"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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Saw an episode of Axmen yesterday on the History Channel.
Sure better than their UFO and Bigfoot crap.
There's this guy who pulls sunken logs and the episode showed
him launching a barge-like boat from a dock into a river with good
current. Washington state somewhere.
First the engine dies right off - a 50hp Johnson I think.
He starts yelling at the whoever let the line from the dock loose and
completely lost his wits. Boat starts hitting the piles while he's
running around the barge bitching like a nervous Nelly.
Then a bit later there's the barge pilothouse hitting a bridge in the
river. Think it knocked it off but they cut the film.
Then when they get close to the log they're after the old guy doing
the diving to tie the log to the winch rope gets in the water.
He's huffing and puffing like a seal against the current and got about
10 feet from the boat before turning back because the current was too
strong.
I was laughing my ass off watching these guys.
Reminds me of some boat ramp scenes I've heard about.
They did get the log though.
It's a wonder more of these loggers don't get killed, especially
when they start boating. You probably don't want a logger driving
your boat. Sure as hell don't want one in charge of safety.

--Vic

I saw that episode, too. It's father/son. The father says he's glad the
son is there because he thinks the part of his brain that senses fear was
left in his mom's womb. He's right. He's an idiot, but a dangerous idiot.
I'd be scared to be on the same body of water with him. He does get the
log, though.

I was a commercial diver for six years, and a scuba diver six years before
that. That man is going to kill someone, or cause someone to be killed.
It's that simple. He's got a diver in his operation, but we'll see how long
that lasts.

Man, oh, man. Why can't "regular" people go to Hollywood and pitch ideas?
I can think of a dozen better premises for shows that a lot of this crap.
Shoot, anyone could just go set up at a busy boat ramp and take videos and
make a lot of money. Just make the faces fuzzy like they do. There's some
funny stuff goes on at boat ramps.

And a lot of true stories about my family and in-laws are a damn more
interesting, funny, tragic, and sick than a lot of those the overpaid
writers come up with. Kinda a cross between Jeff Foxworthy and Ozzie
Osbourne. And Lassie.

Steve