Big Timber (TV series)

Big Timber is a reality TV series about a timber business on Vancouver Island, Canada. The first season was mostly filmed from September 2019 to January 2020 and first broadcast by the Canadian History channel on 8 October 2020. It has since been purchased and streamed worldwide via Netflix, who helped finance a second season due to its good reception on the streaming platform. The second season was filmed in 2021 and released again on History. The series was also released in its entirety on 18 July 2022 on Netflix. A third season was commissioned during the shooting of season 2, airing in September 2022.



Wenstob Timber Resources
The business at the centre of Big Timber is Wenstob Timber Resources, a limited company whose main site is a sawmill in Sooke. The owner is Kevin Wenstob, who runs it as a family business with his wife, Sarah Fleming, and son Erik. The inventory of equipment includes a barge, a bulldozer, six excavators, eight forklifts, five log loaders, ten logging trucks, a tower yarder and three wheel loaders.

Cast

 * Kevin Wenstob – big boss
 * Sarah Fleming – mill boss
 * Erik Wenstob – head mechanic
 * Coleman Willner – Head Sawyer
 * "Firewood" John Brebber – logger
 * Tyler Lindsay – junior mechanic
 * Glen Fox – log buyer
 * Shanise - problem solver
 * Kevin G - yarder

Episodes
In this season, the focus is on clearing the timber from the company's claim on Klitsa Mountain.

There's a million-dollar penalty pending for failing to clear a claim in time, but regular logging is still snowed in and so the crew hunts valuable salvage logs by boat.

The business is expanded by investments and projects including a new sawmill.