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Mike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air. Starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling on the edge.

How Did They Fix That?

Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

Nevada has over 40,000 abandoned mines posing dangers. Mike joins contractors for a week to secure five sites. Alongside biologists, they explore and document wildlife. Reaching these isolated mines requires barges, helicopters, and bulldozers.

Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines

An in-depth look at how things are repaired.

Mike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility The MAK, Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two week long battle exercise.

S3 E5 | Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base

E8 | Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

E6 | Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines