"327)\fs38} On this Gold Rush" "Think it's time to try and push it a little more." "This old machine wasn't designed to run that fast." "It's busted." "We're never gonna have a wash plant this close to Fantasy Land again." "Holy shit." "I've never seen one this destroyed." "I don't give a fuck." "you both go home." "Turn the feeder off." "Holy frig." "We're gonna beat Parker this year." "We're looking at selling this property." "One of the potential buyers is Parker." "386)} We found a lot of gold here." "It's been good." "move on." "Parker Schnabel mines the last of the pay dirt in the Boundary Cut." "Everything's working well." "It's gone by quick too." "that's the nicest part of this." "no trucks." "It's been nice to do over 1000 ounces without hauling any pay." "Parker's plan to run a more efficient mine is paying off." "his massive boundary cut has produced over a million in gold." "And taken him to a total of 2104 ounces." "Parker has more gold than Todd Hoffman for the first time this season." "It doesn't seem like too long ago we were just setting the plant up." "Now I'm about to move it again." "To the far end of the cut so that we can sluice the pad in the north end." "I go where the gold goes." "Parker plans to chase the gold rich pay to the north." "But foreman Rick Ness has a different plan in mind.." "So I've been thinking about Fantasy Land." "Uh huh." "And?" "And I'm thinking now's the time man." "Now's the time to what?" "To get Fantasy Land." "You know we're never gonna have a wash plant this close to Fantasy Land again." "And that's kinda the plan though is to work away from it." "Parker wants to move Goldzilla north to mine the next section of ground." "Rick wants to mine a nearby cut they've already stripped called Fantasy Land." "But they'd have to start using rock trucks again." "over a thousand ounces here." "Yeah." "Trust me." "I love the new system." "It's working great but." "You know we're never gonna have a wash plant this close to Fantasy Land again." "And it's not big enough to justify moving a wash plant there so it's." "We keep moving farther away from it we're never gonna do it man." "You got a ton of money in that thing." "Yeah." "And we've been waiting what how long now to find out what's in there." "Two years." "You know I really think that there might be some good gold over there." "I think that's fuckin Fantasy Land Parker." "000 dollars to strip Fantasy Land." "It's a bit of a risk you know." "We are taking a gamble here with it but we're gonna give it a shot." "it paid out well." "How's that for Fantasy Land." "That's like a proper nugget." "But for 2 years now" "What the fuck." "Broke the shank off." "Permafrost has frozen him out." "The gold we need is right there." "It's just frozen." "Fantasy Land." "This is the best opportunity we've ever had you know I think." "It shouldn't be so hard by now." "it's been sitting for over a year." "Kinda feel like we should take it." "You know just need to prep a road and put a pump in huh?" "That's it man." "And it's ready to go." "We could do it in 3 days." "We can make it happen." "In that thing?" "Yeah." "It's a bit of a haul." "It is but." "We put the people on it." "Hammer down." "Three days." "Alright." "Cool." "Alright." "Three days of hauling pay ain't the end of the world." "No." "Good call Rick." "Thanks buddy." "As much as I hate it." "As much as it pains me." "000 square feet of virgin ground should be easy pickings." "Rick rallies the troops." "Gotta get it done." "And I think it's gonna be just what we need to get us past our season total." "And whup Todd Hoffman's ass so." "I say let's just hit it with everything we got and get it done." "Okay let's go." "four rock trucks have to haul 160 loads of dirt for each of the next 3 days." "386)} This whole cut." "I mean if we can get all this around that it's gonna really be a big boost for us." "There it is Mitch." "First load of pay out of Fantasy Land." "About time huh." "Whoo." "I thought this day was never gonna come." "We hope it's got everything we need to get 3000 ounces ." "Parker's big goal." "hopefully." "It's nice to be finally sluicing it you know." "The way I want to do it and you know we're deviating from the plan quite a bit by the fuckin yin and all that but hopefully it pays off." "366)} It's a really really important time." "We need to reach our goals." "the Hoffman crew is back to mining their supercut." "their enormous cut has failed to produce the 200 ounces of gold they need a week." "3 million dollar season goal." "we should have many thousands of ounces." "But it just hasn't worked out that way this year." "Todd Hoffman has fallen behind his young rival Parker." "To catch up he has to figure out what they're doing wrong in the supercut." "but 2700 in my estimation is slipping away." "plain and simple." "I'd be kicking Parker's ass." "according to the drill holes." "The gold just wasn't in the dirt." "Do you want to know what we oughta do?" "We oughta go out there and take a really good look at it." "We could do some test pans in there at bedrock." "Sound good." "Yeah." "Let's do it." "Dave heads out to test an area of the cut they thought they'd picked clean." "So this is bedrock." "And sometimes the gold can settle down in between these rocks that are laying sideways." "So I'm just gonna test here." "See if we left any gold in here." "This could be the difference in our season." "See that." "See there." "000." "That's a lot of gold." "We're going after 2700 ounces." "and we start leaving gold." "That's bad." "It's Logan's job to get all of the gold rich paydirt out of the supercut." "We got a little bit of a problem." "What's that?" "what we thought was done." "This is what we're leaving behind." "Shoot." "It's way too much gold to be leaving in this cut." "what was it in?" "I'll show you what it's in." "It's kind of a weird deal." "See this kind of stuff?" "and here" "Try to get in those brown spots and dig it deep." "Zone in trucks. let's get it going." "Right." "OK man." "See ya." "I can't be too hard on Logan." "This is the first year he's actually digging bedrock." "So it's a learning curve that you can't leave that much gold in this cut." "This is our year and we got to get better at it." "I'm OK with leaving one or two color pans behind but that was 20 colors and they were big colors." "that's the kind of gold that adds up." "Mining more bedrock could be the key to turning the Hoffman crew's season around." "Hey ya Dave." "Check out the bedrock going up Big Green Ugly right now." "Holy crap." "That's the biggest bedrock and the best bedrock we've seen this whole season." "I haven't seen this kind of bedrock yet." "That's where the gold should be." "huh." "it's running with these round quartz." "where they meet huh." "Where they meet." "Should be good." "Back in the cut." "I just got a lot of wood." "Holy frick." "Looks like a lot of wood is just stuck right here." "But it's on bedrock where our best gold is." "My best judgment is get as much gold up to that plant as possible so I'm gonna send it." "It's my job." "Moving paydirt." "You kidding me." "Hey." "What's with this crap you're sending me." "It's like all loaded with wood." "I can't run this garbage through the wash plant." "it's definitely pay Kevin." "I wouldn't send you anything that's not pay." "but it's pay." "tell him to go dump it off the overburden pile." "it has bedrock." "Sorry." "Tough luck." "He can deal with it." "Freddy." "That's not good." "Stop the feeder." "It's jammed up the chute." "Shut the feeder down." "Got it down." "Looks like rock piling in there." "Holy frig." "I'll tell you what." "It won't break." "McKinnon Creek is at a standstill." "The Hoffman crew's tailings chute is jammed." "Let's see what there is." "There's a log." "What?" "Chunk of wood." "Put it in got stuck and then rocks." "Why is there a piece of a log?" "Oh my god." "Look at that thing." "it won't break." "Look at it's flat wedged." "Got a lot of weight behind it." "it'll bury ya's." "Kevin heads into the cut to settle a score." "Can't get going if you're broke down so." "Apparently Logan didn't think I was serious." "I'll take care of this right now." "See this." "Lookit that." "Guess what." "That's a friggen breakdown right there." "I've already had to shut down because something gets stuck in the wash plant." "000 trucks Kevin." "So you get 5 trucks a fuckin day." "I don't care." "Hey." "There's the hill." "Dump it friggen over the hill." "I don't decide what's in this cut." "I don't need this crap." "Go dump it over the edge." "Every hour the plant is down costs Todd and crew thousands of dollars in gold." "The world's toughest piece of ancient wood." "It's moving it." "it's working." "Stop." "Get it?" "Yup." "We got it." "That went right through the grizzly bars." "Well hopefully we didn't damage this conveyor." "386)} We could've jammed this up." "We could've even broke the shaker. broke the conveyor." "Lot of things could've happened." "so that's good." "All clear." "Crisis averted." "The crew quickly gets back to running bedrock through Monster Red." "It's important that we stay on base and keep reaching our goals every week." "we gotta keep this plant running." "And we have to stay focused when we're running it." "And just watch everything constantly. worth less than half a million dollars." "He's less than halfway to his 900 ounce goal." "His dredge project is in trouble." "We got the potential to get some more speed out of the bucket line here." "Should be able to make it go quicker." "We been kinda coasting and you gotta walk before you run but it's time to pick it up." "Four buckets a minute means more gold." "I think it's time to try and push it a little more." "my concern would be that this old machine wasn't designed to run that fast." "but we could" "No no no no no no." "I don't think we're gonna make it self destruct right off the bat so let's try it." "The only way for electrician Jason Folster to increase the speed of the bucket line is to override the safety settings on it's motors." "Jason." "Bump this thing up." "I have my concerns about the old equipment but." "I think it was built pretty heavy and as long as this stuff can handle it." "We haven't done it before because we didn't really know how hard to push this machine but I can reprogram it." "30 percent out of it." "Now we're gonna push it to the max." "Alright." "Go see if it works." "Fire her up and see what happens." "The bucketline immediately picks up speed." "We should be able to get more speed out of it." "real quick?" "Yes." "that was 2 minutes and 15 seconds." "35 a minute." "Yeah." "I know it is. 12 buckets a minute more." "So." "production jumps from 100 to 130 yards per hour." "you know." "Gene plans to run the dredge at high speed for the next 2 days." "To see if it can deliver the gold Tony needs before winter hits the Klondike." "He supervises as Matt Beaudry and Montana Bailey start the first shift." "those rocks come out quite a bit quicker eh." "you gotta pay more attention so." "all the winches and the motors and stuff like that." "it's." "Yeah." "I know it's old and everything else." "But they built stuff tough back then and" "All the stuff I read up on the thing is they were doing 30." "Thirty plus buckets a minute out before so why can't we do it." "Yeah." "watch your stuff." "we got a rock coming." "So." "Just watch it there." "it's a good one eh." "Go check it out." "Matt lowers the grizzly bars to keep a big rock from falling down into the trommel." "Fuckin things busted Matt." "It's busted." "Holy shit." "Fuck." "Tony Beets' crew has destroyed their grizzly bars." "Because the bucket line's moving quicker now." "The grizzly never had enough time to flip itself up." "The next bucket came" "And hit that rock which hit the grizzly and broke it." "The grizzly bars are designed to prevent boulders from entering the trommel." "By diverting them down the boulder chute." "But now the buckets are running 30 percent faster." "but it got caught on the next bucket." "The force of the bucketline has cracked the hinge mechanism." "Fuckin thing." "I knew something was gonna happen." "It was going too good today." "Tony loses hundreds of dollars in gold." "Have you got 'er in?" "Yeah." "That's good." "Fuckin do it." "Go open the gate and.." "The 2 day trial can't continue until Matt has tested the grizzlies." "put the grizzly down." "Yup." "It works." "Kind of a trial and error with the speed bumped up." "The buckets are moving faster and shit can happen." "Matt finally restarts their test." "Back on." "Good to go." "Pretty much." "Disaster diverted." "Dredge can't beat me." "Come on." "we gotta go harder than this." "To increase their weekly gold count the Hoffman crew has been digging deeper in the supercut." "They've been running bedrock for 3 days now." "will just be amazing and one of our best." "Hey!" "Got something wrong." "We got something broke." "Freddy Dodge." "You got a copy." "There's noise coming out of this thing." "And it was right out of the middle." "I got broken welds on this side." "I got 2 on just this cross support." "Oh man." "They're cracking out at the top too." "When the screen shakes it's shaking thousands and thousands of times an hour." "386)} The sides of this screen are acting like they're trying to break themselves apart from one another." "Monster Red's shaker vibrates 745 times per minute." "the welds that hold the structure together have started to fail." "their shaker will shake itself to pieces." "We fix it or not?" "How are we gonna?" "Just weld them is not gonna do it." "right." "There's a chance the way this is wracked it won't make the rest of the season." "Do we know of any other decks or anything?" "Never get one in time here before it freezes solid." "this season just took a drastic turn for the friggen worst." "All of our gold is sitting right here in this mountain of pay." "if it kills us." "Or if it kills Monster Red." "Freddy has to come up with a bush fix." "And fast." "with tighteners on each end of the cables." "And pull it tight." "Pull it into itself and see if I can't control it from going sideways." "Freddy plans to pull the joints back together before he re-welds them." "He's hoping that the cross brace will hold the shaker together for the rest of the season." "Pull that tight Juan." "See if I can't knock a couple teeth out with a wrench under here." "(click)" "Ohh." "Ow." "How tight's it feel Kevin?" "Tighter than a guitar string?" "It's good." "It's not gonna fix it but if I can slow it down then." "Maybe more welds won't break." "Maybe we can get these other one's welded up." "Maybe it'll make the season." "Kevin and Juan need to weld the deck back together." "We're gonna have 4 or 5 hours of just welding on that." "Yes No?" "Tight fit?" "We're gonna fix it." "OK." "Fix it." "Come on." "Go." "I just started." "There's a kid up the creek that's getting 2 more ounces than us an hour so." "Just git on it." "There's a lot of metal in here we have to look at." "So." "Is that it for the shaker?" "That's it." "Those were the last welds we had to do." "Ahh!" "Good job Kevin." "Good job." "Let's hope it holds." "You hear that sound?" "Sounds like money." "Looks good Dave." "it's working." "considered the toughest shift around." "But it's our production shift." "It's when we make the most gold." "David Croker is in charge of the nightshift." "Running paydirt from their Fantasy Land cut." "We sluice the most at night cause there's no distractions." "It's just go go go." "Everybody else spends it." "We make it on nights." "Morning comes eventually and Dayshift can do any of the maintenance and repairs they need to do." "foreman Rick does his daily inspection." "Holy fuck." "Mitch." "you got." "You got to look at this." "I don't like that look on your face." "Oh shit." "These screens are shot to fuckin hell." "How long do you think they ran this like that?" "Wow." "Cause I've never seen one this destroyed and still remain." "It's not just the screens that are worn out." "Our shaker deck is about destroyed." "See these giant holes that I can put my whole hand inside of." "Not supposed to be that way." "What's happened here is these crown bars are worn down so as we're running the shaker deck" "The screens jumping up and down and you can see all the divots that it's making on the crown bars here." "Just tearing itself apart." "the structure beneath should be absolutely flat." "Mitch has hours of repairs ahead before they can run Goldzilla again." "We can fix it." "Just need time." "So it's probably like this for a long time." "They probably fuckin ignored it." "The nightshift's mistake will cost Parker valuable run time." "For fuck's sake." "Don't get a confused look." "Don't give me that fuckin look Croker." "That's a pile of shit." "You're talking about how much you're taking care of this thing and keeping an eye on it." "They ran half the night with no fuckin screen in the top deck." "The crown bars are pounded to shit." "To get the **** ****" "Just did a top and bottom deck and it was completely gone." "It didn't happen within a matter of a couple hours." "Like it was literally half fuckin gone." "So this stops now." "Right now this fuckin stops." "As far as I'm concerned you both go home." "At Scribner Creek instead of running gold rich paydirt from Fantasy Land." "Parker's crew is stuck repairing a screen deck that was destroyed on the nightshift." "they're both going home." "I'm not gonna deal with it anymore." "I've always just done my job as you know." "Have I ever not done my job?" "What the fuck's been happening lately then." "Every fuckin day." "We're fuckin getting picked on." "I don't think I've given you much shit at all." "I don't think I've given anybody any shit." "I think maybe that's part of the problem." "obviously you can tell he's hot as fuck." "And he's pouring it on me because of it so." "It's just we're fuckin close to the end." "Let's just hold it together." "Been a champ right." "Fuck." "Mechanic Mitch Blaschke steps in to weld the worn out shaker deck." "Right now I got a lot of repair work to do here before we can get this wash plant rattling again." "disintegrated down to nothing." "and definitely cost us all a lot of gold." "Rick vowed he'd run all of the paydirt from Fantasy Land in just 3 days." "It's day 3 and the crew is busy fixing the plant." "It's just drawing Fantasy Land out you know." "Fantasy Land was supposed to be a quick smash and grab." "Get it and go." "And now it's not you know." "Now it's" "Taking way longer than it should." "It's not part of the plan." "but it'll get us by for awhile." "the crew replaces the screen decks." "every hour this thing's down it's costing thousands of dollars." "So I just gotta get it running." "They're finally back to mining Fantasy Land pay." "we really need there to be a lot of gold to make this pay off." "Alright." "You're loaded." "Get a move on." "We're getting Fantasy Land done this year no matter what." "000 ounces and to beat the Hoffmans is in these trucks right now." "Gene has run Tony's dredge at 130 yards an hour for 2 days." "This weigh in will tell them if running the dredge faster is paying off in gold." "I think it's about time you pour it." "Because I'm curious." "me too." "this 2 day test should produce just over 30 ounces." "Five." "Ten." "Fifteen." "Twenty." "Twenty five." "Thirty." "Forty" "Fifty." "Fifty six point three." "the goal that you been shooting for." "That works for me." "000 dollars." "000 dollars." "was going pretty good." "Just have to pay more attention." "Tony." "Tony and crew are back on track to hit their 900 ounce target." "It's a good feeling when you can see stuff come to it's potential." "I want to do a good job." "The best job I can do. somebody needs to be in here." "Freddy Dodge inspects Monster Red." "To see if his bush fix on the shaker deck is holding." "broken." "And you gotta look one weld at a time." "This is the heart of the plant right here." "the season's probably over." "Hey Freddy." "How's our fix holding up?" "Well it looks good so far Kevin." "For the unorthodox thing we did here." "That." "That's good to hear man." "But I don't know how long it's gonna hold up." "That's just a." "It's a temporary fix." "Not a permanent solution." "Alright." "That's it." "Last truck out of Fantasy Land." "It's taken Rick Ness and the crew 4 long days to run all the pay from their new cut." "Parker." "That's the last truck from Fantasy Land heading to the wash plant right now." "Alright." "Well we're just finishing up running her." "Hope there's some gold in this shit." "Parker delayed moving the wash plant further upstream." "Because Rick persuaded him to run trucks into Fantasy Land." "The cut's finally finished." "It's time to find out if Rick was right." "Am I walking into my execution here?" "You on it?" "34.9 every cleanup." "So that's another 34.065." "Sixty nine." "nope." "Twenty nine nine." "Uuuh." "That's not even a hundred." "Not even a hundred ounces." "Ninety eight point eight." "Huh fuckin shit." "That's pathetic." "That is pretty pathetic." "Ooh." "And all the effort." "We should be trying to get 300." "000 dollars proves Fantasy Land was nothing more than a fantasy." "something like that." "Be a long ways to go if we're to hit 3000." "that's for sure." "800 ounces." "A long ways to go and a short time to get there." "That's the problem." "Parker is running out of time." "four." "We know the gold is upstream." "So." "We got to get back up to the boundary cut." "Figure out what we're doing." "Get some ground to open up there." "Get a spot for the plant." "Get." "Get dirt flowing through the box." "Agreed." "you know." "a home run and it wasn't so." "Next time." "and" "Everything that you've just blessed us with." "All the gold." "Amen." "Amen." "Thanks Kev." "the supercut has let the Hoffman crew down." "Dave has had the crew digging deeper into bedrock." "Whoo." "Hey everybody." "Jack's here." "Guys." "Whoa." "There's a pan of gold." "What is it Jack?" "How much?" "279 clapping)" "000 dollars." "The Hoffman's biggest cleanup this season." "just over 2300 ounces and we only got 400 more and we're gonna double what we did last year." "We kicked some butt." "Dave has the Hoffman crew back on top." "Todd has overtaken Parker in the quest to be King of the Klondike." "We're gonna beat Parker this year." "We're gonna get through." "We're gonna make it to the end." "We're gonna kick some ass." "The Hoffman's 2700 ounce season goal is within reach." "unannounced." "You guys stay out." "I haven't had any trouble and you've been very respectful and you've done what you said you would do." "It's been the best mining season I've ever had." "It's been great." "Could possibly go over 3000." "That's a really really good feat." "An impressive one." "we're looking at doing some corporate changes and one of them is selling this property." "347)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T" "What uh." "What's the price?" "Five million dollars." "Yeah." "I don't think I'm gonna be in any position to buy anything." "one of the potential buyers is Parker." "347)\fs35} On the Next Gold Rush" "Thought I got away from all of this." "How Tony Beets started life as a farm boy in the Netherlands" "Good ole boy." "That's gonna bring back some memories alright." "How he confronted a family tragedy" "The hay bale came right from the top." "My dad was paralyzed." "And went on to become one of the Kings of the Klondike." "That's how they do it down here." "when he's not mining for gold." "Zoom zoom." "Off we go. 406)} position"