Only 48 hours remain until the bid deadline, and Jared and his crew race to stack high-dollar cedar before the buzzer rings. One last splash could launch them into the logging big leagues -- or sink the whole company.

Fallers face gnarly 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.