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NARRATOR: Coming up on Jobs That Bite...
JEREMY: Dang it! WES: Hey, stop them!
JEREMY: Whoa! Whoa!
NARRATOR: It's man versus horse...
WES: Hold him! Hold him! JEREMY: Whoa! Whoa!
NARRATOR: ... I solve a seaside who done it...
That's the intestines? That's the intestines!
NARRATOR: ... and this little piggy won't go quietly!
Hey mama, watch yourself! Where do I go? Where do I go? Hey!
NARRATOR: I'm Jeremy Brandt, JEREMY: Easy.
NARRATOR: and I'm taking on the wildest animal jobs out there!
Ow...ow...ow!
NARRATOR: First up... Timber!
Five tons of tree, and two tons of horse.
There's no room for a mistake with this job.
You can get hurt in a heartbeat.
JEREMY: All right so we're meeting a guy named Wes
to pick up some horses.
Supposedly, they're really big horses.
I like horses, I don't necessarily like riding them
at fast speeds, not real comfortable with that,
so I don't know what we're going to do with these behemoths,
but it must be something pretty big.
WES: Hey...hey Jeremy. JEREMY: Hey, you must be Wes.
WES: Yeah. You ready to go to work?
JEREMY: We got some work with horses today.
WES: That's right!
JEREMY: Where are the big guys?
WES: Right at the top of the hill there.
JEREMY: Okay. WES: Ready to go?
JEREMY: We just whistle for them?
WES: No, we're going to go catch them.
JEREMY: All right! Let's go.
WES: We can try whistling but I don't know.
JEREMY: What are we doing today? WES: Horse logging.
JEREMY: Horse logging. Nice.
WES: We're going to get harness on them and we're going to log,
pull logs out of the woods with them.
JEREMY: All right! That's why we need the big horses...
WES: We do, we got some big logs.
JEREMY: Big logs. WES: That's right.
JEREMY: How many horses are we talking about or is that...
WES: There's four here but we're only going to grab two for today
JEREMY: Ok.
NARRATOR: Wes could log his client's land with modern
machinery, but instead he uses horses.
It's a family tradition and easier on the land.
WES: That's Clyde.
He's the lightest colored one on the left there.
And then Shelby's over on the left.
JEREMY: OK.
WES: We're grabbing Shelby and Clyde today.
JEREMY: Shelby and Clyde, all right!
Hi guys. No big deal! Just me and Wes. Aw!
Listen to that. That's like thunder.
So how do we get these guys, they're not going to come to us.
WES: Unfortunately we're on eight acres so they may decide
to go to the other end of it.
If we run after them they'll just run more,
so the idea is just to kind of take your time and walk up
and let them know we're not going to stop.
JEREMY: Okay. Hey buddy!
This is the danger zone isn't it?
WES: Kind of with the way they're all standing there
I'm not sure what they're going to do.
JEREMY: Hi, Shelby right? Hi Shelby.
Okay we're going right through the danger zone here.
There you go Clyde buddy. Whoa.
NARRATOR: Something tells me this big guy is going to be
a worthy opponent!
I'm just going to cruise up to him like I'm his friend.
Say hey Clyde! What's going on?
How's the ranch, how are the ladies?
I'm getting the distinct impression they don't want
to get caught.
Thunder!
WES: At this point they're all pretty much treating you like
they don't really want you to catch them.
JEREMY: Personally I don't think you or I are the problem.
WES: No. It's all these guys. I think it's the boom thing.
JEREMY: Okay we'll keep going here.
WES: I should probably sit down now.
Oh it's going to be awhile. Ah!
JEREMY: Come on! OK, we're going to give this a shot.
We're hiding the harness behind my back.
Be very, very quiet.
Hi, hi, hi...there you go.
I'm just not sure what to do with it once I get it around
his neck.
Hi, there you go, hi, hi buddy.
Hi...there we go there we go. There we go....
I'm doing it!
Yeah, Clyde we're going to go to work buddy!
WES: Hey! Sweet!
Just put this lead rope on him and you got him for good.
I see new direction in your line of work here.
We'll go one more. JEREMY: OK.
WES: You want to take Clyde? JEREMY: Yeah, I'll take Clyde.
WES: You just kind of walk along to the left.
By the way safety thing, never loop it,
'cause if he starts to run you lose your fingers.
JEREMY: I know I knew that. That's just common sense.
Isn't it? OK.
WES: Well, let's just do that.
JEREMY: Yeah...okay. We got ten. We're good.
Check that later on in the day. OK.
WES: You can just walk around with him for a while and see
if he'll walk with you.
JEREMY: OK. Come on Clyde! WES: Say, "Let's go!"
JEREMY: Go for a walk? We're going to work today bud. Come on
WES: Hey he loves you! JEREMY: All right! All right!
WES: I'll go grab Shelby.
JEREMY: All right. So we're taking them back down the hill.
WES: Down the hill. If we just kind of angle to the right.
JEREMY: Okay.
WES: It might be easier.
JEREMY: Ok Clyde's giving me the ho here.
WES: I know, say come on Clyde.
JEREMY: Come on Clyde let's go work!
Who's in charge here buddy?
WES: You gotta whisper to him I think, Jeremy.
JEREMY: Oh whisper, ok.
Okay here's the deal we're going to work okay,
I don't know what we're going to do but, it's your job man!
It's what you do! Yeah I know.
Don't be a quitter. Come on! Come on here we go.
Come on, Let's go. Come on buddy! Come on Clyde
2000 lbs. Look it, I pull, his neck goes back.
Come on, there we go. Come on, come on there we go.
There we go let's go to work. All right we're moving now.
Alright. I think we got him. Yeah.
Or maybe it was the whole quitter talk, got him pumped up.
Good boy.
WES: Sweet...there we go.
NARRATOR: With Clyde finally secured, we head into
Wes' wood lot.
Wow this is uh, this is pretty tight!
WES: It's wide enough for the team coming through
that's the main thing.
JEREMY: Okay...so is this why you use horses instead of,
I mean you don't want to just bring a tractor
right through here. WES: Right.
Yeah a tractor would actually have a hard time getting around
on here. It would be a lot of up and down bouncing.
JEREMY: Really? WES: Yeah.
They could probably do it but it's so heavy it actually
compresses the soil.
Whereas horses you know they're just walking. Okay.
NARRATOR: What's good for the trees, is good enough for me!
I'm ready for my lumberjack transformation.
JEREMY: All right...we suit up? What's next?
WES: Yeah, yeah basically... probably the most important
thing other than your hard hat,
well this may even be more important.
These are chaps to protect your legs.
They have Kevlar in them. JEREMY: Okay,
WES: As you can see right here,
Jeremy: okay. This one has some duct tape on it!
my nephew just, it does but it's still good I just,
my nephew used this once and the chainsaw went straight across it
would have cut his leg down to the bone if he hadn't had
this on.
JEREMY: Any Kevlar left?
WES: Oh yeah oh yeah, yeah it's in there, see.
And that will actually gum up the chain and it instantly stops
I mean it's like microseconds.
JEREMY: Okay. Definitely putting these on.
You got another pair of these we can just double up.
WES: Actually they go right here.
JEREMY: Oh hahahaha. Look at me I'm wearing it like a bib.
WES: But you know...
JEREMY: Here we go I'll just pretend I want to protect
my heart basically. WES: That would be good.
JEREMY: Sometimes I'm just not paying attention.
WES: That's ok. That's good.
JEREMY: All right what are we getting here?
WES: Well we got an Alder, not a real big one but it's a good,
good candidate for a first tree. JEREMY: Yeah. Yeah.
NARRATOR: We're starting with a small tree to get warmed up.
JEREMY: I've never used a chainsaw before so just...
WES: So this is good yeah... Jeremy: hit me with it all.
Wes: after we start it up,
we're going to make three cuts, okay,
first cut is what's called an opening face cut.
JEREMY: Okay.
WES: Our second cut we're going to come down at an angle
and make a pie shape.
Come to the other side and directly behind that first cut,
JEREMY: First cut yeah, a third of the way in.
WES: We'll come in here, right...
we're going to come back here and just cut...
JEREMY: This looks dangerous here 'cause you got the kickback
WES: You remember what I said yeah...
Jeremy: You go right into Dallas' leg.
Wes: you go right, exactly, so
JEREMY: Watch out buddy! WES: Does that make sense?
JEREMY: Yeah!
WES: Do you want to cut on something else first just
to like, we can cut an end off something so...nah.
JEREMY: No. Let's do it! Let's do it come on we're loggers!
Good?
WES: Great job for your first tree!
JEREMY: Yeah not bad huh!
WES: Really good yeah, just a little bit wider here and here
but that's not bad at all, I do that all the time so.
JEREMY: All right. Nice. Not a bad tree!
WES: Yeah, for a starter tree.
I think we could do some bigger ones, what do you think?
JEREMY: Yeah you got some bigger ones?
WES: Oh yeah.
JEREMY: All right! Let's do it.
All right so we had a little tester there with that smaller
tree, that tree was still about 30 feet probably, 30, 40 feet.
And now we're going to go get the big dog I guess.
WES: What do you think of this guy, are you ready for that one?
JEREMY: This one right laughs.. this one here? Aw.
That's a tree right there. WES: It is.
JEREMY: Wow, think I'm ready for that one?
WES: Yeah, we'll find out!
JEREMY: I think the worst part about this well there's a lot of
worse things.
We got the chainsaw, which is one, obviously look at this,
okay we got some Kevlar here but it's already been torn through.
Two we got a 120-foot tree.
Three, we got an escape path here 45 degrees and we don't
have much room and we're trying to fit sound,
two cameramen and me and Wes and a buzzing chainsaw unless
I turn it off in time.
Before this tree crashes down on us. So yeah.
I'm a little worried.
All right here we go.
WES: Yeah! This is the final cut here.
JEREMY: This is the cut of no return.
WES: All right, so. JEREMY: Here we go.
WES: Here we go! JEREMY: TIMBER!!!!
Yeah buddy! That was awesome! Woo! Wow.
WES: Well you did it.
JEREMY: That was sweet man!
WES: Is your heart pumping a little bit?
JEREMY: My heart is pumping that was awesome!
Woo! Yeah!
That is going to be one big log to pull out of here huh!
WES: Oh yeah, just gotta get the limbs out,
JEREMY: Okay.
WES: and Matt's here to pull them out and we can finally get
the horses and get them out of here.
JEREMY: Nice let's get them!
NARRATOR: Cutting that giant tree down was risky,
but dragging it out with horses is downright dangerous.
WES: OK, all right we'll just back them out of here.
Back up Clyde. JEREMY: There we go,
Wes: Back. Back. Jeremy: woo! Wow, okay
this could get wild.
WES: We're going to turn left now so stay with me.
JEREMY: Wow, okay. WES: Left! Ah!
That's it. Go ahead and set it down.
JEREMY: OK.
WES: All right we're going.
JEREMY: We're going! This is happening.
WES: So basically when you're driving a team,
JEREMY: Yeah.
WES: this is right this is left.
JEREMY: Yeah right, pull on the right. Okay.
WES: Yeah...if you're in a wagon,
you're just sitting in one spot right.
But when you're ground driving you always want to stay kind of
centered. JEREMY: Okay...okay.
WES: But the idea is to keep them at a walk,
don't let them get into a trot if you can help it.
JEREMY: Okay. So if they did start to trot what would you do?
WES: Easy, easy, easy. Like that, or walk.
JEREMY: Okay.
WES: Okay now if I want to stop them it's just whoa!
JEREMY: You really dig in.
WES: And then once they stop let the lines go loose.
JEREMY: Ok.
WES: If you keep tension on it they think oh we're ready to go
we're ready to go.
So just let them loose and when you're ready to go I tighten up
the lines of the team...
JEREMY: Yeah. Oh. Nice.
Just go straight...
WES: As soon as you're ready to go tighten up the lines
and when they start paying attention to you, kiss.
There you go perfect.
Keep your hands closer to your belt.
Walk! Walk!
JEREMY: Walk! Easy, easy.
Walk. Walk. Walk. WES: That's good.
Why don't we just, just stop here yeah.
JEREMY: Whoa, whoa. Whoa. WES: That's good.
All that stuff has to be already in your brain,
and in your...you know.
JEREMY: Okay...okay cause then it starts to get a little dicey.
WES: Oh it gets real dicey, if you think they're kind of like
up now they're not even close to being up once they're hooked up
to a log they'll be like "rrr" and they better hear your voice
and know you're there. JEREMY: OK good.
WES: I think it's time to graduate to pulling a small log
JEREMY: Ok. We'll start on the small ones.
WES: Yeah.
JEREMY: Alright here we go
WES: All right here we go.
Left and then keep going left. Ho, ho, ho.
Now turn them real sharp. There you go. Ok stop them!
JEREMY: Ho, ho, ho! WES: Okay back, back them.
JEREMY: Back, back, back. Back! Whoa! Whoa!
WES: Nice stop.
JEREMY: Ready here we...Whoa.
WES: Whoa! Hold them, hold them... Hold them...
JEREMY: Whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa! WES: Whoa...I got it, I got it.
JEREMY: All right, that was exciting!
WES: They almost kept going.
Jeremy: It's like a roller coaster.
They're really hard to control. Woo! Okay here we go!
WES: Remember the bite's going to change sides.
Good you're smart.
JEREMY: Easy, easy! Easy! Easy! WES: Now go left.
JEREMY: Easy! Easy.
WES: There you go, watch yourself.
JEREMY: Easy. Walk! Walk! Walk! WES: Watch your legs!
Nice job Jeremy! JEREMY: Walk. Woo.
WES: That gets interesting doesn't it?
JEREMY: Oh yeah. That was serious right there man!
WES: You can get hurt in a heartbeat.
JEREMY: Oh yeah. Whoa, whoa.
WES: Gosh Jeremy give it another day or two you're going to be an
experienced horse logger here. JEREMY: Yeah or dead!
WES: Or dead yeah, right. Unhook this.
JEREMY: Did your dad do this? WES: No but my dad's dad did.
JEREMY: Oh really?
WES: Yeah he had a team, he was a farmer.
JEREMY: How's that make you feel?
WES: Like my wife says I should have been born 150 years ago!
JEREMY: That feels good though, you know!
WES: Oh yeah, ready to get some bigger logs?
JEREMY: Let's get some bigger logs here we go.
WES: Nice tight lines. Perfect. JEREMY: OK.
NARRATOR: We're not out of the woods yet...
WES: Ok stop them. JEREMY: Whoa, whoa! Whoa!
WES: Just back them up.
JEREMY: Back. Back. Back. Good job. Back, back. Good job.
NARRATOR: With bigger logs comes bigger danger.
This log weighs almost a thousand pounds. There we are.
NARRATOR: One misstep and I could crush my foot,
break my leg or end up underneath two tons of horse.
JEREMY: Yup, that feels good to me.
WES: OK they're going right go left a little bit more.
Whoa, easy, easy! Walk, walk! WES: Keep them going.
Get on the other side of the log. There you go.
JEREMY: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy. Easy.
WES: Tell them to easy.
JEREMY: Easy. Walk! Walk! Laughs.... Walk.
WES: Stay with them now!
JEREMY: Walk! Walk! Walk! Easy! Easy!
WES: Slow them down. Okay stop them now!
JEREMY: Whoa! Whoa! WES: Nice, nice.
JEREMY: That was fun! WES: Go back a little bit.
JEREMY: Okay. Back! Back! Back! Back!
WES: There you go. You even surfed a little bit.
JEREMY: That little skateboard action there, a little surfing.
WES: Yeah nice!
JEREMY: Log surfing that's how we do it!
That's how they used to do it.
WES: Oh yeah!
NARRATOR: While the horses head off to greener pastures,
my next job puts me in the middle of a crime scene.
All right today we're in Astoria on the northwest border
of Oregon and I'm meeting Dr. Deborah Duffield
on the beach.
To deal with seals today.
Not sure what we're doing with seals.
But I love them. Grew up on the ocean. Should be fun.
Oh man.
Dr. Debbie!
Dr. Duffield: Hey Jeremy! JEREMY: How are you?
Dr. Duffield: Hello! JEREMY: Good. Nice to see you.
Dr. Duffield: Very nice that you're here!
JEREMY: Wow. I can smell that coming down the beach we got
obviously what is this a seal?
Dr. Duffield: This is a harbor seal
JEREMY: Not the prettiest one I've seen either.
Dr. Duffield: No, no. Definitely not the prettiest.
First of all let's get you into the equipment you need because
you'll be doing the cutting.
NARRATOR: Dr. Debbie and her necropsy team investigate
suspicious deaths.
Today it's this seal. And I'm here to lend a hand.
My ring's ok? Dr. Duffield: It's okay.
Jeremy: Take the watch off?
Dr. Duffield: You just don't want it to get dirty.
JEREMY: Oh, okay.
Dr. Duffield: It will smell forever.
JEREMY: For how long? Dr. Duffield: Very long.
The smells stay forever because they're in the oils and the oils
just permeate everything.
JEREMY: Hi, Dalin. You've been working on this a little bit,
what do we know already?
Dalin: So we have an adult female harbor seal and one of
the first things we noticed when we walked up to her is that with
her skull exposed but the rest of her intact we're usually
suspicious of the animal having been shot because once the skin
gets opened up then the decomposition can take place
a little more rapidly.
So we see that the fur is sloughing on the animal which is
um, you can just kind of touch it and peel it off.
Jeremy: That's not at all weird to you anymore though.
I mean you're just kind of peeling the fur off a dead seal,
that's just...
Dalin: It's science! Jeremy: It is! It's science!
Here's a big bruise. Right there.
Jason: Yes that is awesome. I mean not....
Jeremy: Yeah I know.
Well he's already dead right so.
Now we're just trying to figure out what happened.
NARRATOR: This bruise confirms our suspicions.
Cause of death: gunshot wound...
But without the bullet, we'll have no evidence to lead us
to the killer.
Jason: Jeremy actually if you want to just kind of make a cut
right here just along that path you can kind of see that
hemorrhage mark like that it could be indicative of the path
the bullet took or just further trauma in there.
It's definitely an area that we need to check out.
Why don't you just go ahead and give a cut there...
Jeremy: You make it sound like I'm just buttering my own bread
here at dinner. Just drag it like this or use...
Jason: Yeah. No why don't you drag it.
Jeremy: Here we go.
Jason: You don't want to go in too far.
You might want to go in the edge... use your edge,
Jeremy: Just want to do this. Like this. Okay, like that?
How's that looking?
Jason: That's looking good. That's looking good.
Jeremy: Okay. It reminds me of like going out to dinner
and having a piece of fish or something.
Jason: You can also make a kind of you know let it split
and see what it will reveal to us.
Jeremy: Is this exciting for you Jason?
Jason: It is. It's just very fascinating.
Jeremy: So what do we do with the zip tie here?
Jason: Uh the zip tie, we have two holes right here
and we're not sure exactly where the bullet went.
So we just put it through there and try and just see
where it goes.
Jeremy: Okay that one doesn't seem like it's leading
us anywhere. Jason: Okay that's cool.
We've got another one right there, see where that one leads.
Jeremy: Oh yeah, okay. That one went in a little bit.
Jason: ...Take your knife and just kind of
right along that line just kind of follow that trek
see what you can find.
Jeremy: Just make gentle cuts like that?
Jason: Yeah.
NARRATOR: It's very rare to find an intact bullet,
but it's the only thing that will connect us to the killer.
Jeremy: Ugh. Poor guy.
Uh so what do we do we just keep clearing away?
Jason: If we don't find anything easy,
then we sort of go back in on the other side and uh,
work our way back down.
Jeremy: This whole thing is just, it's just really weird,
you know.
Usually when I deal with animals that are alive and now dealing
with a dead animal it's enough to walk up on one and see
one dead and now we're cutting it open but uh,
we got a reason behind it and it's science man!
It's science! Let's get back to work!
You have the seagulls are coming in Jason.
Jason: Absolutely, they're just uh, they get the uh,
the spoils to the victor I guess!
Jeremy: And they'll start telling their friends
and pretty soon it'll just be a bird festival here.
Jason: That's right.
Jeremy: Oh just strip it back like that, aw!
Jason: The blades are sharp enough that you don't really
have to work at cutting it.
Jeremy: Okay...I'm not feeling so great
I mean that looks like something...
Jason: Well try it, you can touch that if it feels hard
so you...oh look at that!
Jeremy: Yeah we got something here.
Jason: Okay, Jeremy found a bullet!
Jeremy: You think that's a bullet?
Jason: It's def...it's a bullet. We need a photo please.
Jeremy: We got some evidence here!
Jason: Tried and true method.
Jeremy: Track this back to the gun and find these guys!
Jason: You got it? Beautiful!
Jeremy: There we go right there. There it is...
Jason: Yeah look at that. Jeremy: Bullet right there.
OK going in the bag for evidence. There we go.
Thank you. Woo. Alright.
Let's see what else we can find! Jason: Right on!
Jeremy: How often is it that you find a bullet?
Jason: You know it doesn't happen all that often.
Jeremy: Really?
Jason: It's a great find, yeah, you should be very proud.
I've been doing this about 15 years and I think I found
7 bullets in my time...yeah. Jeremy: Really!
Who would have thought a picture of this would be my lucky day?
This is kind of fun! Jason: It is! It's a big...
Jeremy: Morbidly fun. In a weird, in a weird way.
Jason: It's science in a nutshell basically.
Jeremy: It is.
Jason: Morbidly fun in a weird way!
Jeremy: Where do you want to go now?
Jason: Right now we're going to go inside,
there's usually you know, lots of treasure to be revealed
more on the inside. Jeremy: OK.
Jason: Look at that there's a nice...
Jeremy: What do you see? What do you...
Jason: There's a nice hole there.
Jeremy: Oh another hole right there okay.
So we'll just keep that in mind?
Jason: Yeah. Right now let's uh, just go through...
Uh oh. Ah...
Jeremy: Okay and just keep going?
Jason: Yep you're doing great!
Jeremy: Oh wow. Oh wow. This is a fetus right here.
Jason: That is.
Jeremy: Aw, poor little guy.
NARRATOR: The seal was nearly 9 months pregnant
when she was killed.
Jason: Sometimes this job bites.
Jeremy: It's just sad you know this obviously has been shot
and there's a lot of trauma here and this baby
I mean both these animals could still be living
and it's just uh, senseless really.
I'm just angry you know, that somebody would do this and um,
of course you don't know why but...
Why would you need to shoot a seal?
A pregnant seal. It sucks.
NARRATOR: The fetus will go back to the lab for testing
in the meantime we have a necropsy to finish!
For science! And for seals!
Jeremy: Oh what do you got there?
That's the intestines? Jason: That's the intestines!
Jeremy: Like all those little hotdog wienies at a party.
Jason: Right!
Jeremy: You probably stay away from those now don't you?
Laughs.
We got some liver, we got some spleen ah!
She said we're almost done! PLEASE! Ok.
Oh wow there's the heart.
This is like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom here.
Oh wow okay. There's the heart.
Yeah. There you go. That's all yours.
Well woo! I got to hand it to you man I give you props
for this job. This is unique and tough.
And uh, you're doing good work, man.
Jason: Well thank you sir!
NARRATOR: Necropsy is about as nasty as it gets
but my next job comes with its own ugly surprise.
Jeremy: Oh boy, look at those tusks!
NARRATOR: These pigs could kill me.
Peter: Put him down, put him down!
Jeremy: All right we're making our way to Maupin, Oregon. Why?
To go to the Hang Belly Ranch. The job? Who knows?
And plus what's a hang belly anyway?
Peter: Hep, hep, hep!
Jeremy: So this is the hang belly.
Peter: This is the hang belly! Come on in.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
The Hang Belly Ranch is home to over 200 heritage pigs.
And Peter's place is hog heaven.
I'll be spending the day catering to these porkers'
every need. Peter: Well...
Jeremy: What do we got here?
Peter: I'm glad you're volunteering cause
I can't do it anymore.
We need to go do an easy job although it's a little bit spicy
We have some baby boars to make them barrows.
Meaning we're going to castrate them.
So this is going to be a hoot. I don't care how you...
Jeremy: It's going to be a hoot?
...it's going to be a hootenanny.
Jeremy: OK. Nasty! Ah!
Peter: We gotta separate them from the mom.
Jeremy: She's not going to like that is she.
Peter: No.
Peter: Hi Jerry! Jerry: Hey!
Peter: I got Jeremy here who's going to help get the baby
piglets from the mom so we can castrate them!
Jerry: All right!
Peter: But let's move these mothers out so he can have
some safe space!
Jerry: OK you work that side Jeremy,
we got to push them through this gate!
Jeremy: OK. Jerry: Hep, hep, hep, hep!
NARRATOR: Pigs might look cute, but they've been known to attack
and even kill. This is no joke.
Hep hep! Hep hep hep hep!
Jerry: We'll get these guys out of here and then we're going
to be able to be safer when you grab them babies.
Jeremy: OK.
Jerry: Just close this gate and tie it.
Jeremy: Right here? Close his one?
Stay on the inside or the outside?
Jerry: We're going to go this way with the mamas.
We want them on the other side of it from us.
Jeremy: So those were the moms we just got out of there?
Jerry: Yep, that's all the mother sows! That's it.
Jeremy: All right...we don't tie this just leave it.
Jerry: Yeah they'll push on it but we'll be all right.
Jeremy: Okay.
Jerry: You try to push her away from the babies you'll get bit.
So it's a lot easier just to keep her distracted
and grab the babies.
Jeremy: OK.
Jerry: See those little tiny guys?
Jeremy: Yeah we want to get those? All those?
Jerry: Yeah just the ones that got balls.
Jeremy: How are we keeping the moms from getting distracted?
Jerry: Yelling a lot. Jeremy: Okay.
Jerry: Hey mama! Hey Mama! Jeremy: Hey mama!
Jerry: It's all right mama! It's all right.
Jeremy: What do I gotta worry about Jerry?
Jerry: I'm going to go around the other side and push them out
of that bunch.
When they come through little hole you grab them.
Jeremy: Yeah what about mom she's right here?
Jerry: Um, watch her.
Jeremy: I'm watching her but what if she comes at me
what do I do?
Jerry: Hand on the forehead and loud.
Jeremy: Hand on her forehead. Jerry: And very loud.
Jeremy: I don't know what to do here. Hey!
Jerry: Come on little ones, come on.
Jeremy: Hey, hey! There we go. That seemed to work.
Jerry: Come on little ones come on.
Jeremy: OK. Little ones coming through.
Jerry: Here they come Jeremy get them.
Jeremy: Okay I'm ready!
Jerry: That biggest one right there he's a little male.
We need him and then the one right behind him.
Jeremy: Okay...come on through.
Jerry: Come on babies come on! Come on little babies!
Jeremy: Oh she's caught on the...
Jerry: Right there, grab that one, there you go! Hep hep hep!
Mama watch yourself, watch yourself!
Jeremy: HEY! HEY! Hey, hey!
Hey hey, where do we go? Where do we go?
Jerry: Hep... Out! OUT!
Put him down put him down! There you go.
Jeremy: How do I get out?
Jerry: You can't back yourself into a corner.
It's all right mama, it's all right!
Jeremy: Okay...so let me just be clear here.
We grab the little one like we did
Jerry: Run for the green gate.
Jeremy: Now you tell me! OK.
We're close. She's not happy is she?
Jerry: No she's foaming right now.
Jeremy: How often do you get bit?
Jerry: Never.
Jeremy: Never gotten bit. Jerry: Never.
Jeremy: Ok let's keep that, let's keep that going.
Jerry: Safety first. Then pigs.
Jeremy: Ok. Uh...now we got her in a corner.
Jerry: Yeah. Before we pick him up again we gotta be real
careful and make sure everybody has got their own backsides
covered.
Jeremy: Because they'll nip you in the backside?
Jerry: Well worse than nipping is she weighs 500 lbs,
if she hits you in the knee it's going to hurt for a while.
Jeremy: Oh yeah.
Jerry: So she could do more damage by a head butt
or a head swing.
That's why you want to stay to their backside.
Jeremy: We're learning. We're learning.
We're learning okay, we grab uh...
Jerry: All right.
Jeremy: Can we just grab one of these guys here?
Jerry: Yeah, that one against the wall that's a little male.
Jeremy: OK.
Jerry: If you grab him and go for the gate I got you covered.
Hey hey hey HEY HEY HEY MAMA! Hey mama!
Hey mama, hey mama hey mama!
Jeremy: OK OK OK. WOO whoa, OK. Jerry: All right everybody out.
Jeremy: Okay. We got one. It's ok!
She's not real happy about it.
OK Peter, I'm handing this off to...
Peter: It's all right Mama, it's all right.
Jeremy: All right so which one are we trying to get?
Jerry: This little black boy right there. Just like the one
Jeremy: OK, and who's his mom? Do we know?
Jerry: Just one...no we don't specifically know.
It's going to be one of these long-haired mule foot girls.
NARRATOR: We need to catch one more pig.
Who's going to be the lucky guy?
Jeremy: Before we grab him how do we get out of here?
Jerry: Gate, right behind you.
Jeremy: Right there. Is it ready to go?
Jerry: Chazz you want to open the gate?
Jeremy: OK we get the chain off I'm going to be sitting there
with my back to mama trying to undo the chain.
Holding her baby it's not going to be pretty.
All right stay there little bud. Stay there little buddy.
Ooh. This is going to be dicey.
Jerry: Hep get back boy get back. Get back, get back.
Jeremy: Oh boy look at those tusks! Oh!
Jerry: Yeah these, these...
the only ones with the longest hair are purebred mule foots.
Jeremy: That's a serious one. Jerry: Yeah.
Jeremy: They'll do some damage. Jerry: Yeah, oh!
Jeremy: This is tough. You gotta catch them first.
Then, the job's not done you got the pig he's trying to squirm
and squeal and get out of there.
And then, big mama's coming at you big time.
Fast and upset.
Jerry: HEP! All right, try to get him up in that corner
there again. Jeremy: Ok.
Jerry: We gotta get this red one as well.
Jeremy: HEP!
Jerry: HEP HEP HEP HEP!
You get him and out the gate right there you're good!
Get back! Get back! Jeremy: He's so fast!
Jerry: Keep him right here in this corner,
I'll move the girls and you catch him right up there.
Jeremy: All right. That's the plan, okay.
Jerry: HEP HEP! Let's go, let's go.
All right bring him up and catch him.
Jeremy: Okay.
Jerry: Don't miss him this time, I'm getting tired!
Jeremy: Ha! Jerry: Hep!
Jeremy: Oh...nice. Jerry: Nice! Nice.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa whoa!
Hep hep! Get back GET BACK, Jeremy: There you go.
Jerry: GET BACK! Jeremy: Woo!
That WAS dicey! You all right? Jerry: laughs.
Jeremy: Five me right here! That was some teamwork man!
Jerry: Yeah, good lead off! Jeremy: Good catch!
Jerry: I've done a few!
I can't run as fast, but I can catch them when I get my...
Jeremy: That was crazy! Woo! We go back in right?
Jerry: Yeah, just let them quit growling for a second.
Jeremy: Yeah give US a break! Nice.
Jerry: Laughs. If they're still growling...
Jeremy: When they wag their tails does that mean their happy
Jerry: No that means they're thinking.
Jeremy: She's thinking.
Jerry: He's right behind everybody right here!
Jeremy: Oh ok. Come on now!
Jerry: Hep! Phone rings.
Jeremy: This is not the time for a phone call Jerry!
Jerry: Somebody's gotta sell these things!
Jeremy: Hep, hep, hep, hep! Dang it. AW.
Dang!
Jerry: You all right? Jeremy: Yeah.
That was 100% I just couldn't grab him.
Jerry: You did you took the dive and everything.
Jeremy: It's all right, we'll be all right.
Jerry: Flesh wound you're fine. Jeremy: Yeah, just...
Jerry: You got your shots before you came right?
Jeremy: Yeah it's just...It's just pig feces that's all.
Jerry: Hep! Till you're in the shower it's mud!
Jeremy: All right we're going to get them.
We're going to get them.
Jerry: Hep! Hep hep oh yeah! Hep!
Hand him out! Hand him out over the side.
Hep! Hep! Hep hep! Hep hep, right down the gate hep!
Hep hep hep! Hep hep hep! Hep!
Jeremy: Laughing. Oh man.
That was hilarious.
I grabbed that pig and run. Get the heck out of there!
Jerry: We try to do it faster than that cause it takes time.
Now you're getting sh... on. Jeremy: Oh! laughs.
Jerry: We got a spigot right here you can wash up
a little bit.
Jeremy: Woo there he goes. All done!
OW. All right. You can take care of this little cut here
Peter: We never use the word cut on the ranch.
Cause what we're going to do, the word cut means castrate and
I doubt you want me to do that.
Jeremy: No, no we do NOT want to do that.
We had a little incident in the pen there trying to get
the little guy for castration.
He didn't want to go easy and I don't blame him.
But we went, 100%.
Peter: You always gotta give 110%.
Jeremy: Oh 110 now?
Peter: 110. Otherwise you don't catch the pig.
Jeremy: There we go all right. Let's do this. Back to work!
Jerry: Now we do the castrating.
This is Misty she castrates for us.
Jeremy: Hi Misty. Misty: Hi Jeremy.
Jeremy: This is the fun part huh?
Charles: Want to hold this pig. Jeremy: It's part of the job!
Needs to be done! I am not looking forward to it though.
What we want is in there.
Charles: You see that bulge right there?
Jeremy: Yeah.
Charles: That's where his testicles are right there
and those have to come out.
Jeremy: OK. All right. So yeah, how do we...
Charles: All right you ready? Flip this around,
Jeremy: Okay.
Charles: Get your hand just like I got mine. Right there
underneath his knee there kind of press against him
hold him don't let him move don't let him get away.
You got him. Jeremy: Like that okay,
I got him. Misty: Are you ready?
Charles: All right keep him still.
Jeremy: Yeah. Why are we doing this again?
Misty: 'Cause their meat will stink.
Charles: Keep him, pull him back just a little bit...
Misty: You can pull it up a little bit it makes it
easier for me.
Charles: And then hold him, use your knees remember.
Push your knees into him...
Jeremy: I got him, I got him. Charles: Don't let him go.
Jeremy: Is this going to hurt him?
Misty: He'll be fine.
Charles: He'll make just a little stink.
Misty: So you can make two incisions or one, I like one.
Jeremy: Oooh. OOOOH wow.
There you go, you got one or two?
Misty: That's one, that's dinner.
Charles: They're big because he got too big.
Jeremy: That has to hurt like crazy.
OH my goodness. Am I doing all right?
Misty: You're doing great. Jeremy: Oh there we go.
Misty: There we go! All done.
Jeremy: No longer a male.
Still a male but...
Misty: A little antiseptic pat down and he's good.
Charles: Get a swinging motion. Jeremy: Okay, whoa.
Charles: Just like that. They're tough.
They can hit their face, they're probably you know, they're fine.
They uh...
Jeremy: He doesn't even care?
Charles: He doesn't even know that he just had something taken
Misty: It's not bad at all.
NARRATOR: Life on the hog farm isn't all open pastures
and free lunch.
Castration comes with the territory.
Jeremy: Look at him he's just cruising around I mean...
he's right back in the mud.
Charles: That's what will heal him up.
Jeremy: Wow. All right. Nice job Misty.
What uh, what are we doing next?
Misty: You're going to do a little one.
Jeremy: I'm going to do...
Misty: It should be a lot easier.
Jeremy: Misty is awesome, she makes it look easy,
she knows what she's doing, but for me,
this is one of the hardest jobs yet.
And uh, wish me luck.
Charles: Here's the other one. Jeremy: Here's the little guy.
Charles: He's the little one, he's a little noisy.
So I'll hold him... Jeremy: Okay.
Charles: I'm going to guide you through it.
OK. He's mellowing out here guide me through this Misty.
Here we go.
Misty: Ok you're going to make a little incision from here
to here.
Jeremy: Incision from there to there going down.
Just go for it. Misty: You're good.
Jeremy: All right here we go people.
Right from there, down. Oh boy.
I know sorry buddy! Charles: Calm down!
Misty: Just squeeze it. Jeremy: Squeeze it!
Misty: It's ok. Jeremy: It's okay.
Misty: There you got it. Push! Push!
Jeremy: Push that out, OK.
Charles: Now cut that off right there.
Jeremy: All right here we go. Misty: You got it!
Charles: One more! Misty: You did it!
Oh you got one more though! Charles: One more.
Jeremy: I know... Misty: Here I'll take it.
Jeremy: There you go. Charles: That other side there,
same process.
Jeremy: I did it but I don't feel good about it.
Misty: You want me to do it?
Jeremy: No, no come on this is life on the farm right?
This is what you gotta, I mean it's gotta be done...
Charles: Cut and push that *** right out of that cut.
There you go. Push that *** out. Cut it off just like before
Jeremy: There we go. Misty: Perfect.
Jeremy: Ooh. Misty: Aren't you proud?
Jeremy: There he goes, I don't know what I am. But there he is.
Okay he's a little stunned.
Okay he's staggering a little bit.
He's wondering. He's missing something. Aw.
Poor guy! There he goes! He's alright.
Misty: You gotta bleach your hands cause the smell doesn't
come off, you'll notice this.
Jeremy: Yeah...do you want these...
Misty: Those are too small to eat, so....
You can give them to the dogs.
NARRATOR: With that unpleasant job behind us,
I'm ready to show these piggies a little love.
Peter: Okay so this is going to be a happy moment for the pigs.
Jeremy: Jeremy Brandt, Sow Server.
Peter: We give them our own wheat,
but we also give them antibiotic free corn grain.
And so we want to put two bags in each one of those bins.
Jeremy: OK. Just grab a bag? Peter: Yup!
Jeremy: All right. Oh yeah. That's heavy.
All right here you go! Happy time! Happy hour!
There you go.
They're going nuts right now! Woo!
Thanks buddy. Right in this skinny one?
Peter: Yeah for sure. They'll like that!
Jeremy: All right. Try not to spill it. Whoa!
Man. When was the last time you fed them Peter?
Peter: I want you to know we feed them every day.
And this happens every day.
They just go crazy when they see the grain.
Jeremy: It's like that every day?
Peter: It's just like ice cream every day for them!
Jeremy: One more. You guys relax. I'll get this one.
Jerry: All right!
Jeremy: I can see why you wouldn't want to be on that side
of the fence!
Peter: Yeah and these were the little guys.
But we gotta now go feed the big boys.
Jeremy: All right let's go feed the big boys.
Peter: Let's go.
Peter: So what I would do is just...
Jeremy: Whoa whoa whoa! I guess they need some food!
Peter: They're hungry they're hungry so open up the bag
and then just run it... Jeremy: Man...yeah...whoa.
Peter: Fifty pounds along a line.
And then get the next bag and the next bag.
Jeremy: OK. Woo! Oh man!
These pigs are a lot bigger than those other ones.
All right so just keep my arms on this side of the fence.
OK, OK ladies relax. Oh boy!
Oh my, oh! There you go.
Now I see where they got the term "hogging it." Woo! Wow.
That was crazy.
None of the food even hit the ground I think,
they're in their mouth or either on somebody's back! Wow.
Jerry: Hep hep hep!
Peter: This is a free-range ranch.
Jerry: Hey, hey!
NARRATOR: These lucky pigs get to live out their days in a wide
open field- but first, we have to get them there!
Peter: We need to bring them over to a free range pasture,
it's about 10 acres.
So, what we want to do is we don't want the big ones 'cause
those are our market pigs. Jeremy: Okay.
Peter: So we want to bring about 8 or 9, 10 of these small ones.
Jeremy: OK. Jerry: Hey hey!
Peter: Come on guys, let's go!
Jeremy: Hey hey hey hey hey! Ran right through me.
The idea is to get them that way.
We're going the wrong way. Hep hep hep hep hep!
Peter: They just keep walking right there close to the fence.
Jeremy: How do we get the big ones out?
Peter: We just kind of push them out.
Jeremy: Okay here we go, hep hep!
How do we do it? Ho ho! Out out! Ho! Ho ho! Hey!
Okay we got five, we got six. Hep hep! Hep, hep! Hep hep!
Peter: Oh careful. Jeremy: Oh oh!
Peter: It's a little bit mucky.
Jeremy: Oh we're in the apple pulp! I'm coming over.
Hold on buddy. Here you go here you go I got this.
What happened there boss?
What happened there buddy?
I was trying to follow you! Oh man look at that!
Peter: Alright Jeremy back to work.
Jeremy: Okay here we go, we gotta get back to work now.
Enough of this apple pulp.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey that way!
Free range buddy! Free range! Go on come on.
Peter: There we go. Jeremy: Hey hey hey hey.
This is not as easy as it looks, look at these guys on the run
right here.
There you go Jerry coming back to you buddy.
Jerry: All right let's go let's go.
Jeremy: Hep, hep, there you go.
Okay we got....
Peter: We'll bring her back later.
Jeremy: All right we've got a few in the gate now.
Peter: Ho ho!
Let's go out to heaven! Let's go out to heaven!
Jeremy: Ho ho! Ho ho ho ho here we go.
Peter: Here we go free range all right! Hang a left.
Jeremy: Ho! Ho ho ho ho! There we go!
Peter: There we go out to the free range.
Jeremy: Ho ho ho! FREE RANGE PIGS! Woo I'm done!
All right so we're just going right here?
Peter: Yeah, just spray them. They'll be happy.
Jeremy: Just spray 'em down. All right here we go.
These guys love this there was like 2 of them at first,
now we got about 10 in here! Yeah, keep piling in!
It's like a Jacuzzi. A mud Jacuzzi. Woo!
Peter: Here comes some stragglers.
Jeremy: Oh yeah, time to join the party.
Capacity is not full yet! Just like a dog!
Laughs.