Jared breaks free from his old partner and gets a do-or-die shot to buy a timber claim; with only ten days left to raise $200K in timber profits, his crew battles monster cedars as a raging fire threatens lives.
Facing the devastation of losing the "Forever Claim", Jared makes a desperate deal with the powerful businessman who outbid him, but new challenges could destroy his logging season before it begins.
Fallers face timber challenges, but it will all be for nothing if Jared and crew can't get the 140-ton super snorkel up the mountain; a series of mechanical setbacks threatens to delay the first $100,000 barge royalty, due in less than two weeks.
Stretched thin and off-pace, Jared watches a loader tumble down the road; foreman Brad attempts to land his plane in choppy weather, but is forced to shelter nearby; Barge Day arrives.
With pressure mounting after a disastrous first Forever Claim barge and the prospect of losing Float Camp, Jared brings in more crew, including a gamble on a new Fat Truck driver to boost production; Float Camp Claim races to end strong.
In the Pacific Northwest, Jared Douglas and his logging crew risk life and limb to harvest some of the planet's most remote and valuable trees; getting these giants from the forest to market is deadly.
Jared moves into an abandoned logging camp, placing a $600,000 bet on a remote, dangerous site that will either sink or save his business; Ross is charged with moving the float camp ten miles deeper into the wilderness.
Drowning in debt, Jared is doing everything he can to keep his business afloat and his workers employed; when foul play threatens to sink his float camp, Jared fights back as his fallers play a game of dominos to get high-dollar trees to market.
Jared needs to move $1 million of wood down a river to market but can't find anyone brave enough to lead the journey; moving deeper into the wilderness to chase big wood, the road builders prepare a blast to gain access.
In an all-out push to turn a profit at Grizzly Camp, Jared enlists Dave to navigate $200,000 of wood down the deadly Grizzly River; fallers Chris and Jeff tackle steep terrain in search of big wood.
As fire season draws closer and threatens widespread shutdowns, Jared's feeling the heat; he races to salvage logs before it's too late; at Grizzly River, fallers Jim and Rob are called in to help clear a path to one last stand of money trees.
With fire season looming, Jared is under the gun to get all his product out of the woods before it turns to ash; fallers race to drop trees without sparking a backcountry blaze; an alarming discovery at float camp could sink the whole operation.
With just days left to move timber before fire season shuts him down, Jared races to save his float camp from sinking; Dave struggles to send one last haul down Grizzly River; Ross is called to the scene of an accident.
Jared Douglas and his crew harvest the biggest trees on the planet.