03x02 - Razor's Edge

[bunniefuu]

[Brad] Slack it down.

[narrator] Previously on
"The Last Woodsmen"--

[bleep].

[bleep].

Less than halfway
to his $2 million

Forever Claim buyout...

- What's shaking?
- ...Jared makes
an ambitious gamble

on a second operation.

It's called Kachelot Creek.

It's in
Chief Jerry Jack's territory.

I've trusted you all these
years to do what you're doing

in our territory, and I've seen
the way you do your business.

I'm very, very grateful
for the opportunity.

But with his crew once again
divided between stacking timber

for the Forever Claim barge...
- [Jared] And away we go.

...and a 60-mile Float Camp
move to Kachelot Creek...

Oh [bleep]!

Man overboard!

...Jared faces the daunting
road ahead.

[Jared] Now that Float Camp is
in place, I know my team and I

can really tackle this claim.

[wood creaking]

[music plays]

- [Ross] Everything
always goes smooth.
- [Jared] Yeah.

- We never have any issues.
- [Jared] Yeah.

- Every day.
- I guess that's why we have
so many mechanics

and so many bald people.
- Yeah.

A little more than six weeks
from now,

winter will bring
sub-zero temps and over 10 feet

of snowpack to
the Pacific Northwest.

To beat the freeze,
Jared Douglas will wrestle

with two logging operations.

The Forever Claim, which is due
for its next log barge in

two days, and up for a full
buyout if Jared can raise

the remaining cash in time.

And a second operation in
Kachelot Creek, which he hopes

contains enough loggable money
trees to put him over the top.

[Ross] Oh, this is old.

[Jared] These old bridges
are dangerous.

Like, you just look
at it, you know.

Well, there's no way you can
get equipment across here.

You definitely won't be able
to haul logs across it.

With big machines due to
arrive in three days,

Jared and foreman Ross inspect
the old logging roads.

[ominous tone plays]

5,000 acres of timber,

Kachelot Creek is set in
Mowachaht-Muchalaht
First Nation Territory.

Last logged in 1965,
it comes with infrastructure,

some of which has not stood
the test of time.

[Jared] Last thing we need
is a log loader

going through here,
or worse, a yarder.

[blows air]

It's an old cedar log bridge.

That's what the loggers used to
use in the day, when we didn't

have steel bridges to put down.

We need to replace this.

I know where there's an old
steel bridge that I could

probably get for pennies
on the dollar.

But, until then, we can't log.

We got to get
the road crew up here.

- [Jared] We need to
get to this timber.
- [Ross] Yep.

[music plays]

Back at the Forever Claim...

[Glen, on radio] Just give me
the wave.

Or the finger,
I can, either or.

[Brad] OK, pick her up,

run her in, raw hide.

The next $100,000 barge
royalty is due in 24 hours,

so foreman Brad Laviolette
and super snorkel operator

Glen Baird tag-team to pull


of fresh-cut timber
off the hillside.

[Brad] Down in there.

That's good, I'll go have
a look at it.

So in this particular spot,
it's down over a rock cliff

with a ridge of stumps
in front of it.

There's a couple really big
cedars down there that I'm not


to get up and over by himself.

In these situations,
you just have to call for

a chokerman to come
and lend a hand.

Oh, yeah.

We can work hand in hand.

We'll get these logs
past the obstacles.

OK, all clear.
Beep, beep, beep.

That's good.
Perfect.

To retrieve fallen timber,
loggers rely on

two massive machines--

the yarder, which requires
a three-man crew

and multiple anchor points to
pluck logs off the hillside,

and the heavyweight of them
all, the super snorkel,

which can
single-handedly harvest

up to seven truckloads a day.

I'd say there was a few money
logs down there.

[Brad, speaking]

Big wood needs big chokers,
big lines.

Technology's been around
for about 100 years.

It's the same equipment that
my granddads were using, my dad,

my uncles, maybe even
my great-granddad.

It's almost like
a time machine.

- [clattering]
- [tense music plays]

- [Brad] Oh nice, nice shot.
- This is your highway.

[Brad, on radio]

So this is a nice stick
of wood, obviously.

It's kind of an oversized piece
of red cedar.

This is gonna put the whole
system to a test.

The end of his snorkel isn't
quite over top of this log.

It's set back a little bit.
We got a high bank of stumps.

They're leaning back
a little bit.

So it's gonna take a lot of
finesse to actually get

this log up and over
that obstacle

without the machine trying to
tip over.

Do a trick called a roll.

The way that I'll set this
choker, I'll actually put

a roll on this log.

So when he goes ahead,
you'll watch this log

try and roll up the hill.

And as it climbs up to this
stump, if I still have the roll

on the log, it may help it
climb up and over instead of

pulling directly
into the stump.

So just one of the tricks that
a rigging rat or a hook tender

can use.

OK, got my turn set.

Time to get out of here.

[Brad, speaking]

[Glen, on radio]

You can see now
as he's pulling it, the log is

turning, it's rolling.

Come on.

Ah, [bleep].

Ah, it lost its rope.

Now it's up to him to try
and get it up and over

that obstacle.

I can tell that it's gonna be
a hell of a fight.

[suspenseful music plays]

[bleep] go off.

60 miles southwest
at Kachelot Creek,

the new bridge is
barged in overnight.

We're gonna test
your driving skills.

[Critter] Let's do it.

But Jared faces the uncertain
challenge of transporting it to

the bridge site.

[Critter] Come on, Betsy,
let's go.

[truck horn honks]

[laughing]

[Jared]
The stressful aspect of this
right now is these trucks are

overworking just coming up
these hills, let alone when

they got to go the hill
the bridge has got to go to.

If anybody can get
her done, it's Critter.

To haul this 15-ton bridge,
the crew will rely on

seasoned driver, Critter.

The task, haul it up five miles
of steep, winding logging road,

which will max out
his truck's ability.

This is interesting.

Yeah, this is gonna be
very interesting.

- Yeah.
- [Jared] What we're thinking is,

if I hook the loader
to you and just

walk you up.

Well, that's very common
sense then.

Anyway, let's go.
We got to give her a try.

[Jared]
Critter is a truck driver
slash low bed driver that's

been working on-and-off with me
for the past 15 years.

Critter is very vocal,
so it's pretty entertaining.

We can move the low bed
around a little bit with

the log loader.
- [Critter] Yeah, good luck.

[Jared]
He likes to tell me I'm wrong,
and I like to tell him

he's wrong.
But he just is so

good at what he does.

- [Ross] You'll make her.
- [Critter] Let's try it.

[Jared] Ross is hooking
a strap on right now.

And we're gonna tow this
a little bit with the bridge

up the hill.

OK, let's do this.

Oh, boy.
Here goes nothing.

Oh, and he's not
going good already.

Where are you going?

It's not walking straight.

Yeah, the weight of it just

keeps pulling me
into the ditch,

so I got to really feather it.

[Critter, on radio]

This bed is heavy.

Hope that strap don't break.

I am at the mercy
of that machine.

Ah.

- [thud]
- [Jared] Whoa.

[bleep].

[Critter] Oh, [bleep].

Back at the Forever Claim...

[music plays]

[Rob] Which way is
that wind blowing?

- [Jim] Coming at us a bit.
- [Rob] Perfect.

Veteran fallers Jim Gardner
and Rob Winger scour

the mountainside for more
high-value cedar to stack

on tomorrow's barge.

[Jim] Yeah, look at that.

- [Rob] Nice piece of wood.
- [Jim] Yeah.

Is there something
broken off, hanging?

Oh, yeah.
A schoolmarm.

A schoolmarm is an offshoot
from the main trunk of a tree.

Traditionally a term for
a strict schoolteacher,

the phrase was first used
in logging in the 1900s

to describe timber with
this rigid shape.

[Rob] A schoolmarm is just,
usually when the top dies,

the lead branch will take over
as the top.

And instead of growing
straight out, it'll grow up

towards the light.

And we just call
them schoolmarms.

[Jim] It's very unstable.
We can't go underneath there.

We don't know whats
that's gonna do.

- All that stuff comes out...
- [two taps]

...it's gonna hit you
in the hard hat.

[Rob] If I fall it down the
hill, that schoolmarm might stay

on the fir, and as the cedar
goes that way, the fir might

slingshot it back
up the hill at me.

If I fall the cedar this way,
the schoolmarm should drop

straight down to the ground,
and by then I can be back up

and cover above this fir tree.

If this cedar topples downhill,
the schoolmarm could easily

tear loose on other trees
and come raining down on Rob.

So to drop it,
schoolmarm and all, Rob will

aim his face cut 90 degrees
across the side hill

and into a soft clearing.

That's my plan.

But as we all know,
things don't...

always go to plan.

Let's do it, Jim.

[buzzing]

If I can point it where
I want it to go

and the schoolmarm either

drops straight down
or goes with the cedar tree,

that's the best case scenario.

- [whacking]
- [motor sputtering]

- [motor stops]
- [grunts]

I think that's money, Jim.

How's it look down there?

[Jim] Awesome.

Jim put that stick in there
for me so I know what height to

be at the back cut and how far
to come around.

[sputtering]

[buzzing]

[exhales]

Watch yourself.
It's moving, yeah.

I'll watch that schoolmarm.

[whacking]

- [creaking]
- [Rob] Oh, she's
[bleep] talking.

She's going, Jim.
Let's let her talk.

Yep.

- [creaking]
- There she goes.

[tense music plays]

[creaking]

[Rob] There she goes!

- [popping]
- [wood groaning]

[crash echoes]

[Jim] [bleep] yeah,
honey shot, Robby.

[bleep] schoolmarm landed
exactly where

I thought it was gonna land.

Cedar's beautiful, way better
than I thought it was

gonna be.
Saved right out.

And it's a solid stick
of wood.

Completely utilizable.

[Rob] It went pretty good.

It went a little lower
than I wanted,

but this was
the best case scenario.

Prop me up
and I'll hang off of it.

Can I stand on your shoulders?

[laughing]

Oh, like Oscar the Grouch.

[laughing]

Here's a [bleep] here's
a grouch in a stump.

[growling] Get away from
my stump, you!

- [growling]
- [laughing]

2,000 feet below...

[Brad] It's a bigger
cedar log here.

...Brad and Glen wrestle with
a 10-ton log at the edge of

the super snorkel's reach.

He may have to get up
on one track

and use the weight
of the machine to bounce.

He'll tip himself forward,
throw a bit of slack,

hit the brake, and just that
lurch, the machine going back

and snapping the brake,
you'll see the log jump

over obstacles.

It's not an easy trick to
pull off, but like I say,

Glen's the man for the job.

Here we go.

Come on, baby.

Go, go, go, go, go!

Oh, you're so close!

Once he gets up to that point,
that teeter point,

he's got to feel it.

He knows where that point is
of stability and instability.

He's riding the razor's edge.

Come on.

Come on to mama.

Come on!

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.

Up.

[Brad] Yeah!

Nice work, mister.

You got her.
Nice work, my friend.

So we got the big one
out of the hole.

That was the main one.
That was the obstacle.

I wasn't sure we were gonna
get that.

Now that that one's in there,
we can just keep Glen

progressing, keep some of that
fiber flowing to the road.

After that last bit of tipping
action there, after we get this

last log in, I'm probably gonna
have to go change my pants.

Oh, sounds like a call
I don't want to answer.

So whenever you're choking
a log or grappling a log--

[man, on radio]

Somebody calling Brad there?

[man, on radio]

[Brad] OK, I'm on my way.

[suspenseful chord strike]

Ah, come on.
Oh, hang on.

- [thud]
- [Critter] Oh.

I don't know if I'm gonna
have to see

a chiropractor or a psychiatrist
after this.

[Jared] It's only
about to get worse.

These machines weren't
designed for this.

I'm definitely doubting
my decision

pulling this low bed up.

I certainly underestimated
the weight of the low bed

and the bridge,

but I'm committed.

We're giving it a real
college try here.

Want all the weight
I can get out front.

Give me traction.

Oh, come on!
Keep going, baby!

Keep going!

[Jared] Right at the top
of the summit now.

[Critter] We got her!
We got her!

[laughing]

Definitely sweat on the brow
for that one.

We'll just stop at this wide
spot and unhook there, Critter.

That's the best news
I've heard, not being
hooked up to you.

Yeah, imagine what
my wife feels like.

Now we got through
the gauntlet there.

We got up the hill.

Now we got to
unload the bridge.

Me and Ross are gonna make
a plan with the road crew.

This is gonna be
a lot of rigging.

It's gonna be
a lot of physics.

We're gonna have to
rig it just right,

but that all takes time.

To replace the old bridge,
Jared's team will bring in

the new one, one half
at a time, and place it

directly on top.

Only then will their machine
be able to cross the creek

and complete the installation.

[Jared] Nice thing
about Loren, he's been
doing this a long time.

I got great faith in that
he's gonna be able to

get this done.

But it's definitely
gonna be a challenge

and it's gonna be sketchy.

OK.

[Jared] We got it locked
and loaded now.

Here we go.

[Loren] [bleep], it's heavy.

[scraping]

I can't keep it straight.

Anytime you ask
a machine to do more

than it's capable of doing,

you're pushing things
to the limit.

That's when bad things happen
out here.

[creaking]

Ah, [bleep] sakes.

I can barely
lift the thing.

Tried heavy lift mode.
I tried regular power.

[Jared] Your boom's not
holding it, right?
You're collapsing?

Yeah, and I can get one end

off the ground, but it doesn't

want to pick up
the whole thing.

[Jared] I mean, if you had
one more chain.

- [Loren] Yeah.
- You don't have a small
chain or anything?

- No, I don't have any.
- I've got one in the back
of my pickup.

That's the only way
it's gonna work.

I'll be right back.

All good?

[Jared] There we go.

[Ross] He's got her now.

You got it, buddy.

Now the fun part.

- [suspenseful music plays]
- [creaking]

- [thud]
- [Ross] h*, h*.

Nice work.

Whew.

One side down, but we still
have big problems here.

Let's go get the other bridge.
Let's come on.

Whoa!

Just cut past this bark seam,
and it's starting to pinch me.

Jesus Christ.

When a tree starts pinching
you, it's ready to fall over.

[grunts]

[Jared]
Patience will prevail.

At Kachelot Creek, more heavy
machinery is due to arrive

and begin logging operations.

But Jared and crew must first
complete the final stage of

the bridge fix.

The plan is to have the bridge
halves in a V and then walk

the excavator to the other side
because the excavator has to

build up the road, he has to
build up the approach

to the bridge, so we have
a flat running surface.

This is gonna be haywire.

[Ross] Stick out.
There you go!

- [thud]
- [bleep] sling it.

You got her.

Good, perfect.

So we got the bridge
two halves in place.

They're definitely not
level or anything.

So the excavator now can
walk across.

The biggest problem I see
happening is this bridge is

resting on this old,
rotten log.

Now, is that gonna be able to
sustain the weight of

the excavator and the bridge
or is it gonna tumble down,

sending the excavator that way?

Moment of truth.

[suspenseful music plays]

[creaking]

[thud]

[creaking]

I'm gonna break it.

[suspenseful chord strike]

Back at the Forever Claim,

foreman Brad is pulled away
from snorkel operations to

respond to an urgent call about
a vital piece of equipment.

[Brad] So right now, I'm heading
up to the Y4 grapple yarder.

We've got an issue with
the tracks with that yarder,

so we gotta get that addressed.

If we can't get this yarder
going, you know, it's gonna be

a major hit in our production.

Don't sugarcoat it,
what are we looking at?

[Adrian] Uh, we got
a broke track link.

- [Brad] Oh, yeah.
- [Adrian] Yeah.

[Brad] [bleep].

[Adrian]
I mean, it's been welded
a couple times, but it needs to

be welded back together again.
- [Brad] It is time, yeah.

[Adrian]
So basically, the one track
link is broken, so I'm gonna

take two track pads off,
I'm gonna weld them back

together and then bolt the pads
back on and we're back to work.

There we go.

Not bad.

- [clanging]
- [Adrian] Oh, [bleep].

Isn't that beautiful?

One side's broken.

When the other side breaks,
this thing flops on the ground

and the logger may actually
successfully lose

the entire track.

We've welded it before
to keep it going,

but this one's spread
far enough.

I'm just gonna have to
change it.

We're gonna swap this link
out, bolt pads back on,

back to work.
It's just part of the deal.

It's just how it's got to go.

[bleep] the old bolt.

So, first thing we'll do is
pull the pin.

What I do is take one of
the old track pad bolts

and I weld it to
the end of this.

That also gives that thermal
expansion contraction,

which shrinks the end of
the pin, makes it easier to

come out, and gives me
something to strike,

especially when it gets
further in there.

OK, that should do me.

- [Brad] She's coming.
- That could cause me trouble.

- Ooh.
- OK.

[Adrian] So you're gonna hold
this for me, I think, Brad.

- [Adrian] Good?
- Give her.

- [thunk]
- [clanging]

Watch your fingers, toes,
nose, and hose.

I think mechanical work
kind of finds its way to you.

You know, I grew up playing
with LEGO and stuff.

I was always kind of interested
with building and dismantling,

and I quickly realized, too,
that being the mechanical end,

you're on the front lines
and you get to see

the most crazy stuff.

That really brought me
right into the adventure

and I've never really
looked back.

Down we go.

[Brad] Nice work, my friend.

Oh, tons of room.

Scalpel, glasses,
hammer, stat.

- Thank you.
- [Brad] You're welcome.

[tapping]

This just holds our...

perfect.
- [Brad] Oh, yeah.

[Adrian] Oh, OK, right there.

If you want to stick
the pry bar through the hole,

right about there.

- Hit me, dealer.
- [tapping]

I don't think it's moving.

[bleep], I got it really
[bleep] wedged, that's awesome.

I just wish things would go
well all the time.

1,000 feet up
and behind pace,

faller Rob splits off solo.

[Rob] Pretty nice cedar.

Go have a look at it.

[two thuds]

Rock solid.

[two thuds]

I think it's a pretty nice
piece of wood.

Beautiful piece of wood.

Oh, [bleep] what's that?

Oh, we got a little salamander
living in there.

Hey, buddy.

I'll put him up in this
damp brush.

There you go.
And he's gone.

Perfect.

This money tree is pretty nice.
It's just about perfect.

The only thing I can see
happening here, this bark seam,

it runs quite a ways up.

And if this thing doesn't lay
softly enough, I can see that

splitting all the way up
the tree, like a piece of

split celery.

If that happens, that's gonna
devalue this money tree

quite a bit.

Hopefully, I can run it right
down this little draw here.

Should be able to get it to
softly lay it down in there.

But I got to layer it right
in between those two stumps.

[blows air]

It's actually a little trickier
than I thought.

I'm going to put a regular
conventional undercut in it.

But if I'm off by three feet,
it's the kindling tree.

We'll see how good my aim is.

Rob's only hope of
keeping this tree intact is to

bring it down on a soft bed of
debris flanked by

two massive stumps.

But if he's the slightest bit
off in either direction,

the impact could easily
split up the trunk,

costing thousands of dollars
in damage.

[Rob] I guess it's time to
thread the needle with

the money tree here.
We'll see what happens.

- [sputtering]
- [buzzing]

[buzzing]

[buzzing continues]

Whoa, it's gonna go high.

I just noticed this bar's
almost had the [bleep] biscuit.

I need a new bar.

It started to wander on this
side, and I realized

that's going [bleep] high.

That's going right across
that stump.

So, I got to take some more
out of the low side.

I could see as soon
as I looked in there.

This is this little line here
was my initial sight line,

and that's pointed
right in between,

so I got to get that
to match that.

[creaking]

Just cut past this bark seam,
it dropped.

And it's starting to pinch me.

Usually when a tree
starts pinching you,

you know it's ready
to fall over.

But if I don't get this chunk
out, it's gonna go high

and it's gonna break
right across that stump.

Ah, [bleep].

- [grunts]
- [suspenseful music builds]

[suspenseful music plays]

[grunts]

Oh my.

Good enough, that's it.

OK, this bark seam
right here,

as soon as I even got
close to it,

this little bit of a leg here

dropped and pinched my saw.

And I looked up
and the top was moving,

so it wants to go.
Like right now.

OK, either I thread the needle

or I'm looking for a new job.

[buzzing]

[cracking]

[suspenseful music plays]

- [buzzing]
- [cracking]

[cracking]

Thread the [bleep] needle, baby.

Come on!

[thud]

Whoo!

Right on the money.

Oh, yeah.

That's why I do it.

Right there.
Look at that.

That was perfect.

Whoo!

Missed the last stump by about
a foot and a half, two feet

maybe, but it's better
than hitting it.

The bark seam right here,
you can see it starting to

split, but seeing as how
I didn't hit the stump,

it didn't carry
at all up the tree.

Well, Jared will be happy,

and I get to keep my job
for one more day.

[laughing]

I'll see if I can
lose it tomorrow.

Back at Kachelot Creek...

- I'm gonna break it.
- [Jared] Just get it that way.

[creaking]

Whoa.

[bleep] yeah.

Well, we got her across.
That was [bleep] scary.

Why didn't I stay in school?

[Jared, laughs] All right,
we'll get out of your way.

OK, sounds good.

[Jared] What he needs to do is
just dig that all out some more,

take one of these logs that
they just bucked up that

he pushed over, throw it
in there, put some nice rock

on top, and we're logging.

Get back to the truck,
get on the radio,

let's call in the gear.
- [Ross] Excellent.

Excited.

Back at
the Forever Claim...

Where's that drift?

The next barge is 18 hours
out, so Adrian and Brad race to

get the busted yarder track
back in business.

So the pin went in a little
bit c*ck, now it's jammed

up inside this collar, so we're
just gonna have to beat it

back a little bit, realign,

and then smash it
through the rest of the way.

It's just a little too much
resistance right now.

[clanging]

- [Brad] Oh yeah, she came back.
- [Adrian] Yeah, I think
if you hold it

kind of something like that,

it should be.
- Yeah, smashy smashy.

- [clanging]
- Yeah.

It's working.

- OK.
- [Adrian] Oh, wow.

It might even still be
lined up.

Let's see if we can make
this thing fit.

- [Adrian] That's good?
- Bro, you did it.

- [Adrian] [bleep].
- [Brad] Yeah.

[Adrian] OK.

- [Brad] Oh, that's tricky.
- [Adrian] All right.

You want to
tend the hook?

OK, ample slack.

- We'll leave the thingy.
- And never trusting
that entirely.

[Brad] Where do
you want to grab it?

Usually it's nice--

We got a little...

strap or a ring or something?

I might have a little straw
line strap hiding in

the tickle trunk.
- Ooh.

[Brad] This one's pretty long.

- [Adrian] That's perfect.
- [Brad] OK.

That's actually exactly
what we need.

- Should make it.
- Oh, yeah, you're...

Looking good.

Beautiful.

All right.
That looks good, bud.

Close enough, we can get
a pin through there.

[Adrian] You want to try
hammer slugging?

Yeah.

[clanging]

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's perfect.

Lift with your spine.

Bend at the hips.

Twist at the hips.

[Brad] OK.

Now, with all the mechanical
issues kind of in the rear view

mirror, get the crew back
yarding and just keep

this train rolling.
- [Adrian] That's that, brother.

All right.

GY4 crew, you guys
come on back to the yarder.

I think we're back in
business here.

After two weeks of logging full
throttle at the Forever Claim,

the first log barge of the fall
has finally arrived.

[Jared] Bigger the barge,
bigger the payday.

Anything less than $100,000
worth of timber profits will

default on Jared's deal
and risk him losing

his Float Camp and his chance
at the buyout.

We are a tug boat short,

so we're using the crew boat
as a little assistance,

giving it a little push.

When the log barge comes,
it's loading

and then it's leaving.

Looks better in the water than
it does on a truck.

[Jared] It certainly does
look better in the water.

But it's a crapshoot for sure.

Taking a pitchfork of money,
throwing it over your shoulder

and hoping dollar bills
land in your pocket.

That's pretty much what
a log barge is.

Yeah.

[orchestral music plays]

[Jared]
Every single log barge, I need
to save every penny I can.

So what I want to hear
at the end of this barge is

the word, "Shutout."

A shutout means we couldn't put
all the wood on the barge.

There was either too heavy
or too much wood.

That means I overproduced
and I underestimated my profit.

So, you know, when I hear
the crane operator saying

it's a shutout,
that's a good thing.

Full load pays better than
a light load, that's for sure.

[Jared] Doesn't normally happen
in this business,

but sometimes it does.

It's nice to go home
to the family with a smile

on my face,
have an aura about me,

and everybody knows when things
are going wrong,

but everybody also knows
when things are going right.

I can't take a light barge.

These [bleep] light barges are
k*lling me.

[beeping]

Hey, Len, how we looking
up there?

[Len, on radio] Yeah, stand by.

Uh, looking like
we got a shutout.

That's a load, Jared.
Good job.

Shew.
Whoo!

- [Ross] Excellent.
- [Jared] Fully loaded.

[Jared] Shutout.
Pretty impressive.

The blood, sweat,
and tears that go into

every one of those pieces, man.

We really grinded to get
this one going, I'll tell you.

You guys pulled through.
It was a little rocky start.

This is it.
This is the turning point.

Everything's gonna happen
from now on.

Things are looking good, man.
This is good.

I need to ramp up production
in Kachelot Creek.

[Kate] Oh, come on.

[Jared] Bring in some new
fallers to my falling crew.

This is definitely a sink
or swim moment for them.

This tree does not want to go
where we want it to go.

[Kate] Matt and I are
still learning,

and this is a really
great opportunity.

So we have to make sure we're
doing things the way

Jared's gonna want to see
it be done.

[Matt] It's gonna be
a high-pressure moment.

- [Kate] I'm gonna
get out of here.
- [Matt] All right.

[Jared] They're capitalizing
on opportunities out here.

[groans]

Please get us there.

[Jared] Pushing my crew
to the edge.

Here's a big one.

[suspenseful chord strike]