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[Narrator] This time on Heavy Rescue: 401...

[OPP officer] That's a different one.

[Narrator] ...hot pursuit...

Apparently they were actually calling 911 just now.

[Narrator] ...takes a turn.

Gotta look into this a little bit further.

[Mitch] It's stinky.

[Narrator] Mitch...

[coughing] This stuff can't be good for us.

[Narrator] ...faces a pile of problems...

[Mitch] Makes me wanna go back to school

and work at a desk.

[Narrator] ...and father and son...

[Gary] It's gonna break any second.

[Narrator] ...get blown away.

[Collin] Holy crap, this is insane.

[Narrator] It's been a day of dry, clear weather

spreading across the southern edge of Ontario.

[Narrator] For some drivers,

the conditions are too much temptation.

[siren wailing]

This guy's going a pretty good clip, eh?

[Narrator] Just around the shoreline of Lake Ontario,

across from Toronto...

Yeah.

[Narrator] ...constables Kevin Westhead

and Kyle DeGiuli

keep an eye on the evening commute

on the QEW in Niagara.

[Westhead] Once rush hour is over,

and we've got conditions like we do tonight

with the dry roads,

then it's a very good opportunity

for some motorists to take advantage

of the dry road conditions

and the open highways,

and we'll often see the speeds increase exponentially

as the night goes on.

It's certainly a growing trend of aggressive driving.

Even in a fully marked cruiser,

I'll have motorists pass me at high rates of speed,

so obviously we're looking out for anybody

that's blasting past us.

[Westhead] This highway is not just my workspace,

it's also my home area as well, too,

so I take speeding

and all the other types of offences out there

very seriously,

'cause I'm not only keeping the community at large safe,

but my family and friends as well, too.

Okay, let's see what we see.

Every day's something a little different,

so you just never know.

[Narrator] It doesn't take long

to spot one driver

leaving the speed limit in the dust...

133.

137, 38.

I think we're off.

[siren wailing]

Yeah, that's a little much,

especially in the centre lane.

You know which one?

Now he's going back out,

and he's signaling off to the left there.

That's him?

Trying to hide himself back in the pack.

Not gonna happen.

[siren wails]

[♪♪♪]

[siren wailing]

[DeGiuli] This guy?

[Westhead] Yeah, this is him.

138, almost 140K an hour,

and it's still pretty heavy traffic out.

That's just, that's just egregious to me.

Good evening!

Stopping you for speeding.

Is there any particular reason you're going so fast?

Oh, okay.

No, actually, I was coming after you

because of the speed.

Okay.

So, apparently they say

that they were actually calling 911 just now

because they were following a possible impaired driver.

Obviously I didn't make any observation of that,

but I still gotta investigate this situation first.

Okay.

That's a different one.

[Westhead] I've heard tons of explanations

over my career,

and some of them have been, you know, extremely repetitive,

but then other ones will just kind of floor you,

and leave you with your jaw dropping,

but at the end of the day,

they're usually just excuses and not explanations.

Gotta look into this a little bit further.

[Narrator] ...and a quick check

reveals another issue entirely.

Do you wanna just go see what she's got

in regards to insurance information?

Yeah.

You don't have...

So you don't have insurance on the vehicle?

Yeah, so they don't have insurance on the vehicle.

We're gonna have to remove it off the highway by tow,

'cause it can't be operated without insurance, obviously.

[Westhead] Unfortunately, the reality is

is that motorists operating their vehicles without insurance

is not an unusual occurrence.

We come across it pretty much on a daily basis

out on the highways,

and are doing our best to curb it.

Okay,

we'll give this gentleman his ticket.

So, sir, in regards to the speed,

you can't be going that fast.

All that being said,

as you can see, this is just a warning for the speed.

Okay?

So if you can't get the plate

because you gotta speed to catch up to it, just don't.

So they're gonna be actually charged

with permitting operation of a motor vehicle

with no insurance,

which is a $5,000 charge.

Not a good day.

Okay, so the ticket

is for "owner permit operate no insurance on a highway."

Yeah.

[Westhead] Well, the reason

we chose to give the break on the speed

was because I believed the driver

that they were in fact

trying to report an impaired driver,

but we need to remind drivers

that it is our job to catch up with these vehicles,

it's our job to stop them, to observe them.

If you observe something dangerous out on the road,

by all means call 911,

call the OPP and make us aware,

but do not speed after,

do not chase after them,

because that can just create further safety issues,

and that's what we want to avoid.

[Narrator] Without insurance on the vehicle,

a tow truck needs to remove it from the highway.

You never know what you're gonna get,

from a speeder to a "no insurance" occurrence.

Um... yeah,

it's just one stop at a time,

but it's always an interesting one,

that's for sure.

[Narrator] Daybreak unveils a busy morning rush

through Toronto.

[Narrator] East of the city,

it's already been a busy day

for B&G Towing's rotator...

[Mitch] There we go.

Okay.

[Narrator] ...and today,

there's a familiar face

at the controls of his father's new truck.

[Mitch] So my dad's headed away for a few weeks.

It's gonna be me here kinda holding down the fort

and taking care of things.

-Okay, thanks for your help. -Yup.

Take care, guys.

[Narrator] Mitch Wright has been working non-stop

for two days,

in a role he wasn't expecting

just a few months ago.

It's been a really weird year.

That should be good right there.

I think this one is a freebie.

[Narrator] Mitch spent last winter

running a small truck

in B&G's northern outpost in Bancroft...

Oh!

Just like that, she's good to go.

[Narrator] ...but after his father

sold off the company's heavy fleet...

You good?

[voice breaking] No.

[Narrator] ...it reignited Mitch's passion.

I think that was a big wake-up call for me.

You know, it's the family business.

It's been around two generations,

and I think it deserves to be around for a third.

Towing has been something

that's just been so impactful in my life

since I was a little kid

that I think you start to take it for granted.

You know, both of my brothers are out doing their own thing,

and they've found their path and what they wanna do,

and, you know, this is where I wanna be,

and it's what I want to do.

[Narrator] So when Bill bought a new rotator,

Mitch headed back home...

[Mitch] Being able to work with my dad

has been a huge blessing.

Not a lot of people get to,

you know, have that family time

and work time at the same time.

[Narrator] ...and with Bill on the road,

Mitch has been working on his own

to keep up with the calls.

All righty, let's get 'er done.

[Narrator] As day gives way to night,

Mitch is heading to another call

at a mushroom farm

30 kilometres off the highway

north of Whitby.

Somewhere, like, way out, I don't even know.

[Mitch] This place is located

probably 30 kilometres north of the 401

in a pretty rural area.

Oh, right there.

[Mitch] As I pull up,

I can see that the truck is still somewhat on its wheels,

the trailer's fully rolled over,

and it just looks like a huge mess...

[Narrator] ...but there's a whole different kind of mess

inside.

It's stinky.

It does smell like [bleep].

It might be [bleep].

I'm pretty sure it's [bleep].

So the load is chicken manure.

I love my job, I love my job, I love my job...

[Mitch] The smell is like a deep, thick, disgusting smell

mixed between like dirt and poo.

Well, unfortunately for us,

we got like three quarters of a load still in the trailer.

[Mitch] It sits in the back of your throat.

It kind of just like...

it's overwhelming.

The biggest roadblock right now

is this piston right here.

[Mitch] The piston that holds the dump box

from the trailer itself

is twisted in half.

Essentially, that piston uses

a ton of hydraulic pressure

to open and close the box

to dump the material out of it,

and right now,

because it's kinked,

getting that piston out of where it is

is gonna be super dangerous.

We need to figure out a way

to either, 'A', collapse that piston

so that when we go to tow it down the road,

we're not over height,

or 'B', find a way to cut it out

without leaking fluids on the ground.

It's doing serious yoga.

[Mitch] For me, that scares me,

'cause, you know,

it's pushing me outside of my comfort zone

and putting me into a, you know, an unknown area.

[Narrator] ...and his father

isn't offering any advice.

Wow, Bill, that's a seriously big inconvenience

that you're not answering your phone there, brother.

It's kind of like the first time where I've called him,

and the phone hasn't, you know, been picked up on the other end

to at least walk you through it,

so this freaks me out a little bit.

The problem is

there's no way to figure out

how much weight that is holding,

and which way the pressure's on it,

so when we go to cut it out,

like, realistically,

that thing could come out of there like a cannon,

and, like, take us out,

like, very, very easily.

Super sketch.

Super, super sketch.

Super sketch.

Super sketch.

Super, super sketch. Super sketch.

[Narrator] On a mushroom farm

north of Whitby...

The biggest roadblock right now

is this piston right here.

[Narrator] ...Mitch Wright

is staring down a twisted dump truck

filled with manure.

[Mitch] It's full. Dead full.

It's impossible to tell

exactly how much weight and how much pressure

is on either end.

[Mitch] I've dealt with a piston arm in the past,

but luckily I had my dad there

who kind of ran the show,

and I just said, "Yes, sir,"

so this is the first time

that I'm in the driver's seat,

and it's, you know, it's my headache.

Oh, Dylan's here.

[Narrator] Without his father,

Mitch can only rely on a brand-new rookie,

his friend Dylan Irvine.

[Dylan] Why are we walking through [bleep]?

-Why are we? -Yeah.

I don't know, 'cause we're dumb?

[Dylan] This is the first big-time recovery

I've done with Mitch.

He's obviously way more experienced than I am,

and I'm just trying to learn.

So, what I'm thinking

is that we can get you on that side...

Okay.

[Mitch] Dylan and I

have been friends since high school.

He's very strong in the, you know,

heavy trucking side of things.

[Narrator] Dylan's brought a Bobcat to help offload.

[Mitch] So the plan is to get the Bobcat with the bucket,

alleviate as much of the load out of the trailer

as we possibly can.

That leaves us room to start working on the piston.

The faster we get this offloaded,

and, like, not have to play in this, the better.

[Mitch] The second you start to move it

and disturb it,

the smell is absolutely disgusting.

[Narrator] ...and the fumes are proving stronger

than Mitch's determination.

[coughing]

I'm, like, inhaling it.

I got, like, [bleep] throat.

I thought my breath was bad before.

Gross, man.

[Narrator] On the road east of Sarnia...

[Narrator] ...snow squalls are whipping off Lake Huron

and smashing into drivers all along the 402...

There's a couple trucks in the ditch

out on the 402.

[Narrator] ...so Collin Vandenheuvel

is heading right into the worst stretch of highway.

The wind's whipping up.

We've got snow flying everywhere.

It's hard to see.

My dad and myself are going out.

It sounds like it's a pretty big mess.

We might be able to divide and conquer

and take them both on at the same time.

Holy crap!

[Narrator] Gary's already on scene

at the first of the two crashes,

just a few exits down the highway.

[Collin] It really hurts the face.

[Narrator] He's depending on Collin

to quickly take care of a sea-can semi

stuck in the ditch

before joining in on the bigger scene.

It's pretty steep, but it's...

actually, it's not as bad as I thought it was.

Just the snow makes it look a lot worse.

[groaning]

Holy crap.

Frickin' stings, man!

This is, uh, this is going to be a big job.

I'm gonna see if I can tackle it by myself

with just the one truck,

but I don't know...

I don't know if it's gonna wanna go for me or not.

[Narrator] Just down the road...

[Narrator] ...eastbound traffic is stopped dead.

[Gary Vandenheuvel] Got the entire 402 shut down.

We've got about 10 kilometres of traffic backed up.

[Narrator] Gary is sizing up his job.

[Gary] It's a big one tonight.

Heavy, heavy winds,

snow's coming down sideways,

and these tractor-trailers have crossed the entire highway.

Nobody can get by.

Two trailers are wedged.

Just crazy.

I haven't seen anything quite this tight

in a long time.

[Narrator] In blinding snow,

a fully loaded semi

failed to see a slowdown ahead,

slamming right into the back of a flatbed.

This thing's wedged like nobody's business.

[Narrator] Gary will need a delicate touch

to pry the mangled trucks apart

without making a much bigger mess.

This trailer's really compromised,

and I'm really concerned

that when they do come apart,

that this trailer's actually going to break in two,

and the load's going to spill out onto the road.

Right now, this is gonna be a big challenge

to get this out of here.

Yeah, there's another one up the road.

[Narrator] Until Collin arrives,

Gary's only help is junior op Tim Halliday.

What I want you to do, Tim,

is I want you to spin your truck around.

[Gary] I've got Tim here helping me right now.

We'll work together

so we can get this lineup cleared.

Go right back to him, Tim,

and then come out on an angle like this.

We'll hook you up.

That's good there, Tim.

[Gary] Because we have this highway closed down,

and we have such a backup of traffic,

I'm really hoping that Collin can get here

to the other side of this wreck

and help us out.

You know, I'm relying on him

pretty heavily tonight

because this is such a big job

that we've got going here.

[wind gusting]

Oh, my god.

That's insane.

Blow you right off your feet if you're not careful.

[Narrator] Up the road,

a fresh squall is hammering Collin.

I'm really hoping that this comes up nice and quick.

That way I can get down the highway

and give my dad a hand.

This is gonna be all I got, and then some.

[Collin] So I'm going to have the driver start his truck up

and air everything up.

That way, you know, it frees all the wheels up.

I don't have any resistance then.

It will just be rolling resistance coming up

and out of this ditch.

Okay, if you want to get the truck fired up

and see if it will air up for me?

That would be awesome.

Just don't release the brakes yet!

[engine struggling to start]

[starter struggling]

Low fuel?

Okay, do you have any air pressure, or no?

Nothing?

[sighs] Okay, I'll see if I can back-feed ya, okay?

[Collin] Because of the lean on this unit,

it seems that all the fuel has run to the far side tank,

which is the tank that doesn't get drawn from,

so his truck won't actually run right now,

so I'm going to actually have to back-feed this unit

and air it up myself.

I think I can make this work.

[Narrator] Compressed air from Collin's truck

should release the locked brakes...

Oh, that's getting nasty again.

[Narrator] ...but if they don't get the engine to run...

[air hissing]

[Narrator] ...Collin and Gary

will be facing a new problem.

If I gotta spend the time to tow him,

I won't be able to give my dad a hand.

Oh, for cryin' out loud.

I just got it in my eyeball.

Yeah.

[Narrator] On a mushroom farm

far north of the 401...

[coughing]

This stuff can't be good for us.

[Dylan] No, it's not.

[Narrator] ...Mitch and Dylan

are removing the last of the manure

the hard way.

[Mitch] We got as much done as we could with the Bobcat,

but unfortunately,

the front section is going to have to be hand-bombed,

you know, shovels, by hand, by foot,

whatever we're going to have to do

to get it out,

and it's starting to get pretty nasty out there.

You all right?

Stomach's not all right.

All good, chill out for a bit.

Being confined in that trailer with a shovel

moving it around, breathing in the fumes,

it's overwhelming.

I can't even [bleep] deal with this anymore.

I'm gonna yak.

[Mitch] This stuff is just kicking up everywhere.

Gross, man.

Dylan's got it in his gloves.

I've got it in my eyes, the back of my throat.

We're breathing it in.

It's absolutely everywhere.

[Narrator] But they've finally shovelled

enough of the load

to move onto the recovery,

one that Mitch has never tackled before.

[Mitch] This freaks me out a little bit.

My dad's away.

We get a big nasty,

and have to figure it out on our own.

[Mitch] The hardest part of this job

is definitely going to be removing that piston.

The piston is bent, twisted up.

You know, it's in a really, really bad spot,

so getting that disconnected

and removing it without, you know,

spilling hydraulic fluid on the ground

is going to be the hardest part.

So we have a 55-gallon drum

that we need to put the fluid into.

This one will spin off, too, I think, right?

Yeah.

[Narrator] But he does know

that the piston is full of hydraulic fluid

which will have to be drained.

Are you ready?

'Cause [bleep] gonna move.

Yeah.

I just don't know what yet.

We're getting there.

I think you're free now.

Oh, wrong side.

We didn't think that one through very good, did we?

Just gonna get more messy.

-Oh, you know what we do have? -What?

[laughs] Those PVC pipes in the truck.

Grab a PVC pipe, we'll hook it to that,

and we'll make a little slide.

This is some backyard boogie bunch of [bleep]

right here, brother.

[Mitch] Luckily, we found some tubing in the truck,

we got some duct tape going.

Anything we could find in there.

We're gonna use this

to direct the fluid out of the cylinder

and into our bin.

All right, let's try that again.

I think it's gonna do the trick.

Kinda.

It's closer.

Just try to...

Let's do it. Are you ready?

No.

Is that going in?

I think so.

I think so too.

I don't really like standing here.

It's not moving, though.

[Narrator] After almost four hours on scene,

it's closing in on 5:00 a.m...

People are gonna start showing up for work here soon.

[Narrator] ...and Mitch can't even start the upright

until they remove the piston.

[Dylan] This main pin right here,

we gotta cut it on both sides

so we can pull this assembly out

and get it out of our way.

[Mitch] We're gonna grab onto the ram itself

at the truck end,

and try to get a hold of it.

We're gonna just use the chop saw

and get in there

and chop the pin out on both sides.

Okay, boom up!

Okay, whoa!

[Narrator] With the rotator now holding the arm,

they can try to cut it loose.

[saw buzzing]

So that's a no-go, eh?

[Narrator] They'll need more cutting power

than the chop saw can provide...

[Mitch] Where would you torch it?

[Dylan] Torch there and torch there.

[Narrator] ...but a cutting torch

is one tool that Mitch doesn't have on hand.

[Mitch] So this makes me wanna go back to school,

work at a desk.

It's getting to be a little bit too much.

I just need a set of torches, that's literally it.

There's a set of torches in the shop.

[Mitch] Unfortunately,

we're going to have to get Michael to come in

and bring us a set of torches.

Like, I'm over it.

I don't want to be here.

[Narrator] On Highway 402,

eastbound drivers have been stuck

for over two hours.

[Narrator] Gary is almost rigged up...

[Gary] That's good.

You should be able to get 'er hooked on there.

[Narrator] ...and ready to separate the tangled trucks

blocking their way,

but a wrong move

will make a much bigger problem

and an even longer backup.

[Gary] Nothing too hard, Tim, okay?

[Gary] If we're separating this,

and this doesn't work,

and this trailer actually breaks apart on the roadway,

everybody in the lineup behind us

is stranded now for hours

while we clean this up.

[Collin] Holy crap, my line's already buried.

I can't even see it.

This is insane.

[Narrator] Farther west,

Collin is still fighting through a heavy squall

to finish his own job.

[Collin] It's starting to move the way I need it to now.

Doing little pulls like this,

and that's gonna hopefully get him up on the road here.

How's that back end, is it almost out?

It's coming out, yeah.

[Collin] Yeah, I think he's up on the road enough

that he can drive out if we can get him going.

[Narrator] But after leaning in the ditch,

there's no guarantee

that the truck's engine will start.

[Collin] Is your fuel starting to level out now?

What I think's happened

is the fuel all ran to one side,

so you won't be able to start it by yourself.

We brought some Brakleen to help get it going.

[Collin] If I've gotta hook him up,

that takes me out of the picture for my dad.

Every truck counts, and every man counts.

[spraying]

Let's see if we can get you moving, okay?

[starter chugging]

[spraying]

Keep feeding 'er, keep feeding 'er!

Keep feeding it! [engine running]

[spraying]

That's how you party with fire, my friends!

We've got this thing fired back up,

so he's going to be able to drive this thing out of here,

which is a huge relief,

and it's an awesome sight to see.

[engine rumbling]

That's a good sound.

Now we got the truck running.

I can go out and give my dad a hand.

[Narrator] ...but just getting to Gary's scene

through the traffic

is a whole new problem.

[Gary] The key here is to get a lane open

so we can get traffic rolling by us,

just get this highway cleared up.

Just a little off the ground.

[Narrator] They'll rig

to the back of the auto parts trailer,

then lift the belly.

They'll pull the semi away,

allowing the lumber truck to drive free.

[Gary] I'm hoping

we can give a little slide sideways

at the same time,

and it'll actually pop free.

Okay, Tim, just give it a little pull.

Let's see what it does.

Okay, nice and slow, Tim.

Tim, are you on the other side?

Yeah, his tires are moving.

It's coming.

You're doing good, just a little more.

Yeah, it's coming.

We're getting there an inch at a time.

You're almost there.

I'm gonna get you to try that one more time.

[Gary] I'm watching this unit come apart.

I mean, it is so compromised,

it is actually being held up by the other trailer.

Okay, give it a little bit.

There he goes, he's got 'er.

-Good! -Good!

Okay.

I'm amazed that it's held together

and it hasn't collapsed.

That works out great.

Teamwork.

That's the way we like it.

We've got this separated.

I'll have Tim hook onto this trailer,

slide it off to the side.

Once it's outta the way,

we can open up the traffic

and let these people get through and get home.

Now, the million-dollar question.

Will she hold together?

[Gary] At this point,

my hope is that I can just slide this trailer over

far enough that it doesn't break apart,

we can get a lane open

so that we can get this traffic moving,

and get it by us.

Okay, just take it slow for me.

[banging]

Yeah, that is ugly.

Yeah.

Leave it there.

There's a good chance

this thing's just gonna go all over the road.

Okay, you're gonna take this really slow.

Everybody stay away from the trailer, guys.

Stand back.

Easy.

If this breaks apart,

we're gonna have auto parts all over the road.

I don't like the sounds it's making,

but it's sliding around.

It's gonna break any second.

[metal creaking]

[Narrator] On the 402 at the edge of Sarnia,

Gary is fighting to open an escape route...

[Narrator] ...but the damaged trailer

might not survive the move.

[Gary] It's gonna break any second.

[Gary] It makes me nervous.

I want to be able to open up the roadway,

but looking at this trailer being so badly compromised,

it really is one of those situations

where if this goes bad, I'm not sure.

It's anybody's guess at this point.

That's good, guys.

I think that's good.

We got enough room to get everybody by?

I'm absolutely amazed

that this thing has held together.

I didn't think it would.

We're good.

We'll move that last tow truck,

and then if you guys wanna walk them through here

on this open lane,

it's yours,

and it will at least clear the traffic.

[Gary] The convoy will begin.

[Gary] We've lucked out here.

Traffic can get by.

Now the real work begins.

[Collin] It's so busy,

you don't even know what's going on.

[Narrator] Now that traffic

is clearing through the bottleneck,

Collin can roll onto scene.

[Gary] Collin's here now,

so I'm really happy to have him here

just to help us out and finish this off.

All right, how are you guys making out?

If you wanna just get some chains set into place

here on the back?

We'll finish this up,

and we'll get outta here and get home.

Okay, sounds good.

Okay, thanks.

[Tim] Nothing left of this trailer.

[Collin chuckles] No.

This is probably one of the ugliest ones I've seen.

Wow.

I've got the guys under here right now.

They're cross-chaining the trailer.

What that's doing

is actually making a floor structure

for this trailer,

because we've lost the entire wall

and the integrity of this.

Just a temporary solution

to get us off the road

and get us home with it.

That's it.

That's how we make things move.

Let's give it a lift.

Let's see if it holds together.

There we go.

Gonna be a slow, ugly ride home.

Oh, yeah.

Out a bit more?

-Out more? -Little bit more.

-Okay. -Okay.

Let's air 'er up, and away we go.

Take it home, guys.

[Gary] Collin didn't make it for the majority of this wreck,

but I know he had his hands full out on this highway.

We had tractor-trailers everywhere,

in the ditch, jackknifed,

and he was a lone soldier tonight

dealing with this.

[Collin] This has definitely been

one of the longest nights we've faced

in a long time.

That is a win.

Oh, yeah.

[Narrator] 350 kilometres east...

[Mitch] Oh, living the dream.

[Narrator] ...the sun is coming up,

but the manure trailer

is still lying down.

-[alarm ringing] -Oh, there's my alarm

to wake up for work.

Oh, cool.

I was ahead of schedule today.

That's fantastic.

I didn't even get to set one last night, so...

Initially getting there,

I thought we were gonna have this thing done

by sunrise, but no.

Do you want to cut top first?

[Narrator] With the cutting torch

now on scene,

Mitch is ready to make some much-needed progress.

[Mitch] We're gonna have to cut some metal

and try to get this thing freed up.

If we cut it, like, here...

I'm definitely nervous using the torch.

I've never had to cut a hydraulic cylinder out.

[Mitch] Hydraulic fluid is flammable,

so at this point,

we just gotta keep a fire extinguisher handy,

be careful where we're cutting.

-Are you ready? -No.

Neither am I, but let's do it.

[Dylan] A lot of pressure

can get built up in the hydraulics

when they're not being released anywhere.

When the hydraulic fluid sprays,

it turns into a flamethrower, pretty much.

Hey, Dylan, you got a fire, bud.

-Are you ready? -No.

Neither am I, but let's do it.

[Narrator] On the mushroom farm

north of Whitby,

rookie operator Dylan is playing with fire...

[Mitch] It's got to be at the bottom.

[Narrator] ...and there are hydraulic lines

just inches away.

[Mitch] Hydraulic fluid is very flammable,

something we definitely have to worry about

and keep an eye on.

Hey, Dylan, you got a fire, bud.

You're good.

[Narrator] The flames are under control,

but it's a reminder,

even after working all night,

Mitch and Dylan need to stay alert.

[Dylan] We don't need to make this a messier recovery

than it already is.

Bottom's out.

You're good, you're through, Dylan.

[Narrator] Dylan's cut the pins

securing the piston.

[Mitch] Want me to give that a little tug?

[Narrator] Now Mitch has to wrestle it free.

Hey, Dylan?

I can't see, so...

[Dylan] Yeah, I know, I know.

I'm trying to figure out what you need to do.

Yeah, it almost needs to come out this way.

[Mitch] So, we're trying right now with the rotator

to get the piston pulled out,

but due to how jammed and twisted the piston is,

we're getting nowhere.

Um, how we wanna do this?

What's your idea?

Right here.

Does the inside look off?

-Yeah. -Yeah?

So if I took my auxiliary and put it on that,

and drag that to me?

Yeah, you can do that.

We can do that...

We're using one of our auxiliary lines

to actually try to compress the cylinder

to get it out of the top of the trailer,

as well as out of the chassis at the same time.

Okay, you've got enough pressure on it now.

[Mitch] Pulling on it, dragging on it this way,

hook to the piston this way...

[Dylan] Keep going out with it, if you can.

-Boom out? -Yeah.

Just trial and error.

[metal creaking]

It's free.

Okay, whoa.

There it goes.

Keep going.

A little more, you're almost past the top rail.

Okay, you're good, yeah.

Now that the piston's out of our way,

we can move forward.

[Narrator] But it's well past 9:00,

and they still need to upright the trailer.

[Mitch] On my 25th hour going...

[Dylan] I'm running out of juice.

-Hmm? -I'm running out of juice here.

So we're just getting the line on the front ready.

We wanna kinda like

be able to pick this thing up

and roll it at the same time.

[Narrator] They'll use two boom lines

and one low line,

pulling the bin onto the chassis,

and then uprighting the entire trailer,

all in one fluid move.

Kind of all in one motion,

so that's the goal.

That's the goal.

I can say I've never ran a rollover.

Ever.

[Narrator] It's a finesse maneuver

for one exhausted operator

and one equally exhausted rookie.

-Hey, Dylan? -You want me to watch, or...?

Would you like to run the controls?

What?

Would you like to do control stuff?

Kinda.

[Mitch] Dylan, he hasn't had a ton of experience,

but I trust his skills,

and I know he's ready for it,

so it's time to put him behind the controls.

-You want to? -That would be cool.

I don't wanna take your thunder today, though.

No, give 'er, man.

I've had lots of thunder, don't you worry.

-Oh, I know. -Give 'er.

[Dylan] I am new to it,

I don't know exactly what I'm doing.

I'm trying to learn still.

For Mitchell to be like, "I'll let the new guy do it,"

that feels really good.

Now tighten up your back one there.

It's gonna wanna drag it,

so you're gonna wanna lead with your front for sure.

Okay.

[metal creaking]

[Dylan] There's definitely a lot of pressure

when you're standing at the controls

of a really expensive truck.

That's what you want, baby.

[Dylan] Yeah, but won't it snap?

[Mitch] What?

Won't it snap when it comes over?

No.

[Narrator] Mitch will keep watch

over the roll,

and guide his friend through.

I'm gonna go stand over here,

but I'm gonna keep talking.

Yeah, it's looking good.

[cracking and popping]

Get that back coming a little bit,

and get that dig.

Hey, Dylan, are you more comfortable

working off that control panel there?

Yeah, but then I can't see.

Yeah, but you can see me.

In the midst of the rollover,

kinda where we were located,

and how the truck was situated,

I was in an unsafe place,

because that's where the truck could possibly go

if it flipped over.

[Mitch] I'm just gonna be the eyes

to make sure everything's going smooth.

One wrong pull,

and we realistically could damage the rotator, the truck.

I mean, it could be catastrophic.

I want you to boom in,

and both cables at the same time, in.

Now, finesse, right? Finesse.

In on the front, in on the front,

in on the front...

Keep going.

Yeah.

Yeah, keep 'er coming.

Keep booming up.

Hold on here.

Look at that, how bad that's held up on that rail.

Oh, yeah.

[Narrator] Dylan has almost set the trailer down,

but its not lining up with the chassis.

[Mitch] The entire weight of that trailer right now

is sitting on maybe a half a foot,

little piece of metal up against a frame rail.

There's a ton of pressure there,

so, I mean, there's only so much

that something like that can take.

How are we gonna fix that?

How are we gonna fix that? How are we gonna fix that?

[Mitch] How are we gonna fix that?

How are we gonna fix that? How are we gonna fix that?

[Narrator] After a long, painful night,

Mitch's manure-truck recovery

is landing off target.

Can you see under?

It's stuck in the frame.

On the outside of the frame, not the inside.

Based on the fact

this trailer has been bent and twisted around

for so many hours,

it's not going to sit dead straight.

You know what? Uh...

We don't even...

Dylan, go let off on the back nice and slow.

Like, let the back down?

Yeah, like, let that, your back right off, totally.

[Dylan] The solution

is to shift the box of the trailer over

just a little bit,

and leave the chassis where it is,

so we can get them to line up.

[Narrator] It's their only hope,

but it's a gamble.

[Mitch] I can see that there's only really two options.

Either it's gonna jump over

and make a really uncontrolled move,

or that's going to fall back where it needs to be.

Boom out a bit.

Is that ever stuck on there, dude.

That is so gnarly.

Back up, guys.

That's sketch.

[Narrator] The trailer box

has settled on the chassis,

but they still need to coax it

into its locked position.

So, if I just straight pick up a little bit,

to boom it in...

Yeah, you're gonna have to anyway,

so just boom up.

Then it'll come in.

[Mitch] It should, yeah.

[Dylan] It should, in theory.

Okay, stop.

[Mitch] We just have to continue pulling it towards us,

letting it settle,

and then dropping the container chassis

down onto the trailer itself.

Okay, you're gonna boom in, cable in.

Yeah, let 'er down.

Yeah, there you go.

Okay, that was seriously not it.

Let's never, ever do that again.

This thing's finally over with.

You did a rollover.

Thanks, dude.

Dylan finally got to get behind the controls

and do a recovery,

and got a notch on his belt.

Good job. That's kinda cool.

[Narrator] It wasn't a job

Mitch was confident to tackle,

but without his father to take the lead,

Mitch found the leader within himself.

-Is he gonna answer? -Probably not.

Probably not.

[Mitch] You know, at the beginning of all this,

I wasn't sure if I was, you know, 100% ready to do it,

but you know what, at the end of the day,

we did what we had to do,

and we got the job done.

Oh, there you are. Hi.

[Bill Wright Sr.] Hi. How you doing?

Good.

Could've used you at, like, 5:00 in the morning.

Look, it was a tough recovery for anybody

at any level of experience in this trade.

You know, really,

it's about trying to play as safe as you can,

and get the job done with nobody getting hurt,

and that happened,

so at the end, it's a success.

Are you ready?

No.

[Bill Sr.] The last year for Mitch

has been, um, very, very maturing for him.

He's actually starting to worry

about the people, the things, the business around him.

All right, well,

let's get everything back to the yard...

Yeah.

...and maybe get some sleep?

Yeah.

I think everybody wants to grow up

and be exactly like their dad.

That rotator job is something I've always wanted,

and I, you know,

I've worked my butt off to get there,

and I did it.

It's that atmosphere of the 401,

the crazy, hectic, chaotic lifestyle.

I don't think I'll ever be able to get rid of that.

Yeah. Let's do it.

[honks twice]

[Narrator] Next time on Heavy Rescue: 401...

-Okay, man, snug your line up. -Tighten my line up.

[Narrator] ...a mangled trailer...

There it goes.

Yeah, it definitely got can-openered, that's for sure.

[Narrator] ...tangles with Austin.

[Duncan] Are you guys ready?

[Narrator] A trio of companies...

[Narrator] ...fights tons of resistance...

-Hold it! -Whoa, whoa!

[Narrator] ...and a fiery wreck...

We got a dump truck fire!

[Narrator] ...turns up the heat.

[James] It's a huge mess.

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