[music playing] Oh. NARRATOR: Rygaard's rookie
boot camp is a bust. Watch that [inaudible]. Watch out [inaudible]. NARRATOR: At Pihl-- Logs. More logs. NARRATOR: --the battling
crew draws blood. MAN: Watch out. Oh. NARRATOR: Down South,
diving for dollars-- That's some gold, son. NARRATOR: Is more
costly than ever. [grunting] I'd hate to have to
cut up one of them logs and make a pine
box for somebody. NARRATOR: And at Browning,
the boys are down. Look out. [horn] NARRATOR: And out. MAN: Call 911. Get the radio. [theme music] [music playing] MAN: Look out. NARRATOR: It's almost halfway
through the summer logging season. Going into week five,
Browning has bragging rights for the mountain's top spot. 20 miles inside the
Olympic peninsula, the normally lean and mean
Rygaard crew is down 15% in production. And Craig knows exactly
what's slowing his crew up. I'm doing the-- I can see your arms coming out. We're either going to
get rid of one of them, and get one of them to do
the job that he needs to do, or we're going to get
rid of both of them. NARRATOR: Not paying attention
has gotten both greenhorns nearly killed. MAN: Run, run, run. Hey, look out. Crazy ass greenhorn. There will not
be another warning. NARRATOR: Gabe has finally had
enough of his rookies playing games. Hey, girls. Your time here is over. We're going down the hill. Time to go. NARRATOR: Now, they're heading
downhill for rigging duty. When I get Travis and
Dave down in the rigging, then I'm going to find out
what they're made out of. Because the landing,
in my opinion, is easy, brain-dead work. NARRATOR: On the flat
landing, the greenhorns' job is to unchoke logs so that
Craig and his processor can cut them down to
length for the mill. But in the steep rigging, they
must navigate the thick brush to hook up choker cables
to freshly-cut logs. The choker is a metal noose
connected to the carriage, which hauls logs up the slope. Gabe, he seems to think
that down in the rigging, he can get something out of
them, teach him something. And my opinion is, he ain't
going to teach them nothing. They are past learning anything. Ya haw! Hustle. You got to get out there. Get ready. Put one here. One there. They can't do the work for them. They gotta learn how to do it. [music playing] Well, let's see. Dave's successful. Travis still can't get his set. Can I show you something now? Watch. That's how you set
up a [bleep] choker. [horn] That's lesson number one. All right. You don't [bleep] the choker. You manhandle the choker. Hustle over there and
get them chokers, boys. You gotta hustle. Hurry up. Time's a wastin'. Come on. You gotta get out
and get in the clear. I'm trying to teach
these guys how to get in and out of a turn,
and they're dumber than hammered [bleep]. NARRATOR: But two hours
into the day, the greenhorns learn they've got more to worry
about than just moving fast. Watch that [inaudible]. MAN: Holy stump. That stump just
saved our lives. Did it break a choker? No. Just come off? NARRATOR: The choker set
by Travis came loose. The results could
have been deadly. GABE RYGAARD: You can just
be out here kind of ho hum, you know, logs are going
up the hill, no big deal. And then one split second, you
got something flying at you. When that choker hits you
in the head, it's over. Lights out. NARRATOR: After the
morning's near miss, Gabe takes a break from the
rookies' rigging boot camp and sends Dave on a mission. GABE RYGAARD: Hurry up. We're going to need it. He's going up to get
us some stump grease. NARRATOR: He's going up
top to get stump grease. It's a half mile climb. Time to hike the mountain. NARRATOR: Minutes later,
Travis gets an assignment. GABE RYGAARD: Hey,
you know what? I forgot. We're also going to need
a box of choker holes. Why don't you get
going with him? Choker holes? GABE RYGAARD: A box
of choker holes. A box of choker holes. I got to hike it up the-- up the mountain to the landing
to get a box of choker holes. The sooner the better. NARRATOR: Travis and
Dave don't know it, but there's no such thing as
stump grease or choker holes. We're going to
need that stuff. Hurry up. Might as well have a little
bit of fun with them. A little trip up
and down the hill, help warm their blood
up a little bit. I think it's funny. NARRATOR: The rookies
like to play games. And Gabe is happy
to accommodate. But before long, the game
could be over for both of these greenhorns. [music playing] 200 miles to the South-- MAN: Need a hand? NARRATOR: Jay Browning's outfit
fights through a wet morning on the mountain. DJ JEREMIAH: Whoa,
whoa, whoa whoa. It's foggy. It's really wet
out here, you know. And we're logging
on a lot of alder. And son of a [bleep],, that
[bleep] slippery, you know. Alder is a real [bleep]
to get around in. You know, especially when
you're walking in all the tops, trying to drag your
rigging through all that. It's waist-deep in limb. It's no [inaudible], you know. NARRATOR: When the
ground is impassable, DJ takes to the air. DJ JEREMIAH: Oh, [bleep]. MAN: DJ, [bleep] [inaudible]. Pick me up, bud. MAN: Huh? Pick me up. MAN: Pick you up? Yeah. OK. That's good. Now let me down. MAN: Good? Yeah, almost
[inaudible] You know, we're starting to look
like a bunch of clowns. [laughter] What? Nobody ever said logging's easy. NARRATOR: Despite
the brutal terrain, the Browning boys are averaging
a remarkable 18 loads a day. Uh, bad [inaudible] NARRATOR: With everyone
giving it their all, boss man Jay sees big potential
in one young crew member. Were you dragging your feet
a little bit that last time? MAN (OVER RADIO): [inaudible]. NARRATOR: 20-year-old
Cody Davis. Cody is a young, strong,
kind of a bull of a kid. Right here. JAY BROWNING: Very enthusiastic. And loves logging. He had an opportunity to
go to college and he just-- it just killed him to
be there at college. You're the only guy I
know that goes to college with a scholarship to play
baseball, and you come logging. That's like wiping your
[bleep] before you poop. Cody's a young guy that
I think could be groomed into an excellent hook tender. NARRATOR: The hook tender is in
charge of setting up the yarder and managing the site. It's a job that takes years
of experience and training. Cody, he's only got a
couple of years experience. But he's a good worker. He's willing to learn. I think he'd be a
great hook tender. You ain't got to be [bleep] 30
years old to be a hook tender. No. CARL HAZEN: You got a
lot of common sense. You're pretty smart. You know. NARRATOR: Before Cody can
become Jay's hook tender, he needs to learn every
job on the mountain. [horn] Today will be his first time
working as the rigging slinger. Normally, if we're
all working together, I would just be a choker setter. Rigging slinger, you got a
little more responsibilities, you know? Put one on that, Jose. Three on that fir. You're kind of
the man in charge. You're the big guy. NARRATOR: The rigging slinger
decides what logs go up. Is there a turn
right there, Coach? Two, three, four right here. One right in the middle. OK. Let's go. [horn] NARRATOR: And
signals three beeps when it's time to send them. MAN: You've got logs everywhere. [horn] You've got some logs
underneath each other. So he'll go out there
and he'll pick a turn that he sees will pick
easy, clean, no problems. It's not always as
easy as it looks. [horn] You've got to pick it
clean from the top. Otherwise you're pulling hard. Any time you're pulling [bleep]
harder than you have to, [bleep] breaks. And then lives are at stake. Yeah.
I'm the rigging boss out here. So if something happens
or if some guy is standing in the wrong spot, it's my ass. You know. Because I'm in
charge of these guys. And yeah, they've
both been logging well longer than I have. But that doesn't mean that I
shouldn't take care of them, you know. Watch out, DJ. NARRATOR: Besides calling
the shots in this giant game of pickup sticks, Cody is
also responsible for making sure each log is choked safely. A tree that's not
choked at the front end is a ticking time bomb. If the turn is
hooked in the middle, the tree's weight could shift
violently, causing an up-ender. It's a whiplash that could
hit like a thousand-pound Louisville Slugger. You're always supposed to
stand behind your rigging slinger about 10 feet. It's real good practice. Because where he's standing,
he figures it's clear. So you take 10 more
steps for your mother. NARRATOR: So far, the young
slinger is holding his own, pulling four loads
in just two hours. MAN: Way to pick them, Cody. That will land nice. Those turns are landing perfect. NARRATOR: But in the brush,
it only takes one bad choke to change everything. [music playing] [horn] Look out. [horn] [music playing] NARRATOR: On the Browning
job, boss man Jay put Cody Davis in the rigging
slinger spot for the day. [horn] MAN: Way to pick them, Cody. That will land nice. NARRATOR: Things
were going smoothly. [horn] Until-- MAN: Look out. [horn] DJ. It's the little
guys that'll kill you. Just like that, one
of them little [bleep] will wipe you out. Take your head right off. [music playing] [bleep]. MAN: What happened? Cody, uh-- [inaudible]. Cody was pulling
his rigging there. And we were standing-- Cody, what happened? Well, we were
standing right there and there was a loose
log in the turn. Yeah? It popped out front and
back, and we see it [inaudible] around. How close? It went over our
heads in front of us. Went over your heads? Like right in front of us. NARRATOR: One of Cody's chokers
was set too close to the log's center, causing an up-ender. It's a sloppy mistake that
could have spelled disaster. I seen that same thing
happened and hit Jesse Browning in the back of the [bleep]
leg and send him 15, 20 feet in the air. You know, that's like-- It didn't hurt me. It just scared the
[bleep] out of me. That, you know-- [interposing voices] That's like 25 baseball
bats all at once being swung at your head. Right when it lifted
up, I blew a stop, at [bleep] It's like
an eight second delay. It's not going to stop. Guys getting wiped out. And it does happen. Up-enders have been known to
take more than one guy out at the same time. I'm 35 years old, [inaudible]. You know. I mean, you're
[bleep] 20 years old. If something like
that happens, I'm going to tell you
right [bleep] damn good and well that I'm going to
feel like I'm responsible. You know? I mean. [music playing] Guys always go, well, it's
just one of those things. Yeah. It's one of those things
that shouldn't happen. NARRATOR: Back at Rygaard-- GABE RYGAARD: Hurry up. We're going to need it. NARRATOR: Gabe has his two
greenhorns, Dave and Travis, scrambling half a
mile up the mountain to fetch stump grease
and choker holes. The sooner the better. NARRATOR: Two items
that don't exist. After a grueling ascent, Dave
is the first to reach the top. Hell no. Stump grease. Uh. Eddie might know where some is. [music playing] NARRATOR: Dave and Travis
aren't the first greenhorns to wander into this
neck of the woods. And the rest of the crew falls
right in step with Gabe's plot. Stump grease. Rick's got it. Rick knows where it's at. Rick told me to ask you. Scoop some of that [bleep]
out of there and take it down to him. [music playing] NARRATOR: 20 minutes
later, Travis straggles onto the
landing, looking to bag his own wild goose. Yeah. What? I need a box of choke holers. Do I need a lot of it? MAN: Just take what
you can get, real fast. [music playing] Congratulations. You both fell for the
oldest joke in the book. [horn sound] Choker holes and stump grease. I think it's [bleep] stupid
for Gabe sending us up here for [bleep]. For nothing. Just for us to get back up here
and [bleep] head back down, I think it's dumb. I really don't care. I volunteered to hike up here. I'm going to eat a quick bite
and take a drink of my water and head back down. It's worth it. Where are them
damn greenhorns? [music playing] NARRATOR: To get
the jump on Travis, Dave makes darn sure he's
the first back down the hill. You guys said you
liked to play games. How'd you like that game? That was a fun game, wasn't it? I never said I liked to. I said I always win. I'm the first back
down the mountain. Where's Travis? I don't even think he started
back down the mountain yet. He's sitting up there eating. Oh, he's sitting
up there eating? Oh, no. Give me that [bleep] radio. Hey, Eddie. You tell that greenhorn to
get his [bleep] lunch back in his lunch box and get his
ass over the hill right now. Yeah. He's, uh, about ready
to break over the hill. If this is a competition,
I've just got to beat Travis. That's what I'm trying to do. GABE RYGAARD: Hey,
was that a fun game? It's not a game. This is my job. My hill, my wood, my game. I think it's dumb. If you guys want to
learn something out of that little lesson, there is
a lesson to be learned there. This isn't a game to me. This is my life. [music playing] NARRATOR: 3,000 miles southeast
on Florida's Suwannee River-- Good morning, dude.
How are you doing today? Oh, pretty good. Pretty good. All right. NARRATOR: Jimmie and
James Smith gear up for another day of logging with
their new boss, Joe Collins. Man, just replicate what
you did the other day, as many times as possible. NARRATOR: This
father and son team traveled across
the country hoping to cash in on the Suwannee's
valuable sunken timber. This is a make or
break trip for us. We got to make some
money for the company. MAN: We're hoping on $40,000,
going for $40,000 check. To get $40,000, that's
about 125 to 150 logs. MAN: There you are. NARRATOR: So far, James's
first dive brought the total up to one log. He's done gone. He's done good. Come here, man. Give me a hug. NARRATOR: He needs 149
more to reach his goal. But Jimmy still sees
the dollar signs. It's a big chance. But you know, big
chances pay off. You know, guys that
bet little, you know, they don't bet nothing. You know, it's like, you got
to bet it all, or nothing. You know, in order to
make it in this world. All right. This boat's moving. [music playing] NARRATOR: Partway upstream,
the guys get news. They've got company. No, we haven't seen him yet. NARRATOR: A 10 foot
gator has been spotted. Got to let us
know when y'all see. Joe, you got the
shotgun with you? No, sir. All we going to
use, a pocket knife? [music playing] NARRATOR: There are
over a million gators in the state of Florida. In the last 10 years, almost
200 people have been attacked. 12 of them didn't survive. I know one person that will
not be getting in the water today, until the gator
issue is settled. And that would be me. And my whole
life without going head to head with an alligator. I could easily go on with the
rest of it not doing so either. NARRATOR: If no
one dives, today's a bust for Jimmy and
his 150 log goal. I'd hate to have to cut
up one of them logs and make a pine box for somebody, I
can tell you that right now. If it was me, I'd
jump in [bleep].. But I got my son out here.
JOE COLLINS: Yeah. MAN: You know. NARRATOR: The trio
decides to wait it out. [music playing] But after two hours,
Jimmy loses patience. Let's get in the water. JOE COLLINS: I got
your back, man. I mean--
- I know you do. JOE COLLINS: Everybody
will be watching. NARRATOR: He needs
to make money. And fast. [inaudible] [bleep]. Let's get in the water. NARRATOR: Jimmy
makes a bold call. He'll dive, but only
in short increments. Five to seven, maybe 10
[inaudible] all depends if I'm on something or not. [music playing] JOE COLLINS: Just squat
down and roll over. NARRATOR: As Jimmy,
descends Joe and James keep an eye on the water, at
least what they can see of it. [music playing] In northern Florida, Jimmy
Smith has taken the plunge into the black waters
of the Suwannee. But today, he's swimming
with a 10 foot gator. If you come up and don't
give me the OK symbol, I'm going to think
you got a problem. Jimmy's plan was to
keep his dive time short, no more than 10 minutes. How long has he
been down there, Joe? About 20 minutes. NARRATOR: So far, he's
been down double that. [music playing] [grunting] I don't see him, man. Where's he at? I don't know. [music playing] NARRATOR: Finally after
almost half an hour-- There's some bubbles. [music playing] [grunting] JOE COLLINS: There he is.
He's all right, man. Don't scare us like that. Man, I thought that
gator got you for sure. [inaudible]. Yeah? NARRATOR: There was a problem. But it wasn't a gator. JAMES SMITH: Oh, no, yeah,
it-- your BC's not hooked up. No [bleep]. NARRATOR: That
tube that inflates Jimmy's BC, or Buoyancy
Control vest, wasn't hooked up. JIMMY SMITH: Here I had
35 pounds of weight on, laying in the bottom of a river. And no way to air myself up. I had to climb up
the slick limestone. If you get in a
difficult situation, or you become fatigued, and
you wish to go to the top, and be able to float, you're
going to hit the button. And you're not going to
have anything happen. [grunting] Screwups like that
can cost you your life. The BC's full of water is
because you [bleep] hook that up man. Y'all buddy check. I made sure yours
was hooked up. I'll just let you do
your [bleep] from now on. You want to do that? You want to make sure I just
let you go on the way you are? Get down here and hook me up. NARRATOR: The good news
is, while Jimmy was stuck on the bottom, he found a log. I got a nice one
right down there. There. JOE COLLINS: Really? Well, get on it, man. NARRATOR: He heads back
down to set the buoy line. It's just James,
James, James, James. Damn it, James. I went to breakfast
without clothing. It's your fault. You know, all the [bleep]
your old man gives you, man, you have to let that
roll off your back. Between the two of you, I
see a lot more potential. I think if you pay
attention, man, we can learn you a lot
about this stuff. You know, just let all that
roll off your back, man. [music playing] Buoy up. Hey, doesn't that
buoy look overinflated. Only slightly. NARRATOR: After tying
off a log, buoys are inflated underwater using a
line from the diver's air tank. Too much air and-- Oh. Buoy down. Oh. For the love of God. [music playing] You got a hold
of that buoy rope? He fills those way too much. JOE COLLINS: Jimmy,
grab the rope. Where's the buoy? It popped. You overinflated it. It popped. Oh, no [bleep]. NARRATOR: With the buoy
marker out of sight, Jimmy and James are
back to square one. Just break that
gear down, man. I'll go up and tie
this puppy off for you. NARRATOR: With zero
visibility in the black water, the boss must locate
the line by touch. [interposing voices] NARRATOR: Five minutes
later, Joe finds the line. And they're ready to winch
Jimmy's log off the bottom. [music playing] Well, that's what
happens sometimes. NARRATOR: This $125 catch
brings Jimmy's total up to a log and a half. JIMMY SMITH: It's only
about a five footer. Five, six footer. The log itself is
a little lackluster. NARRATOR: If things
don't improve fast, Jimmy and James's Florida gamble
may turn out to be a big bust. JIMMY SMITH: We're
working on it. It's harder than it looks. So. Every day is a toss of the dice. [music playing] NARRATOR: 3,000
miles northwest-- MAN: Go, go, go. NARRATOR: The PIHL crew is in
third place in the load count. Less bitching
and more logging. NARRATOR: But Mike has
news that could give them a shot at catching up. He's landed a new job. But that means they must wrap
the snowbreak site today. We'll do her. I mean, if it's got to be
done, it's got to be done. We'll get her done. So I'll just push these guys
to make sure we get it done. All right. Bye. We can do her. These guys are just going to
have to shift her in high. [horn] [music playing] [inaudible] competition
if you don't hurry up. [horns] You know, being a logger,
it seems like we're faced with pressure every day. There's always a deadline and
something that has to be done. We've got to get
this job finished, because we need the next one. If not, no one's going to
be working this winter. MAN: Need some logs. More logs. NARRATOR: Melvin
has already proven he can push the equipment
past the breaking point. MAN: Watch out, watch out. You hear that noise? MAN: [inaudible]
sound like [inaudible] I don't know what the hell. Melvin has got to
stop breaking [bleep].. He's pulling a lot of wood, but
every step he takes forward, we're taking two steps back. Logs. More logs. NARRATOR: Now, he's pushing
the crew to the limit. [horn] Oh, yeah. I can push these guys. I can push them until
they friggin want to puke. [music playing] Come on, guys. Hurry it up. Hustle. All these guys, at the end
of the day, should friggin' be tired. They should want to
go home and go to bed. Hey, Adam. [horn] Watch out, watch out, watch out. Logs. Log coming. Here's where it's going to
come right down to the end. And he's going to take and make
one [bleep] up and say, whoops, I didn't mean to. I didn't hear it. And one of us aren't
going to be here. [horn] Come to papa, y'all. Come on. NARRATOR: Melvin's
going full throttle. [horn] He sends the carriage back
to the rigging at top speed. But his pace has a price. MAN: Watch out. Oh. [horn] MAN: Adam. NARRATOR: At Pihl,
there's a man down. MAN: Watch out. Oh. [horn] MAN: Adam. Dude, you OK? What's the problem? Adam? NARRATOR: When the fast-moving
carriage slammed to a stop, the momentum sent the chokers
flying wildly into Adam's face. MAN: All right under the eye? Yeah. Does it open at all? It's hard to tell. I don't know. We need to clean it off. [inaudible] these things. MAN: Sting relief. [interposing voices] It's fair if you
can't feel the pain. Oh, trust me. My head is ringing still. NARRATOR: From where
Melvin's sitting, Adam's injury doesn't
seem all that bad. [horn] Kelly went down there
and checked on him to make sure he was OK. Blah, blah, blah. I heard something a Band-Aid. I heard he needed a Band-Aid. [horn] NARRATOR: He's ready
to get back to work. Hurry up. Come on. Melvin [bleep] us on this one. Melvin, you're a
[bleep] dumb [bleep].. If that choker would have
tagged me in the mouth, it probably would have
took out a couple teeth. Would have hit me in the eye,
it could have taken out my eye. If it hit me in the
temple, it probably would have knocked me out. [horn] NARRATOR: All season,
Melvin's tested the limits. But after today's incident,
it could be game over. The way Melvin's running
the tower, it has got to stop. He needs to be more responsible
and pay more attention. He's one of those guys, he's
just there to pull logs. And he doesn't really
give a [bleep].. He's just gonna-- there to pull
the lever and get the log up to the landing. He'll get a second chance. There is no third though. NARRATOR: 2,600 miles southeast
in the swamps of Louisiana, Shelby Stanga is
back in the hunt. Come on. Get them logs. Here we go. NARRATOR: Over
the past 37 years, Shelby has built a lucrative
business recovering cured timber from these waters. I know these swamps
better than anyone. And what people
think is trash, I know there's a
damn treasure, man. It's worth gold. [music playing] NARRATOR: But now,
the centerpiece of his logging fleet, a 145
foot barge, is sinking fast. A new barge can run
upwards of $90,000. But Shelby is determined to
claw his way back, log by log. For $80,000 or $90,000, it's
going to take me probably 150, 200 logs. You know, and that's big logs. You know, all depends-- it could take a whole
lot more logs than that. It all depends on
what size they are. [music playing] NARRATOR: Today, Shelby has
a request for a specific type of log that could pay out big. The log buyer wants
some small trees. Some small stuff
about this big around. He wanted one for
a post for a table. And he wanted one for a post
for a coat rack, and a hat rack. So that's what he's looking for
with all them knots sticking on the side of it. NARRATOR: Shelby knows where
to find the knotted wood for his log buyer. But getting there won't be easy. This remote part
of the Bedico Swamp was one of the hardest
hit in Hurricane Katrina. NARRATOR: Shelby's taking
advantage of the high tide to make it over the obstacles. NARRATOR: Shelby is now seven
miles from civilization. And right in his old backyard. [music playing] It's been over 30 years
since he was last here. Right there-- I was born in the swamp. I was raised in the swamp. And I may as well
may die in the swamp. NARRATOR: Shelby's
walk down memory lane is put to an abrupt stop. The water level has dropped
two feet in the past hour. He's only got 30
minutes to get his log and get out before the
waterways become impassable. [music playing] NARRATOR: Shelby stumbled
into the mother lode of logs. But none are the ornamental
wood he's looking for. At the last possible moment,
Shelby spots the perfect piece. NARRATOR: 15 feet of
knotted sinker cypress. NARRATOR: But just when
things were going good-- [music playing] Didn't sound good. NARRATOR: Shelby is
dead in the water. If he doesn't get out
in the next 15 minutes, the tide will trap him
in the swamp overnight. [whimper] Seven miles deep into the swamp,
Shelby Stanga is up the creek without a motor. [music playing] Here we go! NARRATOR: Shelby returns, one
log closer to saving his barge. The log's home. The gold's home, baby. Cha-ching. Here we go. NARRATOR: At the
end of week five, Rygaard is locking
horns with Browning. Pihl hammers out the last
of the snowbreak site, bringing their
load count to 292. It's daybreak on
Browning's [inaudible] job. We don't want anything
to go wrong like last-- NARRATOR: After
yesterday's upender-- Look out.
Oh. [horn] NARRATOR: Jay has brought
in a safety advisor to remind his crew
that out here, there's no rescue when things go bad. I think there's something we
can learn here from this 911 call. So I want to play this. And basically, what happened
here is they were logging with this kid. He went in to buck another
log for the next turn. So as the lines
were being slacked, a rock cut loose from up above. Big rock. And it came down. And so this kid's
running a saw, you know. And everybody's yelling at him. But this rock whacks him. Whacks him pretty good. WOMAN (RECORDING):
The time is now 11:23. End of tape. It took three hours. It was three hours until
he hit the landing. He made it three hours. He died once they
hit the landing. And he had a wife
and three kids. [music playing] NARRATOR: The morning meeting
plants an important seed. Anything can happen
on the mountain. And rescue is a long way away. It's pretty sobering
for everybody on the crew. It makes you realize
what could happen. Hearing that and
knowing that we've got to go out there and work
in the same environment, it scares you a little bit. Well, I take it
as heartbreak, man. I mean, I'm a dad. I've got three daughters. That [bleep] was
rough [inaudible].. You know? [music playing] NARRATOR: With a renewed respect
for the importance of safety, the crew goes to work. We're just doing the same
thing we did yesterday. Jay said he wants some
wood on the landing-- Right there. CODY DAVIS: Hopefully
another 20 loads today. NARRATOR: Yesterday, Cody was
working as rigging slinger, and made an avoidable mistake. Today, Jay's on site. If Cody is going to learn, he's
going to learn the Browning way. I like to lead by example. I always like to take the guys
that can pick it up and kind of hone that. Jay, do you think it'd be
safe to get this other, bigger fir with it? MAN: Maybe that small--
[interposing voices] No, take this hemlock. MAN: OK. [inaudible]. NARRATOR: Just hours into the
day, a summer logging hazard strikes. [bleep]. Bees. They're all over you, Jay. Go, you guys, go. They're [bleep] everywhere. Go, Jay, go. [bleep] They're all over. [buzzing] Boy, that's something to
wake up to in the morning. [bleep] How many times
did you get stung? 30, 40. MAN: Jay, you got it bad, huh? Yeah. No [bleep]. They're not stopping. MAN: Yeah, it's nothing nice. Damn it. Even got in the lip. You guys set me up? Oh, [bleep] no. We wouldn't do that. We wouldn't dare do that. Send the boss over there
where the bees nest is. Son of a [bleep] you
know, I claim to be good, but I ain't that good. [music playing] NARRATOR: Within minutes, the
bees' venom begins to affect Jay. When I got to him, they
were all over his back. Oh, I'm kind of
feeling kind of weak. Hopefully, I don't collapse. Boy, I'm all tingly. That was a lot. There may be reason
to have concern. Yeah. God, my arms, my
stomach, my back. My legs. 'Cause I don't know,
that was pretty bad. [music playing] Uh-oh. MAN: Holy [bleep]. Jay! Dial 911. Get the radio. Dial 911. [music playing]
