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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.