"We're gonna start kicking some ass." "304.)\fs32}On this Gold Rush" "We're gonna have 2700 ounces of gold or we're gonna die trying." "Shut it down." "Shut it down." "That belt's off." "Hit the bypass." "Something's gone wrong Freddy." "You're throwing out say at least a quarter of an ounce an hour." "Dammit." "That's a good pan." "I think I can get it done in a week." "A week Rick." "Fuck it." "There better be some gold I'm afraid to pay off." "For fuck's sake." "He's not a quitter." "What was that?" "We're all sanded in." "We're gonna shut down." "What is the issue Jerry." "I don't want to talk about it." "Bunch of fuckin assholes." "Todd Hoffman set a goal that would double his gold take from last year." "worth 3 million dollars." "And his crew is feeling the pressure." "All the guys that work their butts off during the week." "They're beat down." "They're tired." "364)}I'm running on about 3 hours of sleep the last 2 days." "Lots to do." "Let's go to work." "Hey you guys." "We got the first load of pay on it's way over." "10-4." "Oh." "The Hoffman crew can't afford to let up." "They're a quarter of the way through the season." "And only have ten percent of the gold they need." "We still got time." "We can hit that goal." "Look at that mountain of pay." "huh." "the crew has to run 300 yards an hour." "Todd has upgraded the wash plant by installing a sandscrew to keep sand out of their holding pond." "And a state of the art radial stacker to distribute tailings 145 feet from the plant." "You know I'm watching it." "All the belts are running and the shaker's shaking." "so that's all you could ask for." "Oh oh." "Shut it down." "Shut it down." "The small conveyor shut off." "Shut it down Todd." "That belt's off." "Fuck." "Fuck." "Hit the bypass." "Ah she's stuck." "You know how?" "Too much of a load." "Something Freddy?" "Conveyor stopped." "Now it's so loaded with material." "So we got a" "Quite a jam going on here." "A gradual buildup of tailings at the base of the superstack has caused the conveyor belt to slip." "jamming the hopper feeder." "Oh." "One thing we could do is try to lower" "Lower it down." "it might be enough to 364)}Trying to lower this conveyor down and get it flatter so it's not running all that weight uphill." "The belt struggled to pull the tailings up a 20 degree slope." "Freddy hopes that the belt will be able to clear the tailings without slipping." "Whoo." "That's fuckin loaded up." "Hey Dave." "Yeah." "I think she'll go now." "Okay." "let's get outta there." "Everybody clear." "Everybody clear." "Right there." "Hold up." "Keep going Dave." "Come on." "Here's where we break a shaft or something." "Bang bang." "Stop." "(Clunka)" "There." "There." "I'm pinned." "The stacker is now at 15 degrees." "Okay." "Everybody clear." "Clear." "Okay." "Dave Turin fires it up." "Hey." "Got it." "Think we got it." "The Hoffman crew lost 4 hours of precious running time." "But they're back washing rocks." "Know what?" "We're hunting elephants." "Let me tell you something about hunting elephants." "shovel rock." "364)}Fix stuff." "Weld stuff." "I don't care." "We're gonna get there." "But at the end of the season we're gonna have 2700 ounces of gold or w're gonna die trying." "Ten miles east." "mostly because I get to visit my grandson." "John Schnabel is heading home to Haines Alaska." "Hey." "I couldn't leave without saying goodbye." "Huh." "Parker." "I really feel tremendously uplifted because of this visit." "I'll say it was one of the best trips of my life." "Bye grandpa." "Take care." "Love you." "I love you too." "Sure showed you how right." "He's not a quitter." "Parker is gonna win." "It's nice to have my grandpa up here and for him to be able to see this and be a part of it." "he's the reason I'm mining so." "It's good to have him here." "the young mine boss's season is off to a disastrous start." "000 dollars." "he had almost four times that amount." "Well the season's off to a pretty rough start." "Be hopeful that this seasons only gonna get better from here." "it's gonna be my responsibility to make sure that we don't stop all season." "The berm cut is running out of paydirt fast." "Probably not as much left of the berm cut as we were hoping." "So we got to get even more ground to open up." "That's exactly what I'm planning to do." "they'll have to shut down the plant." "What's going on buddy?" "we're about out of ground at the berm cut." "And we need to figure out how long that's actually gonna last." "There's not much left in there is there?" "Yeah." "We're getting pretty limited here." "About a week." "like fast Rick." "Where were you thinking?" "I was kinda looking at this strip of ground left on this side of the river." "right." "It's a" "Treasure Island" "Treasure Island." "You never know." "I just got a feeling it's gonna be worth it." "they found richer deposits of gold." "will continue to produce good gold." "A lot of overburden in there." "Can you get it done in a week?" "but we can juggle both." "You can have the whole grew head to Treasure island and have that all down to pay." "I think I can keep the berm cut going and keep the wash plant fed." "Then let's do it in a week." "Alright." "Treasure Island." "Treasure Island." "let's do it." "A week Rick." "Alright." "is to send in his entire crew." "Right on." "Let's get outta here." "Looking to Treasure Island to go." "Yeah." "Most of this is on Rick's plate." "A lot of stuff going on and I hope he's able to deal with it." "Rick stays behind in the berm cut to get the last of the paydirt to the wash plant." "he's only given me a week to get it done." "I can't pull anybody off that." "I'm just gonna have to try and self load and see if I can keep up with the wash plant on my own." "I'm loading myself today Chris." "I can't take anybody off that island cut." "Just you off loading and you think you can keep up with the plant?" "I'm sure gonna try." "It's gonna be a long day though." "Rick has to jump from rock truck to excavator." "my god." "and it's just purring right along." "it's gotta run." "There's a little bit of a bumper for paydirt right now." "But I'm talking a little bit so." "Rick's gotta keep hustling." "the last truckload that I dumped up there is gone already so." "It's not looking like I'm keeping up right now." "Holy shit." "I'm sweating." "He's throwing the dice." "I think Rick may have bit off just a little bit more than he can chew." "Treasure Island you can just backup towards my bucket." "Okay." "I'm not gonna put it on back up between that." "The crew is hard at work stripping overburden." "But things have been going real smooth and the truck's been running good." "Been keeping four trucks steady in rotation and." "364)}Got a good feeling that there's good ground under us." "Rick is on his own hauling pay from the berm cut." "I'll be able to work at him today." "And he's struggling to keep Big Red fed." "Chris is just about eaten through all of it." "I'm having a tough time keeping up with him." "We got to keep this thing running." "It's the only way we pay the bills." "Hey man." "Hey Rick." "You got a copy Rick." "Rick." "We got to come up with something that says." "This just isn't working." "You can't speed up Rick?" "Bud." "It's not working." "Okay man." "I'll work on a plan B." "Fuck." "and" "I fully intend not making that happen." "What's up there Rick?" "but it just wasn't enough." "Rick can't afford to take any of his crew off Treasure Island." "I've only got a week to do this Treasure Island cut." "now we've run out of pay at the wash plant so." "I need to gather all of our guys." "Get everybody in a machine." "and they're gonna have to haul pay for me today." "I don't know how they're gonna feel about that." "It's just gonna have to happen." "His only option:" "Convince mechanics Carl and Mitch to take a demotion." "What's going on fellas." "Hey man." "So I got a problem guys and I need your help." "Um." "and I need two more guys on haul trucks." "we have quite a bit on our plate today." "Carl?" "is it?" "but today it's gonna have to be your job." "you're the last two guys I have." "We have two more haul trucks." "I need you in 'em." "We need to haul pay." "We just gotta hit it." "Alright." "Let's do it." "Fire these trucks up." "Let's go." "384)}Well Rick wants me to run rock truck all day and realistically it's not my job and I have a lot more important things to do so." "A lot of money to be in our haul trucks though." "A heavy equipment mechanic is one of the most highly skilled and highly paying jobs in the Klondike." "Rock truck drivers are at the bottom of the totem pole." "boys." "Looks like we're back in business." "I really appreciate you jumping in that haul truck Carl." "It's helped us out big time." "You got it buddy." "This is kinda fun so thanks a lot." "Hey Carl." "What say we put some NASCAR numbers and stickers on that thing and see how fast you can drive it." "(laughs)" "Rick." "You could barely talk him into doing it and now you're gonna have a hard time getting him out of that rock truck." "(Chris laughs) the crew has already stripped four feet of overburden." "I can look across and see all the rock trucks going around in circles." "the excavators." "It's crazy times at Scribner Creek right now." "We even have mechanics hauling paydirt." "Scribner Creek is firing on all cylinders." "It's gonna be a good day." "We'll have enough pay up there to run the plant and we'll continue moving forward on that island cut." "and this year he's out to earn it back." "000 dollars." "not too bad Tony." "as good as can be expected." "Okay." "Get going on it." "Everybody's working hard." "Everybody's going for the same goal." "384)}Just gotta get a little more organized here." "I mean the thing's running." "That's what he wants it to do." "Fuck." "Oh shit." "What the fuck." "What was that?" "Hey Mike." "Go get Gene." "Right now the tailings are right up against the back of the dredge." "We're all sanded in." "Got problems." "My goodness." "Should I shut the fucker down." "Okay." "Gotcha" "I'm asking." "The fine tailings have no place to go." "We're gonna shut down." "The bucket ladder churns through 100 yards of pay an hour." "the coarse tailings drop off the back of the 85 foot stacker." "beaching the 350 ton dredge." "Get 'er pulled over as far as it'll go and then release the brake and I'll go walk down there and dig out the fine tails." "Fuck me." "He just gets in these little tizzies." "You see him." "Bunch of fuckin assholes." "What a fuckin joke." "I don't want to talk about it." "Gene goes for a quick fix." "I'm just taking the fine tails back behind the dredge. and get these problems sorted out." "something I can make a suction line out of for the pump." "Trying to build a venturi pump to pump our fine tails out behind the dredge." "Gene Cheeseman is searching for parts in Tony's boneyard." "Just gotta improvise." "Otherwise I gotta drive." "4 hour round trip to town to try and find a piece." "Gene plans to pump the fine tailings far from the back of the dredge." "But he can't use a conventional pump." "a lot of sand and fines." "using the vacuum created by the water pressure going through a venturi to pull the sand along." "A venturi system forces a large amount of water through a narrow section of pipe." "that should suck the fine tailings through a drop pipe that will sit in the short sluice." "And blast the unwanted material clear of the back of the dredge." "do we have all the parts and pieces here we need to make one." "it doesn't work?" "Back to drawing board." "Ah it's going alright." "I'm just kind of experimenting." "Not not quite got there yet." "Yeah." "Gene is ready to test out the venturi system he made out of spare parts." "so if it's working we should see the water go down in the wheelbarrow." "Gene's venturi system should create a vacuum that will suck the sand out of the wheelbarrow and spray it 20 yards away." "No." "see there's no suction." "It's definitely not working." "Not enough back pressure on it there." "Just shut 'er off." "Yeah." "I got 'er." "Stop." "he'll have to come up with another solution." "what we designed or made didn't work." "Gotta figure out the calculations." "I don't know how to figure that out." "Should have stayed in school I guess." "We got that supercut down there." "we got a super plant." "We have to have a super mountain of pay to feed this plant." "the Hoffman crew is running Monster Red at a steady 300 yards an hour." "has Todd worried about his gold recovery." "Something's going wrong Freddy." "We would have had a lot better cleanup." "There's something going wrong." "But I know how much dirt we ran." "We should have had more gold in that cleanup." "314)} Doesn't matter where we lose it." "It's still gone and you can't afford to lose it." "we're not gonna hit our goal." "The only thing I can think of is you're carrying it over in your fine tailings going on to the conveyor." "I'll grab a bucket." "I'll take a sample of the tailings and I'll let you know what I find." "Yeah." "Go take a look." "fix the problem." "Let's do it." "Alright." "We got a serious problem." "We're losing gold somewhere." "or it's up here somewhere." "But we got a friggen problem and we need to figure it out." "NOW!" "Freddy Dodge is a wash plant expert." "he'll find out why." "There's only one way to find out." "Test it." "The only time a miner doesn't want to see gold is when he's testing his tailings." "Hmm hmm." "Look at that." "There's gold in it." "I flippen knew it." "Check this out Todd." "Look at that piece." "And all that color." "That came out a half a 5 gallon bucket." "So you're losing thousands of times that per hour." "That ain't good Freddy." "say at least a quarter of an ounce an hour." "Crap." "I'll see what I can do." "Gotta shut the plant down." "Let's get it figured out." "Dammit!" "The Hoffman crew is flushing $5000 dollars a day out of the end of their wash plant." "Shut it down." "try to resolve this." "Alright Dave." "Let's shut it down." "It's up to their gold recovery expert to find the cause." "Hey Dave." "Check this out." "A buildup there?" "Yeah." "come on." "just got a dead spot right there." "The sand's building back in it." "The new diverter channel at the bottom of the sluice is causing the water to slow down and sand deposits to back up." "it eventually covers the riffles." "gold is washing right out of the sluice box." "Bunching up down here on the end." "Hopefully we get this fixed and be rolling again." "We could try it with wood you know." "Get the area smaller so the velocity's higher." "Put a spoiler and then do a 45 in the corner." "Try it." "Just put it in there and see if it diverts it." "that will hopefully speed up the water in the diverter." "So we've narrowed up this area so we have more velocity with the water so it can make this initial corner here." "Go ahead and start everything." "Okay Kev." "As soon as you see water." "and the gold can fall into the riffles." "364)}Well we're just watching to see if it starts backing up." "hopefully it pulls the tailings out." "Velocity is much greater there now." "Yup." "It's not hitting a dead space." "If it stays like that it's not hurting anything." "Exactly." "If it'll stay like this." "Hey." "That's working." "Freddy's simple fix should save thousands in lost gold." "it takes a little time to figure it all out." "Ha ha ha." "You like that one Dave." "Tony Beets dredge has produced a disappointing 92 ounces of gold." "a buildup of fine tailings has grounded his ship." "sounds good to me." "I'll uh" "Makes sense." "I'll go get everybody lined down and get 'em ready to do it." "so Tony's come up with a quick fix." "Simply extend the fine tailings sluice by 10 feet." "the fine tailings out further behind us." "Back up?" "it's not making money." "You welded it Tony." "Of course I feel confident in it." "Ha ha ha ha." "to find out if Tony's sluice extension works." "should help out quite a bit." "Friggen dirty deal but it'll get us through." "Parker Schnabel's crew has been working non stop for 5 straight days to get down to Treasure Island pay." "Still have a couple feet of overburden to get down to pay on Treasure Island." "delivers the last rock truck of berm cut paydirt." "Yeah." "The berm cuts done." "is Treasure Island." "I fought for this and I'm really hoping it's gonna be good." "This is it." "We're finished with the berm cut." "Work this through the grizzly." "Shut the plant down." "Do a cleanup and move on." "We'll head to Treasure Island." "Catchy name." "Maybe it's got some gold in it." "How's it look Doumitt?" "you can't expect too much." "but that looks pretty good to me." "It paid it's way I think." "Yeeah." "See you Doumitt." "Get to jigging." "Get that gold room going boy." "clean up the final concentrate from the berm cut." "I'm mostly just looking for big pieces of gold." "Are you excited Bailey?" "Yeah." "Do you love it?" "Yes" "I'm giving up my nap for this." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." "So you're gonna come help me do this once a week?" "sure." "Grand." "film that bucket." "Can you see in that bucket?" "Can you see in there?" "looks good." "Need a bucket full of that stuff." "Um yeah." "The berm cut's kinda been kicking our ass." "Honestly." "There better be some gold in it for it to pay off." "Parker decided to mine the berm cut." "So this is the last of the berm cut uh." "That's it." "That's it." "That's hot." "Parker needs the berm cut to pay off to turn his season around." "which should yield 135 ounces of gold." "Ninety seven point eight." "Ninety seven point eight." "That's ugly." "So we came up short." "Yeah." "A lot." "Yeah." "000 dollars." "000 dollars." "This is just pretty depressing when the bills roll in and then that's what we get." "We'll turn it around." "Alright." "That's the business we chose I guess." "Thank you guys." "Yup." "Parker's decision to mine the berm cut hasn't paid off." "Yeah." "The berm cut ended up pretty disappointing." "It was a lot of work and" "Not very good results so." "I pushed for it so." "If that sucks too then" "Bad decision on my part." "on the Hoffman crew's 105 ton D-11 dozer has broken." "The bearings are completely gone." "I can barely lift one side of it." "fabricator Juan Ibarro has to improvise." "Hey Randy." "What do you think?" "spoon it in." "Boom." "Done." "Get it in." "Get it out." "Ready?" "Good by me." "we need to go right in the middle." "Okay?" "We're there." "I'll just lower the cat down." "Yeah." "Onto the rollers." "Just watch it." "Clear." "Clear." "Get it Mark?" "Yeah." "We're in." "Dude." "Give me a high five on that." "this Treasure Island cut the whole time." "kinda getting a little stressed out about it." "Rick promised Parker he'd have the new Treasure Island cut down to paydirt within a week." "He has half a day left to come through for his boss." "but this is starting to change man." "I think uh." "Yeah." "I think this is pay." "Uh." "Hey Parker." "Can you come down to Treasure Island?" "I think I'm at paydirt." "That's more like it." "I'm on my way." "Parker's season depends on Treasure Island producing gold." "Yeah." "I personally hired for this cut so." "We're down to pay." "We're testing it right now" "Now it's really important that Treasure Island pays off." "We got to start turning it around." "I need this to pay off big time." "Um." "Yeah." "The berm cut wasn't all we hoped it would be." "but." "we needed him to pull through quick." "That's a good pan." "This one." "The pan to beat." "This is what I was hoping for out of Treasure Island for sure." "Look at it all." "All through here everywhere." "if it runs through the plant like this we'll be having a be having a good old time." "Good job Rick." "Whew!" "So that's it." "on Treasure Island." "We tested it." "Looks great." "I mean" "It's a relief for me but it's also a boost in confidence man." "I think this is gonna be a good cut." "Now we just gotta" "Run the dirt man." "Reap the rewards." "We can see a little bit of gold." "That's a good sign." "I'm hoping for a lot of gold though." "The Hoffman crew is cleaning up after a rough week of mining." "I was expecting to see more here." "I think its borderline." "I do." "You know" "You guys are working hard." "We need a break." "We don't need another breakdown." "You got that right Thurb." "which should yield about 160 ounces." "what's gonna really matter is what that scale says." "at the end of the day." "You run it." "You dry it." "You weigh it." "And that's what you get." "Here he comes." "Here come Jack." "Guys I'm holding more in my left hand than we got all our first season." "14 ounces." "Well that sucks." "Yeah." "Well." "This makes it a little better." "I mean." "You know that those jars hold 100 ounces." "Things like Freddy and Juan doing their jobs." "they're a blessing to us." "God blessed us with another jar." "All:" "Yeah!" "cheering)" "I love full jars." "So what's our total then?" "Two hundred and four point one five." "Nice." "That's a good week." "It's fantastic." "000 dollars." "Okay guys." "We're on track." "317)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T we'll hit our goal." "we're fixing it." "guys." "334)\fs36.883}On the next Gold Rush got caught." "Fuckin lazy operators." "Oohh" "Break 'em faster than we can fix 'em." "a prospect." "The richest creek ever found." "I want hilarious gold." "What the fuck." "We didn't change anything." "You shouldn't have any water." "Fuck whoa." "Mess up his office."