"Sluicifer!" "On this mega episode of 3000)}" "Look out!" "Tyson?" "Rick!" "Put this hoe on the other side!" "Somebody get me a fuckin' radio." "There's no gold here." "There's no way we're gonna run it..." "because I'm gonna run it off this cliff." "Whoa!" "What are you doing?" "Get out of the way!" "Dave?" "The only way we're gonna win is if we stay together." "That's pretty amazing." "[ laughs ]" "Plane." "That might be Tony." "Tony tends to get grouchy if you don't go see him right away. off his dredge." "and flies him 40 miles south to Thistle Creek to work on his new project." "Tony is putting together a fleet of dredges." "His new $1.5 million dredge is 50% larger than dredge one." "Tony has to break it down and tow it 100 miles upriver to his claim using his new tug and barge." "Nothing to do but get to work." "All right." "I don't...it's..." "Never torn a dredge apart." "But it's just nuts and bolts. heads up the wrecking crew." "Cheeseman:" "Don't look at the big picture." "Look at the little things." "Break it down in small steps." "And just one thing at a time..." "Pretty soon you'll be done." "Just get the tools we need here and..." "Get to work." "Try not to trip and die on the way up there." "Tony plans to rip up the old floorboards and remove the tin skin... by the way." "then... cut the 500-ton dredge into transportable pieces." "Cheeseman:" "Step up on there." "This is the first time Kevin has seen the new dredge." "I like this one a lot better." "It was a lot less beaten and abused." "And it was put together a lot more smartly." "Yeah." "even the superstructure in here is nicer." "And is ... it's solid." "Tony's crew has stripped as much as they can." "I think everybody's morale..." "I think they're gonna start losing interest in gold mining. 6 million dollar goal." "They've mined less than 3% of that... 000." "they've been searching for a gold-rich pay streak at their Buckland claim." "Todd:" "We're deep in the hole." "Let's just hope this pay streak is damn good." "It's gonna need to be." "they found a potential pay streak 60 feet down." "So Todd is running a test through Monster Red." "Can't wait to see gold in the sluice box." "uh puts us in that direction." "Maybe right here is the turning point." "Maybe what I got in the bed of my truck can kind of boost the morale and make everybody feel good again about Oregon." "Turin:" "I don't like the way this looks." "I think they're too high." "Just doesn't look like pay." "Dave Turin has yet to spot gold in the sluices." "See if there's any gold in it." "The Buckland is nothing like what we thought." "digging 60 feet deep." "I just hope they know what they're sending up here." "Are you serious?" "There's no gold here." "What the frick are they sending here?" "Dave to Todd." "Dave to Todd." "Dave?" "where's this pay coming from?" "I just panned two pans." "I got absolutely no color in this." "if you can." "Just run it." "There's no gold in this." "Todd:" "Andy found a little bit of gold there." "Dave." "Just freakin' run it." "Turin:" "That's just a bunch of crap." "Can't run a mine like this." "Turin:" "There's no way we're gonna run it because I'm gonna run it off this cliff." "Dave is dozing the pay pile his crew is hoping will turn their season around." "gold. and this isn't gonna get it." "So..." "it's just gonna go away." "What the hell?" "You kidding me?" "Whoa!" "Stop!" "Whoa!" "What are you doing?" "Get out of the way!" "Hold up." "Todd." "We need to just get rid of it." "Dave." "You know we wouldn't run this in the Yukon." "Why would we run it here?" "Still to come this season on 3000)} that's just not gonna fuckin' happen." "[ horn blares ] whoa." "okay?" "We're well behind right now." "We can't be making any more fuckin' mistakes." "Fuck!" "No." "Shit!" "man." "Fuckin mistake." "we're in trouble." "Shut it down." "We got no gold in the sluice box." "All we've been doing this summer is losing." "the high wall's coming down." "Aw shit." "We okay?" "No." "That's done." "I'm done." "Todd:" "I lost my whole team." "It's just turned into an absolute nightmare." "You may be watching the Hoffmans buying their last bit of dirt." "We told these guys we were gonna pay 'em." "And we can't pay 'em with this stuff." "The Hoffman crew is at war over a pay pile they think could turn their disastrous season around." "But Dave Turin thinks it's garbage." "Dave?" "you should have told us that." "I'm with Dave on this." "This isn't even considered pay." "didn't find crap." "it's dead." "No kidding." "So you should've had me send it over the overburden." "Dave:" "Why didn't you call me and ask me?" "The only way we're gonna win is if we stay together. we start before we're onto good gold and then we waste time." "It's my fault." "I sent this pay up here." "I'll take the blame." "Switch out the bucket." "Even if we gotta dig down to 100 feet." "Until I actually get one damn good gold pan." "And then we at least can prove there's the ore." "and let's try to get refocused here." "Turin:" "Sorry I went nuts pushing this pay off." "uh... better.." "brothers and brothers in arms." "Amen." "All:" "Amen." "let's go." "I've never seen Dave that pissed." "We're having a hard year." "We're getting our ass kicked." "I'm gonna go down in that cut and find that damn gold." "I don't see the move taking that long." "No." "As long as we have spots for everything to go." "Yeah." "Parker Schnabel is on the move. worth over $1.1 million." "But it's mined out." "So today he's moving his wash plant to the new Boundary Cut extension." "He's going to have to make the move without his main mechanic." "Blaschke:" "We all made commitments." "I got all my flights arranged." "get things... finished up and ready for my wedding." "Mitch is their main man around here." "He's been with Parker for a few years." "I'm a little worried without him being here." "You're the new master mechanic." "That's scary." "foreman Rick Ness is in charge of moving Sluicifer. but I didn't put a whole lot of thought into it until I showed up this morning and kind of went "Oh fuck." "Where do I start?" "Rick and Brennan have built a new 60-foot high mega wash plant pad from around a million tons of overburden." "Their new pad is 500 yards north and will divide their Boundary Cut from the new extension." "Rick will move the super stacker and hopper feeder through a gap in the berm." "Then haul wash plant Sluicifer around the edge of the old cut to its new home." "Rick:" "It generally goes... Parker shows up and starts freaking out." "I don't think we'll be breaking any world speed records here." "But.." "We're gonna move it in one shift...12 hours." "Plant should move really easily." "so..." "That feeder might be a fuckin' bitch to move." "that'll be fun." "Yeah." "I'll let you do that one." "Great." "You're getting 2 ounces an hour while you're running." "so..." "Every minute that we take." "Every hour that we take moving this thing is gold lost." "But everybody's just got to keep a cool head." "Rick gets straight into moving the 10-ton hopper feeder." "Usually Mitch is the one that hooks up to these with our semi and pulls 'em out of here." "Uh. he's been driving the truck for a lot of years and... so Hopefully things go as smoothly as when Mitch is here." "We'll see." "so.." "It'll be good to get back in the seat for a little bit." "so we're gonna have to swing this out of the way to clear all this material out from underneath of our feeder and then back the semi in and hook her up and hopefully it'll go smoothly from there." "Last season Tyson Lee was a Scribner rookie." "Now he's a senior member of the crew." "[ horn honks ]" "Rick:" "Just got to level it out a bit so we get our...get our truck in here and get hooked up." "maybe smoothing this off just a bit more." "You're good." "Back her in." "All righty." "Shit." "I don't like it." "Ha." "Tyson worries too much about everything." "He wouldn't let me spend five fuckin' seconds leveling it." "This ground is too shifty." "Rick:" "Walk him in." "Tyson:" "Just hit her with some speed." "though." "Tyson:" "Want to put your hoe bucket on this side?" "it's leaning this way." "It's not gonna tip over." "Fuck." "That's enough." "I don't need everybody to think that they fuckin' call the shots." "and... everyone's already in a rush so things are getting passed up that shouldn't be." "It will put Parker's wash plant out of action for weeks and cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars." "they say." "Whoa." "Whoa!" "Look out!" "See?" "What did I say?" "It's gonna fuckin' slide on us." "Is it wet?" "Nope." "Slid right off." "as anticipated." "this side." "I'll back out." "You can lower it down." "Then we'll fuckin' level it out with the loader so it's an even lift." "Tyson?" "I knew this was gonna happen." "all right?" "Let's get the truck out of there." "Rick places wooden blocks under the adjustable legs." "right." "We're on dirt." "It's all uneven." "It's just trial and error." "It's taking time." "Whoa." "Locked." "Tyson:" "Good?" "finally." "Fuckin' feeder hooked up to the truck." "That's what happens when you rush." "stuff'll go a lot smoother." "And then I get yelled at when I tell them that was gonna happen." "Not the right way to treat people." "Let him get in the fuckin' truck and drive it." "Tyson's pouty fuckin' attitude is not helping things out." "It's just pissing me off is all it's doing." "I don't know what happened to him this year." "all he wants to do is fuckin' bitch and complain about everything." "I don't need that." "Just fuckin' do the job." "Tony Beets has started to dismantle his second dredge." "So it's sitting idle in Thistle Creek." "to tow the equipment he needs 100 miles up the Yukon river." "But before he can set sail Kid Commando needs to prove it's seaworthy." "we're just setting up to do the stability test on the and see how it goes." "000 on this rusting hulk." "Gene warned Tony the tug looked unstable and had a history." "Makes me a little leery about it." "uh.." "laid it over on its side is what the story is. 000 more hauling Kid Commando the 500 miles to Dawson and renovating it." "Minnie:" "It's floating'!" "Whoo!" "I'll take the equilibrium measurement." "move one of the weights back aft." "Okay." "Across." "Yep." "And then see how things go." "Okay." "Now Tony's hired marine surveyor Darren Hass to carry out the stability test." "A government inspector will deliver the verdict." "Tony's dream of running a second dredge is over." "We have to do a series of weight movements... we can calculate what the... the center of gravity of the vessel is." "Darren will install a plumb line. he will test how far the tug moves off the vertical." "it'll fail the test because it will be liable to capsize again." "hopefully." "We've done some preliminary calculations." "I kind of have an idea of what the deflection should be." "we'll kind of know definitively what the... what the stability is." "get the starting point correct." "I have a pretty good idea where the center of the swing is." "Cheeseman:" "The suspense." "yeah." "we'll move this one over to this...this point here." "Watch your feet." "Where do you want it?" "Back at eight or back in the corner there." "[ laughter ]" "next ..." "next weight shift." "[ metal creaking ] it's time for the inspector's verdict." "Kid Commando has failed the test." "it's at risk of capsizing." "it sucks it didn't pass." "So now I guess we have to figure out what we're gonna do now." "I know..." "I was kind of worried about it to begin with." "dig down right in here and see where that goes." "So Todd orders Andy to dig for the elusive pay streak using the long stick excavator." "I'm gonna go down there and find Dave some real frickin' pay dirt." "Part of the problems that we're having is that it says we got to go 100 feet deep and I'm gonna try to hit ..." "see if I can hit bottom today." "Andy hits rock." "He needs a bucket with teeth to dig deeper." "Poulson:" "There we go." "Todd." "It is." "Look at that." "It's looking a lot better. which could contain gold." "The only way that you're ever gonna be successful at gold mining is you got to keep going." "Andy pans the dirt." "yeah." "Look at this." "Yeah." "One pan." "this sure looks good right now." "[ laughs ]" "Let's send this stuff to old Dave Turin." "Juan!" "Screens coming on!" "This whole season's just been an absolute nightmare." "guys." "I feel like we're finally turning the corner." "Hopefully there's enough gold in there to really just put a lot of gold in these guys' pockets." "[ thunder booms ] today's a pretty big day for us." "Try not to break stuff." "Try not to lose too much running time." "Let's see if we can break some cables." "Parker is moving his wash plant" "To the new Boundary Cut extension." "Rick:" "I think naming this thing Sluicifer was the best idea. and now we're trying to move it and it's thunder and lightning." "Something ain't lining up here. is designed to be completely mobile." "You're clear." "Parker's season will be over." "So the young mine boss has taken the hot seat." "Seems to be pulling along just fine." "Good?" "so good." "She's rolling." "Kind of looks like an angel right now." "It's got the angel wings." "so we're just trying to get around hitting anything." "That's probably pretty damn close." "just turning it ..." "Turning it around is difficult with these machines." "Parker must spin his wash plant so the sluices and tailings conveyor hang over the 60-foot drop." "Rick:" "He's right on the edge." "Ahh!" "That's fuckin' bang..." "That good?" "Close there." "Rick:" "I'm happy with that." "Fuck." "Yeah." "Whoo-yah." "Sluicifer!" "They've succeeded in moving the plant in just nine hours." "The three hours they've saved But firing up during a thunderstorm could be fatal." "Fuckin' Sluicifer." "It's all Sluicifer's fault." "We're all gonna get struck by lightning probably." "Fuck me." "Look at Dozer." "he looks just miserable." "Dozer." "[ laughs ]" "Parker's new pad is built of loose overburden that could be weakened by a severe soaking." "We'll know god's done his work when the plant's down there." "That'll be absolution there." "they're just coincidences." "[ laughs ] Parker risks his first startup in the new cut." "let's get everything rolling and shaking." "Okay." "gonna get everything moving." "[ machines whirring ] you got a copy?" "Tyson:" "I got it. just go ahead and dump her in." "10-4." "Thank you." "Is that water?" "Hey!" "Tyson:" "First scoop into Sluicifer from the second set of the Boundary Cut. so it's all up to us to keep her fed." "It's about as good as we could ask for with this chute." "Parker:" "For fuck's sake." "Rick!" "Put this hoe on the other side!" "The lethal combination 300 gallons a minute pumping through Sluicifer is washing away the pad." "fellas." "Rick's trying to save our fuckin' berm here." "Look down there." "If Rick can't stop the water destroying the pad..." "Whoo." "ain't it?" "000 wash plant could crash into the 60-foot abyss." "Fuck this. throw 'em right at the bottom of this." "Yeah." "Special delivery for Richard." "Rick attempts to break the force of water pummeling the berm." "Somebody get me a fuckin' radio." "Shut down." "Don't put the fuckin' scoop in." "Just shut down." "Rick:" "We got to shut it down and reevaluate." "We're about to lose everything here." "We have two simultaneous problems ... our berm's washing away." "Fun day. only thing it's gonna do is it's gonna work itself back underneath the plant" "And the plant's gonna take a dive off the path." "we can't have that happen. we're losing 2 1/2 ounces." "Lot of money we're losing." "can you hear me?" "Rick:" "Gotcha. and you can shove that up around the front part." "Parker comes up with a new plan to try and save his berm." "Pulling coarse tailings this way is probably the best bet we can... we'll be able to build a pad up in front." "The loader is gonna dump some tailings over the edge." "Parker's gonna pack it up against the plant." "And then we'll just keep on doing that until it decides to stay." "Let's fire back up!" "Rick:" "Yay." "Second time's a charm." "All right." "Just add water." "It ain't looking too bad." "Some of this is gonna wash away ..." "I knew that ... we're gonna be all right." "I think they're good for the night." "we're making money." "man." "Yeah." "is on honeymoon." "he's brought her to..." "a gold mine." "Todd." "How you doing?" "the Blaschke's." "guys." "You got married." "Was it weird going from mining to standing there in a suit?" "it's just nice to be home." "How long you guys been married?" "Four days?" "Four days." "Three days." "Yeah." "You guys are always welcome to come back and mine with us." "Todd." "Yeah." "you need to protect it." "Don't let mining get in the way of your relationship." "Yeah. but this is four hours from home." "Todd's a really good guy." "you know." "It's always nice to have something in the back pocket." "is unseaworthy. no way of realizing his dream of running two dredges." "Now he's heading to his fifth gold weigh of the season." "what do you think?" "Whoa. has been pulling 16-hour shifts on the original dredge to bring home the gold." "actually." "Plenty of shit." "not on the floor. they need this cleanup to deliver at least 100 ounces. 300..." "Holy shit. 420." "That's pretty amazing." "Tony." "480." "I think we will." "Wow." "500." "Shit!" "Tony:" "Wow." "Need a bigger pan." "520. (laughing)" "532..." "Point six." "That's what I'd say. yeah." "000." "532 ounces is the largest gold weigh-in in "Gold Rush's" seven-year history." "Anyway..." "Yeah." "Fuckin' shit." "277?" "Yeah." "Damn near fuckin' double it." "Double it." "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." "I already have." "(laughter)" "You know what?" "Maybe our luck's turning." "Let's hope so." "I wouldn't have any luck at all." "000 yards of dirt from a new pay streak 80 feet deep." "We got it." "that's it." "All that's left to do is check the sluice box for gold." "there's gold here." "Yeah!" "look at that." "Ha ha ha." "Nice!" "come on out." "Todd's crew has only mined 138 ounces of gold... 000-ounce season goal." "we chased some frickin' gold." "how much we got?" "All right." "Here we go. 50!" "Dave:" "No way." "52.6" "Yeah!" "Yahoo." "[ cheers and applause ]" "That's our first gold at the Buckland." "Love it!" "Finally we got some gold." "This cleanup could be the game changer that starts putting money in their pockets." "we'll be in good shape." "guys." "At least now we know where the gold is." "That's a great cleanup." "Subs by {\fs90\b1\i0\fnLucida Calligraphy} Jack T we're back on the road." "man." "Whoo!" "guys." "Yeah!" "Whoo." "In the second half of the mining season..." "This is gonna be crazy to watch." "[ laughs ] it can only get better." "Off to Thistle we go." "Parker Schnabel's season is on the brink of collapse." "Parker:" "There's nothing to even say about this..." "'Cause of how big of a fuck up it is. 000." "Until foreman Rick Ness digs deep at his Indian River cut." "I'm the guy with the key now." "Key to the gold." "There's literally a rainbow ending in the cut." "That means there's lots of gold in this guy." "Parker:" "Congratulations." "Tony Beets and his family..." "Keep calm and mine on." "your baby." "...sail upriver in a desperate attempt to get their second dredge." "Tony:" "This is fucked." "I'm really not fuckin' impressed with the progress that you have made." "I hate to see the fuckin' season end like this." "And when Todd Hoffman strikes out again..." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Fuck no!" "...his whole operation implodes." "let's go out swinging." "Dave!" "Hey." "Keep away." "Trey!" "Damn you." "I don't know if we can work together again."