated
> >> both father and son. Geeese, the kid couldn't win. Mike M
> >>
> >> ---------- Original Message ----------
> >> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> >> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> >> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:52:58 -0500
> >>
> >> Yeah I think maybe that was Ax Men.  Swamp Loggers has it's share of 
> >> over
> >> hyped drama but to my knowledge the work they show is real and shown in
> >> real
> >> time.
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: <toma at risingnet.net>
> >> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:44 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers
> >>
> >>
> >>> Quoting charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> Tom what in the show was speeded up?  I didn't notice.  Either I 
> >>>> didn't
> >>>> think it was speeded up or it was so obvious that they were "fast
> >>>> forwarding" that I understood why.  Either way I don't remember it
> >>>> being
> >>>> out
> >>>> of line on the Swamp Loggers show.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> It has been a while since I saw it. I thought it was Swamp Loggers,
> >>> maybe AX Men. It was on the old dish we had , this dish we have now I
> >>> can't find anything.
> >>>
> >>> They were always racing the clock, Most of the machine footage was
> >>> shown in unrealistic fast motion. It is not a matter of only having
> >>> limitted time. They showed the same scenes over and over again.
> >>>
> >>> The one I would like to see is the Alcan Highway, I have never seen
> >>> the whole thing. There are scenes of D4 and D8 Cats working.
> >>>
> >>> Tomy
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