"We're at the end of the supercut boys." "382)\fs33.822}On this Gold Rush" "That's way below where you want to be." "you don't make your goal." "That's something that could break us." "Hey." "We got no water." "We're gonna be down for at least a week. he doesn't go small." "Happy Birthday." "Here you are partner." "Cheers." "Whoo." "he'll win." "Yeah." "do you copy." "Yeah." "Go ahead Logan." "Have you ever heard that saying "Be careful what you wish for." "Uh uh." "Yeah man." "We're coming at you like a freight train." "Watch out." "in the Klondike." "Monster Red." "I don't think we've ever had a season run this smoothly." "392)}We're about halfway through the biggest cut we've ever done." "I really do think we'll get our 2700 ounce goal." "Andy Sphinx and Dave Turin strip the last of the overburden in the far end of the cut." "we're approaching the end of our supercut." "They've made it to the bucket Todd set to mark the end of the supercut at the start of the season." "I gotta admit both of us had our doubts." "Here we are." "We're actually at the bucket so." "it's a good feeling." "Andy." "You want to knock it over?" "You like golfing." "Why don't you tee that sucker up and smash it." "Okay I'm gonna go for it." "Hit it out." "So here goes the bucket." "Let it rip." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." "Dang it!" "You hung it up there too good." "Okay. (laughing)I'm gonna swing back." "Try to knock it off." "Yeah." "Yeah." "We're at the end of the supercut boys." "300)}Damn." "It's cooking out." "arrives to collect his mid season cut of the gold." "392)}How ya doing man." "Think we'll go in the cleanup room." "Jack." "Yeah." "We need to get Peter his gold." "His cut." "Oh." "The Hoffman's take so far is 979 ounces of gold." "worth almost $215.000 dollars." "That is a fine loaf of bread you paid me." "Ha ha ha ha." "Alright." "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "See you later man." "Alright." "Thank you very much." "thank you." "So how?" "How far along are you now?" "About halfway through." "Half?" "Halfway through what?" "About halfway through the cut." "A thousand ounces is half?" "You're telling me you're on a pace to do 2000 ounces." "Your goal is 2700." "That's way below where you wanna be." "I know that we got some good drill holes down here in the end and I'm hoping it starts to get better as I go." "because that's not right." "It's been good here." "It's starting to flake out on us right in here." "But I know that we have good drill holes towards the end." "Todd's hoping that the second half of the supercut holds more gold than the first." "But it's not a chance Peter is willing to take." "What about the last third?" "Why aren't you stripping it?" "here." "Well." "You got to do this section too." "is the size of 12 football fields." "to the size of 18 football fields." "three million dollar goal." "It's a huge gamble right now to go and open up ground this late in the season." "Don't." "You mean it's getting hot." "We're gonna be fighting some pretty serious mud." "you don't make your goal." "Period." "There's ten feet of muck between you and a million dollars." "Well." "Come on." "I'll go chew through that with my teeth." "I wonder if I got this piece right here." "Wonder if I could beat ole Parker down there." "The only answer to that is go do it." "Hope you're right." "I'll go talk to the guys." "Thanks Todd." "See you man." "But opening too much ground in the middle of the summer could leave the Hoffman crew with an un-mine-able lake of mud." "I'm a fat guy and I'm in my shorts." "It's hot out here." "I got water coming in here." "And to bite off a whole n'other cut like that?" "I take that serious." "it's scary." "Parker Schnabel has his own supercut he calls the boundary cut." "that'll make or break the second half of Parker's mining season." "Brennan Ruautt loads paydirt." "392)}We apparently have about 10 percent of the pay hauled out of this cut so far and uh." "452)} But I was told yesterday they want to keep it all in that back corner." "Parker has his crew build a massive stockpile in the cut." "Just running out of room." "It's getting a little frustrating." "stacking it higher becomes more and more dangerous." "Hey." "We're on our first day here and we're already running out of places to put the pay." "do Rick and Parker have a plan?" "Parker never let me know." "All he said was keep stacking there." "This is messed up." "They never tell me 'till it's too late." "Maybe one of them will show up soon." "Ha ha." "Let us know what the hell to do." "Yeah." "Alright." "Hey okay." "Keep the ax to the grindstone." "Get's fuckin hard to haul." "Fuck." "Stop stop." "(loud bang)" "Ah." "Oh my." "Fuckin shit." "Arrgh." "Start using your fuckin eyes." "I just lost it but oh well." "Second time today." "Fuckin joke." "I'd sure like it if they started to let me know the overall game plan before we get into these situations so I could give the trucks a better idea what they could do." "A little more planning ahead would sure help that out." "Hey Parker." "You got a second to talk about the boundary cut." "Yee-ah." "Parker hasn't shared his plan with anyone." "Foreman Rick Ness corners his 20 year old boss for answers." "All the guys are kinda asking me what the plan is here in the boundary cut and I don't." "I don't know really know what to tell them." "We haven't talked about it." "and." "We're just spending so much money hauling pay to our plant so." "The more I look at it the more I kinda want to try something new and put the plant right in the middle of the cut." "what do you mean." "right." "Build a pad for the plant that sits right in the middle of the cut. and stack it on the north side." "He'll then construct a 400 foot long 50 foot high megapad right down the center of the cut." "He'll flood the south side." "And place the wash plant on it so that it can operate next to his mountain of pay dirt." "Parker will save thousands of dollars in fuel costs." "But he's never attempted anything this ambitious." "So that means we basically got to build a mountain right in the middle of the thing." "And that's gonna cost us days of sluicing." "Yeah." "We're gonna lose five days of sluicing probably." "right." "then it'll be worth it I think." "you know." "Five days ain't a lot of time to set something like that up." "I need you to." "that's what we'll do." "Thanks Rick." "he needs Rick and the crew to build the massive new pad in just five days." "432)}The timing's a little scary cause you don't have a whole lot of time in a season." "I just hope we're not severely underestimating the time frame here." "Tony Beets is out to recover the million dollars he invested in his gold dredge." "the ancient gold machine produced it's first good cleanup." "it's working." "we got no water." "We got no water." "I don't know what's going on." "Fuck." "Fuck." "I'll go get the breakers." "The dredge's 30 year old water pump is overheated." "Pretty fuckin hot." "She must be running dry or something." "It's all we can do is open it up and see what we got inside." "Mike Beaudry opens up the pump between the suction pipe and the motor." "372)} You know it got pretty hot there but." "Sometimes they'll come back and they'll keep working after stuff like that." "Get out the fuckin shit in the suction line." "No wonder we got problems." "Burn our pump up." "Debris in the suction pipe has kept water from getting to the pump motor." "the pump has burned out." "It run dry and burned the bearings out inside." "We're gonna be down for at least a week." "We ain't gonna run it the way it is." "The dredge is dead in the water until Tony can somehow get new parts." "Todd Hoffman has sent his entire crew out to strip a huge 750 foot extension to the supercut." "head in over there." "The race is on to remove overburden before it turns into an impenetrable sea of mud." "Andy leads the charge in the D-11 dozer. ♪ it's not right. ♪" "♬ Gawd dang it. ♪" "Crap." "It's got an oil leak." "the Hoffman crew's biggest dozer." "you copy." "Yeah Andy." "It's Randy." "Got an oil leak on the dozer." "Alright Andy." "Bring it on up." "Gonna get this up to Randy." "Let him look at it." "See what we gotta do and get it fixed." "and that's really not what we need right now." "I got a pretty good sized oil leak." "It's on the oil pan." "Wow." "It's everywhere." "There's a puddle of oil already in here." "I'm not sure what the issue is yet but uh." "Got either a hose or a cracked oil pan." "Hoping the last one's not true." "Once again we got a sunny day and everything's thawing so." "It's pretty critical that we get this 11 back up and running." "Yeah." "It's just pouring right here." "Hey Randy." "You see where it's leaking?" "Yeah." "There could be an actual crack in the oil pan." "A cracked oil pan is the worst case scenario." "Randy has to get a new pan shipped all the way up to the Klondike." "I need to go talk to Todd." "Randy." "Yo." "How bad is it?" "It's not good." "It's basically a cascade of oil." "Had to put a pan underneath of it." "Basically this is done for now." "Pretty much." "How much time do you need to get this fixed?" "five days Todd." "Problem is this black muck melts." "And you got a big muddy mess on your hands." "How much time we got till it turns to complete crap." "2 or 3 days." "Gonna have a lake out there where we were digging." "or whatever we gotta do." "Okay I" "We gotta get this thing up." "I gotta get to work." "Whatever it takes." "Okay." "there's an extra million dollars worth of gold in that extension." "So right now you got a million dollars on your shoulders." "Alrighty Todd" "Alright." "Good luck Randy." "Thanks." "Alberta." "Hey Ross." "How you doing?" "So we got a bit of an oil leak on the cat." "it looks like it's coming from the driver side rear of the oil pan." "I think the oil pan itself has a crack in it and it's leaking through the crack." "I gotta have it fixed and back in the cut in 3 days." "Alrighty Ross." "Thank you." "I'll talk to you later." "G'bye." "Ross said it would take a week to two weeks to get an oil pan here." "I can't just shut it down for 2 weeks." "We just don't have that time." "000 yard pile of pay ready to sluice." "But instead of running the gold rich dirt." "Last time for this beast." "Chris Doumitt shuts down their wash plant Big Red." "That's it." "We're done." "000 dollars worth of gold a day until his crew builds a massive new wash plant pad..right in the middle of the boundary cut." "so." "I don't know." "He"s throwing the dice." "That's for sure." "Putting the wash plant in the center of the boundary cut is a radical first for Parker." "but it will only pay off if he can get Big Red sluicing again in just 5 days." "50 foot high new pad." "There's a lot to do." "It's haul on and down to crunch time now." "You can park those trucks next to each other however you want." "Whatever's easiest for you there Parker." "We're always under a time pressure." "Never have enough time and people so you make do." "Parker's gonna run two trucks and I'll load 'em both." "Kinda a rough thing to do but..." "That's what it's gonna take." "I missed a step I was jumping for on that one." "452)}Think I saw Parker jumping from truck to truck like some kind of a monkey." "We got our height now for our pad and I'd say we're about a third of the way across now." "Just a matter of the trucks dumping load after load of gravel off the end." "It's a pretty big job of building a pad in the middle of it and." "then up on the pile." "fuck." "000 yards of gravel and overburden." "Enough dirt to fill 18 Olympic swimming pools." "But massive earth moving is new territory for Parker's rookie crew." "which is just odd to me." "Ooh fuck." "Megan." "Megan has backed her truck off the edge of the 50 foot high pad." "Dammit." "Megan." "More power." "She dumps the 30 tons of dirt." "onto solid ground." "Dammit fuckin mud." "cause and it's gonna want to go over so." "Make sure you hit it at an angle." "I'd hate to see you go over that bank." "It's pretty nerve wracking." "I'm kinda going blind." "We've always had Gene around." "There's no way to replace that experience so." "Time for us to make our own mistakes." "Hopefully not but.." "Gotta do what it takes." "they're making it even bigger." "We're all the way to the back corner of the extension of the supercut." "trying to keep up with the melting Klondike mud. is out of commission until Randy fixes it's cracked oil pan." "I've got kind of an idea." "A way that I can fix it." "I want to add silicone to the outside of the pan." "see if it'll hold a seal." "daughter's paintbrush." "But they're not gonna want it back when I'm done." "We shall attack." "a thousand miles away." "Now I'm just gonna have to hope and pray that this stays together." "I gotta wait for that silicone to dry." "Ideally the manufacturer wants 24 hours before you put any kind of pressure to it." "We don't have 24 hours." "So I'm gonna add oil to it." "See if it leaks." "Kinda premature but." "we can't wait all day." "So." "Turn of the switch here." "Ha ha ha." "No leaks." "Dry." "No leaks." "Alright." "Let's pop the pan on." "Get it outta here." "Ha ha ha." "A hope and a prayer came through." "This thing ready to go?" "Buttoned up." "Topped off." "Be good to 'er." "Run 'er hard." "Let's go move some dirt." "Randy's fix has the Hoffman crew back on track to hit their 3 million dollar season goal." "Good thing." "It's a good day." "Look at that." "A brand new pump for you Gene." "Looks like a pretty good sized one." "Tony's dredge crew takes delivery of a brand new water pump." "get it done." "Get it back to running." "The self priming centrifugal pump can force a massive 3500 gallons of water a minute through the dredge." "Three times as much as the pump it's replacing." "and wear and." "this one's new and more efficient." "Can't see that side." "Are you alright over there." "Easy." "the new pump is 77 years younger than the dredge the crew is connecting it to." "how we're gonna have to plumb it in until we have it here so." "Four inches which I think is gonna be too long." "Gonna have to do some modifications." "So I'll go measure." "Gonna rig up a new suction line for it." "We're hoping that's gonna keep the grass and stuff from plugging it up." "that's what we were having issues with on the other one." "Are you gonna reuse this or you gonna make another one." "Re-use it somehow." "Mike and Gene connect a new filter cage and suction pipe to the original dredge plumbing." "So." "we should have three and a half inches underneath the bottom of it in there." "Three and a half inches." "Straight down." "aren't we?" "Looks about like it." "I fucked up there Mikey." "Wonder who did that?" "Added when we should have subtracted or what?" "Gene's made the suction pipe almost a foot too long." "Better too long than too short." "numbers are on the top." "(laughter)" "Got the suction on." "She's done." "Just finishing up the last details." "Letting the generator warm up and." "We'll uh" "Fire her up and see what happens." "Alright." "Go ahead." "Pump's pumping." "the dredge is finally ready to catch gold." "We're back dredging." "That's the main thing." "We're back dredging." "That's what counts Gene." "Pull that and the hoe a little bit." "to build a massive new wash plant pad." "I'm just finishing up." "This is my last truck." "We're done down here kids." "Finally finished." "Wooo." "Ha ha ha ha." "to construct a 400 foot long 50 foot high megapad." "But the boundary cut earthworks have cost Parker over half a million dollars." "000 yards of paydirt in the cut." "doesn't he?" "He doesn't go small." "The monster stockpile is the same amount of pay that Parker sluiced all of last season." "Need some help there youngster?" "It's Chris Doumitt's job to run it." "That's a mountain of paydirt." "That's gonna last a little while." "that's what I'm worried about." "and I don't think Big Red can sluice this much ground in 10 weeks." "There may be another way and I want to come show you something." "Come with me." "I hope it's not more ground." "That's plenty right there." "Ha ha ha." "I think I may have found a way that we can get through that cut pretty quick and make up for lost time." "It's that right there." "You're kidding me." "Really." "is almost double the size of Big Red and it's available to rent." "The guy that owns it calls it Goldzilla." "Goldzilla?" "Yeah." "Wow." "It's a fairly old plant." "this will push over 200 I think." "Because there's so much room in the sluice runs." "Yeah." "Wow." "Goldzilla would allow Parker to run almost twice the dirt." "But it'll also put him deeper in the hole." "You already got a half a million invested in that cut." "I'm kinda leery about investing even more in the rental." "We're in too deep now." "And we just need to run the dirt." "No one needs to move the yardage." "If you think that's the best thing to do." "If it's worth it or not we'll find out." "sinking even more money into his giant boundary cut." "He's taking a heck of a risk." "I mean one heck of a risk." "Not with just the boundary cut but now all these other factors he's thrown into it." "Has he worked it out in his head that this is gonna save our season?" "it's gonna cost us our season. the Hoffman crew is celebrating a major milestone." "you know." "He's asked me to officiate." "Oh no." "To renew your vows." "No." "Ha ha." "do you take Jack to be your husband until death" "do you part." "I do." "Thank you." "Ha ha." "(All laugh) until death do you part." "I sure do." "I now pronounce you" "Husband and wife." "You may kiss the bride." "thank you Dave." "You ready?" "Jack you ready?" "The Hoffman crew doesn't just have Jack and Georgia's golden anniversary to celebrate." "They're about to hit their own golden landmark." "we probably did something really really bad." "Kinda got bad news for you." "We" "No you don't." "Yeah I do." "We did not make a thousand." "Bull crap." "We made 1182." "(cheering)" "This week's haul of 203 ounces takes their total to 1.3 million dollars" "Last year we were 150 ounces at this time right here." "Wow." "I'm proud of you." "You're just doing a great job." "I don't know if it's achievable guys." "But we're gonna go give it everything we've got so let's just use this as a springboard for the last half of the season." "(cheering) the Hoffman crew's 3 million dollar season is still within reach." "they can go up there." "They can fire people." "They can grind it out." "We'll do it our way and that's with faith and family." "it'll be this team right here." "Tony Beets has struggled all season with his 75 tear old dredge." "Ah ha." "he wants another." "You figure that it's worth taking the jump on this other one?" "This 1940's dredge only ran dirt for five years." "It sat untouched in this isolated creek for over half a century." "Ha ha ha." "it's a" "After you." "It's really in good shape." "Yeah." "Not too many people out around the country or the world moving a dredge around." "It's just the cash." "not mine." "So which bar are we going to here." "it'll be a surprise." "Parker Schnabel has been a teenage mine boss." "Today the kid turns 21." "You know I love surprises Rick." "And Rick has big plans." "Alright." "Here we are." "What are we doing?" "A fun barge man." "Aaaah." "What'd you do." "A lot of people put this together man." "Not just me." "Come." "Just as soon as he gets out." "Who is that?" "Okay." "Come on." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Surprise!" "Just what I wanted on my 21st" "Exactly." "And that's why we're here." "My own family." "Hey" "Happy birthday fella." "Alaska." "There's grandpa." "There's only one way to celebrate a birthday." "To me that's a milestone." "You become your own at 21." "good to see you." "(Vehicle horn outside)" "Oh." "Here's your people." "How's it going man." "Hey boys." "Woohoo." "We got you a birthday present Parker." "A gold pan." "Just the way I like it." "Chris Doumitt and mechanic Mitch Blaschke arrive with the results of their all important mid season clean out." "last year" "Everybody kicked their butts to give you a thousand ounces." "What are we at right now?" "We're at 711 ounces." "Plus this." "I tell you what." "You start pouring" "Oh." "Isn't that beautiful is 328 ounces of gold." "Yeah." "Right there puts us at 1039 ounces." "Yeah." "Wow." "Ooh." "1039 ounces is worth over 1.1 million dollars." "Parker now has nine ounces more than he did this time last year." "at the same time." "So have you set a goal." "A goal?" "For this year." "We haven't set a real goal but." "We've got the ability to do over 3000 ounces this season." "and doing our time." "Yeah." "And I know that you guys will do it." "That's why you're here with me." "Cheers to 3000 ounces and most cheers to the second half." "Cheers" "Cheers" "Woohoo." "Happy Birthday." "Cheers Mom." "Parker needs to triple his current gold total in just 10 weeks." "I have fantastic admiration for Parker's ability and confident that no matter what happens he'll win." "3000 ounces would blow Todd Hoffman's 2700 ounce goal right out of the water." "Not gonna let that guy downstream talk a bunch of trash and beat us." "No." "He showed up with a bunch of big dozers and a big cheque book." "313)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs50.082\b1\i1} Jack T and a bunch of lost sleep." "we don't have any of that." "We just.." "We got heart." "three months are gonna be brutal." "They're gonna be just.." "Downright brutal." "And I can't wait." "362)\fs28}In the second half of the mining season and it's good stuff. the sooner we can actually start making money." "I wouldn't treat my dog the way that he's walking around treating people." "I just wanna punch him in the fuckin face." "We are not a crew here." "Dozer's my only friend anymore." "He doesn't back down from a challenge." "We're getting down to the wire." "but uh then I don't think he stands a chance." "Are you gonna take my deal or not?" "I'm taking the deal cause I'm gonna beat you." "Challenge accepted." "We're gonna mine the million dollar mountain." "It's fuckin on fire." "Shut it down." "600 yards an hour." "If we finish all our pay we win." "This is our year."