"This is probably one of the biggest weeks of the season." "314)\fs36.883}On this Gold Rush" "This is a high octane day." "We're moving Goldzilla." "Stop talking about it." "Just do it." "I'm nervous." "I'm not gonna lie." "I'm nervous." "you need to get back." "You need to get back." "It doesn't look like he's stopping." "You're gonna have today." "Start running the dredge." "I want family on there." "Holy crap." "I'm looked down on." "Because of my gender and because of my age." "I gotta get the green ugly in here." "like a pit crew." "Bending." "Bending." "Whooaah." "Whoa." "Guss what." "That's the biggest cleanup we ever had." "whistles)" "We may beat Parker this year." "We'll see." "they're impressive." "is taking delivery of a brand new stacker." "(Honk Honk) 3.3 million dollar season goal." "Parker's gonna be happy to see these." "for a feed conveyor." "it's gonna be amazing." "Parker doesn't like to lose." "and he just pulled the plug on his trusty wash plant Big Red." "For an operation our size to not sluice." "A little nerve wracking." "The 21 year old mine boss has made the bold decision to rebuild his operation from the ground up." "374)}I love the setup." "I love what we're doing." "Every yard of dirt's getting moved very short distance." "We wouldn't be trying something new if I didn't think it was better than what we've done in the past." "he's moving his wash plant right next to the pay." "50 foot high megapad for the plant right in the center of his enormous boundary cut." "That's good right there." "Parker has shelled out on a new stacker." "It's fuckin huge." "Holy shit." "It's like Christmas." "Yeah baby." "Heh heh heh heh heh." "So you think we'll be able to beat Todd with this thing?" "it should be a lot more efficient." "I think the benefit far outweighs the risk." "This is gonna be fuckin cool." "Yea." "Just as Parker's master plan starts to come together" "Rick gets bad news from home." "What's up?" "like now." "What's going on?" "I got a weird message from my brother saying my mom's sick and she's in the hospital and I" "I can't get a hold of her and I can't get a hold of him and I don't know what the fuck is going on so." "I can't do anything from here." "I gotta go see what's going on." "Yeah." "Go ahead and pack your stuff and get out of here." "Alright." "Let me know if you need anything." "Alright." "Thanks buddy." "Good luck." "Thanks." "Fuck." "Well I know Rick's mom's been having some health issues but." "Didn't realize it was that bad." "and um." "He wouldn't go if it wasn't serious." "This is probably one of the biggest weeks of the season." "I don't know how we're supposed to do that without him." "why this shit now?" "2700 ounces." "That's what we're doing this year." "well." "We may even have a chance to beat Parker this year." "We'll see." "the Hoffman's enormous supercut has yielded nearly 1200 ounces of Klondike gold worth 1.3 million dollars." "Dave Turin is extending their supercut by another 750 feet." "Now we have to take it to another level." "its gonna take every one of us here." "I feel the pressure." "Now I'm gonna put the pressure on these guys." "Kevin Hiatt and mechanic Juan Ibarra are running Monster Red at 300 yards an hour day and night." "300 yards an hour is no joke." "374)}It's important that we stay on base." "I need to keep this plant running." "you know." "Hey Kevin." "We got a problem here man." "What was that?" "Can't move the damn thing." "I think we're gonna have to shut down man." "Frig." "Yeah Juan." "I'm gonna be right there." "I'm gonna come talk to you." "Okay." "What's going on?" "When I went to go turn on the hydraulics it all starts creeping out the back of the pump." "Watch it real quick." "That's a lot of friggen hydraulic oil man." "Dammit." "the stabilizers or the lift." "We don't have any spare parts for this damn thing." "It's gonna take at least a week to get 'em." "The broken pump will prevent the radial stacker from rotating and distributing the tailings." "We gotta do something." "We're stacking up quick." "Get in the dozer and just start dozing." "Get rid of it." "I'll let Dave know." "Alright." "it'll back up and hit the conveyor." "Juan is forced to bulldoze the tailings away from the plant and off the edge of the pad." "so it's. it's a lot to do." "the Hoffmans had a tailings problem." "moving useless tailings away from the wash plant and off the edge of the pad." "thousands of tons of tailings have extended the pad." "The dozer now has to push tailings 40 feet to the edge and can't keep pace with the ever growing pile." "Getting a little worried at how far we got to push the tailings.." "It's gonna get to the point where we won't be able keep up at all." "for the long term." "Kevin to Dave." "Kevin to Dave." "go ahead Kev." "Alright Dave." "We got a failure on our stacking conveyor." "We can't move it." "Is that conveyor moving rocks." "Is it spitting rocks out the end." "yes it is." "you're in charge." "Keep that wash plant running." "It cannot shut down." "Figure it out." "384)}Kevin's got to start taking ownership for that wash plant." "And he's gotta start making those kind of calls." "What's going on?" "With this conveyor not being able to rotate and this dozer having to push 'em all out." "I don't think we have more than a couple days." "We're gonna have to shut down." "Well what do you want to do." "I don't know what else to do." "Is there any way we could get another conveyor?" "Already got two on here." "shoot out another 100 feet." "We got lots of room." "I don't know what else to do." "We're out of room." "Otherwise we're gonna have to take everything apart and move the entire plant." "Alright." "I'll look for somethimg." "Thanks." "Kevin's running the plant." "He's doing a good job." "He's trying to think ahead." "We've already filled up just about an acre worth of ground of tailings." "So I got to figure out how to sluice them and do it now." "He's gonna go out and find us a conveyor and if he doesn't." "We're gonna have to shut down." "There's no other choice." "We're out of room." "Tony Beets mining season is spiraling out of control." "His one million dollar dredge has produced just a quarter of a million dollars worth of gold." "Less than half his mid season goal." "Tony calls an emergency meeting with his daughter Monica and son Kevin." "How's things." "Yeah." "I heard that." "So you guys up for this?" "Hell ya." "See no reason why not." "You really don't have a choice." "No." "I want family on that." "To me that's important." "So the chick is gonna get night shift then?" "Yeah." "No." "Yeah." "I think it's time you both go to work." "You're on nights." "I'm always gonna be treated different in this field than a man would." "because of my gender and because of my age." "It doesn't really come to the factor that I've been doing this for so long." "Monica has been gold mining all her life but she's never been in charge of a dredge crew before." "Morning." "Hello Jason." "Everything's off." "It's all yours." "See you tonight." "Yeah." "that's okay." "Start pulling in." "Monica is on her own." "Her first task:" "Maneuver the 350 ton dredge onto fresh paydirt." "Ooh." "Ladder's slowly coming." "when you move forward you want both your winches to be tight." "So they're moving at more or less the same pace." "Monica engages two on board winches." "attached to two dozers that act as anchors." "okay?" "One of the dozers is heading for the dredge pond." "Holy crap!" "That's not good." "Throw me a hardhat." "What the fuck." "Just about lost the four." "I almost pulled it in." "That would've sucked." "right." "Big Mike Beaudry and his brother Matt arrive to join Monica on the dayshift." "Mike." "The Four just about went lakeside there." "So what the fuck." "Let's fire it up and try it again." "Four's moving." "We're pulling." "Mike." "It's pulling again." "Yeah." "I think that Four's just a little bit too light." "It's posing a big problem right now." "Experienced mechanic Big Mike" "(Yawn) I don't want to have anything to do with this." "Is out of ideas." "Fuck it." "But the rookie dredgemaster comes up with a plan." "so why don't we turn it the other way." "it's just gonna pull the blade into the ground." "Oh yeah." "That should work." "Let's do it." "The crew wastes no time putting Monica's plan into action." "There we go." "That should work." "So." "394)} Jerry's gonna tighten up." "We're gonna see how it's gonna do." "Works like a dream." "but men are easy to control so." "I'm running this thing already." "I'm just flat out of room for tailings." "The Hoffman crew has hit a wall." "That's what 300 yards an hour looks like I guess." "and threatening to shut down their wash plant." "add an extra conveyor." "That is one piece of junk." "Ha ha ha ha." "This rusty conveyor cost just eight thousand dollars." "So I asked Todd to get me a big conveyor for tailings so we could shoot them out further and he came back with an antique." "I don't know if I see dependability here." "I just see a lot of problems." "Okay grab that chain." "We'll go get the green ugly." "Okay." "Here we go." "to create space to slide in their new green ugly conveyor." "out and over the edge of the pad." "like a pit crew." "Uh oh." "otherwise we're gonna have problems." "Dave are you ready?" "I'm ready." "So on your command Freddy." "Let's go guys." "Easy goes." "Hey." "Don't bounce." "No bouncing." "we may have 2 conveyors and not one." "Broke right in the middle." "Easy Todd." "It's bending." "I can't help it." "Bending." "Bending!" "Whoa!" "We need to get this thing set down." "and it's not just the crew that's buckling." "There's just way too much of a bow in this thing." "It can bend." "It can break." "We need to get it on the ground and stable." "uh." "You figure it out and get it done quick." "Easy Todd." "now have Dave move." "Hey Dave." "Back." "Dave." "can I come down." "Yeah." "Dave." "Let's set it down." "10-4." "Perfectly level right there." "Okay." "Let's fire it up." "Come on." "Yes." "Come on." "then fires up)" "Yeah." "Awesome." "well beyond the edge of the tailings pad." "Okay Kev." "We're out a little bit." "The Hoffmans can now get back to running 300 yards an hour." "While they wait for the parts they need to get the radial stacker rotating once again." "We should write a book. uh." "Building a wash plant with junk." "I guess." "Yeah guys." "It's friggen working." "Yeah." "Whoo." "At night it's very simple." "Just keep running." "10 pm at the dredge." "and is in charge of the night shift." "back and forth." "Back and forth." "All pretty nice and boring." "leaving Paradise Hill veteran Curtis Cook to man the wheelhouse." "(dredge making banging noises )" "What was that?" "tearing noises)" "I shut 'er down." "Fuck." "Goddammit." "Fuck." "boring as fuck." "That doesn't look right." "Let's go have a look see." "374)}I just got into a big rock." "So I was gnawing on it gently." "so I shut 'er down." "I'll bring a little light along so we can have a look." "Guess Curtis had dropped it too low." "374)}I'm just real hopeful that it's still on the roller at the end." "If not we're kinda fucked." "It doesn't look good though from this side." "Have some faith." "I don't know man." "It's over again." "she's fucked." "Oh yeah it's off." "knocking the buckets right off the ladder." "No." "It's not a problem with the bucket line." "It's operator error." "Aah." "done for the day." "7 am." "The dayshift arrives." "Y'all might want to get out of the way." "It's gonna get a little fuckin pissy here." "Bucket ladder up." "Breaking a bucket could put them out of action for weeks." "But Kevin goes with good old fashioned brute force." "Back it down." "everyone keep going." "Mike can you pull to the end any more." "Easy Mike." "Yippee aye yay." "fucked." "Was that a fucked up thrown." "Kevin makes the executive decision to reassign the man who cost them a nightshift." "So do you know the new plan Curtis?" "Nope." "We can't afford to have you on the dredge." "That's just the way it is so." "head back to the hill." "Are you gonna go back there for a while?" "Uh." "So you gonna get all your crap." "So we're gonna rip out tonight?" "It's kinda probably for the best that I go out." "Is there anything down at the dredge you need to grab?" "nope." "but well." "Think he took it pretty well." "I knocked the bucketline off so." "Cause we were down for 10 hours right last night so." "Kinda a disappointment." "that's the way she goes I guess." "I'm in charge so." "That's just the way it is." "Today we're moving Goldzilla." "3.3 million dollar master plan." "it's four oscillating sluice runs can process almost twice as much paydirt as Big Red." "Come on Brennan." "Get this thing on the road." "Parker has to haul Goldzilla seven miles across the Klondike to it's new home at Scribner Creek." "It's a big day." "I'm nervous." "I'm not gonna lie." "I'm nervous." "Mitch has got a big responsibility now with this plant move." "and everybody's gonna have to just put in a little extra." "We're really short handed around here." "You know we gotta move this wash plant." "384)} Takes a lot of manpower." "A lot of.." "Need people that know what they're doing." "Parker has recruited 23 year old mechanic Derek Antoniuk." "working for him." "being around all this stuff is nothing new." "and hitch the wash plant to a semi." "Nice." "But Goldzilla has no brakes." "And not everyone sees eye to eye on the safest way to transport the 25 ton wash plant." "Hey Mitch." "What." "if you lose a gear and you're going downhill you're in shit you know." "It'll fuckin dump this thing right into a corner and wrap it right around there and you're fucked here." "right." "It wouldn't be a bad thing to have him hooked up the whole way there." "We can do this shit ten different ways." "Okay." "So." "Hook on." "What's this?" "Stop talking about it let's do it." "The crew connects the back of Goldzilla to Chris Doumitt's 38 ton loader." "Chris will lower his bucket to try and bring Goldzilla to a stop." "We gave Mitch an umbilical cord so we got a chance." "you know." "It's all on Mitch." "Chris." "You got a copy." "Got a copy." "Loud and clear." "let's roll." "A lot of weight for what this thing was originally designed for." "This spot here's gonna be a little tricky." "Mitch reaches the steepest hill on the road to Scribner Creek." "it's probably a 12 percent grade here." "Pretty steep when you don't have any trailer brakes." "So we're gonna take it nice and easy here." "(Snap)" "Our cable just broke." "What's that?" "My cable either just broke or a clevis came undone." "You're on your own bud." "Holy fuckin shit." "you need to get back." "You need to get back." "It doesn't look like he's stopping." "On the road to Scribner Creek." "(SNAP) Our cable just broke." "at the worst possible moment." "It doesn't look like he's stopping." "Fuck." "Hey Mitch." "You have a copy." "Where is he." "I don't hear him." "Everything alright Mitch?" "(Truck horn blasts)" "Thank fucking gawd." "You could definitely feel her pushing me down the hill back there." "We're doing alright." "Just keep motoring.." "Geez. (sniffling)" "Come on baby." "Come on." "Come on." "We're on the home stretch now boys." "We're almost there." "finally arrives at Scribner Creek." "Whoo!" "There we go." "We're here." "Nice driving Mitch." "What beautiful driving." "Yeah buddy." "Old girl made it." "It was plowing two feet off insanity." "Now the work begins." "You made it here in one piece so." "eh." "Ready to get her set up and start sluicing." "Here you go." "Parker." "Monica and Kevin Beets have been running the dredge day and night for a week." "Here you go." "Hi Kevin." "Hi mom." "he's insisted on a hundred ounce haul." "80 95" "97.5" "Monica and Kevin have delivered over a hundred thousand dollars." "But they've fallen short." "That's pretty good." "with Curtis I mean." "It had to happen." "Hey Monica." "I'm really impressed with you running the dredge." "To see my baby daughter do it." "It's pretty cool." "It's pretty amazing." "but we need to step it up." "on site." "14 shifts he'll never get back." "We need to get water to everything." "We need to do a lot of stuff." "Get everything level." "five hours from now I want that thing chewing through dirt." "First things first." "Let's go ahead and grab that 700 and get this thing down on it's skids." "Let's crank it up boys." "50 foot high berm pad." "Parker will use his brand new 120 foot long super stacker to send pay straight from the cut to the plant." "he has to construct a system of pipes to supply 1200 gallons of water a minute." "And assemble a conveyor to remove over 200 yards of tailings an hour." "We set a goal to be going by 11 tonight." "We'll see if we can get it done." "Yee-ah whoop hoo hoo." "pretty big piece of the puzzle right here." "It's nice to have it here." "Good fuckin shit yeah." "Let's get this fucker together." "Now we're just hooking up our water supply." "This plant's supposed to do more yardage so we're going with a 10 inch delivery line for Goldzilla." "We normally run an eight." "Real crucial this all works right." "Everything looks good." "This part's complete." "We're getting pretty close." "Time to build the sluices." "We need to put the sluice boxes together." "We've already got water." "We got the feed all set up." "We're close." "We're damn close." "We're gonna have rocks being washed today." "Holy fuck." "New mechanic Derek spots a problem that could keep them from sluicing tonight." "We're leaning over." "Well you can see the fuckin lean." "Parker's crew failed to get Goldzilla level." "two inches off." "For fuck's sake." "the sluice boxes could lose five ounces of gold a day." "That side up." "Hey." "Where's your level at." "Yeah." "Where are we at for a level." "Yeah." "It actually looks pretty good front to back." "Hell no." "Look at 'er." "We've even got the whole fuckin thing in there." "I was just gonna start with picking up that corner over there and get some fines under it and just get it all smooth and we'll set it back down and just see where we are." "Okay." "Do it ourselves." "one shovel at a time but we can still get that all done tonight." "Yeah." "We're not going to bed 'till it's done." "Mitch." "Yo." "From now on you listen to me." "You gotta be fuckin kidding me." "At Scribner Creek 294)} A lot of shoveling." "by nightfall." "This is pathetic." "We're shoveling fuckin sand in the Yukon." "Gene definitely wouldn't approve of that technique." "or a tooth brush." "and trying to get Goldzilla running dirt." "The crew has missed Parker's 11 pm deadline." "Parker pushes his crew into the night." "The sand conveyor is the last piece of the puzzle." "Once it's in we're ready to fire up." "Better get to it." "Right there." "Widen it?" "Yeah." "It looks fine." "Start with that." "Derek." "Get it unfolded." "I have no idea what time." "I don't even know what day it is." "a lot of hours but I don't feel very tired right now." "I feel pumped up." "I wanna just jump on that loader and get going." "So." "We're getting there." "It's all connected." "Those look real good." "The moment of truth." "Hey guys." "Fire it up." "they are finally ready to fire up Goldzilla." "Time to flip the switch and get it all shaking." "Fire up the water." "Time to see what Goldzilla will do." "Aw come on baby." "Come on." "Yeah buddy." "Shake your money maker right there." "Doumitt." "You're good." "Only put in half." "and beat Todd Hoffman." "Yeah baby." "Looks good boys." "new wash plant." "Hopefully it lives up to everything it's supposed to be." "We are committed." "One hundred percent now." "It's do or die." "Make or break." "But hey." "That's what makes it exciting." "We did it." "We got Goldzilla up and going." "This is gonna be a game changer for our season." "we brought the plant to the pay." "Now we need to run it." "Green Ugly." "But they still need to hit their weekly goal of 200 ounces." "There's Jack." "There's Jim." "And that looks good." "Looks heavy dad." "Is that heavy?" "Yeah." "Guys." "And guess what." "but we got to get with it." "just the way it is." "with this 100 ounces." "All time highest" "You can't do that." "250." "Our largest cleanup ever." "clapping) that's mean." "I know." "And I love it." "That's more like it." "and a major landmark." "we're over last year's total." "We got a lot of season left." "we're gonna beat Parker." "267)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T" "Like the turtle and the hair." "The turtle won in the end because he stayed steady." "We're about halfway guys." "We got a ways to go." "Let's beat the kid." "There's a chance we could beat the kid." "Part of me wants to kick his ass." "Let's be honest." "Hmph hmph hmph." "314)\fs36.883}On the next Gold Rush." "This could be one of the hottest summers on record." "Get us water from Montana." "be surprised." "(Honk Honk)" "I am right on the edge of the road here." "Hey Monica." "Do you copy." "I wouldn't treat my dog the way that he's walking around treating people that work here." "I just want to punch him in the fuckin face." "leave." "250)} I really don't give a fuck about Parker's attitude. 414)} position"