"legend Tony Beets has his dredge up and running." "But it's not catching gold." "Crap." "His new foreman cracks the whip." "There can only be one captain of a ship." "Let's get to work." "Tony's aging gold machine starts to show what she can do." "Yeah." "Ha ha ha ha." "Parker Schnabel races to get his season back on track." "I'm scared." "I don't want to be a failure this year." "But the pressure on his crew" "What the fuck are these guys waiting for?" "Pushes one rookie to crack." "she has seizures." "like a helicopter." "Todd Hoffman is ahead of the game." "000 yards." "Holy shit." "Despite a wash plant in the wrong place." "Go go go go go." "Hang on. he's a goner." "Nothing is going to stop Todd getting gold." "we're gonna start kicking some ass." "right where he left off last season." "Dammit." "and most of it is frozen solid." "but we've gotta load it out as well." "A lot of it." "Days like today when the cuts frozen and the chunks are sitting there waiting for Rick to try to find some thawed ground." "Arrgh." "It's taking up a huge amount of our time." "And it's tough." "That was cool." "Ha ha ha ha." "Parker has lost most of the seasoned miners that brought him 3 million dollars in gold last year." "He's had no choice but to bring in a team of rookies." "21 year old Tyson Balion from Saskatchewan mans a rock truck." "Looks like it's gonna be a good season." "Hopefully it stays the way it is." "operates a loader." "Get up the fuckin hill you." "Yeeah." "I guess I got pretty lucky that my passion's heavy equipment and I get to sit in these amazing toys all day long." "Gold?" "Well that's just like an extra bonus." "Rick Ness is now the most experienced operator in the cut." "but you know." "It's always tough starting the season off with guys who don't know what they're doing." "It puts more stress on everybody else." "Gene Cheeseman." "can we do it without Gene." "I'm scared." "I don't want to lose money." "I don't want to be a failure this year." "and foreman." "he jumps between the dozer and excavator." "it's a bit of a struggle." "so." "It's go time." "This far enough back for you guys?" "What the fuck are these guys waiting for." "(horn beeps)" "Come on back." "5 seconds here." "5 seconds there." "Come on back." "Come on." "(horn beep)" "Stop fuckin creeping backwards." "It's so fuckin painful." "Come on." "Let's fuckin go." "Now we're way behind right now and got a lot of stripping to do and if we're gonna be sluicing here soon." "I don't know." "We're gonna have to start doing something right." "Parker needs someone to take over loading in the monster 700 excavator." "um." "I was wondering." "That's pretty straight forward the way you're starting out up there." "Definitely." "Let's put Emily in that 700 and see how she does." "You can rip and what not for her." "That 580 is lot's to start her?" "See how she does." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Does that sound like an alright plan to you?" "Yup." "Sink or swim." "Hee." "Ha ha." "Ha. ha." "Emily." "You got your radio on?" "Sure do." "Alright." "It's time to earn your dinner." "You load trucks the rest of the day." "OK." "Get my hands on that 700." "Feels pretty good." "I'm really hoping she can do it." "I'm gonna lay her out as good as I can." "Give her the best shot possible and." "Hope she pulls it off." "you boys got a copy." "Yes Ma'am." "Alright." "I'm gonna get it some dirt in my bucket and then where I put my bucket in there just back up to it please." "10-4" "The 700 excavator is the linchpin of Parker's operation." "It's massive bucket can fill a 30 ton truck in just 5 scoops." "Emily has never operated an excavator this big." "Whoo." "Respect the machine and the power for what it's got." "I mean." "She knows how to run a machine." "so" "I think she's gonna get it." "At McKinnon Creek the Hoffman crew is also stripping overburden." "so good." "10-4 double the dirt they ran last season." "Four hundred thousand yards of sluicing." "That's an enormous undertaking." "It's like David tackling Goliath with a couple stones." "It's amazing what we're trying to accomplish this year." "they've opened by far their biggest cut." "The super-cut." "A pit the size of 12 football fields." "they have one big problem." "Their wash plant is over half a mile away." "Yeah." "I knew the day would come when we're gonna have to move Monster Red close to our pay dirt." "And the time has come." "Because that distance and kill us in fuel." "We gotta move the plant." "Right on that little hill right there." "they need their wash plant right next to the super-cut." "Monster Red is one of the biggest wash plants in the Klondike." "they've called in the man who put it together." "Freddy Dodge." "I love this plant." "they want to really kick butt this year." "get the plant up and going." "So." "Here I am." "Hey." "Freddy." "It's a big truck for a little guy." "Heh ha ha." "Freddy." "How's it going guys?" "buddy." "How've you been." "Doing Okay?" "A good trip?" "Dave?" "Get in." "How are you." "Good to see ya." "we got some serious things to talk about we need your help on." "What's going on?" "Well." "000 yards Freddy." "we got lot of work to do." "Freddy and Dave start taking the plant apart piece by piece." "This way a little bit Dave." "whoa." "Dave." "Nice job." "The road to the super-cut is too narrow for Monster Red." "Brandon Unsworth." "but keep it wide out here." "Plow it in through here." "Just start moving dirt down in there." "That's about 12 feet of water." "Yeah." "We just got to be real careful." "Brandon has never worked on a gold mine before." "I've had in a long time." "this is a modern day gold rush." "And who wouldn't want to be a part of this." "first time miner Brandon Unsworth has driven his D-9 dozer off the side of the road into a frozen pond." "Hey Todd." "We're into the stock." "He's in at a hell of an angle." "he's a goner." "It doesn't look good." "Alright." "I'll be right down." "a huge chunk of ice that's actually underneath the ground collapsed and the whole dozer slid into the water." "The colossal 47 ton dozer is slowly sinking into the icy water below." "I got no way to lift him out." "That machine's too heavy." "So it's got to come out under it's own power." "So I got to try and get the machine upright." "And then I can build a ramp with some rocks." "And then I can pull him out." "Hey Brandon." "Raise your blade." "Yeah." "And try to walk ahead a little bit." "And it'll start pushing rock in underneath ya." "Okay." "Good." "Good good good there." "Good job." "Keep going." "Okay now down on your rib first." "Okay stop." "Let me shove some rock down underneath you there." "Brandon." "Watch where my bucket goes and guide me down." "Coming down." "Keep coming down. we're gonna try it real nice and easy now." "Just don't get carried away." "Pull up on your blade and we'll try to come back." "Good job Dave." "You got him out." "Never easy in the Klondike." "Brandon can get back to widening the road for Monster Red." "that's the way it goes." "Tony Beets million dollar gold dredge has run pay dirt for just one week." "000 dollars." "Tony." "need it to bring in 50 ounces a week." "They have to figure out why their 75 year old dredge isn't catching more gold." "Do you want to shut down and look at that?" "Shut 'er down." "no sense just washing rocks." "That looks good Tony." "Oh yeah." "I was worried about just washing everything right out the ass end." "Looks good to me." "Just got to keep her turning." "just results now." "The dredge is catching gold." "All they need to stay on target is to keep her running." "Gene heads out in the dozer to prep the ground." "dredge operator Jerry Rhodes spots a problem with the bucket line." "We got a pin sticking out of a bucket about an inch." "One of the pins holding the bucket line together has worked itself loose." "Gene wants to keep this thing running and we understand that certain things have to be fixed." "Shut the plant down." "Yeah." "We're gonna knock those pins back in." "Get down on the walk there so you can get a good swing at it." "It'll take us probably a half hour to do it." "We're getting ready to shut down here." "Aw for fuck's sake." "This is fuckin bullshit." "What's the holdup?" "We got a pin coming out we gotta knock back in." "I don't see any reason for us to stop." "We got to be careful with the old plant." "We're trying to baby it and just keep it running here." "Gene thinks Jerry is being too cautious." "This is a waste of time." "Come on." "He reckons the pin would have held 'till the end of their shift." "It's not stopping us." "You get 'er fired back up." "We're good?" "Fire it up." "Let's get to work." "Once in a while you need a sense of urgency." "We're back in business." "We get enough jacking around." "Some point we still gotta find some gold." "Was he all pissed off cause you shut down?" "it's gotta you know." "Some of these people get all worked up over absolutely nothing." "round the clock." "and that's it." "There can be only one captain in a ship." "Parker's rookie crew is only halfway through removing overburden in the berm cut." "Parker has put Emily Gorham in the hot seat." "for the very first time." "Can't say I've ever had to dig like this." "we get this takes it to a whole other level." "What the fuck is she waiting for." "Parker had already mined 80 ounces of gold." "Right now he has nothing." "he needs Emily to load 20 trucks an hour." "But she's barely doing 10." "cause I need the trucks to be done." "Well I'm feeling the pressure." "A lot of it." "It's pretty nerve wracking when he's watching." "I just need her to finish that chunk." "It's the one thing holding the whole show up." "Emily's not doing too well on that excavator." "I worked with her for quite a while yesterday to show her how to do it so." "Ah fuck." "Rick steps in to give Emily a few pointers." "Something that's gonna help you out a lot is keeping your machine level." "Yup." "Something I always do is pull a bunch of dirt up to the front of my tracks." "Nose up to it." "right." "you're gonna be more comfortable moving it around so." "See how that works." "Okay." "he tears up the frozen ground with the ripper tooth." "and having Rick is keeping the flow going." "Emily picks up the pace.." "going quicker." "Gene Cheeseman is determined to improve the dredges disappointing 21 ounce first cleanup." "He can't afford any downtime." "the buckets look full and hopefully we'll get another good day out of it." "where the gold is." "Now we're talking." "You know you hit bedrock when your dredge is bouncing up and down about a foot here." "Want to go up?" "but it's tough on the dredge." "hard angular rock." "smooth." "Bedrock's sharp angular stuff." "Now we're watching the buckets coming up." "We don't want to dump a big boulder into the trommel and then tear the belt up." "it will fall onto the conveyor belt and could tear it apart." "and out the side of the dredge." "got a big ass rock coming." "that's a big motherfucker rock." "put the grizzly down." "The boulders tumble down into this rock chute." "The boulders keep on coming." "But we're kinda hitting the rocks damn near all the way across now." "There's a big one coming up right there we'll get rid of." "I got work to do." "Aw crap." "Shut down the bucket line." "I'm gonna walk in." "Okay." "There's a jam." "But the crew doesn't shut the bucket line down in time." "Oh fuck." "A big boulder drops down into the trommel." "You see it?" "It went through in the trommel." "We got a problem here." "There's a rock coming." "That's it." "The dredge spits the rock out without damaging the conveyor belt." "Good." "Okay." "Let's go." "The gate won't go up." "But the boulder chute is still jammed." "Rock jam." "There it goes." "We're good?" "Let's crank it up." "They've lost half an hour." "But they're back to running pay." "Just getting back into keeping the buckets in the pay all the time." "Everybody's gotta do whatever it takes to keep the thing going." "The Hoffman crew gears up to move their 50 ton wash plant over half a mile to their new super-cut." "and honestly it's quite awkward cause it's so high." "supervises the move." "My biggest worry doing this is this tipping over." "It's top heavy as hell." "the 800." "to keep it stable." "Everybody clear?" "Todd." "All I'm trying to do is keep it from tipping over so I got 2 chains on each side." "To get Monster Red to the super-cut" "Ready." "then down a half mile stretch of dirt road." "to the elevated pad they've prepped right next to the super-cut." "Ready Todd?" "Here we go." "Here goes." "You're doing it Todd." "On hill." "Yeah." "Todd double back." "Go go go." "you gotta baby step and I'll baby step right with you." "Randy." "Everything clear back there?" "Clear." "Come on baby." "and it's just barely moving it." "They have to get the beast around the 90 degree turn." "and a fall would destroy it." "so we can hit that corner wide." "Like trying to steer a cruise ship." "It's so big." "Gonna take 40 acres to turn it." "Things looking okay there Freddy." "Looks a little tippy doesn't it?" "That far side looks soft Dave." "He on the roll up?" "So fuckin close." "Hang on." "At Mckinnon Creek" "You okay Freddy?" "Hey Dave." "The Hoffman crew almost tipped their wash plant dragging it around a 90 degree turn." "Now let's kick the front of this skid over to your right." "Okay." "Here I go Todd." "It's really sinking in on this side." "We get past here I'll feel a helluva lot better." "Been going Dave." "You're digging in but it's going." "Putting a hell of a rut in the ground." "That's for sure." "you can straighten out your tracks now." "a 30 degree hill." "I don't know Todd." "It's just really working." "you step your way up." "I am." "Come on girl." "Just pull up this hill." "Keep going." "We're doing good." "Stay with it." "come on." "Randy." "Keep an eye on my back end alright." "If I start tipping this thing over let me know." "You're close." "You;re on that edge." "I'm just teetering." "It's a little bit scary right now." "Come on baby." "Get over the hump." "come on." "Get up." "Yaaa." "Want me to push?" "Yeah." "I'm gonna push this forward." "Come on Dave." "Come on dude." "I'm going." "Come on baby." "Come on buddy." "You can do it." "Alright." "Whew." "Good job." "Keep it going." "I think we're over the..top." "Yee ah." "Good job Dave." "Whoo hoo hoo." "Almost home Dave." "Say we park her there Todd." "The Hoffman crew has Monster Red right next to the biggest cut they've ever opened up." "Whoo yeah." "Jaw boys." "Clear." "They're set up for their best season as gold miners." "Another lost plan." "move." "How many times am I gonna do this." "Dude." "Well Freddy." "That's some job." "Very nice." "Bring it in man." "whoo." "000 yards of overburden from the berm cut." "Parker is way behind this season." "He still has no pay dirt to run through his wash plant." "loading in the huge 700 excavator." "How's it going." "Good." "It's looking good." "I like how you got the trucks back around." "Looks like you're doing a great job so." "You're gonna be on your own for the rest of the day." "Probably the next couple of days." "Alright." "Thanks Rick." "Thanks Emily." "Rick leaves Emily to clear the high ground next to Sulfur Creek." "They all been this long probably." "Gotta prove my worth." "Earn my dinner if you know what I mean." "Certainly high up right now." "I hate being this high up." "That's pretty good job there." "Makes it a little bit more nerve wracking." "to finally get down to pay gravel." "The mines beyond sight before you start sluicing is the most important one." "And they just about used it up entirely on this cut so." "We need to move all this cause it's sitting on pay." "The young mine boss has every piece of equipment working non stop to get to the gold." "but awfully tight in there with three trucks." "Three tandems and two excavators." "Rick sees that Emily's buckets are missing their mark." "Hey Emily." "Emily you got a copy." "unable to talk.)" "Hey Parker." "Something's going on with Emily." "I don't know what it is uh." "I'm gonna go check it out." "Fuck!" "You guys just stay here." "Don't film this." "(Emily sobbing)" "All work on the mine comes to a halt." "What's going on down there?" "It's bad." "Do we need like a helicopter?" "I don't know." "I don't think so." "Is Balion with her?" "Yeah." "What's the symptoms?" "I guess she's prone to panic attacks." "And she's having a hell of a one right now." "so." "yeah." "I guess I'll help try to help get a hold of people." "don't get out with that camera." "Don't get out." "get in." "Get in with the camera." "You can't get out with that." "She's just full on freaking out right now." "Yeah." "Fuck off." "Don't be hard on yourself." "Just do whatever you gotta do." "We'll talk." "Alright." "Just take them with you okay." "Stop." "Stop." "We'll get it all figured out." "We'll get it all figured out." "Alright." "yeah." "The claim medic takes Emily 2 hours north to the hospital in Dawson." "I thought I was doing a really good job with Emily." "She was progressing really well." "and." "she's just she just had a... so." "or maybe the next couple of days." "I hope she's not done." "I hope she feels better." "Emily Gorham is back from the hospital." "but uncertain about her future as a gold miner." "What's going on?" "and I'm gonna go home." "Yeah." "I'm sorry it didn't work out." "that I'm leaving but also really happy that I got to come up here." "Got to see everything." "I'm proud enough of myself for doing that." "the Hoffman crew has moved their massive wash plant into position next to the super-cut" "Hey Dave." "Did I go back?" "Now come in a little bit." "Okay." "I'm good with that." "everything has to be just perfect." "They won't find out if it survived the move until they start running pay dirt." "We're ready to run." "Everybody clear?" "Clear." "Fire it up Dave." "Okay guys." "Coming on." "(warning blast)" "Screens coming on." "Tailings conveyor." "Here it comes Freddy." "Alright." "Ready to rock and roll." "Jack's ready to load." "Hunter's gonna turn the feeder on." "We got water flying." "Run some pay dirt Jack." "Drop 'er in dad." "First pay dirt of the year." "At the new site." "We're gonna see if the wash plant held together." "It was a pretty brutal move." "something cracking." "So far so good." "Whoo." "Yeah." "You know what?" "It finally feels good." "We got a huge cut." "We got 2700 ounces to get." "We got the best plant in the Klondike." "we're gonna start kicking some ass." "Whoo." "Whoo." "but only for the Beets family to do their weekly cleanup." "Hi ho." "Fingers." "Not handle." "worth just twenty three thousand dollars." "There's like no way to get through this without dying." "Tony's about to find out if Gene's push to keep the dredge running this week has paid off in gold." "I mean it's looking better to me." "Ah." "Tony's son Kevin crawls under the trommel and scoops gold concentrate down into Monica's buckets below." "shit." "All I see is water." "Crap." "It's hard to tell cause it's all just the concentrate." "We got so much shit in there but.." "This clean out really needs to be better if this dredge is gonna pay itself off." "It's a pain in the ass." "We need to split 'em up." "Wide load." "Ha ha ha ha." "Tony returns a few hours later to tell the dredge crew their gold total for the week." "Hello." "first cleanup." "All we need to do is a few improvements and we'll be getting twice that." "For sure." "60 ounces is worth sixty-six thousand dollars." "Three times what they got last week." "on target for Tony's million dollar gold." "For sure." "Gold is the goal." "This is how efficiently we make the dredge run." "and our end result is the gold." "Oh yeah." "Okay." "dredging." "303)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs36.727\b1\i1} Jack T" "That'll be a little hard to trade in." "(All laughing)" "315)\fs28}On the next gold rush:" "Water's pouring into it like a fuckin sieve." "Rick!" "What a fuckin mess." "You're smoking the belt." "Fuck." "Shut 'er down." "Shut 'er down." "No excuses now Jerry." "We're gonna turn this thing up to 300 yards an hour." "Hit it." "Hit it." "Hit it." "Hit it." "Not too much." "Go." "Easy." "Just be quiet." "I know how to back drive." "No you don't." "Holy fuck." "315)\fs28}I love it."