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  • BIG FIX ALASKA

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Big Fix Alaska chronicles the wild adventures of a full service master mechanic shop that takes on high-risk jobs across the frozen Tundra. Risking life and limb on every job, this charismatic 10+ man team of Alaska roughnecks brave the elements and work around the clock repairing super machines under the harshest conditions and in the most remote places in the world. Danger, risk and incredible skill, are some of the attributes these premier master mechanics put to the test repairing anything and everything with an engine. They are specialists of a different breed and can fix things from a stranded crab boats in the middle of the bearing sea to multi-million-dollar cranes frozen to the earth near the North Pole. With a constant work schedule, high stakes and 24-hour service, there is never a dull moment.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Big Fix Alaska: Treading Water
    The shop struggles to make payroll after a financial crisis hits Jim's equipment repair. To make matters worse, a warrant job puts them even further in the hole. So it's up to Jim to keep them above water... assuming he can weather the storm.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Kill Drill
    In the remote corners of the World, there are fortunes to be made: from crab fishing in the Bering Sea, to bush piloting in the Tundra. These jobs rely on the machinery. When the machines ain't running, the money's not flowing. Then there's only one group of guys to turn to: the Master Mechanics.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Long Gone On The Yukon
    The shop receives a distress call from a Landing Craft operator stranded on the Yukon River. But finding and fixing the downed ship proves to be a dangerous endeavor. Then, Jim's faced with the difficult task of repairing an Excavator and D4 Dozer in the remote village of Ouzinkie.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Gravel To The Finish Line
    Aven helps a fishing boat get back on the water and Duane repairs a truck needed to fix the famous Dalton Highway.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Muddying The Waters
    In this episode, Jim hires Duane’s arch nemesis Todd and then takes off on an adventure to fix a snowcat.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Frankendozer
    From snow crab fishing in the Bering Sea, to bush piloting in the frozen tundra, if you've got the guts and the gear, you can make lots of money.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Cabin Fever
    Jim is sent out on a job to retrofit a domestic engine into a Japanese machine. Austin works in a fairly impoverished town that relies on the one machine that happens to be in need of a repair. Meanwhile back in Anchorage, Duane geeks out on race cars.
  • Big Fix Alaska: Whiskey Lake Dozer
  • Big Fix Alaska: Deckhand Down
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