[GranTorino]

I watched the show for the first time yesterday at mom's. My first thought was these guys give rural people a bad name. My second was one of these guys is going to get killed. I guess I was right. I worked in the logging and tree care industry for 20 years. I don't see how they get away with the unsafe crap they pull for the camera. OSHA should be up thier a*s. They are lucky more haven't got killed. Gives the industry a bad name.

[BerryDingle]

I don't see how they get away with the unsafe crap they pull for the camera.

The Guist brothers just hunt and fish on that show.

[discostu]

I think you were watching axmen not swamp people. Nobody in swamp people does anything more interesting with trees than tying line to them. There is a guy in the swamps on axmen, and he’s crazy, but mostly works alone so OSHA will never get him. Most of the really “dangerous” stuff on axmen is minor accidents with good editing to make it look scary, like when Alice Cooper gets beheaded.

[Johnny_cash]

"I watched the show for the first time yesterday at mom's. My first thought was these guys give rural people a bad name. My second was one of these guys is going to get killed. I guess I was right. I worked in the logging and tree care industry for 20 years. I don't see how they get away with the unsafe crap they pull for the camera. OSHA should be up thier a*s. They are lucky more haven't got killed. Gives the industry a bad name."

Well I could not disagree with you more!

I my self envy the way they live and if I had the chance I would take that type of living any day.

I grew up hunting and fishing in NW PA and except for the critters they hunt compared to what I hunt not much different just more teeth.

They don't need no stinking OSHA!!!

OH and what industry gets the bad name?

I have ate road kill before.

Really.

[TexasCajun]

OSHA should be up thier a*s.

Spoken like a real liberal there.

Sic the govment on dem boyz.

I think you got these brothers confused with Uncle Shelby of AX Men and those two crews in Florida, also in Ax Men.

[cva66snipe]

The only logging the brothers did on TV was for their own use to repair their porch. That said they had far more smarts and know how than most likely gave them credit for. Living off the land is not an easy life as one might think. But he got to live the life he enjoyed. Many don’t get the chance to be as free as the brother are.

[Hot Tabasco]

I don't see how they get away with the unsafe crap they pull for the camera

I liked that program for a while but the more I watched it and studied the different camera angles, especially those underwater scenes designed to add drama, I've come to the conclusion that most of it is just that, hollywood created drama.