Original subtitles

Jared, you're smoking.

[Adrian] [bleep], bull [bleep].

[bleep].

[bleep].

[narrator] Coming up, after hemorrhaging money all season,

Jared has only one option left.

It's like one thing after another. You just can't win.

[narrator] Cash in at Grizzly River or fold up shop for good.

[Jared] I'm already stretched to the limit.

Everything has to go right, or I could lose my business.

[narrator] But earning a paycheck here

is not for your average logger.

[Jeff] Starting to pinch you there?

[narrator] It takes unmatched mettle to stare down death...

[Chris] Run! Run.

[narrator] ...pure tenacity to power through production...

[Adrian] I think we got her.

[bleep], yeah.

[narrator] ...and sheer will to deliver wood

from the furthest reaches of the wild.

[Dave] Batten the hatches and put on a smile.

We're going river booming, boys.

[howls]

[Jared] This season, I finally bought out my business partner

and I'm finally the master of my own destiny.

[narrator] Jared Douglas may be the master of his own destiny,

but he's also in a bind.

-[man] We're down. What do we do? -Okay.

[Jared] We need to get this problem solved right now.

[narrator] After taking out a seven figure loan

and spending a small fortune on a second logging venture...

Welcome to hell, boys, this is it.

[narrator] ...he's a full $1.7 million in the red.

[Jared] I need to get wood down that [bleep] river,

or I ain't getting a paycheck.

This is ridiculous.

-[Jeff] Oh! -[wood creaking]

[Jared] This is the most stress that I've ever endured.

[narrator] Now, he's looking to his Grizzly River operation

to make up lost ground.

[Jared] If I don't get paid, I can't pay my people

and I'm gonna lose my business.

That's my worst fear.

[narrator] Before Jared can turn a dime

on any of the timber harvested here,

foreman Dave Lornie and boom boat operator Leon Gad

will first have to sort out how to get load one safely

down the gauntlets of Grizzly River,

to a staging ground called Potato Point.

[Dave] How do we get back to here?

We gotta come back and then--

-[Leon] We gotta go like this, go around that shoal... -Yeah, shoal.

-And then-- Yep. -[Leon] ...and then in.

-Because there's an-- Yeah. -We have to miss that shoal though.

I'm super lucky to have Leon on the crew here.

Now he's got, like,

two decades of experience on the marine side of things.

[narrator] To get these logs to market,

they'll have to secure them to Leon's boat

and weave a path down the obstacle-filled waters

of Grizzly River.

Survive that,

and they'll still need to dodge the shifting sands of the shoals

before they're in the clear.

[howls]

[radio beeps]

Radio check, Leon?

-[radio beeps] -Got you, Dave.

[Dave] We have about two-and-a-half hours to go down and back up,

or we're gonna have to spend 12 hours down at Potato Point, freezing overnight.

-[over radio] Push it alongside. -Roger.

[narrator] For their first run,

they're taking almost $200,000 worth of wood,

all carefully lashed together to avoid any stragglers.

[Dave] The first part of this process,

we wanna open up the bag a little bit before the high tide

and the flow of the river will take these bundles

three quarters of the way down.

Gives us time to close the bag back up.

Success!

Right now, Dave's hooking up to the sticks

and we're gonna try to close this bag back up.

We're letting the booms snake down the river

and we'll come back and catch up to 'em.

I'm just hoping this goes well.

[Dave grunts]

I'm so stressed out right now.

Every minute that we're wasting trying to close this bag

is another minute that those logs are getting farther down the river

and could get hung up or we lose bundles

and it's gonna cost us money and cost us time.

Hopefully, we just catch her together in the next five minutes

and we'll start, uh, following the wood down.

[Leon] Come on.

[Dave] Nope.

Just tell me if I'm in your way, bud.

[Leon] [bleep], I can't breathe.

Yeah, baby!

There he goes, he got it, atta boy, Leon.

I'm really hoping we can catch these logs,

'cause we're gonna lose our tide.

Batten the hatches and put on a smile.

We're going river booming, boys.

[Jared] Nice day for a boat ride. Beautiful.

Liquid sunshine.

[narrator] Not far away,

Jared's also on a mission

to keep the wood at Grizzly River moving toward market,

which at the moment means replacing a heavy hauler

that brings it down off the mountain.

We had a Fat Truck go down,

and we're not splashing any wood right now.

So, this is a big problem.

I got a tentative deal on a Fat Truck.

They're hard to find and they're very expensive.

You're gonna spend a bunch of money on antiquated logging gear,

you wanna come and put your hands on it.

So, I'm gonna check 'em out myself.

[narrator] Able to haul more than three times the weight of an 18-wheeler,

Fat Trucks are the workhorses of backwoods logging.

And with just one of them down,

Jared will lose more than $40,000 worth of wood a day

until it's replaced.

This business is tough and I mean, like, really tough.

More people have failed than made it.

The costs are so high,

a lot of things can go wrong in this industry,

and, uh, it can put you out of business.

You see everywhere, these old remote locations

where people are just packing up and leaving everything.

Like, just done.

No major oil leaks.

This is, uh, for its age, super good equipment.

No broken springs.

Now the tale of the tape, will she start?

-[engine rumbles] -[vehicle beeps]

[Jared] Sounds really good.

Compressor is working really good.

-[horn honks] -Horn works.

All in all, this is a beautiful truck.

1979. Still working.

Let's get back to work and haul some logs.

I'm really excited about this truck.

[Chris] Oh, you wanna go above or along the edge here?

[Jeff] Uh, well, best place you can find one.

[narrator] High above Grizzly camp,

it's all hands on deck

to keep money trees moving off the mountain

and down to the river...

[Jeff] So, let's follow this boundary and see what we got.

[narrator] ...which for hand fallers, Chris Hirsch and Jeff Logan

means climbing to the top of their world

in search of the most valuable timber they can reach.

[Jeff] Welcome to the jungle.

[bleep] hiking.

It's actually not bad going compared to, you know,

I think the worst part's getting in here.

-[Chris] Would you look at that one? -[Jeff] Oh, yeah.

[Chris] This is real dandy.

[Jeff] From this side, it looks like it's leaning

way down the hill the other way.

[Chris] Yeah, exactly.

An optical illusion, man.

The way it twists,

and there's, like, a bigger side

and a few different marms that hang off of the top there.

[Jeff] Yeah, oh, yeah, for sure.

[Chris] Kinda looks like...

What way does the weight lean,

because of the twist in it,

it's gonna probably do what it wants to do.

[Jeff] Yeah.

[Chris] I just don't wanna get stuck in it.

[Jeff] Knock on wood?

The main challenge of this one is getting this undercut in

without getting my saw stuck in the tree

just because it's got such a heavy lean

and it'll have so much downward pressure off that front side.

Hopefully, to keep this one somewhat side hill.

If I can keep it above this stump down here,

it would be the best.

But we can only do so much with some of these big guys,

so we'll see if I can keep it most side hill I can.

And then, that push tree over there if I need it.

Always good to have a good backup plan, right?

It certainly is. Even two.

[narrator] On terrain this steep,

a twisted tree like this one could easily spiral off its stump,

and careen straight down the hill.

Chris's only option is to aim the undercut across the side hill,

and keep it shallow to preserve the holding wood.

Then, he'll move to the back cut

and hope he still has enough wood left

to keep the tree under control.

[Chris] Pitter-patter, let's get at her.

[chainsaw buzzes]

I get put out in the steeper settings,

and it definitely challenges my skills.

You're not just out there

doing an undercut and a back cut.

You're thinking about every possible scenario

so that you can keep this tree saved out.

All of a sudden, it can come down straight on top of you and,

and that's just the worst scenario

you could ever possibly imagine.

[tree creaks]

I'm stuck.

[Jeff] Oh, yeah, you're-- That's in there pretty good.

[popping]

-[Chris] It's [bleep] popping. -[Jeff] Be careful.

[Chris] The way it's pinched in there,

that spiral's just got so much pressure in it.

[Jeff] [bleep]. That's, that's tight.

[Chris] Yeah, let me just try something here.

[popping]

[Jeff] It's popping.

[Chris] Pop right in it's face.

The chop is not working.

I don't wanna be wiggling my saw around too hard here right now,

'cause it's trying to just pull straight off

and the whole thing is just trying to go straight down the hill.

Holy-- Okay, no.

Stop that, please.

[Jeff] Oh, shut up.

[Chris] [bleep] you.

[laughs] Success.

Nice. We're back in action.

Now, let's see if I can get stuck in it again.

[chainsaw buzzes]

All right.

We got the back cut.

If that thing wanted to let go,

it, it's coming straight at me.

[popping]

[Jeff] It's doing weird stuff. There's things popping.

[Chris] Just, trying to just, I don't know.

[Jeff] Do you want me to hit 'em?

[Chris] It's popping here, but tight as hell back there.

[Jeff] I'm just worried about it going up the hill.

[Chris] It's doing weird [bleep].

It's being, it's being weird.

I'm gonna have to try to push this thing across the hill.

[narrator] An erratic tree is a deadly tree.

So, Chris will use another cedar nearby

to push this twisted giant down from a safe distance

and hope it doesn't blow apart on impact.

[Chris] Fallen trees on steep ground

is definitely a lot more challenging.

You gotta try and figure out

where you're gonna land these trees to save 'em out.

And if they go the wrong way,

you can lose a whole day's production.

[popping]

[Chris] Run!

[bleep].

Well, that lifted it.

I don't know if I wanna get back in under that.

[Chris] [bleep].

I don't know if I wanna get back in under that.

Oy, I got those clear trees right there,

and a good trail.

[Jeff] Could be good running up.

[narrator] On the steep slopes of Grizzly River,

Chris and Jeff have two trees hanging in the balance

and no options left.

All Chris can do now is put himself in harm's way to finish the cut.

[Chris] I gotta get back under there,

but I got a good, fresh escape route.

[Jeff] I'll let you know if I see this thing coming out.

[chainsaw buzzes]

[Chris] What the [bleep]? Run!

[Jeff] Watch out there.

[Chris] No, no, no, no, no!

[bleep].

Well, that's not really where we wanted it to go.

[Jeff] No. Right on this stump.

[Chris] That steep ground up there

isn't really friendly to the timber.

That was a weird one.

Because of that twist,

when we looked at it originally,

it looked like it was gonna save out a lot better.

But there must have been some dry rot

or something halfway up the tree

where everything kinda sheared apart on us.

[narrator] After hours of cutting,

Chris and Jeff are left with a mere $10,000 in scraps.

Bad news for Jared's bottom line.

But in the most dangerous job on the planet,

walking away in one piece is always a win.

[Jeff] Keeps you on your toes here.

[Chris] All right. Well, what's next?

[Jared] The road is, uh, pretty [bleep].

[narrator] On the logging roads of Grizzly River,

Jared and bush mechanic Adrian Bailey

have an emergency on their hands.

After Jared dropped a hundred grand

on a replacement Fat Truck for the grizzly fleet,

they just got word that it too is having issues.

[bleep] stressful times.

You know, I thought these trucks would be job ready,

but they've been sitting for so long,

-and you know what all that's about. -[Adrian] Yeah.

We'll get her going lickety-split.

We use these trucks because we're hauling gigantic wood,

Jurassic Park wood over super rough terrain,

bad roads, steep mountains.

It takes a heck of a truck to do that job.

-Should be here right around this corner. -[Adrian] Yeah.

-[Jared] There she be. -[Adrian] Oh, yeah.

[Jared] That's where we're at. Flat.

Both of 'em.

[Adrian] Okay, well.

We're gonna have to get air back in one of these.

We're gonna make it work.

[Jared] One of my guys is driving over the hill.

Um, he got two flat tires

and he kinda just left it here and, uh,

we unfortunately, only have one spare tire with us.

So, we gotta get one to take air.

That's my specialty.

[Jared] All righty, buddy.

Get at her.

[narrator] When working,

a Fat Truck can move $40,000 worth of wood down to the water every day.

And now that Dave is finally taking logs to market,

Jared can't afford to lose a single load.

[Adrian] Jared, he's excited to go and get a load

with this new truck of his,

so we gotta get this thing back up and going here ASAP.

[Jared] It's working. You're coming up.

[Adrian] The truck's very heavy.

So, we gotta jack the axle up,

lift the weight off the tire, so we can jam some air in

and see if it'll take and get back to work.

What do you think these tires weigh, Adrian?

[Adrian] It's heavy enough to squish me.

[Jared laughs]

It's really rare for me to find a young guy like Adrian

that's this invested.

I think he wants to be Axl Rose in a hairband.

[Adrian] Hmm. A little ratty. Might have to do.

[Jared] And I think that's, uh, second to pulling wrenches

is, uh, his hairdo.

So, it's, uh, pretty funny in a logging camp.

[speaking softly] We're gonna go with it.

Absolutely. Perfect. [bleep] it.

[Jared] Fire up the compressor.

We'll get some air in this puppy.

[Adrian in normal voice] The first thing to stay safe

when you're changing one of these tires

is stay the [bleep] out of the way.

These tires can be sketchy. They're split rim.

If the rim comes apart,

like, the ring, the lock ring can break or come apart.

When you air 'em up, they can shoot out at you.

It's got the same energy as a grenade basically when they're full pressure.

So, these tires have killed a lot of people over the years.

Come on.

[bleep].

[exhales sharply]

The tire's not taking air right now.

[bleep], man.

We have one spare tire and we have two flat, so it's a big problem.

We're not off to a good start as per normal in my life.

[narrator] Back on Grizzly River...

Travelled to a pretty good place.

[Dave speaking over radio]

[narrator] ...Dave and Leon are closing in on the logs

they released at camp

with 15 miles to go before they make Potato Point.

[Dave over radio] Okay, get in there, keep going to the other side.

I'm so stressed out right now. [chuckles nervously]

We finally caught up to this big raft of wood going down the river,

and we're gonna have to hook it up to the boom boat

to try and pull and help direct it quicker down to Potato Point,

'cause we're losing time.

So, it's really important that we get onto this right now.

[Leon] We got a small window today

and, uh, hopefully, we'll get it done.

It just took a little longer than expected,

but our first time doing it.

Tie it right here.

[Dave] This really has to go good,

or we have a major recovery operation on our hands.

I have to call a tugboat to come up and assist at,

you know, 600 bucks an hour.

It'll be very, very expensive.

[Leon] All right.

Just gonna start putting power on,

let me know how it looks.

[Dave over radio] Go for it, buddy.

[in normal voice] The, uh, bundles are secured to Leon's boom boat,

and now, the really dangerous journey down to Potato Point begins.

[narrator] This maiden voyage is crucial to proving they can get timber

out of Jared's logging camp and off to market.

But to do it, they'll first have to make it

through a treacherous section of river

filled with dead heads, sandbars and stumps.

[Dave] Pretty dangerous place

if you get hung up or you get stuck on something.

I've only ever been up this river one time

in a crew boat when I got dropped off.

So, we're gonna go with the maps that people have supplied us

and hopefully, not end up on a sandbar.

I got lots of room on the left hand side, eh?

[Dave over radio] Yeah, about 30 feet to the beach.

[Leon] Okay.

We are on the low of the high tides.

You get down to, like, the 12-and-a-half footers,

we'd like to be playing between 15 and 18,

so we gotta be really careful.

We're getting waves coming up from the ocean.

It must be choppy and stormy out front.

Lots of washed down wood and stumps.

You can lose your equipment,

you can lose your life if you, you mess with it.

We could have a mayday in this river,

nobody's coming to save us.

[Leon speaking over radio]

[Dave] [bleep].

Jared, you're smoking.

[Adrian] [bleep], bull [bleep].

[Jared] Man, what's going on here?

[Adrian] [bleep].

[Dave] This is where it's gonna get pretty interesting.

We're towing that big raft of wood down,

and we hit a shoal, that wood is gonna run us over and kill us.

Thought I felt a log under there.

[tense music playing]

[Dave speaking]

- [bleep] - [narrator] On their first trip

down Grizzly River,

Dave and Leon have

nearly $200,000 worth of timber in tow,

and water hazards in every direction.

[Leon speaking]

-[radio beeps] -It's going to roll right by it, buddy.

[narrator] And with the tide falling fast,

every minute exposes more hidden dangers

and debris.

[Leon speaking]

[Dave] This is where it's going to get [chuckling] pretty interesting.

We've got a shoal coming out off the point.

We've got to go

into what looks like mud flats,

but that's the only deep channel for us

to come around.

[narrator] Now that they've cleared the obstacles,

the final challenge is the shoals.

[Dave] A shoal is material

that's been shifted by the river and the currents

and created an obstacle in our way

in the river course.

And we don't really know where that shoal comes out.

If we're towing that big raft of wood down

and we hit a shoal with that tugboat

or the winder,

that wood is going to run us over and kill us.

Hopefully we sneak down this.

[tense music playing]

[Leon] Just trying to keep them off the right hand side

that's pretty shallow.

Now let's see...

[Dave] These maps, they change.

River changes,

and the sediment deposits in different spots.

So anything could happen right now.

[tense music playing]

[grunts]

[bleep]

[blows raspberry]

[narrator] Further upriver,

Jared's all-out attempt to cash in on Grizzly Camp

has come under fire,

with a Fat Truck down with two flat tires.

The tire's not taking air right now

'cause the bead was not sealed.

-Do you have a come-along? -Yes.

Can you go around?

I'm going to try that.

We have one spare tire and we have two flats,

so it's a big problem.

We're trying to get one of these fixed

by putting this strap in the middle of the tire,

cinching it tight with a come-along.

We're gonna push the bead towards the rim,

sealing it,

and then it'll take air.

Hopefully.

[ratcheting]

[Jared] It's kind of a bush trick.

It works probably one out of the ten times you do it.

Certainly a lot less labor intensive

than changing this tire.

Log loader up that hill,

begging to put logs on this truck.

So we definitely-- we need this thing up and running

as soon as possible. ASAP.

Keep going.

[Adrian] I think she's going to take.

I think we got her.

Sounds like we got it.

Nice!

[triumphant music playing]

[bleep] yeah.

I kind of gave it one in four we'd actually get it,

but it did take.

I'm happy.

One down, one to go.

Okay.

-My little mechanic leprechaun. -[chuckles]

I get lucky sometimes.

[Jared chuckling] "I get lucky sometimes."

Naturally, we got to roll the bones

and try the other one.

This one looks like it's going to be a little bit tougher.

Well, with a little grease and [bleep]

and come-along action,

we'll probably get her.

[Jared] I like your positive thinking.

[tense music playing]

[leaves rustling]

[Chris] That one looks like a good one.

This one looks nice.

High-grade cedar.

This is exactly what they're looking for.

Real nice, real nice.

Whoa.

Can't look up, you fall over.

[narrator] High above camp,

Chris and Jeff are doing all they can

to finally put

Jared's Grizzly operation in the black,

which brings them to the steepest country

on the claim

in search of the biggest money trees

they can find.

[Jeff] It's leaning down the hill,

and it's right on the edge of the bluff,

which is really steep.

I think it's going to go on the road.

[Chris] Pretty high potential of that, for sure.

We're at least 200 feet up from that road right now.

It's all about trying to keep these roads open.

Hole all the way through there somewhere,

because I can see light coming through in here.

Perfect for a chair.

That's not going to be fun.

I'm worried about a barber chair

'cause the tree can split in half,

and the front half will stay in the stump,

and the back half could kick off.

They can go back a long ways, 30, 40, 50 feet.

[narrator] With more than enough lateral force

to send a grown man flying,

barber chair is a worst case scenario

for any faller.

But up here, there's the added danger

of being knocked off the mountain

and onto the rocks, stumps,

and other deadly hazards below.

[Chris] Maybe I can bail out that way.

[Jeff] You could, as long as there's an uproot,

pull the tree over on you.

Because there's not much of an escape route going up there.

Oh, I can get up there pretty good.

You're like a billy goat.

When I'm scared, I can go anywhere.

[Chris] The worst thing as a faller to ever experience is a barber chair.

It'll kill you.

[Jeff] Next thing will be trying to get the undercut out

without getting pinched.

[Chris] We got a pretty hard downhill lean here.

I think you can get this undercut past this rot

and hopefully get into some of this greenwood.

I'm trying to keep it up

'cause the road's just right there.

It's so steep that if you slip,

that you could potentially slide under the tree

as it's going over.

You got this.

I don't know. This one's going to be

a 50-50 chance that it's going to work.

[saw whirring]

[narrator] To keep this tree from crashing down the slope,

Jeff will aim it just uphill of a stump

that should hold it in place.

After making his face cut,

he'll carefully carve the back cut,

leaving just enough holding wood

to help swing it to the side.

But if this giant decides to barber chair,

it's every man for himself.

[saw whirring]

[Jeff] I've fallen for 21 years.

[Chris] My dad was a faller,

so he tried to get me to stay away from it

like any faller would do

to their son trying to get [chuckling] into it.

[Jeff] I was pinched once,

bucking a log and it pinned my leg to the bank.

Like cats, we have nine lives, and I've used up three.

[Chris] Every faller's had close calls.

A lot could go wrong at any minute, any second.

A limb out of the tree could paralyze you, could kill you.

I mean, that's just a limb,

never mind the rest of the tree.

You need to think about the worst

and have a plan for it.

But you can't wear this fear on your sleeve, I guess.

You have to keep it in and respect it.

There's got to be something wrong with you

to do it, I guess.

What do you figure there, Jeff?

[Jeff] I'm almost to that other side now.

I can go a bit more,

but I'm only going to get halfway in the undercut.

[Chris] That wouldn't go any further.

[Jeff] I'm just past a little bit of the green

and it's into the gray now.

[Chris] I think that's perfect there.

-It's got a big rock-- -Yeah, like--

-[loud pop] -[Chris] Oh, [bleep]

-[Jeff speaking indistinctly] -What was that?

[Chris] When you hear a big pop like that,

you know that it's working its way

to wanting to release off the stump.

If it starts to barber-chair on us,

you're just going to have to scramble out of there

like a flustered up chicken.

[popping]

[Chris] It's got a big rock--

-[loud pop] -[Chris] Oh, [bleep].

-[Jeff speaking indistinctly] -What was that?

If it starts to barber-chair on us,

you're just going to have to scramble out of there

like a flustered up chicken.

[creaking and popping]

[saw whirring]

[saw revving]

[Jeff speaking]

-[bleep] -[popping]

[Chris] Well, it pinched you there.

Yeah.

When I really pulled on it there,

I almost fell off.

-[loud popping] -[Jeff] It's going to go.

Get out of there.

[Chris] [bleep] nice work, man!

-[Jeff] So that's [bleep]. -Beauty!

Hey, it's not on the road.

-[Jeff] No, it worked out good. -Not even close!

[narrator] After all the setbacks

that come with steep terrain,

Jeff and Chris have finally landed a tree

worth more than 40 grand.

Nice work. I don't need a hand.

[Jeff chuckles] You never know.

[Chris] Legs on me like a kangaroo.

[bleep] It worked out real good.

[tense music playing]

[engine whirring]

-[radio beeps] -[Dave] It just looks so dicey,

'cause it's like the mud-flat's here on my left,

and that's where I'm supposed to go.

That shoal must come off the point,

'cause all the silt and sand would just

pool up off of that point.

[Leon over radio] Yeah, I think so.

[narrator] Back on the water,

with big wood hitting the ground up above,

the entire future of Jared's Grizzly River operation

depends on Dave safely guiding it to market.

[loud thud]

[Dave] I just don't trust--

There's a bunch of [bleep] here.

I don't trust going that way.

[narrator] If they can get their first load of timber

down to the river's mouth,

they'll have charted a course

for hundreds of bundles to come.

But only if they can clear

their most challenging section yet.

[Leon] It's right at the bottom

of the shoal here.

So we're going to stay over to the left

when we're coming out.

If we get stuck on that,

all this wood's going to come and push us up farther.

If we don't have a high enough tide,

we're going to be spending the night on there.

And that's not going to be good.

[tense music playing]

[Dave] Every time a logger leaves his house

to go to shift,

you tell your kids that you love them

'cause a lot of guys lose their lives in this industry.

You never know whether it's in the plane

or a tugboat on the river.

There's a lot of souls lost getting these logs to market.

[birds calling]

[Jared] Maybe we'll get lucky twice.

Come on.

[narrator] Further upriver,

high-dollar wood is piling up by the roadside.

But there's still no way to get it down to the water.

[Jared] No. [bleep]

[Adrian] Okay.

[Jared] We tried the same method,

and we just can't seem to get it to take air.

[narrator] With one tire now back in action,

Jared's looking for a quick fix

on tire number two.

[Jared] We're going to do something crazy

that we probably shouldn't do.

When in doubt, pull the can of ether out.

For the record, it's completely haywire,

but if you get the win, man, I'll be stoked.

-You're lighting it, though. -Okay.

[Jared] Ether is extremely flammable starting fluid

for engines.

We're going to spray a little bit in the tire.

We're going to hope it expands when it's ignited

and seal the two sides of the tire

so we can put air to it.

[Adrian] That smells like your first date or what?

[Jared laughing] My first date.

[Adrian] Time is always the biggest issue out here.

Jared's patience is gone, so we're going to try ether.

[softly] This is crazy, Jared.

This is crazy.

It might work. If it does,

I'll tip my hat to Jared,

even though I'm not wearing one.

If it doesn't work, it looks like we're changing a tire,

which means we're not getting a load

with this new truck today.

You ready? I'm going to light you.

[Adrian] Okay.

[hissing]

Here.

[Jared] Nope. [bleep]

[Adrian] [bleep] sakes.

[Jared] That don't work.

[Adrian] That's [bleep].

[Jared] It's really frustrating me right now.

I don't have time for this.

We really need this thing up and running

as soon as possible.

Well, the ether didn't work, so we're changing a tire.

[Adrian] [bleep], man.

[Jared] This is the last thing I need to be doing today,

but we wasted a bit of time

trying to do the shortcut.

Anybody in trades know

shortcuts only work sometimes.

[bleep] sakes, man.

Violence it is.

[bleep] loggers, they think

that they can just buy an old truck

and just send it straight to work.

You never know what these old trucks have been through.

-[Jared grunts] -[clanks]

[Adrian] They get run hard and put away wet

every single time.

They have all these little issues that come up.

I'm not very shocked.

[both grunting and breathing heavily]

[Jared] There we go.

[tool whirring]

[Adrian] It'll make the load. It'll make the day.

-[tool whirring] -[Adrian] All right.

[Jared] Ready to go haul some log?

There's just enough time in the day, I think,

to get that truck loaded.

[honking]

Jared, you're smoking.

[Adrian] You're smoking. You've got to stop, man.

I think you've got to break now.

[Adrian] Yeah.

[tense music playing]

[Jared] [bleep] sake.

[bleep] never ends. [bleep] bull [bleep]. [bleep].

[bleep].

[Chris] Getting home from work,

you check in with the wife,

let her know you're still on the top side of dirt.

Good to talk to the kid.

Hey, kiddo. What are you up to?

[kid speaks indistinctly]

[Chris] Sometimes you wonder if they even remember you

when you're going to get home,

[chuckles] especially the young kids.

Jojo, what are you going to do today?

I'm surprised you're not outside playing in the mud

like you normally are.

You don't want to spend too much time away from them.

Got to enjoy life with them as well

and watch them grow up.

Bye, kiddo.

Love you.

[woman] All right, we'll talk to you later. Love you.

Okay, bye.

[tense music playing]

[Jared] [bleep] [bleep]. [bleep].

[bleep].

[bleep] really?

-[Adrian] [bleep] sake, man. -Dude, it's super hot.

That's probably why the tire went flat.

[Adrian] Yeah, it could be.

[bleep]

One step forward, two steps back.

[bleep]. [sighs].

[narrator] At Grizzly River,

Jared's been fighting tooth and nail

to send money trees off to market

and turn some much needed profit

on the place.

But this Fat Truck is refusing to fall in line.

[Jared] The brake hung up and heated up the brake drum,

so just about melted the tires off the truck.

It's like one thing after another today.

Just can't win.

I'll try and beat the brake off

and see if it'll release.

It's frustrating, man.

[Adrian] We'll get you going.

[Jared] What's the last call for the loader?

Last call for the bar.

-[Adrian chuckles] -[Jared grumbles]

This is called a maxi pot.

It's for your brakes.

Inside here is a giant spring.

It holds the brakes on.

It looks like we're just a little sticky.

It needs some grease.

Hammer this thing off. Away we go.

[Jared] If equipment breaks down,

those machines aren't making money.

The debt and the stress can make me an [bleep] at times.

[Adrian] These greasing up holes are pretty dry,

so it probably hasn't been greased in a while.

Lack of lubrication is

one of the main causes for failure.

It's off.

Hey, I felt it release.

-Eh? -I felt it release.

I'm just going to creep ahead a bit,

see if it's hanging up.

Yes.

[Adrian] They seem to be all freed up now.

I guess that's what you get

when you buy things sitting by the ocean for two years.

-Yeah. -Everything seizes up.

You better get going if you want to catch a load.

Yeah, follow me to the spur road,

and I'll call the loader and tell him to stay late.

I've got to get that load.

[Adrian] [bleep] Get some wood.

[Jared] Today was a tough day,

but I think we're okay.

And off to the loader I go.

[horn honking]

[Jared] Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose,

and sometimes you break even.

[bird calling]

[Leon speaking over radio]

[Dave speaking]

[Leon] Okay.

[narrator] Back on the water,

Dave and Leon have nearly towed

their first load of timber

down the untamed channels of Grizzly River.

But before they reach Potato Point,

they'll first have to get through the shoals.

[Leon] We're right off the shoal right now.

[tense music playing]

[loud thudding]

[Dave] Oh.

[Leon] I thought we were stopping there.

It almost felt like we rubbed the sandbar.

We'll know real quick, we'll have to back up fast.

Thought I felt a little rub,

but it might have just been a log under there,

jump up.

[Leon] Okay.

[Dave] Coming around the shoal,

and we're going to turn into Potato Point.

Woo-hoo!

It feels so good to have made it to Potato Point.

Now that we've got the logs down,

we've got to make a bag around them to secure that bag

so they don't float away in a big storm,

and they're secure.

We're gonna switch. I'm going to run ahead.

[Dave] Leon's got a little more experience

with the boom sticks and boom gear,

and I just felt I could be better off

running the tug

while he did the leg work.

So we're going to get the sticks broken apart

and ready to go so we can-- when we arrive, all unhooked,

push the wood in and we're going to bag it off

and leave it and run up the camp.

Towing the bundles down went absolutely amazing.

Leon and I figured out our system

and we pushed it a bit, but we made it.

[Dave] The bullpen's filling up as we speak.

[Dave] Jared's going to be really excited

that the wood made it down safely.

Because [chuckling] Jared is so anxious

to start seeing a profit come out of here.

We're just bleeding money

when we do camp start up

and all the hiccups with waiting and logistics

and everything else.

Leon will continue to bring bundles of logs down every day

until we have enough to build the booms

for the big tug to tow to market.

It's going to be a real headache

to make sure it goes smooth every day,

but we're the best. That's what we're going to do.

[Leon] Tank's closed, logs are secure.

[Dave] Right on, buddy!

Get out of here.

-Yahoo! -[laughing] [bleep] right.

[triumphant music playing]

[tense music playing]

[narrator] Having finally forged a path

from Grizzly Camp to Potato Point,

it's time to move some timber.

For the next seven straight days,

Dave oversees the transport

of more than 300 log bundles to market,

earning Jared enough to pay off

his initial investment in the operation

and another $280,000 to put toward his debt.

[Jared] Opening up a new camp in Grizzly River

was a huge gamble.

I'm very happy that things worked out.

No risk, no reward.

Right now, it was big risk and big reward.

So we're cruising, man. This is a good feeling.

But this business is relentless. You have to...

just keep moving.

Stop. Take a moment.

And when I say a moment, a small moment.

Get back on the horse and keep grinding.

[Jared] When the fire season starts,

we're going to have to shut down.

[man] This is the way that we mitigate problem trees

with blast assists.

-[Jared] Are we ready? -[man 2] Hell yeah.

[bleep] That was intense.

[man 3 over radio] We either log it or we let it burn.

[man 4] Oh. -[bleep]