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Welcome to hell, boys. This is it.

[narrator] Last week,

Jared finally gained a vital foothold on the banks of Grizzly River...

[Jared] Going in the hole. Another 600,000 to get this camp started.

[narrator] ...as fallers played a deadly game of dominoes...

It's going. Get back. It's going.

[narrator] ...to bring down the operation's first load of money trees.

Stand back.

[narrator] At Float Camp, crews fought to keep a goose from gutting production.

We're down. What do we do?

We're not allowed to dump in fear of disturbing the goose.

I might be having a panic attack here soon.

[narrator] But in the end, they fell short of filling the log barge.

Still got empty deck space.

[narrator] ...by more than $100,000.

[man] That goose [bleep].

[narrator] Now, Jared's pushing even deeper into the wild

with one goal in mind...

[Jared] We're looking for this high-value cedar.

[man] [bleep] They're few and far between through here, though, aren't they?

[narrator] ...to turn uncharted timber into cold, hard cash.

[man] It's going. We've got to come up with something.

We've got to come up with something quick or I gotta turn it off.

[narrator] ...or lose the business he built from scratch.

I need to get wood down this road,

into that log dump and down that [bleep] river.

-[bleep] Man, that goose really... -[Ross] Yeah.

...screwed me over big time.

[narrator] After taking a huge loss last week,

all Jared Douglas can do is keep pushing forward

and stay one step ahead of his float camp crew

by tracking down their next stand of money trees.

[Jared] You know, you're kind of expecting that money to come in,

and it's just not coming in, all over one goose.

Yeah, the goose put a dampener on things all right.

[narrator] Having come up short on his second log barge in a row,

Jared's window to pay down his $1.7 million debt is closing.

And if the next barge isn't filled with big timber,

they'll be too far behind to ever catch up with the payments

or keep his company.

[Jared] The barge is in two weeks.

-It's got to be full, Ross. -Yep.

[Jared] I have lots of debt. Like, I have...

Up to my ears in debt.

It's stressful. It's tough.

But I came from nothing.

I want my kids to have things I didn't have.

So there's no giving up.

-So this is where the next spot is. -Yes.

This old derelict dock.

-Looks like some nice timber from the beach. -[Ross] Yeah, it does.

A little steep.

[narrator] For now, the area Jared's scouting is only accessible by boat,

but with just a week or so of blasting,

he could tap into his established road system leading back to float camp.

But only if the trees here are worth the trouble.

Looks like you got some cedar and some fir from here already.

I wonder how much is actually in here.

We're looking for this high-value cedar.

It's the gold of the forest.

And people pay a lot of money for it.

But getting to these trees is difficult.

They're getting hard to find, so we are in the most remote places.

I don't like this tree.

[Ross] Yeah, that's not a good tree at all.

-[Jared] This is a bad tree for fallers to deal with. -[Ross] Yeah.

You see the split going way up,

hard to put an undercut in when there's nothing holding on the back end.

That's a dangerous tree.

It's lots of value.

Just, uh, we can't have anyone get hurt trying to fall something like this.

Let's keep going.

It's steep, it's ugly. We're sweating.

It's not easy, and you've got to think

men are packing power saws and, uh, blocks up here.

We're packing a can of paint and we're winded.

That's the bear done.

Hopefully, Yogi's not in here.

-Anyone home? -Is he in there?

I don't know.

We don't normally harvest anywhere near bear den.

Hopefully, there's not a bear up there

that's going to slow us down any more.

Just go in there and check out.

Ooh.

Always hard to run from a bear when you're winded.

[narrator] Like goose nests, active bear dens are protected.

So before any logging can happen here,

they'll have to confirm this one is abandoned.

No bears.

Well, he must have kept nice and warm in here.

Yeah. You want the snow.

[Ross] Did you see any hair or anything?

[Jared] No, just rotten cedar pieces.

[narrator] With no signs of bear activity, Jared and Ross are all clear

to keep scouting for valuable cedars.

[bleep] They're few and far between through here, though, aren't they?

Looks like there's one in down there, though.

A big money tree right there.

Oh, yeah. That's a money tree right there, baby. [whistles]

It's a beautiful tree.

It's nice and straight.

Big, looks sound.

No real defect in it.

And I'm thinking this tree is going to be upwards of $40,000 to $60,000.

Drag us out from financial ruins of the goose.

Money tree.

That looks like a money tree right there.

Probably the best one I've seen so far.

Round, sound.

Money tree.

Tree wise, there's lots of nice big, red cedar here.

That's my favorite. That's the cheddar.

[bleep] there's some pretty nice timber in here.

Giants.

Beautiful trees.

When we tally this up at the end of the day,

there's gonna be quite a bit of value here.

It's not easy logging, but the money is here.

If this expansion that I'm doing right now works out,

I'll be able to provide for my family,

and my guys will be making good money.

So seeing people's families thrive, not only my own.

Have our work cut out for us.

[narrator] Over a hundred miles away at Grizzly River...

...the heat is on Foreman Dave Lornie.

Pretty exciting. We're about to load our first load.

At Grizzly River here, the big, majestic cedar that we've been working on.

[narrator] He's running Jared's newest operation,

where a $600,000 gamble is on the line.

It's up to Dave to make it pay off.

[Dave] Jared's gonna be a pretty happy boy.

He's pretty stressed right now,

and he's gonna really like seeing this volume hit the water.

-You know, away we go. -[horn beeps]

[narrator] Hand fallers have been methodically chasing high-grade cedar here,

and with nearly a million dollars' worth of wood on the ground,

Jared needs it sent off to market fast.

What we've got here is some really big cedar.

It's actually really hard to handle.

But, uh, I'm a stubborn, difficult old logger,

so we'll get a nice big load, put on and head to the beach.

Put her in the water.

[narrator] Once in the water, the logs will still have to journey 15 miles downriver

so they can be towed off to market.

But to do that, Dave needs a boom boat operator

willing to take on the endless obstacles of Grizzly River.

And so far he's not having any luck.

[Dave] Getting a booming contractor lined up

has been the most difficult part of my job.

Because people have died. People have retired.

People just don't want to come to Grizzly River 'cause it's really crazy.

So, I've never felt more stress.

It's like dragon fire coming down the back of your neck

because we don't have a boom man.

But we have to keep production going

and just move forward positively.

And we don't want to lose any of these logs.

They're worth way too much money.

Right now, I'm responsible for this load and doing it properly.

That's a wrap.

[horn beeps rhythmically]

We're gonna put his wrappers over

and then we're gonna head to the beach.

A good looking load.

It's really nice to have piles of inventory.

But at the end of the day, Jared's been paying camp costs.

He's feeling the financial pain.

Without being able to put the bundles in the river

and actually boom to get paid,

this whole job, it could bankrupt the company...

...if we don't find a boom man.

Here, I can carry that the rest of the way.

[grunts]

Getting old sucks.

Some nice ones back there.

[narrator] In the woods above Grizzly Camp,

production power's ahead.

Oh, we'll see what it takes.

[narrator] When the time comes to start sending logs downriver,

Jared will need to keep them coming.

So Jim Gardner and Rob Winger

are on the hunt for the biggest,

most valuable red cedars they can find.

[Jim] Right now, we're dealing with a 10-foot red cedar

Oh, yowsers.

-There's not much to her. -See right through it.

With a tree this rotten on the inside,

that leaves just a collar on the outside, just a small shell.

Each cut's gonna make this thing do something very quickly.

I'd say there's a high likelihood

of this just going over before it's ready to.

Not much to it at all.

But you don't necessarily get this every day,

this rotten and this big,

and still get this much usable wood out of it.

[Rob] Usually when they get to this stage,

they just fall over on their own.

But hopefully, if we can place it and control it enough,

we can salvage at least 50-60, maybe even 70% of this.

-What do you think? -I think this is going to be difficult.

You don't have much of an undercut to get into it.

Word of thought when you have to hit the undercut out,

I would bore the high side

before you started the back cut

just so it doesn't chair on you.

[narrator] Trees with this much rot at the base

are notorious for splitting straight up the middle,

creating what's called a "barber chair."

When that happens, the trunk can kick back with deadly force

and hit a faller head on.

It could pivot 5, 10 to 40 feet in any direction around the back.

So you're... you're scrambling to get in the clear.

[Jim] Son of a [bleep]. It's gotta be me.

-[sighs] -Okay.

[exhales]

[narrator] To try and stop a barber chair before it starts,

Jim will make a shallow face cut.

Then he'll bore into the cedar's trunk,

leaving pressure from the inside.

Finally, he'll start his back cut

and hope the tree holds long enough to finish it.

[chainsaw starting]

[Jim] If this tree falls over, before we need it to,

we're gonna have to be ready to get out at any moment.

[Rob] At this point, Jim is going to proceed with putting an undercut in.

Jim and I work well together.

If you work side by side for a while,

you get to know little gestures.

You almost know just by what they're doing, what they're going to do next.

One bad decision could go over sideways and flatten you.

I had a tree sit back in the wind

wasn't even a very big tree.

It sat back so fast, I couldn't even get a wedge in there,

so I went to push it out

and the wind broke it right off the stump.

It snaked down through the timber.

And as I was escaping on my escape trail, it's like it had eyes.

It followed me right up my escape trail

and it hit me in the side of the head,

the shoulder, and folded me in half.

I crushed my T10.

I didn't second guess my career choice at all.

I just thought, [bleep], "Why didn't I see that?"

It's starting to pinch. Tree's starting to come at us.

It's starting to sag this way.

And this thing's rotten, anything can happen.

Something's not right here.

[grunts] [bleep].

Back up. Back up!

[bleep]

Something's not right here.

[grunts] [bleep].

Back up. Back up!

Look out! [bleep]

[bleep] Deadly.

[narrator] In the hills above Grizzly River,

Jim and Rob are battling a $50,000 tree with severe rot at the base.

One wrong move could easily trigger a barber chair,

causing the cedar to kick back like a mule

and destroy not only its value but anyone in its way.

I think there's a little bit right in behind this slab.

Oh, yeah, you can see the bark right there.

One thing you're looking for when you've got the undercut out,

you're looking for the tree to collapse.

The tree is starting to sag in the intended direction,

but it's not really moving.

There's something holding this thing up.

we can't really see what it is or tell where it's at.

[Rob] It's gonna start to pinch, Jim.

It's too dangerous.

It didn't quite go over as I thought it was going to.

Is it talking?

-[coughs] -Yeah, kind of, yeah.

So there's something holding this tree up still.

We can't go in there and fully cut it out.

We're going to have to go to our plan B.

[narrator] Back at Float Camp and having just found

a stand of giant cedars nearby,

Foreman Ross is eager to bring a logging crew out there.

But first, they need access.

Before we start anything, you have to have the road built,

and then you get your fallers in

and then you get your yarder in,

and then you get your processing in.

Going up to see Dave Gerard right now

and see how far along he is with the road so we can get a timeline

and when we can get some fallers in.

The goal is asap.

[narrator] If they hurry, the timber could add vital product

to the log barge arriving in two weeks.

But there's still much to be done before then.

-How you doing, Dave? -I'm not bad, man, and you?

Going not so bad.

Just drilling away.

Slowly. But surely.

Yeah, just trying to do this junction here.

-Just solid rock all the way. -Oh, I'm sure.

[narrator] To connect this road to the new stand of trees,

the crew will have to cut three quarters of a mile deeper into the forest.

To that end, they're drilling into solid rock,

packing it with explosives and breaking it up one blast at a time.

So we're looking to push a little bit,

like get into here as quick as we can.

Within a week, I think you might be able to swing that one.

-No way. Really? -[Ross] Yeah.

[Dave] Try to do the best job we can.

If we don't have road, we can't log,

so it's essentially everything to us.

We can't haul. We can't do anything.

So without a road, you got nothing.

And we'll have fallers up here next week.

Hopefully be able to get this completed

so those loggers can get their yarders and [bleep] in here.

The pressure is on.

Yeah. Perfect.

That'll get to her.

Hey, after you're done fueling up,

do you wanna see me in the office?

Okay.

[narrator] Back at float camp, Jared has one goal in mind,

to lock down a boom boat operator

who's not afraid to take on the perilous waters up at Grizzly River.

Dana has worked on and off for me as a booming contractor.

He is extremely good at his job,

and I need him out in Grizzly River.

He's the only one that I know that can do this job.

-It's called the principal's office. -[chuckles]

[Jared] I've been putting a lot of money into the falling and the camp.

I'm all in on the poker table here

and without putting that wood in the water,

I don't get paid, and if I don't get paid

I can't pay my people.

This is a terrible situation I've put myself in.

We need a booming contractor with a small tug for Grizzly River.

And someone of your skills is what we need.

Just not doing it.

You should come up there with me in a helicopter and look at the job.

[Dana] Oh, that's... Yeah, I can look at it all I want,

but it's not gonna make me want to do it.

I think you just need to go look.

No, I'm just not into it.

[Jared] I don't understand why not?

Not for me.

I don't want it.

Stubborn.

[Jared] All right.

Dana could make a ton of money if he decided to pony up and get out there.

But he's heard horror stories from other boom contractors that was up there, so...

I think he's worried about losing a boat,

sinking a boat, and his life, obviously.

Just need a [bleep] boom man now.

I can't... I can't believe something's [bleep] not...

...not arcing out between his ears properly.

The problem now I have is we're putting all this money in.

There's no point right now to keep making logs

if we don't have a solid plan to get them down the river to market.

-[phone ringing] -We are just burning cash flow right now

Absolutely lighting dollar bills on fire.

Hey, John, it's Jared Douglas calling.

I need a guy with booming experience in a river and a small tug.

-If you wanna work. -It's fairly good pay.

You got any boom men hanging around that might want some work?

[Jared] I'm gonna have to go call everyone I know

and everybody that everybody else has known,

uh, to get this job done.

You can't even wave money at people's...

They don't want to be here.

What kid playing a video game, wants to actually go to work

and sweat their bag off all day long?

And it's getting really, really desperate times for me.

[man] Uh, No takers yet there.

I've asked a few of my guys and and whatnot.

[Jared] We gotta come up with something.

We gotta come up with something quick or I gotta turn it off.

We're in big trouble.

We're [bleep]. I don't get it.

[groans]

We've got logs piling up.

I need to get wood into that log dump

-and down that [bleep] river. -Fire in the hole.

[Jared] I have so many balls in the air,

and I can't let any of them drop.

I got most of the back cut.

The undercut is right close to that very far corner that we can see down there,

but we've got a bit of wood holding in the middle.

[narrator] At Grizzly River,

Jim and Rob have been wrestling

with this half-rotten cedar for hours,

trying to get it on the ground without crushing them

or exploding into a million worthless pieces.

That wants to go, but this doesn't want to go.

'Cause this doesn't want to lift,

but this is already lifting hard.

I would cut a little more right here. Oh, wait.

You've already cut from the inside. Never mind.

Yeah, a little bit.

Cut this off and cut a little more into here.

Or push it.

Push, push, push, push.

The cedar is not falling over.

There's still some holding wood in there,

and it's too unsafe to cut the rest of the holding wood.

The top priority is us making it out of there safely.

So we're going to look for another tree to push it over.

[narrator] To bring this cedar down safely,

they'll use another tree

to knock it over from a distance.

But if the push tree comes down with too much force,

it could reduce the giant to splinters,

costing the fallers a day's work

and Jared almost $50,000 in lost product.

-All right, send it. -There she goes.

Oh, yeah, baby.

Deadly.

[bleep] I think it's in a million pieces.

Well, it's a little more shingle than we thought.

Lots of shingle, actually.

Looking at it, I probably would have done a few things different.

But there's a lot more rot in the top than we thought there was initially.

[sighs]

[narrator] After all their hard work, the rot in this red cedar

was just too much for Jim and Rob.

And what little wood remains will put practically nothing toward Jared's debt.

I don't think it's worth bucking.

No, we did everything we possibly could

because of the rot in it, because of the size.

Because of the... the bananing effect

and the smashing on the ground,

it did peel apart, and it's just not going to be

the number one quality that we expected it would be.

Tomorrow, it's your turn.

[narrator] Back at camp and still with no boom boat operator

to shuttle logs down Grizzly River,

Jared is running out of time and money.

[Jared] We got logs piling up.

I got all my trucks here, sitting here waiting.

It's ridiculous.

I just need to get a [bleep] boom operator in here.

Knocking on the bankruptcy's door if we don't get this done.

Just got out from the woods.

We got wood piled to the sky.

I know, buddy.

We need a boom man.

The problem with Dave is it's hard to keep him on track, focused.

We need to get this happening and it's gotta happen now or we're [bleep] broke.

I've got a million things to deal with right now,

and I really need to lean on Dave

to make sure that he finds a person

so we can start making money here or we're in big trouble.

We need to fix this right now.

-I'll do whatever it takes to get it done. -[Jared] Okay.

[Dave] Jared is under a lot of stress right now.

There's going to be a little bit of [bleep] running downhill, I think,

'cause he wants to get this wood to market.

There's not a lot of booming contractors left,

and the smart ones don't want to go up Grizzly River.

They also cannot fail or it could take down the company.

[bleep]

I need to get wood down this road,

into that log dump and down that [bleep] river.

I get the supervisors, and then I let them have their leash.

It's not a problem till it is a problem.

and right now it's a big problem.

I'm not going to tell my wife we've got to sell our house

because we can't find a boom man.

This is ridiculous.

[bleep] The main line here. Should be logging trucks coming back and forth.

[growls]

[narrator] With the Grizzly River operation still stuck in limbo,

Jared needs his Float Camp crew to start logging the new stand

of giant cedars he found.

Pretty hard rock, surprisingly.

[narrator] But to get those trees on the next log barge

road builders Dave and Nick must blast their way to them by the end of the week.

Sweet.

We're ready to shoot.

A shot is a design blast that it's like just drilled holes

with a specific pattern and a specific load for your situation.

We'll basically pound the hole and drop our loads in it.

[chuckling]

-Pretty much. -Pretty much what we do for a living.

We use ANFO, which is just ammonium nitrate fuel oil.

And then these are dets,

and this here goes off which sets this off,

which in turn sets this off.

Chain reaction.

Shooting. There's a lot of things that can go wrong.

We're doing anywhere from 20 to sometimes 50 bags in a shot.

So if you can fathom that, that's how much destruction that needs.

The powder we can do is really dangerous stuff.

You want to respect it. You wanna make sure you follow the protocol and rules

when you're handling it and just always be really careful.

I'm trying to get the best outcome

with the least amount of violence, really.

Now we're ready to go.

Now, we just got to move machines out and get everybody to a safe area.

And then it'll go boom.

So me and Nick are going down now to our safe area

to shoot this shot,

and we want to get a nice good view.

-[beeps] -Blasting block Q42. One shot.

-Ready. -Yeah, man, you're good.

-You ready, buddy Firing shot. -Fire in the hole.

[Dave] Blasting block Q42. One shot.

-Ready, buddy. Firing shot. -Fire in the hole.

[bleep] yeah, that turned out mint, buddy.

-Three-quarter [bleep]. Yeah. -That turned out amazing.

-[bleep] yeah. [chuckles] -Yeah, buddy.

That looks mint. All exactly how I planned.

Now we just go get the hoe and come in here

and muck it out and continue on.

[Nick] He's gonna clean up that shot. It's called mucking it out.

So you basically take the big rocks, put them on the outside,

take your finds, put them in the road,

make everything nice and organized.

Dig around all the rock. Get it pretty clean,

so we can come up there and lay a pattern,

bring the rock drill in and start pounding some holes.

Holy [bleep]!

[narrator] As they prep for the next blast,

Dave and Nick hit a problem.

A pair of massive boulders too big to move with the hoe

and a potential time suck they don't need.

A couple of boulders they're just too big to handle for the digger.

[Dave] It creates problems for the next phase.

Really difficult stuff.

[narrator] Back at Grizzly River...

...wood is hitting the water.

Another one in.

[narrator] But Jared still needs a boom boat operator

to guide it down 15 miles of sandbars

and submerged obstacles before it can go to market.

In the meantime, all he can do is map out the course

and clear a path for when they're ready to make the run.

[Jared] I'm just looking for things that are gonna hang up bundles.

I just want to make sure that the coast is clear.

It's really sketchy due to, uh, the silt in the water.

You can't see what's under at any time.

So you don't know if you're gonna hit a sandbar.

You don't know if you're gonna hit a dead head.

Dead head's a piece of wood that's just under the water,

enough that going along here at full speed,

you hit one of these, you can knock your leg off and sink your boat.

Very dangerous.

I can see a dead head here.

This one's really bad.

You see how fast the water is moving

and the current is actually getting sucked into it.

So I'm gonna try to buck it off with a chainsaw

until we can get it, uh, completely out of the way.

A little sketchy.

Hopefully, it doesn't hook the boat

and take the boat down the river too.

We're barely hooked up here.

The river runs wild.

The last guy that's done this job sunk one of his boom boats.

Log tow caught up to him on the river,

took his boat under.

The guy scrambled to the top of the logs, just about lost his life.

And nobody will do it.

I'm actually getting a little nervous.

I have all this invested.

I moved equipment up there that would hit the ground.

Now we can't make that would get to market,

because nobody will do the booming in this river.

It's scary now.

Just hanging over the side of a boat.

One hand hanging on for dear life.

You don't know what's going to happen,

if the branch is gonna hook the legs, shift the boat,

A lot of things you can't see under the water.

[Jim] Some nice ones back there

[narrator] In the nearby wilderness,

having spent all yesterday on a rotten cedar they couldn't save...

We got to go up and through there.

[narrator] ...Jim and Rob are looking to make up lost ground.

But in an area where every tree is either damaged

or on the verge of collapse,

they're running low on solid options.

Six, seven foot cedar.

Something's hit it and knocked it.

Something big, like probably 100 years ago.

And then there's a big seam on this low side.

That could be from when it got hit too, split it.

Sounds solid enough.

Whereas the other side's like it's only a shell.

And I'm gonna have to cut up as much of this low side as I can.

That's why I want to keep it low.

So that I'm not cutting too much over my head here.

So there's gonna be rot in there, too.

So I'm gonna have to watch I don't get pinched on that low side

Hopefully, it's got a leg to stand on when it swings over.

[narrator] Like the tree they lost yesterday,

this one is rotting hard at the base.

But there could still be a way to salvage the valuable wood above.

Rob will make his undercut low

to prevent it from collapsing too early.

Then they'll send it across the side hill with a back cut

and hope it doesn't blow up like the last one.

We'll tackle this thing.

-Commencing mayhem. -Say a little prayer.

Almost pinched me.

It dropped.

It's a lot more rotten than I thought it was.

So I'm just gonna have to keep nibbling and nibbling

and hopefully not get stuck.

I don't know what's going to happen here.

[Rob] When you're cutting into a tree

and you get your undercut out of it,

it's pretty much going to dictate how it's going to go over.

But because there was so much rot in it,

it's really difficult to control the lead,

and it's really hard to control the absolute direction

that this thing is going to go.

Starting to... Starting to drop.

[Dave] So I'm just sitting here enjoying a little bit of loggers paradise.

'cause you don't get it every day,

and we've got it just about every day in Grizzly River here.

This particular pile

is all of the high-grade red cedar.

Like, we're sitting at a million dollars of wood right here.

This is exactly why we're in Grizzly River right here.

This is what we live for.

This is our big gold nuggets right here. Big Cedars.

We're gonna put it on the trucks.

This is what it's all about.

Ow.

Let's let's put some wood on these trucks.

[chainsaw whirring]

[Rob] Jim just told me over the radio he could see the tree dropping.

I actually felt before I saw the ground moving under my feet.

So I'll just put a couple of wedges in it and carry on

to my final cut.

[narrator] High above Grizzly River,

Rob and Jim are trying to salvage a red cedar

worth almost $40,000.

But with so much rot at its base,

it's not cooperating with the cuts.

There we go.

[bleep] Roots and all.

It's just rotting right from the inside out.

Right where that scar was all the way down it,

that whole section disappeared with the tree down the hill.

so I didn't expect that.

But you've got to try and expect everything.

It broke at about 45 feet.

Probably 50-60% of it's salvageable.

[narrator] With only half of this tree intact,

it's a disappointing result for Rob and Jim

and another costly setback Jared can scarcely afford.

Okay.

I hope. I hope.

[narrator] Back near Float Camp,

Dave and Nick are racing to finish a road

to what should be a more valuable stand of timber.

[Dave] We just go ahead, a bag of AMFO,

which is ammonium nitrate fuel oil,

that we just put on top,

[narrator] But only if they can get a pair of massive boulders out of their way.

Good thing Dave always keeps extra explosives on hand.

When you put it on top is to get like the concussion

and the force of it blowing down that cracks the boulder apart.

So you won't get as much fly rock from it.

We've got this boulder,

and then we got this one here,

and when we come back, it should be a lot smaller boulders.

All we got left on this shot is clear out the site and let her rip.

Time's a huge factor 'cause the faster we get it done,

the faster they can get in here and log.

They definitely put the pressure on us.

Blasting block Q42. One shot.

My favorite part of the day would probably be when

we get to push the buttons on the box.

-Whoo! -Oh, geez.

-[laughing] -I jumped.

Yeah, see, that's pretty sweet.

I've done this for 15 years.

It still scares me when those bangs go off on surface.

-Actually shattered it. Yeah. -Just eliminated it.

Holy, that turned into just dust.

It'll be really nice and easy for me to move with the hoe now.

Nice job, Nick.

[narrator] With the path blasted for the road,

connecting the new stand of cedars to Float Camp,

the hardest part is done.

Now, Dave and Nick just need to clear away the rubble

so fallers can start harvesting timber.

You got her, buddy.

[narrator] Up at Grizzly Camp...

...Jared's done all he can to clear the way for logs headed downriver.

All he needs now is a boom boat operator to get them there

and get his $600,000 operation to finally turn some profit.

Yep, we'll, uh...

Yeah, well, Dave's here. One second. I'll call you back.

All right. Thanks.

Guess what we got? We got a [bleep] boom man.

It took me two weeks and about 400 phone calls. We got it, man.

-He'll be here Tuesday morning. -[bleep] yeah, man.

-That's awesome. -[Dave] Ow.

We just gotta figure this [bleep] river out.

Got to get some wood down there safely.

-Thanks, Dave. -I know what it's like.

-It's a big relief. -[Dave] Yeah.

-That's awesome. That's the best news... -For a while.

Don't answer the phone again for the rest of the day

and it'll be the best news of the day.

[Jared] I'm hemorrhaging cash at Grizzly River,

and I cannot wait for the tug

to get its first toe out so I can start to, uh, recoup

some of the dollars that I've been, uh, putting out.

[narrator] With only a couple of hundred grand saved toward his $1.7 million debt,

Jared's company and future are still hanging by a thread.

But with a boom boat operator now lined up for Grizzly River,

he might just have what it will take

to get his business back in the black.

Two camps logging full tilt for the first time.

[Jared] Opening Grizzly Camp was a bit of a gamble,

but I've taken on a lot of debt.

It's become very stressful.

If we can, uh, do really well, I think it's going to pay huge dividends.

But right now, this is going to be very, very hard

bringing the logs down the river.

Anything can go wrong.

But I don't have any other options.

Make it or don't. I'm not gonna give up.

Batten the hatches and put on a smile. We're going river boating.

If we're towing that wood down and we hit a shoal of that tugboat,

that wood is gonna run us over and kill us.

I'm stuck.

Keep going.

Run! Run!

-We had a fat truck. -Go down.

What do you think these tires weight, Adrian?

Heavy enough to squish me.

It's completely haywire. Your lighting it.