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This is really nasty.

DAVE PETTITT (NARRATES): This time on Heavy Rescue 401...

I gotta get by that tree to get that thing over there.

..a riverside wreck...

You're gonna hit that tree, Bill.

..forces a tight manoeuvre.

It's scary how far these things will move.

Gary and Collin...

That's a big rock.

..hit rock bottom.

Wow.

Whoo.

..and a smashed generator...

Now, let's pick it.

..overpowers Kevin.

Your winches are faster than mine!

An early afternoon in late winter,

and Toronto drivers are enjoying a moment of calm on the roads.

Orillia, Five, Tango, 0-0-7...

..but it only takes one wrong move to stop traffic cold.

Very often, the worst crashes

that we get called to are when the roads are dry,

and it's usually because of human error.

(SIREN WAILS)

At the Compass Operations Centre...

Just see if there's any lanes closed there?

..the staff keeps watch to pounce on any problem

before it can spin out of control.

Go ahead.

..and just after 2:00pm,

their cameras capture the first sign

of major trouble north of the 401.

On the southbound lanes of the 427,

a tractor-trailer that was carrying some very heavy equipment

has rolled over.

Just be advised I'm on route to that jackknife,

427 southbound at the 409.

..and Sergeant Kerry Schmidt's afternoon

just got busy.

So, we have a call for a jackknifed transport truck.

It's right near Pearson Airport.

Nearly all lanes are blocked.

Oh, boy...

Look at that.

An incredible sight of this twisted jackknifed transport truck

on its side with emergency responders

all the way around it.

We've got a jackknifed transport truck

flatbed hauling scrap.

We've got the three right lanes blocked

with emergency crews.

You can see all the debris, damage, marks here on the highway,

and you can see kind of where the vehicle

came to its final rest.

Obviously the driver in that truck went for a pretty wild ride,

because you can see how violent and how quickly that took place.

An incredible ride for him,

and he's very fortunate he's not injured.

The twisted tractor is under so much tension...

Quite the mess, isn't it?

..that fire-fighters have propped it up

to prevent it from snapping free.

This is gonna be a very complicated recovery.

There's a lot of tension still on that fifth wheel kingpin,

and they need to relieve that pressure,

and let the vehicle and the trailer

go back to its resting state.

On Route rotator veteran Kevin Richardson

has left his home base near Hamilton to help tackle the job.

It's rare for me, doing a recovery in Toronto,

because I try to stay out of the big city.

A lot of traffic for me.

How ya doin', Kerry?

Hey, man. How you doing? Good!

But when a customer calls, you gotta go.

I'm just gonna take a walkabout.

The truck's just twisted...

Got the trailer rolled over

so I knew it was gonna be a little bit of a challenge.

Wow, yeah.

You got some big machinery there...

Whew!

The cargo, two smashed generators,

will be heavy and tough to handle.

A lot of damage here.

Wow.

(SIGHS)

(THEME MUSIC)

The afternoon commute is already starting to pick up... fast.

The impact on traffic is significant.

We have massive slowdowns on the northbound side

because of the visual distraction.

We only have one lane getting by on the southbound side.

Kevin!

Yo!

So, with time pressure mounting...

Am I holding it, or I'm just pulling it?

..Kabal Litt, leading On Route's Toronto crew,

is joining the fight.

Rush hour always adds the pressure.

It's one of those times that,

you know, you just have to be on it right away,

and then just get it done.

Well, you can probably come in a little bit closer, eh?

Yeah.

This one was not going to be a quick recovery,

because the way it landed,

the pressure on the fifth wheel of the tractor.

Their first step will be easing that pressure.

Go right around the whole rim there, yeah.

Got it now? Yeah.

Kevin will lift the back of the tractor

as Kabal pulls the front, releasing the tension

so they can separate it from the trailer...

You guys want your cribbing?

..but first, they need the fire-fighters

to remove the supports,

leaving the tractor vulnerable to the pressure.

It was hard to judge what was gonna happen.

Once they're out of the way...

Yeah.

OK, go ahead, yeah.

No?

Play with it. Go back and forth!

Can you lift up a bit and then pull?

It'll be less resistance, maybe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go, yeah.

Because of the twists and the fifth wheel was twisted,

it was biting on the actual pin of the trailer...

No?

My truck's moving.

Oh, yeah, holy!

I gotta put the spike.

I have to block them.

He's gonna regroup!

Kevin needs to adjust the angle of his lift

to try and free up the stuck kingpin.

You always improvise, right?

So you try different angles.

Put the chain through, Dale, if you need the chain.

Yeah.

Instead of picking up from the top,

we actually tried to drag the back of the tractor towards Kevin,

so the space between the fifth wheel

and the trailer plate, you know, it decreases.

OK, let's try this.

That's better now, right?

(TENSE MUSIC)

You pulling now? There you go.

Whoa, something moved.

Until they relieve all the tension,

the truck could snap free at any moment.

You keep doing what you're doing.

Just kinda see-saw, yeah?

Come on, baby.

OK, pull?

There you go. Watch it, guys.

Whoa! That was a lot of pressure, eh?

Hoo-hoo! (LAUGHS)

Didn't look pretty, but it got done.

All good? Yeah.

So, what's the next step now for you guys?

So, we upright the tractor, so then we do the trailer,

then there's another trailer coming,

because the load itself is way too heavy.

Alright, still some work ahead of you.

Yeah.

The bulk of the job is still ahead,

and the afternoon rush is already here.

Kerry needs to make some room.

I'm gonna see if I can get one more lane.

Sure, yeah.

Alright.

I'll let you start, yeah.

Yeah.

Is that tight?

Get tight, tight, tight...

There ya go.

Boom in, there we go!

Traffic's getting heavier.

Hurry up, hurry up.

OPP wanted to get the highway up quicker,

what do we gotta do,

and yeah, we're just trying our best.

125 miles east,

the 401 is moving well through Belleville...

but on Highway 37, just north of town...

This is really nasty.

..Bill Wright is facing a confounding recovery.

We've seen trucks, you know, hit the end of the bridge

or the side of the bridge,

but to go down over a bank and right down to the water,

I've never seen anything like this before.

A car crossing the bridge forced the oncoming semi to swerve,

sending it crashing through the guardrail

and down the bank to the edge of the river.

He is some lucky

he went the other side of those trees.

It could have ended really bad.

The driver escaped before the cab burst into flames,

but he left a big mess behind.

Well, the biggest challenge is getting the load out

of the trailer.

That load, 40,000 pounds of cardboard,

is just one of many hurdles.

Between the overhead clearances, the depth of the ditch,

the cab is totally gone.

The right-hand side of the trailer

is severely compromised, ripped open.

The challenges are stacked on top of each other here.

Rigging up.

On a bridge on Highway 37...

Have you got a sec, Kim? Yes.

OK.

Bill Wright is sizing up the tough job below,

and he'll be working with a crew of locals.

We'll get the tractor outta here first...

Yup.

Kim Reid, owner of McCaffrey's Towing,

called B&G to assist her crew.

Five years ago, my ex-husband and I purchased McCaffrey's Towing,

and I fell in love with the world of towing.

Today she contacted Bill

because he has one piece of equipment

that she's resisted adding to her fleet...

It's not busy enough for a rotator in this area.

I mean, I could have one,

but it's gonna sit in my yard most of the time.

..but in this tight space, there's no other option.

We'll get Jason in with the excavator

to empty the load,

and then we'll bring the trailer out second,

separate, probably in pieces.

Likely.

It's bad.

The truck is fully burnt.

The trailer is leaning, resting up against some trees,

preventing it from fully rolling.

I gotta get by that tree to get that thing over there.

We're trying to work with the boom inside the tree line.

Then we gotta get it lifted up, over the bank,

over the guardrail, out onto a tiny little road.

This is something that we're gonna have to pay real close attention to.

Anywhere on the front bumper.

Should hold 'er. Good, I can tighten up?

Yeah, yeah.

Their first target is the easiest, what's left of the tractor.

Beauty.

To run the rotator up from on top of the bridge,

you can only see one side of the unit

when you're doing that work.

OK, you guys clear?

We're all clear, Bill!

Oh!

Bring the float through.

OK, good.

Now, they can turn to the real challenge.

The roof is completely out of it,

majority of the rivets on the other side are gone.

It's pretty badly compromised on the bottom side,

so I'm concerned that the floor itself is gonna buckle

due to the lack of roof, and corner,

and support from the structure of the trailer.

We made the decision to offload the trailer,

because it's heavily compromised.

It's broken in several locations, and it is heavy.

Now, we have the joy of dealing with the load.

But the trailer might not even survive

the strain of the offload.

It's gonna come out in pieces.

Kabal, pick up!

Back on the 427 in Toronto...

Ready to put it down?

Yes, sir!

..Kevin and Kabal are finishing up clearing

the truck and trailer...

So, as soon as that trailer is out,

I'm gonna see if I can get one more lane open.

Sure, yeah.

..but now they're facing the cargo, two generators,

weighing in at 30,000 and 40,000 pounds.

We're opening one more lane.

Hopefully that'll take some of the pressure off

the traffic congestion.

Kerry's opened up more room for traffic to flow...

You OK there?

..but that leaves less room for the crew to work.

Roughly 40,000 pounds, this machine.

A lot of weight, eh?

With the less space,

it's more risky if something goes wrong, you know?

Anything could happen.

Perfect.

The first generator is so damaged...

You good? Yeah.

..it could tear apart under the strain of the pull.

We'll roll it first, OK?

Yeah.

Just had to watch up-righting it, 'cause live traffic's going by.

You don't know what could break or fly off.

Watch it, guys.

OK, ready, we'll just go down slow?

There we go.

Let me catch up.

Watch our lines together, OK?

OK.

Now, let's pick it.

Two operators new to working as a team

will need to be in perfect sync.

Your winches are faster than mine!

Your truck's newer. Why is mine faster?

'Cause you're younger?

(LAUGHS)

OK, let's start rotating it.

Nice and easy!

Alright, I'm gonna set it?

That's OK, eh? Oh, that was good.

That was the heaviest one, so I'm happy.

So, with a system in place, they turn to the second unit.

Alright, let's roll it!

OK?

OK.

We'll go straight up?

Rotate.

Kevin and Kabal have found their rhythm as a team.

OK there?

OK!

When we got the second generator put on the trailer, it was a relief,

because, you know, you see it was still daylight.

Heavy parts are on.

So now we're on the home stretch.

I'm gonna clear. Thanks, Kerry!

Good job, man. See ya, buddy.

If I get a call in the big city again,

definitely I know I can rely on these guys, so it worked out.

Whoo!

(LAUGHS)

Gonna go home and sleep like a baby.

Hoo!

It was a bit of relief, and go home and have a cold one.

It was a long day.

Alright, good work, everybody.

Yeah. We'll see ya later on.

Thank you. Nice job.

Let's get outta here. Alright.

He's not gonna be that long. No.

North of Belleville,

the trailer has held together for the offload.

So, when he's done, um...

Now, Bill and Kim are working out how to lift it up onto the road,

and they've changed the plan.

We can try and hook onto it

in one big piece and see what happens?

Yeah.

Rather than salvage the trailer in pieces,

Bill's gambling he can move it intact.

This is a major lift, where we're coming out of the bottom

of a deep ditch, up over a guardrail.

We're gonna be six, seven, eight feet off

the ground at certain times.

We'll just get four long straps,

we'll go off each dolly leg...

OK.

..and just up and around to a hook and off the back

of each back wheel somehow.

I think that's what we'll try.

With four lines rigged from the rotator,

Bill will roll the trailer upright,

and then swing it around onto the road.

You got it? Good, yup.

OK.

This trailer is severely compromised,

so we want to get a hold of it

in as many places as we can from the bottom rails...

There you go.

SHANE The strap...

The reality here is I'm 50/50

on whether this trailer's actually gonna stay together.

You got no more boom out?

No, we're there.

I've never done this before.

I've never seen this done before.

Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle.

I hope the trailer holds.

Oh.

Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle.

Oh!

On the edge of the Moira River...

We're gonna try and do a four-wire lift

and pick up the whole trailer.

..Bill and Kim are putting the damaged trailer's stability

to the test.

What we're watching for here is to ensure

that there's no debris falling in the river.

Looking good now, we got her off the ground,

and she didn't break.

Oh, this is pretty cool.

So far, the trailer is holding...

What we like to see.

..but as Bill tries to reach the road, there's a new complication.

You're gonna hit that tree, Bill!

How much are we hooked on that tree by?

Little bit?

We've lifted trailers before.

We've never picked them up so high in the air

and rotated them right around the rotator

to the other side.

This is gonna be a tight fit.

There she goes.

We clear of those trees there?

Yes.

You don't see recoveries like this every day.

A job like this is where a rotator really gets to show

why rotators exist.

Yeah. Cool!

You know, what?

I've been saying that we don't want one of these

for so long, I think I might have changed my mind.

Oh, I definitely want one now.

It's definitely impressive.

It definitely made the job a hell of a lot easier.

Good work, bud!

Worked out alright. Didn't even break it.

Everything worked the way that we hoped it would.

Trailer came out in one unit, tractor came out in one unit.

The bottom rail stayed together to the point

where I think Kim's driver

is gonna be able to tow it back to their yard.

She'd have been a whole lot longer by a couple hours

if it didn't stay together, that's for sure.

Pick 'er up!

For Kim, the rotator, and its operator,

were the perfect fit for this job.

As a woman in the industry, I'm met with a lot of ego.

Shove it out? Shove it out.

Bill looks right past the fact that I'm a woman,

and he's willing to teach me, and he's willing to teach my guys.

Working with Kim and her guys is easy to do.

All done!

They want to learn. They're willing to help.

Thanks, guys, much appreciated. I'm going home.

I'd work with the McCaffrey team any time.

They were very, very good to work with.

Alright, you ready, Freddy?

Alright, buddy.

The next day, there's a visitor at Bill's house east of Oshawa.

His son Mitch is home for the weekend.

I got a day off today,

so I came down to Courtice to my parent's place,

and I got my little man Brody out here.

Alright, you ready to go no training wheels?

Alright, give 'er, man.

Atta be, buddy!

Seeing Brody get on the bike so young and start riding,

it's like a flashback to me.

Good job, buddy.

It's a chance to take some time away

from the pressure of running the new Bancroft office.

Dude, you're doing awesome, coming to a stop like that.

Oh, hairy.

Oh!

Ow!

Becoming a father at just 18,

Mitch still had a lot of his own learning left to do.

What'd you do, did you get your knee?

Not long before he left to start the new job,

Mitch made the commitment to get sober.

I knew, you know, about 1.5 years ago

it was time to make a change in my life,

and I was definitely going down a path

that was pulling me away from all the things that I loved,

you know, work, and family, and my son.

Here, give me a hug. Get up here.

(GRUNTS)

You OK?

I put myself in a place to,

you know, get myself better and take the next step,

and, you know, fortunate I'm, like 1.5 years clean now.

Look at your poor dirt bike now.

Should we pick it back up?

Yeah?

When you have a little boy waiting for you back home,

it's important that you do everything right...

Yeah, here, let me get mine out of the way.

..'cause, you know, it's not just about you.

Sometimes we're gonna fall down,

but you just gotta make sure you get back up, right?

Alright, buddy, give 'er.

(LAUGHS)

No problem!

200 miles south-west...

..the Preferred Towing rotator

is heading to an unusual kind of heavy recovery.

So, we've got a tractor trailer that uh...

He's gone through the ditch back up and out,

but he was carrying a load of rocks,

and it sounds like the entire load of rocks has come off the trailer.

So, Gary Vandenheuvel and his son Collin

don't know exactly what they'll find on scene.

This one's gonna be a little tricky.

Wow!

I cannot believe this guy made it through the ditch like

he did and got back up and out.

This is a weird one,

because the rocks are all over the road

and the ditch here,

and the truck is, like, 0.5 km up the road.

The truck never went in, apparently, just the trailers.

(LAUGH)

Heavy op Kyle Pewtress already has the truck

rigged up and ready to go...

We'll just limp it up the road.

..but it's the cargo that Gary and Collin will have to wrangle.

So, which one do we want to start with?

So, we're going to take the big ones...

Yup...

..get them loaded on your float,

get 'em right to the job site.

It's a bit scary how far these things will move

when you start thinking about the weight behind these things.

We pick up car parts.

We pick up rolls of steel.

We pick up sea cans, all kinds of things,

but this is a first for me

where we're picking up, actually, rocks.

I'm thinking more of a pull this way

to get it to tilt?

And rocks are not designed for easy rigging.

OK, let's see what it does.

They don't have weights stamped on them.

They don't say, "Lift here, don't lift there."

OK, just watch yourself back there.

Yeah.

Just watch yourself, it's still sliding.

The thing about rocks, we don't know the weights of them,

so it kind of poses all kinds of little challenges on this one.

Yup, that scared me.

If anything does let go,

we don't want to be anywhere near these things.

It could easily kill you.

Ah, the rocks are quite heavy.

It's a bit of a problem.

OK, just watch yourself back there.

Yeah.

Just watch yourself, it's still sliding.

On the eastern edge of Sarnia,

Gary and Collin are fighting to rig the un-riggable.

These rocks, they're down in the ditch.

They're big, they're bulky, they're heavy.

Are you floating?

Yeah, oh, yeah.

Just boom it up slow, and I'll watch here.

We couldn't extend all the way out.

We're trying to leave room for our float to come in.

It's a balancing act, that's all.

Slow down, you morons.

Look at 'em! A truck length apart.

But with heavy border traffic on the road,

they just don't have space to work.

Hey, how are ya? Good, you?

Good, good.

Um, we're probably gonna have to bump this over a little bit more.

OK.

'Cause I need enough room for the rotator

and the float to squeeze in beside me.

Hopefully they knock it down a notch, but, uh...

OK, yeah, hopefully.

You've always got to be aware.

You've always got traffic flowing at you,

especially when you're working in that centre median.

Tapering off an even longer section of the highway,

Gary and Collin will need to work faster.

There we go.

She's heavy!

7,000 pounds.

That's a big rock.

We want to make sure that it can't move around in our straps

and come crashing down,

because that's going to do a lot of damage.

Perfect.

Well, that's one down.

But that was just the warm-up.

That thing's a monster.

It's gotta be at least twice this one.

That one's gonna be a challenge.

200 miles north-east...

Get him backed in.

..Mitch's visit home is providing a chance to work

alongside his dad.

Straighten 'er out!

Came out of a driveway, the poor guy,

and he, uh, it just got away on him.

Just slid down the hill and jackknifed it.

The farm tractor weighs in at 30,000 pounds,

but first they need to deal with the manure spreader

that it was hauling.

Yeah, all that brown's not dirt, eh?

No, I know.

Being in Bancroft, you know, I don't get the chance

to spend as much time with my dad,

and I think I definitely took some of that time for granted...

It's like a very large outhouse.

(LAUGHS)

I miss that kind of camaraderie with him and I,

and having fun together and working big jobs.

You want to crank the wheel to the left coming in...

..and once again, Bill's been called to work

with a local company.

He can pull it away from the machine

while we're pulling it up the hill,

so he's going to do a little bit of a side pull from over there...

Yeah.

..and then we're gonna pull it up behind our truck...

Sounds good.

..and then we'll come back and upright the tractor after that.

Cool.

Working big jobs with his father in the past,

Mitch could get overwhelmed.

So, bring that one right to the job,

then back to me through the snatch block,

and then we'll bring this one to that one and marry it up.

Today is Mitch's chance

to show Bill how his months away have changed him.

I'm past my one-year mark of sobriety,

I think that's really when the work starts,

but I can tell that it's doing things for me.

You know, I'm more calm and crystal clear,

and, you know, I look at situations different.

Alright, let's go get those lines pulled out.

Hey, D, you want to come give me a hand?

It's been a while.

I've been in the small tow trucks so much lately up in Bancroft,

I haven't really had a chance to get my hands

on the controls of the big trucks...

OK, bring 'er up, Mitch.

Sooner or later, you gotta blow the dust off.

How's it looking?

Keep coming.

If you don't run these trucks every single day,

the ability to do more than one thing

with your fingers on the controls at a time,

it definitely gets rusty.

You're clear of the tractor.

OK, here, we'll get that unhooked.

We got it clear of the tractor,

so next step is to get this pulled out onto the road,

and out of the way,

and then we're onto the tractor situation.

Mitch, get that thing up here.

We're gonna get dark.

Dealing with the tractor's definitely gonna be more difficult.

It's on its side, down further, and into some trees.

So, what do you want, to get this right up to the wheel lift?

Yeah, If we get into the dark, this is easy to move.

I want to get the tractor up-righted

and get it outta here before it's dark.

We're definitely fighting daylight.

Playing in the dark down here's not going to be any fun.

It's gonna leave a trench.

Oh, she's gonna do that.

On Highway 402,

Gary and Collin are facing their second rock,

much bigger than the first.

Just taking a look here. That first one weighed 7,000 pounds.

This one's a bigger rock yet again.

You know, that's some serious weight.

We're physically digging a trench with this thing

as we're dragging it across the ditch.

Do you want to see if we can get something

under it while it's in the curve?

That's what I'm thinking.

Um, just boom up, let's see what it does.

Just be real careful, please.

Oh, this is gonna work out OK.

Let's just grab a strap,

we'll lay it underneath right to start.

OK.

We're definitely gonna have to keep an eye out as we're lifting.

Alright.

There are a lot of sharp edges.

You know, these come out of a quarry where they're tossed around.

C'mon, you bugger.

..and those edges...

Hold on.

..could rip apart their rigging.

It's cut right through it, didn't it?

Yeah, we're alright.

Let's get most of it on that one, though.

Not 100% happy with that strap.

It's...

The rock's caught it and cut it.

It's mainly in the outer casing,

which doesn't have anything to do with the lift,

but we'll watch it.

Hopefully it holds.

OK.

It's definitely a very thin line we have to walk here,

because if we cut the actual bands inside,

the strap's just going to blow apart.

We got 11,500 on this one.

And you haven't even lifted this thing yet.

The last thing we need is for it to cut

one of the straps loose and roll down the ditch,

because this thing's a monster.

Got about 14,000 right now.

You got it all, or...

What's she at? 19,000.

19,000?

Yeah. Wow!

We don't have this thing fully in the air yet,

but already the scale reading

is just climbing, climbing, climbing.

Wow, it's almost hitting 20,000 there now.

Yeah.

21,000.

That's probably good right there.

There we go.

OK.

We're rocking this recovery today, I'll tell ya.

Definitely a relief,

and I can put that one down in the notepad,

and say we've done rocks now.

The big pieces, the heavy ones, they're loaded up now.

We're just gonna pack up, head out.

The client's waiting for 'em at the job site.

He's gonna get the smaller rocks for us,

and put it in one of their dump trucks,

so kind of a combination effort here today.

A rocky start for father and son, but a stone-cold victory.

Good job. Thank you.

That is how you move rocks.

Yeah. No kidding.

The neat thing about this job is it's always different.

Alright, let's get these rocks, and roll outta here.

Sounds good.

(BLOWS HORN)

Always wanted to be a rock star.

The dark's coming in.

Let's go.

Off the back road near Blackstock...

So, if we come through the back side of the knuckle,

we won't get into that steering rod.

..the reunited Mitch and Bill

are rigging to upright 30,000 pounds of tractor.

Almost there? CREW Almost.

Yeah, I'm just a little bit nervous

to pull off that tire though, too.

One of the rear wheels

suffered heavy damage in the rollover.

We gotta fight with the fact that

that wheel's gonna stay attached, or it's gonna break off completely,

and kind of give us a hard time coming up the hill.

Alright, you ready when I'm ready?

I'm ready.

(TENSE MUSIC)

OK, both of us, let's go.

OK, nice and easy.

Right as it starts to come,

we'll start to loosen off a bit, alright?

As we roll this tractor over,

I'm definitely worried about that wheel coming off.

See how fast it's going to come?

Yeah, OK. There she is, she's over.

And... one more little one, she's coming.

There she is, you own 'er.

And there she goes. Done.

Yeah, tire came right off, I knew it!

Well, that's not gonna make things any easier coming out.

Uh, no.

Look at the centre of that rim. I know.

That's just...

Exploded.

Like, it's just disintegrated.

Damn, that's just not good for us.

We'll just, we'll take our line, get it on this rim,

get it into high gear,

and get this rim up to the street, get it out of our way.

Hey, Dalton!

Come down here and flip this tire, gym rat.

Yeah. Alright.

Now, Mitch needs to keep himself together.

You know, in the past,

we'd see him get a little bit frustrated with something,

and the frustration would linger through the day.

Now, we see Mitch, and he's that kid that's back

on the ball with the ideas and the thoughts,

and, you know, the want to get this done.

He's gonna get a container hook. Let's get this dragged out of here.

Yeah.

There we go.

Boom!

Damaged real bad.

Without four rolling tires,

they're facing a much harder pull for the heavy tractor.

The tractor now is three-wheeling.

The axle will be dragging on the ground,

creating excessive resistance to pull.

So, they'll need to maximise their pulling power.

We ran one winch cable through a snatch block,

through another snatch block, married our lines together.

Two winch cables doing one thing.

OK. Mitch?

Good? Let's go.

See how hard she is to pull?

I can't imagine it's gonna be...

Well, a little harder than you think.

You're pulling 35,000.

It's not coming very easily.

That's a pretty serious pull.

There's a lot more weight there

than what it looks like, that's for sure.

It's digging into the ground at the back.

We're dragging that axle through,

which is just piling up our resistance.

It's definitely not something to mess around with.

Plowing pretty good, eh, on the one side, but...

Nothing you can do about it.

There's constantly the danger of,

you know, something breaking, something going wrong.

That's starting to get heavy.

Little bit of boom height.

I'm starting to see in the truck

that it's taking a little bit more of that weight.

That's good, eh?

Yeah.

Good enough, let 'er back down.

Back down.

We're just gonna get the float to come down now

so we can kind of get outta here.

We're losing daylight big-time.

Pick this back end up and get it swung around here.

10-4, sir!

Today Bill has seen a success bigger than just the job itself.

I'm very proud of Mitch.

We're gonna run...two blue straps.

He's got 'em right there.

To see him in Bancroft,

using that as a place of change for his life,

so, he's, you know, kind of in a new area, new people,

you know, new surroundings, new responsibilities.

Alright, cable down.

I like it.

Ever since I decided to get clean,

things have just kind of started to explode with work.

It's like my brain's in the right places now,

and I'm just, I'm on fire.

I think we're done.

Thanks for your help, brother. Good time had by all.

Appreciate it. Yeah, awesome job today, guys.

That was sweet. Good to work with ya.

That was awesome.

For a dad, it's always cool to have your kids

come up in your footsteps.

You know, however, in today's society,

this is a tough trade.

But as Mitch has been stepping up,

unknown to his sons,

Bill has been wrestling with a temptation to step away.

We've had another towing company

put an offer in place to purchase my heavy towing business.

The money and the timing are almost too good.

My wife's retiring in one week,

and this couldn't come along at a better time.

I believe things happen for a reason.

But Bill's sons have always seen their future in the family business.

People that do this job, it's either in you, or it's not.

It takes a special breed.

(LAUGHS)

The family is in for a big change if the deal goes through.

There's a big piece of me that

hopes something makes it fall apart.

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