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[narrator] Last Week...

Jared took on a mountain of debt for a chance at a lifelong dream.

The buyout has gone through.

All right.

[narrator] A logging business, all his own.

[Jared] I'm going to be able to do the things I want to do.

Go time, we gotta get that wood.

[narrator] While his seasoned team of fallers brave the backwoods for trees worth

upwards of $50,000.

[man] There she goes.

Oh yeah, baby.

Beautifully done.

Maybe not.

Oh, stay! Stay!

[narrator] But when a crucial piece of equipment went down...

[man] We're going to be down at least a week.

Are you serious?

That yarder, that's the lifeline of this place.

[bleep]

[narrator] He came up short on his timber quota.

Looks like we're going to be a little light today.

[Jared] I feel like I've made a mistake,

big time.

Buying out my business partner.

[narrator] Now, Jared is in desperate need of fast cash.

[Adrian] I got a 50-50 if it's going to work.

We're trying to run a 130-ton yarder on a five-gallon bucket of fuel.

[narrator] To keep top dollar trees rolling down from the forest...

Something's up.

-Wrong way, wrong way! -Oh [bleep]

Get outta there!

[narrator] And finance what could be the greatest gamble of his career.

-Look at that claw mark. -Wow.

[Jared] Welcome to hell, boys, this is it.

[upbeat music playing]

How's it feeling now to be a solo entrepreneur?

Now I can make my own decisions.

Logging by committee doesn't work, you gotta make decisions

-instantly, you know that. -Yeah.

-Freedom. -Freedom.

[narrator] Unfortunately for Jared, that freedom comes with a colossal $1.1 million debt.

Paid in full by the end of the season.

Or he'll lose the whole business.

[Jared] I was 18 years old, I started buffing logs.

Now, I've been in this business for 20 years.

With buying out my partner, I can do what I want, it's a great feeling

but I have an ultimate responsibility

to feed all my employees' families.

A lot of people rely on me.

I came from nothing and I want to build opportunities for my sons that I didn't have.

We picked up a couple of derelict yarders.

They'd been abandoned for the last five years

so I don't know what we're up for

but me and Adrian are gonna go take a look.

Survival of the dinosaurs, huh? [chuckles]

[narrator] Having come up more than $100,000 short of his goal last week,

if Jared could salvage the old yarders,

they could bring the kind of fast cash he desperately needs.

But he can't do it alone.

So he's bringing in one of the best bush mechanics in the business,

Adrian Bailey.

[bleep] beauty day today. Oh, heck yeah, it's perfect.

[chuckling] Open season.

I recently bought two yarders.

Altogether would be worth $60,000 in parts and pieces for me.

Right now I need cash flow.

Every drop in the bucket adds to the bucket being overfull.

[Jared] They look so good sitting there.

-[Adrian] They're beautiful. -They're ten days older than God.

[chuckling]

[Jared] Oh, I like the old stuff, it's like classic cars for me.

I like my logging equipment like I like my women,

30-plus years old with lots of issues.

[narrator] Capable of hauling nearly 50-tons,

Yarders are essential

for moving massive logs from the hillsides to the roads

but with both of these yarders

left for dead five-years ago,

there's no telling if they can bring them back to life.

-[Jared] We got our work cut out for us today, buddy. -Yeah.

[Adrian] Everything is junk until you need it.

The iron dinosaurs,

welcome to 1987.

[Jared] There's endless amounts of parts I can salvage off this thing.

First things first, so it is turboed?

[Adrian] I'll do the field assessment first.

[Jared] I didn't pay much for these yarders.

$10,000 apiece.

If we can get these to run, walk these on to a barge, and get them to our hub,

we'll be able to probably triple the money we paid for these things.

It's a gamble, it's pretty much putting your money in a slot machine

and pulling the lever.

[Adrian] I'll make a jump wire right to the starter

and then as soon as I hook up power from the welder

it'll just be cranking immediately.

[Jared] I'll go check out the exhaust and see if water could've entered it.

[narrator] Five years sitting out in the elements can do a lot of damage to any machine

so before they even attempt to start these yarders,

Jared and Adrian must first make sure they're fit to run.

[Adrian] Why do yoga when you can be a bush mechanic?

[Jared] Whisper sweet nothings in my ear, how does it look?

It looks perfect, Jared, it's gonna fire right up.

[Jared] How you stay so positive in such [bleep] environment?

I don't know. I think there's something wrong with me.

[Jared] Everybody loves Adrian. He has great attitude.

Kinda rare in heavy duty mechanics.

It would be nice to hold him down, shave his head, but...

Looking good, feeling good. Sun is out.

The only mechanic I know that worries about his hair more than...

...than anything else on the claim.

If I get my hair caught in this [bleep] hose, they're gonna get ripped out.

I'm gonna [bleep] rip it out with my teeth, you little [bleep], look at that.

[whistles] There's been an animal in here.

I chose the path of bush mechanic.

That comes with it's own sorta flavor of trouble.

Sometimes, you see me, I'm kinda...

...I'll flinch a little bit, you know what.

That's kept me alive.

I have eight fingers and two thumbs.

Ten toes and two eyes.

Because I'm prepared for anything.

Oh, watch yourself.

[grunts] Always nice when they leave the fuel cap off.

[Jared] Mother nature had a creek running through these things for five years.

This is what came out of the line. The white is water and the red is fuel.

Convoluted fuel systems so I have to wrap my head around exactly what's going on.

Bypass what I have to so we can run it out of a bucket.

We're trying run 130-tonne yarder on a five gallon bucket of fuel.

We have to make sure we have clean fluids and this machine will run and get on the barge.

And we cannot risk a breakdown on the barge ramp.

That'll be absolutely catastrophic.

How long do you think it'll run on five-gallons of diesel fuel?

[Adrian] We're gonna see.

[narrator] Across the inlet...

[Jim] Danger trees here.

[narrator] Jared's elite team of hand fallers are also hard at work.

Risking life and limb in terrain most loggers would run from

to harvest giant trees worth top dollar.

To get the business back on its feet,

Jared's counting on them to drop $75,000 worth of wood.

And if anyone can hit that kind of quota,

it's Jim Gardner, and his partner, Rob.

[Jim] These cedars are so nice.

I can see three trees that would easily

fill up probably two full logging trucks.

I'm kind of the person that likes to strive for excellence

and push myself as hard as I can.

You don't catch up put a set of earphones in

and drone out for the rest of the day.

You actually got to think about what you're doing. Plan ahead.

You have a certain amount of close calls, you're gonna have a serious accident.

You have a certain amount of serious accidents,

there's going to be a fatality and

you see a lot of dismemberment and death as a result.

My job's one of the most dangerous in the world.

What do we got going on?

It's about...

15-20 feet of what's called cat face, where you have rotten seams and

the bark corrects it by growing over top and trying and doing its best to fix it.

We've got a boss that's really itching to get this stuff out.

But I want a second set of eyes.

I want a second opinion, so I'll have two grab my partner

and try and get this done as quickly as we can.

-Hey, Rob. - Hello.

Hey, I got a couple of big ones.

I might have a problem with line.

You mind giving me a hand with this?

[Rob] Yeah, you betcha.

[Jim] I started falling eight years ago,

right when I had my 40th birthday,

I felt like I needed something bigger and better, and I took the leap.

Rob being such an experienced faller, it's nice to have that 15-20 years

experience behind me to help me out when I need it.

Hey, Rob, I got these two trees here.

A bit of a rot in this one.

See what you think about them.

[thudding]

[Rob] There's a little cat face in the back.

You might have some rot in the butt with that cat face.

This cedar here has got a bit of a cat face.

So if you have your undercut into the cat face,

you lose control of your directional fall.

But if you can go past the cat face into sound wood,

you can maintain control of the tree.

Is that where you're gonna put it, right here?

It's gonna put her as close to this way as I can.

[narrator] To bring this tree down in one piece,

Jim will have to cut into the cat face

through the rot to solid wood.

But if he's wrong about where the rod ends and the solid wood begins,

this giant could come crashing straight down on him.

[Jim] Rob's going to be my eyes and my ears.

He's going to be paying attention to the things that I don't catch.

Okay, good to go?

[Rob] Yup.

[saw buzzing]

I just wanted to make sure

you've seen that it might be limb tied with that thing.

Yeah, you might be right.

There might be more than a few branches in there.

[Rob] Just something to think about.

All right.

I can watch for you and yell.

Okay, yell out.

[narrator] A limb tie tree

means its branches are tangled with another one nearby.

When those two sets of branches are pulled apart,

they can easily rain down on the faller.

[Rob] Widow makers can be any hazard

that can kill a faller.

That's why they call it a Widowmaker.

You're working with thousands of pounds of timber.

It's not like you're just picking up sticks all day.

There's the potential of dying at any given day.

[Jim] There's definitely lots of close calls,

and my probably worst was a tree broke off prematurely.

I was on a rock knob.

I didn't know whether to run left or run right.

The best thing I could do is jump in a hole.

I jammed myself in that hole and this tree not only dragged down me,

I could feel it pulling me into the ground

and I dug my heels into the ground.

The last thing I could think of was concentrate because

this is what it's gonna be like to die.

I got back up, shook myself off,

cleaned out my underpants

and away I went back to work again.

It just goes to show that anything can happen.

[Rob] It's coming back this way, you might want to get back here.

[Jim] Something's up.

[Rob] [bleep] Wrong way, wrong way.

[bleep] Get out of there.

[whirring]

It's coming back this way.

[Jim] Something's up.

When a tree starts breaking off and goes in a different direction,

suddenly your awareness is going to go up.

[Rob] [bleep] Wrong way, wrong way.

[bleep] Get out of there!

[Jim] Oh, my God.

[narrator] Deep in the Pacific Northwest,

hand fallers, Jim and Rob have just a few short days

to take down $75,000 worth of timber.

That is if the timber doesn't take them down first.

[bleep]

Oh. Yowsers.

-[Jim] Broke off prematurely. -[Rob] Broke off early.

Yeah. [bleep]

That's disheartening.

That definitely didn't go as planned.

Huh.

[bleep] happens.

[bleep]

[bleep] happens.

It happens.

Yeah, but not to me, man.

-I'm always lucky. -If it was easy, anybody would do it.

I'm always lucky.

[laughing]

Hopefully, that survived.

Did it?

[narrator] The cedar may not have fallen as planned, but it's still in one piece.

-You want me to follow that one? -Hmm.

I want redemption now.

Okay. You follow that [bleep]

Flip!

What do you want me to do, boss?

[narrator] Back at Float Camp, Foreman Ross Davis

is in charge of getting every last log

down off the hill and ready for market.

So just push over here.

-Yeah. -Right on.

[narrator] Which, today, means putting in some much needed work on the water.

[Ross] We're getting plugged up with wood

inside the bullpen here. We're missing a boom man.

So Brent's gonna need a hand pulling this bag out

so we can make more room for more bundles and the loads are still coming.

So I'm gonna start pushing from behind for them and see if we can get this thing out.

I was gonna warn you about ramming bundles with this thing.

You put your head through the window, slow down before you hit them.

I've seen more guys put their heads through the windows of those things.

[Ross] All right, let's go push some [bleep] around.

[narrator] As log bundles pour in from the forest,

crewmen corral them into what are known as bags,

floating pens that will hold up to 50 bundles apiece.

And keep them from drifting away.

[narrator] With 360 degree steering and steel teeth for added bite,

a boom boat is the ultimate wrangler for floating logs.

And with two boats working in tandem, Ross and Brent make short work

of getting another 50 bundles to their final staging point.

Back at the splash zone, there's more work to be done.

[Ross] [bleep] me.

[narrator] An overweight bundle is bottomed out on the skid rail,

right in the way of incoming timber.

Try not to hit any rocks.

[Brent] Oh, that's going to be a pain to get out.

[bleep] horrible at driving this thing.

If we don't get this off, we're not gonna be able to dump.

[engine roaring]

We'll [bleep] get her.

Well, maybe not.

[engine revving]

Oh, well. It's going to be at a standstill now.

We've got one bundle down here.

Well, we could be just wasting our time.

[Adrian] [bleep] really?

[narrator] Across the inlet, Jared and Adrian are having issues of their own.

They've come to salvage a pair of old yarders that, together,

could be worth up to 60 grand.

[Jared] Beautiful.

[narrator] Money Jared desperately needs towards his $1.1 million debt.

But to rescue these iron giants from their remote graveyard

and cash in on their value, they need them both

to walk onto a barge for transport

and that is looking like a tall order.

[Jared] The yarders have been sitting here for so long,

and one of the fuel caps was left open.

So the fuel tank is full of water.

So we're gonna have to bypass the fuel tank.

Here's the juice, the fuel.

[Adrian] We'll have to take the lines off and run them into a pail,

that's the only clean fuel we can really get to it.

Should be enough to get it on and off a barge.

Fingers crossed.

Hopefully, I don't have hoses crossed.

Okay. She's got a fuel system.

It's kind of 50/50 if it's gonna work.

We'll see when we actually put power to it, what will happen.

When you're ready?

I'm ready.

-You ready? -Yeah.

Hold on.

All kinds of strange things can happen, especially on a machine

that's been sitting that you know nothing about.

It's a big machine. There's a lot of pressure,

there's a lot of torque and forces.

[Jared] Here we go.

[Adrian] Give her a bunch of those.

-No, it's not going. -It's kind of not good.

It's not good. It's a whole lot not good.

I popped the starter off and put a bar on the flywheel, and the engine is tight.

The seized engine is rusted.

Cylinders stops the pistons up.

The starter won't turn it.

Well, they're lubed up

the best they can.

We just got to let the oil sit and do it's thing.

I [bleep] up, didn't I?

-I shouldn't have [bleep] -This is a harder battle than I thought.

[Jared] Okay, let's go check on this other one.

This thing just screams problems to me.

It's like the bar. You can easily take the ugly ones home.

[Adrian chuckles]

This is good.

Oh, these things are just full of secrets.

Oh man, if these machines can tell stories.

[Jared] This one hasn't been telling much

of a story in the last five years.

Just drinking water, staying hydrated.

[Adrian] The good news is the exhaust was well sealed.

[Jared] Because of the way I grew up, I see value in everything.

My uncle makes a joke that he left his household

at a young age with the lint in his pocket,

and he knew I didn't have lint.

It makes me more resourceful because you plot and scheme

and you do what you can with what you have.

[Adrian] Oh [bleep] yeah, baby, she'll go.

Nice.

I think we can jam the starter in it.

-[Jared] Get it rolling over? -[Adrian] Get it rolling.

Like it turns over a little but a little means I can work it.

[bleep] Yes.

[Jared] Adrian's a mad scientist of mechanics.

He does good with the new, the old.

If Adrian can't get this thing going,

I don't know who else can.

[Adrian] I think she's ready to go.

Ready for action.

[engine sputtering]

[bleep]

Ready for action.

[engine sputtering]

[narrator] On the shores of the Pacific Northwest...

[Jared] Nice.

[Jared] Oh [bleep] yeah dude.

[narrator] Jared and bush mechanic Adrian fighting to revive

two old yarders worth 30 grand apiece.

We've got smoke.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

[engine starts]

[bleeping] Touchdown.

You ready?

Yeah.

Come on, baby.

Nice.

[Jared] One down and one more to go.

[Adrian] That's far enough.

[bleep]

I can't believe it.

[narrator] Back at float camp...

[motor whirs]

[bleep] get her.

[narrator] With an overweight bundle stuck on the skid ramp,

trucks can't dump another stick of timber until it's cleared.

[Ross] Really. He's got a broomstick there,

and he's going to give it a little bit of a push. It's stuck on the bottom.

You can't dump if we have bundles stuck in the bottom.

This job is different every day. It's challenging,

dealing with all the responsibilities.

Oh.

But I like to grow.

Brent shaking his head.

[Brent] Three ton boat, 90-ton fat truckload on bottom

what were you going to do?

David and Goliath buddy.

All right.

Brent came over with the horsepower dozer tried to yard this thing off.

Oh-oh.

Princess power.

Yeah!

[both laughing]

[Brent] Next time, don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

You gotta show off the big horsepower.

Huh-huh.

I'm glad that got out of the way.

Now, you got room to build more here, eh?

Yeah. I'll be back here this afternoon and close everything off.

So we gotta try to get as much volume as we can.

[Adrian] Come on, baby!

[narrator] Across the inlet with one old yarder now up and running,

Jared and Adrian have just one more to go.

And having let the engine soak in oil for several hours now,

it's time to see if she'll start.

-Ready? -Yeah.

[bleep]

Go ahead.

[Adrian] Yeah, yeah. Keep going.

It's spinning, it's just slow.

[bleep] thing.

[bleep] this [bleep] thing.

[Adrian] The pressure is on to get it going,

and it's definitely been a battle

more than I was anticipating.

So it's given me a run for my money.

[Jared] Adrian's determined to not give up.

I'm feeling kind of little, time to regroup and get some more parts.

But he's going to take one more shot at her.

I've got a lot of financial obligations right now

with buying somebody out comes of great debt.

In logging, if one thing goes wrong, your profit margin...

disappears. That's it.

[Adrian] I'll just quickly get a rope on the throttle and the shutoff.

So we can run them from where it's easy to get at.

[Jared] This has been a hillbilly

as hillbilly gets.

It's the name of the game, brother.

Let's do it.

-Okay. -Are we ready?

-I'm ready. -Please start. Please start.

Fire in the hole.

[engine sputtering]

He wants to go.

[bleep] yeah, she's gunnin', baby.

[Adrian] It's alive!

I knew she'd do it. Definitely a battle getting her running.

So I just hope she makes it on a barge and back off the other side.

[Jared] It's a big win, right?

But it's not on the barge.

We could have some issues getting it on a barge, still,

but hopefully it goes smooth.

Well, you did her, bud.

-This has been a fight. -I'm not gonna be happy until this thing's sailing away.

[Adrian] And then it's your problem.

[upbeat music playing]

Hmm. Wonder...

[narrator] Back in the woods near float camp,

Jim and Rob are pushing hard to get

$75,000 worth of timber on the ground.

But after nearly being crushed by the last tree,

Jim's looking to bring his next one down without incident.

[Jim] She's got a good lean to her.

Every tree is a reset and

my next tree is gonna go amazing. I know it already.

What do you think?

I'd say right across here, just into this.

[whistles]

That's your holding wood right there.

[clinking]

Yep, that's rock solid holding wood there,

straight through the cat face.

-Past this. -[Rob] But I would come right to here.

Even right to here.

[Jim] Rob's such a good faller that I've always just

strived myself to be like him, and you always have to have a partner.

But if bad things ever happen, if someone ever succumbed to an injury,

you're gonna have to have someone to rely on, that you trust absolutely.

Hell Rob, I think you just found the magic sequence of cuts.

Redemption is yours.

[both chuckle]

[narrator] Just like the last tree,

this one has a large cat face hiding rot, but it's also got a serious lean

that could pull it straight down on a nearby log.

And cause it to explode on impact.

To avoid that, Jim's face cut will point the tree in a safer direction.

If there's enough holding wood left among all the rot,

his back cut should finish the job.

All right, here we go.

[chain saw buzzing]

On the undercut,

it looked like there was going to be enough good wood.

It was going to be a pretty decent tree.

But and the back cut with the powder,

with the quickness of the cut, with the stability shift,

you could feel it start to go south.

Oh! [bleep]

Is it really going that way?

[bleep]

[chainsaw buzzing]

Oh [bleep]

Is it really going that way?

[bleep]

[narrator] In the forest above float camp,

the hits just keep on coming for fallers, Jim and Rob.

Well, [bleep] all you can do with that.

It didn't go where it was pointed.

[narrator] Despite their best efforts to steer this tree from a hard landing,

it's come straight down and exploded on another log.

[Rob] There's not really a whole lot of good wood here eh.

[Jim] There's no wood there.

None.

We found a camera.

Holy [bleep]

That shows right there how much force

and weight there is in that tree.

It drove it right into the wood of the stump.

[bleep]

I don't think that's good for much anymore.

Sorry, guys. I didn't do it.

[laughs raucously]

We can just go behind it, nice and low.

Yeah, that's nice stuff.

[narrator] While Jared's old yarders await the arrival of their barge,

he's heading even deeper into the wild.

To scout what could be a whole new venture.

Up a winding waterway known as Grizzly River

lies an abandoned camp that hasn't seen a logger in years.

But if Jared finds big trees out here,

he might just set up shop.

Welcome to hell, boys. This is it. Oh...

Lots of old gear left here.

Last guy that operated in Grizzly River,

the woods got him. He went broke.

-Black mold. Yeah. -You paint over that.

If you were running from the law, you could live here.

[narrator] It's not the camp or its remote location that make this place so daunting.

It's Grizzly River itself.

Fifteen miles of twisted banks, logjams, and tidal currents.

Jared would have to navigate to get his timber to market.

That is, if the timber he's after is even here.

Sure.

[narrator] So before making any big moves,

Jared and one of his foremen, Dave,

need to have a look around.

Going in the hole. Another $600,000 to get this camp started is a big risk.

If I don't find big trees, it's just not worth it.

-[Jared] Look at the roads, there's sand, not rock. -[Dave] Yeah.

Rock slides and bear caves everywhere out here.

[Jared] Three years ago, a bear got in through the roof,

fell down into the kitchen when people were eating.

Ohh.

We can go for a little hike in the woods here.

[gun cocking]

[Dave] There's bear trail all through here.

[shouting]

[Dave] I guarantee something's watching us right now.

Look at that claw mark on that tree.

Wow.

-Grizzly bears in here stand nine to ten feet tall. -I know.

Starting to get that feeling that we're in Jurassic Park and we're getting stalked.

Look at this.

Wow. Look at them all.

Great big cedar. Giant wood in here.

There's a couple of nice, big ones here.

This is a good eight foot tree.

Yeah, it's beautiful.

I didn't know this was here, this is amazing.

[Dave] This is incredible.

This is why we came in the middle of nowhere.

There's something crunching in the distance there, dude.

Something snapping in the distance over there to there.

-Do you hear it? -Yeah.

Let's get out of here.

[narrator] For Jared, the sheer cost of reopening this camp would raise his debt

from $1.1 million to $1.7 million.

And there's still the question of how to get

any of this timber down Grizzly River.

Well, we definitely found some big wood, JD.

-We did. Cheers, buddy. -Cheers. [bleep] Yeah.

[Jared] It's a big risk,

but it's got some really big, nice, profitable timber.

So we're going to go for it.

Sometimes the only way to survive

is to take on more, and that's what I'm gonna do.

You can't dig yourself out with a tablespoon.

[cheering]

[narrator] Meanwhile, over a hundred miles away...

[Jim] I got a big cedar.

[narrator] ... Jim and Rob are pushing hard

to put $75,000 worth of timber toward Jared's now growing debt.

The cedar is probably about seven feet in diameter,

maybe 120 feet tall.

-It's a beauty. -That's a legal boundary over there, too, isn't it?

On that side over there.

[Rob] There are a lot of ecologically

sensitive areas, parks, fish creeks, swamps.

You get fined if you go against what they've approved.

[Rob] What's your plan?

[Jim] I would push this one. Think it'll carry it with it?

Big one into this.

[Rob] I think so.

Just you saying to push it over makes me want to push it over.

Push her, then.

-Yeah. Let's do that. -Okay.

[narrator] To keep this cedar inbounds and in one piece,

Jim will use a smaller tree nearby to ease it down in the right direction.

First, he'll make an undercut in the smaller trees.

Then he'll do the same to the big cedar.

Next, he'll return to the smaller tree

for a back cut and race back to the big one for the final blow.

If both these trees come out undamaged,

Jim and Rob will have met their quota.

Fuel up and get at her.

[narrator] But if they miss, the fine could be up to a $100,000.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[Rob] Now that he's got the undercut in the smaller tree out front,

he's going to go back and put an undercut in the bigger push tree.

Deadly.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[Jim] Falling is just like chess.

You can't just jump in there and start falling trees

or you go get yourself into a jam right away.

The planning is a big part.

The whole forest is a puzzle.

[creaking]

-[Kandace] He looks like a Teletubby. -[bleep]

Man overboard drills are important because this water is cold enough to

put you into a hypothermic state pretty quickly.

So our goal is to have him packed up in that 15-20 minute mark.

And that will make sure that he gets to the hospital in the golden hour.

We got a man overboard here in cleat D.

So we'll need a boat and first aid.

[Kandace] The golden hour is the first hour after an incident

if we can get them to the hospital in that hour,

your chances of survival are gonna be much better.

[narrator] Deep in the remote backcountry,

fallers, Jim and Rob are just two trees away from dropping $75,000 worth of timber.

All in one fell swoop.

But only if both trees come out unscathed,

neither of them cross into a protected area where fines can reach up to $100,000.

It's going, Jim. Get back.

Perfect.

Yeah! Whoo!

Bam, baby!

[Rob] Nicely done, Jim.

The push tree went perfect.

Everything went exactly where Jim had planned for it to go,

and nothing went into the ecologically sensitive area.

That's an easy seven footer. Excellent.

Jim saved it right out.

Two of us overcame this together and we had the exact results we wanted.

[bleep] That's a nice piece of wood.

[narrator] With that, Jim and Rob have more than met the quota Jared gave them,

but he won't see a dime for these trees until they're

loaded on the next barge in two weeks' time.

Until then, Jim and Rob will keep doing what they do best.

[Jim] Work harder, not smarter.

-[Rob] [bleep] great. -[chuckling]

Go time. There's the barge.

[narrator] Across the inlet,

it's moving day for the two yarders Jared set out to salvage.

But before he can haul them off to his shop on the mainland,

these 60-ton beasts will have to be barged out one at a time.

[Adrian] It is a barge day, I guess the adrenaline's pumping, for sure.

I had an extra coffee this morning to make sure I was on my toes.

[Jared] We only got minutes to make this happen,

running on a bucket.

[Adrian] Here we go.

[Jared] This is a haywire, Hail Mary, ninth inning,

the bases are loaded,

risk that we're taking, and I don't like it.

[dramatic music playing]

Whoa, whoa.

[bleep] man.

Oh.

Whoo!

[horn honks]

That was sketchy, getting it off is gonna be even funner.

-[Jared] One hour. -[Adrian] Yeah.

[Jared] There's the barge.

The tide's on its way down. Ah, [bleep]

[Jared] We gotta act fast.

We might have miscalculated everything here.

This isn't going to be good.

[engine sputtering]

[Jared] I'm gonna try to turn a bit.

It won't swing. I think it's because the torque is not working.

I'm gonna have to back it off.

I can't see.

[Jared] Here we go.

This is in the handbooks, "What you don't do."

I'm gonna flip this [bleep] thing right into the beach.

This is probably a good, solid 8 to 8.5 on the Richter scale of disaster

that could happen.

Oh, man.

Wow.

Feels like it's going to tip.

[bleep]

[bleep] yeah!

-Whoo! -Good job!

Well, we did her.

-Hell, yeah, man. -That was spooky coming off there.

I was wondering if it was going to run out of fuel on the way up.

Oh, man, I was getting puckered up when you're [bleep] around.

I didn't like that. It didn't feel right in the cab.

[Jared] I initially thought I would get $60,000 for these yarders,

and it's looking like I'm going to get there.

No risk, no reward.

[narrator] After rolling the dice on Grizzly River,

Jared's debt now stands at a whopping $1.7 million.

Thanks to these old yarders, he's now one step closer

to making his goal.

[Jared] I have a lot of good crew and a lot of families I support,

so I need to carry on.

There's no giving up in us.

There's no quit.

The Grizzly River poses the most challenges

I've ever seen in a logging operation.

The last three guys went broke up here.

I'll be fine.

Oh, God no, blood stain.

If we hold up that truck, we could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

God, we are shut down!

This is [bleep] bad.