03x01 - Divide and Conquer

[bunniefuu]

[ominous beat plays]

[chainsaw whirring]

[dramatic chord strike]

I've always hustled for money.
I hustled because I had to.

That's the only way
I could survive.

At 23 years old,
I went into my own business.

All I wanted to do was
be the boss.

Being in the field,
helping the boys,

slugging it out with them.

I just am fiercely competitive
and I don't know why.

I don't know where that
comes from in my life,

but I have to win.

Sometimes I will make bad
decisions doing that because

I don't think with the business
head, I think with the heart of

being the biggest and baddest
logger on the coast.

You can't outwork me.

These eight weeks are crucial.

We're gonna find out if we can
work harder and smarter

to make a miracle happen here.

- [Brendan] There we go, boys.
- [Chris] There she goes.

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

[Brendan] Winner!

Jared Douglas makes a bid
for the logging rights

of a lifetime.

[Jared]
Forever Claim is the right
to harvest that timber as long

as your business
stays in business.

This is the holy grail.

But when he's beaten out
by a fierce competitor...

John Muhammad?
You got to be kidding me.

[bleep].

...he's forced to make
a risky deal to log it...

[John] $100,000 per barge.

If you've defaulted on any
payment of the royalties,

no questions asked,
I repossess the float camp.

...with a shot
to buy it outright

at the end
of the logging season.

[dramatic chord strike]

[whoosh]

[Jared] I got to get $2 million.

I need to make this happen.

But with summer fire
shutdown closing in,

the crew fights
to stay on track

and keep their hopes alive.

[Jared] I think we got her.

We got her out.
That's all that matters.

Now, Jared raises the stakes.

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

[Jared] This is a huge gamble.

[Ross]
Diamond in the rough, maybe?

We're gonna take
this out there?

[Jared] Yeah.

[Adrian] Oh, God, no.

[Jared]
Trying to catch up here.

Stretched thinner than ever...

We're gonna go [bleep] broke.

...he and the crew must deliver
both barge royalties...

[bleep] beautiful.

...and claw out
a two-million-dollar profit

before winter's grip
shuts them down.

It's all or nothing

for one final shot

at the Forever Claim.

[ominous chord strike]

[orchestral music plays]

[Ross] Morning.
Morning.

There we go.

It's early fall
in the Pacific Northwest.

And following an extended
nine-week fire shutdown,

Jared Douglas
and the Cypress Creek crew

are back in business.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[Jared]
Hey, guys, come on in here.

What's shaking?

[Jared]
With all operations going full
speed ahead, we're on stride

to make the royalty payments
with John.

But the big picture is buying
the Forever Claim

at the end of the season.

It's gonna be a real
struggle to get me

to where I need to be
before winter shutdown.

I got Ross and Brad
up here right now.

I have an idea.

This is our last hail Mary
attempt to make this happen.

Fire season [bleep] us,
like, this was a long shift.

It really put us behind.

Yeah, it was an a*s-kicker
for sure.

Great for fishing,
but not for logging.

We got eight weeks left
of the season before winter

chases us out of here.

I've crunched some numbers.
We're way behind.

Even with both crews
working in Forever Claim,

it's not enough.

Even if you fill those barges
to the brim at $100K royalty

per barge, we're not gonna
get out from under that.

We're still gonna be at
least $200,000 short by the end

of the season.

I need to move into a really
profitable operation

if I'm gonna hit my goal
by winter shutdown.

So...

we're gonna split up the crews,
go to another claim.

- Where are we going?
- It's called Kachelot Creek.

It's in Chief Jerry Jack's
territory.

It's an old claim.
Hasn't been logged in decades,

but the wood is good out there.

It already has roads, so we can
hit the ground running

with almost no start-up costs.

But we need to move float camp
from Forever Claim to

Kachelot Creek,
set up base camp,

so we can start splashing logs.

If we can get this happening,
that's gonna boost up

our profits by 30%.

OK.

Well, at least we got
a place to go.

That's good.

Yeah-- well,
Jerry hasn't said yes yet.

Hopefully we get
the green light,

but I want camp ready
to move in the morning.

Oh, OK.

- Right quick.
- [Jared] Right quick.

- OK.
- [Jared] All right.

- I love the pressure.
- No rest for the wicked here.

Pressure is a privilege.

Ross, you got to prep
float camp to move.

Brad, you're gonna have
to keep Forever Claim pumping

the wood in till
the next log barge.

It has to be full.

We left a bunch of timber
at that cut-block to the east

before the shutdown.
- I remember the one, yeah.

I'm gonna need you to
supervise, and I'm gonna

need you to be out there
hook-tending as well.

You're going to have
to pull double duties here.

- OK.
- Get those logs off that hill.

Forever Claim
can't miss a beat.

Barge has to be full.
No excuses.

It's two million dollars
or bust in eight weeks.

- You're crazy.
- You're [bleep] crazy.

We all know
what's at stake here.

[Brad] Do-or-die.

Well, hopefully Jerry Jack
will give you the green light.

[suspenseful chord strike]

[reverent chanting]

- [whack]
- [clang]

[whistling]

[Brad] Haul back.

Good, take it.

The next forever claim barge
arrives in less than two weeks,

so foreman Brad leads
the charge to harvest

a hillside of fallen timber

left over
from the summer season.

Obviously, as a woods foreman,
You know, I got a lot of things

to cover and a lot of things
to stress about,

so when these situations
happen and we're short-handed,

I actually enjoy coming back
onto the hill.

I did this job for years
and years, so when I'm out here,

it all just
kind of melts away

and I'm just having fun
with my boys.

Good there.
You got her.

Take it.

[metallic scraping]

[suspenseful music plays]

As a hook tender
in these situations,

you've got to have
your head on a swivel.

I'm not only watching Dave
bring that log in,

I'm also glancing back
at my tail hold.

And the tail hold's moving
around, everything I've got it

tied back to, it's all just
trying to breathe.

You know, I've got to be
thumb on the button here.

If things look a little bit
too weak, I've got to be able

to call off that pressure
in a moment's notice.

OK, Dave, I'm in the clear,
skin her back a bit here.

OK, I'll skin her back.

[music plays]

- [Brad] Good.
- [clanging]

[bleep].

And It would appear
that our haulback actually

parted or broke.

[ominous chord strike]

Now we're at a standstill.
I'm gonna have to get

the operator to just drag
the logs

and the choker
and everything back

into the landing.
Now we're behind.

And we're trying to, trying
to finish this setting today,

but I'm not sure
if that'll happen now.

- [sigh]
- [bleep].

Back down on the water,

crewmen prep one of the claim's
two float camps for travel

as Jared embarks
for a make-or-break meeting.

I'm just heading to see
Chief Jerry Jack.

His nation is looking
for someone to harvest

one of their territories.

And I'm really hoping
I'm the man for the job.

Look at the landscape up here.
It's insane.

Everything's just
so green out here.

Look at the cedar trees.
Lots of money.

I need this, my crew needs this,

and Cypress Creek
needs this.

Chief Jerry Jack is a very
powerful man, and his nation is

a very powerful nation.

We are very close allies,
and Jerry Jack is a great

friend, but Jerry Jack
and his nation could easily say

they did not want to work
with Cypress Creek.

That right there would be
catastrophic for my business.

- [Jared] How you doing?
- [Jerry] Good, good, yourself?

Good.

Absolutely stunning
out here today.

Look at it.

Where we're standing today
belongs to me and my family.

[Jared] This belongs
to you and your family?

Yeah, this whole beach.

All the way from that end
to that end.

I hear the nation's got
a new territory

that they're looking
for someone to harvest.

We do.
We have, we have something.

You need a logger
for that by chance?

[suspenseful chord strike]

[ominous tone plays]

[Jared] I think this opportunity
would be really great for us,

Jerry, and our company
could really use this.

[Jerry]
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,

and I appreciate it,
and you really respect

our-- our lands,
and that's important

to Mowachaht-Muchalaht
First Nation.

I have trust in you.
You have my approval.

- [Jared] Right on,
thanks, Jerry.
- For sure.

You're welcome.

Very, very grateful
for the opportunity.

Yes, it'll be good for both of
us, I believe, because I'm all

about keeping people to work
and live happy lives.

OK, Jerry, well, I won't
keep you, but I really

appreciate your time.
We'll talk to you soon.

Talk to you soon.

[dramatic music plays]

Back at the Forever Claim...

- [clanging]
- [Brad] [bleep].

...the yarding operation
hits a breaking point.

[clanging]

[Brad]
Sad looking situation, boys.

[Dave] Yeah, it looks like
the eye blew apart.

[Brad] I'll just cut that off
and then we'll get going.

Now I'm back under the stress
of the operation.

This machine isn't producing.
We're not getting wood
to the road.

The loader's not gonna have
any wood to load.

The truckers aren't gonna have
any wood to haul.

To move giant timber,
a grapple yarder's cable,

or line, must be securely
strung across the hill.

But if that line breaks,
it's up to the crew to reel it

back in and repair
the broken end

so it can be re-anchored
up the hill.

[whirring]

[Brad] We'll do what's called
a logger's eye.

And a logger's eye is where
you take every strand, tuck it

once, twice, three times,
and it becomes strong enough

to withstand the forces
that we're gonna apply to it.

OK, so right now
we're just trying to go

as quick as possible
to get this...

this place done
so we can get back logging.

You know, we were behind
the eight ball before we broke

the haulback, but now
all this takes time and energy,

time that we could have had
yarding logs,

but that's the name
of the game.

Logging's what you do
between the [bleep] ups.

[Dave] No hammer.
Just...

[grunts]

- Brute force and ignorance.
- Yeah.

[Dave] There we go.

- There we go.
- That was pretty quick, Brad.

That thing's gonna maybe
outlast us all, hopefully.

Now we've got a fresh eye.

So Trent and I will actually
take the straw line,

the small wire off of
our grapple yarder, head out

into the bush, re-put it
through the tail hold block,

and come back and connect it
to this haulback eye.

Once that's all in place,
then we'll be able to start

logging again, pick up
where we left off.

[Dave]
Let's get some logs.

[orchestral music plays]

[Rob] It's pretty nice in here,

seeing some of the biggest trees
I've seen down in here.

The next morning,
high on the mountain,

fallers Jim Gardner
and Rob Winger discover

a rare patch of
end-of-life-cycle giants.

Oh, what's that down there?

[Jim] Holy [bleep].

Jesus.

- [Rob] That's a big one, Jim.
- [Jim] Yeah.

[Rob] Look at that thing.
Thing is [bleep] huge.

[laughing]

[Rob]
It's been a long time since
I've seen something this big.

[ominous tone plays]

BFT, big [bleep] tree.

[chuckling]

[Jim]
There's a certain uniqueness
and a certain challenge

to a big, big tree,
and not everyone can

cut down a big tree.

Physically strenuous,
mentally challenging,

and it's dangerous.

There's a lot of things that
you have to overcome,

mostly in your head,

but overcoming that,
pushing myself,

that's something
to lick your chops,

so to speak,
you're hungry for.

Um...

What, what do you think
you're gonna do, Jim?

[Jim] Let's take a look
at the back and see

what we've got holding on.

Oh, this looks like a problem.

We've got rot coming
through this thing.

All the different areas.

There's a lot of overhead.

Looking at this half-moon
bottom, kind of a shell.

It's not standing on much.
The legs are skinny.

What we have is
compromised as it is.

[Rob] You can stand up
inside, though.

Solid, solid, solid up there.

I think the top's a beautiful
piece of wood, so this is worth

quite a bit of money.
- [Jim] Yeah, baby.

It's a big tree.

It's a big red cedar,
and it's standing on a couple

of legs, so it's gonna be
tricky to fall.

He's gonna have to find
sound wood somewhere

in that base
where he can use to control

the direction of fall
of that tree.

The only holding wood
you got back here

is this one strap, too.

[two thuds]

It's solid there,
but once you get 14, 16 inches

in there, it's just rotten.

I think the biggest challenge
is, yeah,

getting it cut up enough
without it going on its own.

- Yeah.
- [bleep] dude, I don't know.

I don't know, man.

I got my doubts.

Weighing over 120 tons,
this BFT could easily crumple

off its compromised base,
crushing Jim in the process.

So he'll have to very carefully
make a massive face cut,

one section at a time,
and save the strongest wood

in the back for last.

Then he'll finish
with a 13-foot-wide back cut

and hopefully send
the whole thing down

on a soft bed of debris.

All right, Rob, let's quit
talking about it.

Let's just start cutting
and get this BFT to the ground.

Sounds good to me.

[motor running]

[saw buzzing]

[Jim] This is the biggest
tree I've ever cut.

It's definitely worth a lot,

so we've got to take care
of this thing.

We're gonna try and let this
thing down gently if we can.

But as it sits,
it's a BFT, and it's probably

gonna go sideways,
or it's probably gonna go in

an unintended direction.

Who knows
what's gonna happen?

[saw buzzing]

[ominous music plays]

[Jared] Yeah, time to go.

Always a stressful day.
Everybody knows that.

Yeah.

After more than a month at
the Forever Claim, Jared makes

the hard call to move one
of the two float camps

to a new post
at Kachelot Creek.

There might be some
yelling and screaming.

Don't take it personal.
It's just what happens.

Home-away-from-home for
the crew, this float camp is

one of the most vital assets
in Jared's operation.

But with a second one on lease
and already anchored at

the Forever Claim,
this two million dollar barge

will be more vital
at Kachelot.

But the move doesn't come
without risk.

[Jared] Float Camp's
very important to me.

It's changed
the game of my company.

It's made me way
more successful.

So I get a little bit nervous
every time we go to move it.

I do not need any holes
in this camp.

We just put a ton
of money into it.

We're not putting
any [bleep] dents in my hull.

And we're gonna have to spin
this barge in this tight area.

- [Kim] Right in the middle here?
- [Jared] Yeah.

[Jared]
So we're gonna have to be

fairly organized
in what we're doing here.

To get this behemoth
back out to sea,

Jared and his five-man crew
must thread a needle

between sharp rocks to one side

and a floating log pin to
the other, all under the power

of two boom boats
and a single tug.

Everything moves slow,
but it can hurt you.

So keep your hands
out of the way of everything.

Make sure you don't
put your fingers in it.

- Right, Leon?
- Yeah.

[Jared]
How many you got left?

We got this.
We know what we're doing.

All right.
Let's do it.

[Kim] Let's go.

[tense music plays]

Once he gets the rope in,
then I'll just back in there

and hook up.
- [Jared] OK.

[Jared]
Keeping them away from shore,
so when all the shore ties

are done, we can pull.

We need to make sure we get
the barge spun around in here,

and away we go.

OK, Glen, I'm in the winder.

Just let me know
if you need anything.

[Glen] Yeah,
we should be all right here.

We're spinning, as long as
I don't spin it too quickly.

- [Kim] That's a tight turn.
- [Jared] It is a tight turn,

but Glen knows what he's doing.

[Kim] Yeah, he's got
to be rubbing right alongside

the booming grounds there.

[Jared] He's got
the velvet touch with a big tug,

but I've never seen him get
this close to it.

Don't scrape the paint.

[Glen, yelling]

[Glen] [bleep] sakes,
got no [bleep] power.

[Glen, on radio]

[Jared] Lost power,
has no steering.

- And he's got your barge
on board.
- Yeah.

- That's great.
- That's great, that's
what I want to hear.

[Kim] It's drifting
into the grounds, there.

[Jared]
Yeah, this is not good.

[tense music plays]

[Brad] Oh, man.

This is fun.

Back in the hills above,
Brad and his crew are

on the second day of re-rigging
the main anchor point,

or tail hold, for their yarder.

[Brad]
So right now, Trent and I have
finished the string,

we've taken the straw line
from the yarder all the way up

to my tail hold.
Now we're in the clear.

Next step is to get the command
to the operator to start going

ahead on the straw line drum,
which will essentially pull

that big business end
of our haulback with the eye

through the tail hold block
back to the landing.

Read me, Dave?

Hello.

All clear back here,
head on straw any time.

OK, going ahead on
straw here.

[Brad]
There we go.

OK.

Now we run for our life.

OK, Dave, I'm in the clear.
Go ahead.

[Dave, on radio]
Going ahead.

[Brad] So these last few logs
are actually gonna be some of

the diciest ones to go after
here, but...

See what happens.

- [crumbling]
- Ooh.

A little flick
to the left there.

Lots of air for the haulback.

Big whip over.

Oh, you're getting her.

[clanging]

Oh, [bleep].

Slack her down, [bleep].
Slack her down.

Slack her down.

- What the [bleep].
- [rumbling]

[thud]

[bleep] [bleep].

[groans]

Yep, that is
a pulled tail hold.

This clump of trees that came
over, it didn't actually have

a really good root mat.

It wasn't tied into the forest
floor as well as I'd hoped

for it to have been.

But you know, this is,

this is logging.

It's been a day.

Higher up the mountain...

[saw buzzing]

[Jim] What we're looking for
right here is an even level cut

from one end to the other
perfectly straight.

Got to get this wedge
out of here,

wedge out of there,
and that last one out of there.

[saw buzzing]

- [Rob] Tank of gas already?
- Yeah.

[Rob] That is
a big [bleep] tree.

[Jim] We don't normally
come across trees like this

in the first place.
You don't see them this big,

let alone have them be
dangerous having to
tackle them.

Having it so big and so much
of a shell, it creates

a huge hazard.

So I'm gonna start my back cut
on the high side, and then

I'm gonna come into the inside
and then cut the guts

out of it.
- [Rob] I would leave this

and then cut up as much
as you can on the inside

and then cut this.

Fingers crossed,
this thing goes over.

Hopefully, it just goes over.
If not, finish her over there.

- [Jim] OK, man.
- [Rob] Make some noise.

[saw buzzing]

[cracking]

[Rob] Is it getting
tight at all?

Yeah, it's gonna want
to pinch in towards me.

Watch when you come out
it doesn't [bleep] grab you.

Probably just wants to
drop straight down.

Skybound, we call them.

They don't really have a lean
any which way,

so they want to drop
straight down, which means

it just wanted to pinch,
pinch, pinch.

Pinchy, pinchy,
pinchy, pinchy.

It's not necessarily common
for a tree

to do something like this.

For the most part,
they just want to fall over.

Rob's Johnny-on-the-spot
with all the wedges.

- Watch your eyeballs.
- Totally clear.

[whacking]

[Jim] This whole
thing's starting to pinch in,

so if I pull her out to here...
- Yeah, and just feather it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[saw buzzing]

Hopefully...

[cracking]

Lifted.

[Jim] So I'll cut the rest
of the guts out

and then I'll cut this strap.

[motor running]

[saw buzzing]

[cracking]

- [cracking]
- Uh-oh.

- That's not good, man.
- [Rob] No.

Take your bar off.

Here.

Nuts.
Cover.

Whew.
It's tight.

It's tight.

I wound up getting
my bar pinched.

I wound up getting
my chain pinched.

Having it so big,
there's tons up above your head,

and it's all sitting down
on this tiny, little point.

[bleep] no.

[dings]

[suspenseful beat plays]

[squeaking]

All right,

call that good.

Sacrifice the chain
to the BFT?

- Yep, that's a good big...
- [Rob] That's not coming out.

You got another chain.

- [Jim] Yeah.
- [Rob] You got
another big wedge?

- [Jim] Yeah.
- [Rob] I'll try
tripling up to see.

Lifting easy now.

[Jim] Oh, that's actually
a bit of good news.

Out of the depths of despair.

[laughing]

[whacking]

- [cracking]
- [groaning]

She's talking.

I think there's a nibble
left over here, because

it should have gone by now.

- [saw buzzing]
- Yep.

[groaning]

She's talking.

Yep.

- [cracking]
- Here she comes.

- [groaning]
- [cracking]

[Jim] There we are,
right in the hole.

Come on.
Come on.

- [crash]
- [Jim] [bleep] beautiful.

[Rob] Got her.

- [Jim] That was a b*tch.
- [Rob] Jimmy strikes again.

Thanks, man.

- [Rob] Pinched on every corner.
- [Jim] Pinchy pinched.

Oh, there's holding wood
all the way across.

Look at that.

In the end, it wound up going
in our direction, but it sure

as hell did not want to.

[Rob] I don't know
where your chain went.

This was our holding wood.
This was our strap we left.

- [Jim] Perfect.
- [Rob] Perfect.

[Jim] Absolutely perfect.
We kind of lost a chain,

but look at this.
It's a great big log.

It's, what's that, 80 feet?


That's nothing but volume.

This BFT is 13 feet.


Take advantage, enjoy it,
lap it up, few and far between

these things.

This is what it's all about
right here, right now.

[Rob] We got the big
[bleep] tree on the ground.

- [Jim] Glad we had
so many wedges.
- [laughing]

[Rob] I should have
used one more.

[tense music plays]

[cawing]

[Brad]
Oh yeah, there's a stump.

2,000 feet below,
the race continues

to make up lost time.

So I found a decent cedar stump
here on top of this ridge.

It's in lead with the first
road line of wood that

we're gonna take.

I got to tie it back.

This is my little
insurance policy,

putting a twister tie back,

and then it should be solid
enough for us to yard off of.

OK.

I just want it tight enough to

pluck a tune, A sharp.
OK.

[Dave, on radio]

Roger, give her.

[music plays]

Are those guylines feeling
pretty solid there?

[Dave, on radio]

[clanging]

[Brad] Right now, we're cycling
the grapple again.

You know, it's going as good
as it can right now.

There's some hope here
that we're gonna pick
up some of that,

some of that time that we lost
yesterday, so we're just gonna

keep plugging away at it,
and hopefully Murphy's Law

doesn't kick us
in the teeth again.

Ooh, another good looking
red cedar.

Cha-ching!

[music plays]

Right in front of me here,
I got this kind of a rogue log

that was tipped by the fallers
back into the timber,

but it's actually a good piece
of merch wood.

It's quite a ways away from
our yarding line, so right now

I've made the call
to the landing guy.

He's gonna send me an extension
for my choker and then put

an extension on my choker.

It's called,
what we call tagging.

- [clanging]
- Good.

OK Dave, I'm in the clear.

OK, here we go, boss.

[Brad] Just come in tight now,
yeah, just a nice, gradual

pull, yep.
Stump's pulling here, right on.

Keep her going.

Keep her going.

Keep her going.
Perfect.

We'll try throwing
the grapples just behind

that stump on the ridge here.

Main's right down in a hole
there, down, down, down, good.

Back easy, good.
Take it.

It's a satisfying moment
when your whole plan can come,

come to fruition
without breaking the log,

breaking the cable,
pulling a tail hold.

When everything clicks together
just like you thought it would,

it's a satisfying feeling.

A good day.

Let's head down and see how
much of a stack we got now.

Nice work, boys.
Another job well done.

Got more wood than yesterday.
Better day today.

Yeah, it's like we found
a whole other gear.

This is not a bad little patch

compared to that battle
we were doing, but...

[Dave] We actually got
some wood here now.

[Glen, yelling]

Back on the water,
Jared and the Float Camp crew

face a ticking clock
of their own.

[Glen] Got no [bleep] power.

The tug has no steering
right now.

He's lost power.
So right now, we're

not in a good position.

[Kim] It's drifting
into the grounds, there.

[Jared]
I've got Float Camp heading
towards the booming ground.

Worst-case scenario is
a tugboat up on the rocks

and a float camp wedged
into the booming grounds.

It will create massive delay
in production and money.

This is not good.

[Glen, on radio]

[Leon, on radio]

[suspenseful music plays]

[Jared] Did you get
your steering back?

OK, we're good.
That was too close for comfort.

[Kim]
We can just get that other side
of the bridle on and be able to

suck it out of here before
he drifts into the grounds.

You just passed the end
of the booming grounds.

- [Jared] Hey, good job.
- All right, bud.

Now we're clear of all
the danger, but we still have

a very tight landing to make,
so we're gonna have to

definitely be on our A-game
when we get there.

[music plays]

[Jared] They've been working
on the booming ground

and the landing for
the last couple of days.

Everything's set up.
We got lots of support.

So, I'm excited.
I'm extremely excited on

this new operation.

Once we get inside the booming
ground, we will spin it.

The stern will go
up against the beach

and it is nicely, gently slide
itself right in there.

[Jared] It's nice and deep
in here, Glen.

You're gonna have
no problems.

[Glen] OK, Leon, we're going in.

Brent's pushing everything
out of our way here.

OK.

[Jared]
Everything's looking good.

Now, I'm just gonna
keep bumping it in

and out of gear here
to keep our speed down.

Once you think you could
start pulling your end around

to the beach,
you can if you want.

Copy that, bud.

- [Jared] Still looking good.
- [Kim] Still looks good, yeah.

[Jared] Still looking good.

[Kim] Oh, [bleep].

Man overboard.

[radio chatter]

[ominous chord strike]

[Kim] Oh, [bleep].
Man overboard.

- [Jared] You all right?
- [Kim] You all OK, Brent?

[Kim] Holy [bleep].

Here, get over there.
I'll give him a hand.

[Leon, on radio]

[Kim] How long has that been
since that's happened?

Oh!
[laughing]

You didn't hit
anything, did you?

- It just slipped in?
- [Brent, speaking]

Oh, yeah.

OK.

[laughing]

We can't let him
live that one down.

Holy.

Oh, [bleep], that's scary.
Like you never know.

[Kim] Yeah.

[music plays]

[radio chatter]

[Jared] That's probably
good right there.

[bleep], I like that in there.
I really like that.

Besides one guy going swimming,

that was a nice landing.

Now that Float Camp is
in place, I know I have a little

bit of breathing room,
and my team and I can really

tackle this claim.

Huge success.
Giant win for us.

We got her done.
We're here.

Let's just finish up here,
guys, and get out of this rain.

Yeah, you bet.
Right on.

This is a huge gamble.

Carve a chunk of those guys out,
send them elsewhere

to a place
they've never been to.

But if I want to complete
my growth,

I need to

take some big risks
like I'm doing to get there.

Next time...

[Adrian] Oh, [bleep],
we can't keep running this.

One side's broken.

When the other side breaks,
the logger may lose

the entire truck.
- [Glen] Come on.

[Brad] It's gonna take a lot
of finesse to actually get

this log up and over
that obstacle.

[Glen]
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.

[Jared] With this bridge down,
this means no trucks going in,

no trucks going out, no cash
hitting my bank account.

I need to get this bridge
in right now.

This season on
"The Last Woodsman"--

[bleep].

[Jared] I have eight weeks
to raise one million dollars

and to deliver $100,000
per barge royalties.

- [Rob] Beauty.
- [Jared] I have to claw,

scratch my way out
of this hole that I've dug

myself in.
- [blows air]

My operation is stretched thin.
I've got operations here.

I've got operations there.

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

[Jared] I need to introduce
some new fallers.

[Kate] Oh, come on!

[Jared] I got my crew working
as fast and as hard as they can.

But I'm not sure it's
gonna be enough.

We're about to do something
that we've never done before.

This is crazy!

If I'm gonna hit my goal
to buy the Forever Claim,

everything, and I mean
everything, from here on out

has to go right.
- [Leon] Mother[bleep].

[Ross] Hang in there!