"in the Klondike" "Get outta there." "Parker Schnabel has almost no gold." "This thing's been a pain in our ass for 2 years." "Make it happen." "And he's taking his frustration out on his crew." "I don't know if one of you wants my dog dead." "Do you?" "You don't have to yell at people all the time." "Until his 95 year old grandpa gives him a wake up call." "you got everything." "Forcing Parker to turn over a new leaf." "(laughter)" "I'm glad you're all here." "Honestly." "Ha ha." "Yeah." "331)\fs32.136}At McKinnon Creek" "Todd Hoffman and crew are back on track for a record season." "We're gonna go flying right past that 2700." "Yeah!" "They're running more paydirt than ever before." "We finally got to almost 300 yards an hour." "We're doing it." "Until they realize that their settling pond is turning into a tailings island." "Hey Dave." "We got a huge problem here." "And Todd is forced to take drastic measures." "That's gonna save that pond." "It's gonna save our lake." "we're done." "331)\fs32.136}At Eureka Creek" "Tony Beets is banking on a million dollar season." "But when his 1938 gold dredge starts falling apart" "I think Tony and Gene need to run this piece of shit for a day all by themselves." "Stand around and whine about it." "Just get the fuckin thing fixed." "Tony takes charge." "To ensure that his next cleanup produces a pile of gold." "341)\fs32.136}7 am at Scribner Creek" "Parker Schnabel is under the gun." "worth less than $8000 dollars." "and his bills are mounting." "but Parker has gambled and decided to mine it." "whatever that takes." "New foreman Rick Ness is working hard to build up morale with his young crew." "it's gonna be there." "The fun's gonna follow." "Parker." "You want to add something?" "The one thing I do want to pitch in is somebody hit a barrel of coolant in the yard." "And hit it hard enough to put a hole in it." "And there's coolant all over the ground." "I don't know if one of you guys wants my dog dead." "Or Bailey's dog dead." "Cause you need to notice that shit." "Do you want my dog dead Aaron?" "Of course not." "Do you?" "No." "Cause I don't care about the fuckin barrel of coolant." "But my dog dies?" "And the whole thing about having fun." "That goes out the window pretty fast." "Alright." "Let's go to work." "Even thinking about that makes me livid." "Rick is Parker's right hand man." "But he doesn't always agree with his boss's management style." "but" "He kinda dragged the attitude down at the end and that was kinda not what I was looking for." "But you know this is his operation and that's his prerogative." "normal people." "that goes a long way." "Rick has the operation running smoothly." "All six of our trucks are on line." "I mean." "We're set up good right now." "I feel great about today." "Time's flying." "Sun's shining." "And I got a pocketful of rocks." "Heh heh heh." "Just when Parker's operation is starting to fire on all cylinders." "Wow." "The fifty pound prewash bar" "Get outta there." "Flies off." "We gotta shut the plant down." "We're having serious problems with the prewash." "Hey." "Shut down." "Hey Parker." "This is Mitch." "You got a copy." "You need to get up here to the wash plant as soon as possible." "We got some problems." "Oh fuck." "So what the hell happened to this thing?" "This prewash is just falling apart." "who's on the claim to advise his grandson." "Parker's feeling the strain." "Every hour the plant is down costs him another $1500 dollars in gold he hasn't mined." "What'd you break now?" "Everything." "might be time for surgery." "I think the best solution's to build a new one." "A new spray bar?" "A new whole box." "New prewash?" "A whole new prewash." "Biggest problem is I bet it's gonna take us 4 or 5 days to do it right." "alright." "I think it'll run but it's not" "This thing's been a pain in our ass for 2 years." "Make it happen." "Parker ignores Mitch and demands a quick fix." "I know Parker sometimes doesn't like hearing answers like "shut it off" but uh we gotta take care of this plant." "This is what makes us all our money." "it's not gonna take care of us." "we've lost several people." "It's both quit and fired." "It's just one thing after another." "I don't know how to deal with them." "Grandpa John has run crews since the 1940's." "that's a bad approach." "Can't please everybody." "Sometimes I'm just trying to please the fuel company by making sure I have a cheque for them" "Don't give a shit about money." "you got everything." "And so I leave you with that thought." "Alright." "000 dollars." "We're doing it." "To double their best gold total ever." "Todd's opened up a supercut the size of 12 football fields." "running 300 yards of dirt per hour." "out of his man made lake." "Hey Dave." "Can you come down by the pump." "We got a friggen huge problem here." "10-4." "What's up?" "this is gonna fill up." "Some of it's already silt" "Pretty clear out there." "It's creeping way out." "We've only got so much water and we're filling up our lake with tailings." "I have no idea what to do." "The sand and fine material coming out of the wash plant are rapidly filling the lake they draw their water from." "000 yards of tailings in this pond." "And at that rate it ain't gonna happen." "Finally got to about 300 yards an hour and it's kicking our ass." "Now we're gonna run out of water." "the only working bucketline gold dredge in North America has been running dirt for 3 weeks." "clears the ground ahead to provide a constant supply of paydirt." "just keep working on the area ahead of it." "Mike and Jerry are responsible for operating the massive machine." "But they're struggling to keep the ancient dredge running." "Yoke." "Going down." "Come on you miserable old shit." "Just don't release now." "Mike." "What?" "You can start the winch." "I believe things need to be repaired." "Gene's in charge." "Jerry fights to move the bucket line sideways to reach new paydirt." "We'll have to fuckin call it off." "I think." "(squealing noise is heard)" "It shouldn't be making that noise." "Slipping." "(thumping noise begins)" "What the hell?" "(noises much louder)" "Bucketline is off." "For the third time this season the bucketline has come off it's track." "This is fuckin bullshit." "fuck." "Should I shut the plant down?" "Yeah." "Could it be we got too many buckets on there and the chain's too loose?" "so." "There's gotta be something missing." "I don't know." "I'm about to let the experts run this." "I think Tony and Gene need to run this piece of shit for a day all by themselves." "Tony Beets's dredge is shut down." "Once again the bucketline is off it's track." "So we should really find out what's wrong with the system." "This is a waste of time." "I don't know." "Guess I just do whatever it takes to get the damn thing done." "Winchman Jerry Rhodes demands they solve it once and for all." "It's time that we figure out what the problem is." "Take one bucket out of the line." "we should fix it." "and goes with a quick fix to keep running." "Hey you guys." "Stay off more off to the side." "you know." "Keep lifting as he's backing up." "Are we tight on that side Mike?" "Pull on it if you can." "What's the holdup?" "but it won't move forward." "Mike try picking up on it again so we can get some slack." "We get that line any tighter on that side?" "Gene is forced to change his plan." "so the crew can pull the bucketline forward and around the end of the bucket ladder." "We're loose on that side." "Well I'm gonna be pulling on it this way." "But the cable's loose so" "I'm going to be pulling the boom this direction." "Can you get that line any tighter on that side?" "Start winching Jerry." "He can't." "More." "Easy." "Okay okay." "Good to fire up." "There's something wrong with the system." "So we should really find out what's wrong with the system or every two days now we're going to be putting the line of buckets back on." "We'll just deal with it." "There's gotta be one person leading and that's my job." "I'm not a tinkerer." "I like to get it fuckin done and move on." "Todd Hoffman is pushing Monster Red to it's limit." "Running 300 yards an hour in a bid to hit a record 2700 ounces." "But the tailings from running that much dirt are clogging up his man made lake." "Todd might just have a solution." "(long truck horn blast) believe it or not." "I don't own it so." "I'm borrowing it." "So I got to be careful with it." "I just hope it can do the yardage." "Every hour we gotta move out a pile the size of a house." "A sandscrew separates sand from water." "The plan is for the mixture of fine tailings and water that come out of the sluice box to pour into the sandscrew's base." "while clean water will flow back into a drainage gully and out into the lake." "where they'll eventually join the coarse tailings." "Let's set it up Freddy." "How the frig do you put one together." "That's what I'd like to know." "Even IKEA comes with their little toolset and everything so you can put it together." "But the sandscrew isn't designed to fit directly onto the end of a sluicebox." "Freddy's building a chute that's gonna attach to the bottom of the sluice." "Right here." "391)}It's gonna take all of our water and sand and contain it so we can get it fed center in the middle of that sandscrew." "Monster Red was designed to have water and fine tailings pour off the end of the sluices." "Freddy and Juan's solution:" "Construct a steel channel to divert the water and fine tailings down into the sandscrew." "We're crooked this way Juan." "Really what I need to do is get higher." "Let's go down." "Let's twist it a little bit cause we're rock hard this way." "Or rock it a little bit that way and then it'll be in good shape." "We're looking pretty close now." "Yeah." "That's good now." "Perfect Dave." "Good." "Perfect Juan." "Do it." "Good." "We got about 20 holes there we had to measure." "so far." "They're lining up." "What do you think?" "I think we did it buddy." "Think we did okay." "See if it works." "If it doesn't I guess it's my fault." "but" "Something always seems to bite you in the ass in the end." "Help!" "Okay!" "Freddy lowers the sandscrew to sit at exactly 35 degrees." "Little bit Todd." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Perfect guys." "Good job Freddy." "There's only one way to find out if the sandscrew will extract the fine tailings from the sluice water." "Fire up Monster Red." "you end up with a problem somewhere." "You know all the planning." "Everything we've done comes down to this moment right now." "(Honk Honk)" "Juan." "A lot of water." "See that water coming over." "Dang it." "Won't handle the water." "Stop." "quick." "Shut it down." "Don't give it any more." "We got 3000 gallons a minute that's trying to get off of that sandscrew." "And it found a way alright." "Fine tailings are choking the Hoffmans holding pond." "but it can't cope with 3000 gallons a minute." "I was hoping that that'd handle all that water." "But I was wrong on it." "381)}So the water's actually overflowing off the top of this lip here and actually gonna start taking out this little embankment we have." "We could actually start losing the side of this hill and potentially lose the screw into the side of the lake." "We got to make sure that it's draining properly and draining back into the lake." "We're just gonna fix it and get going." "We've got to use what we've got and not fuck around about it because" "We don't have much of a choice." "Freddy's come up with a plan:" "Add two 10 inch pipes to the base of the sandscrew to triple the clean water flowing into the pond." "Dave." "I'm letting go." "Okay." "We had these two 90's." "Think they're cast iron 90's." "They're not really weldable but we're gonna weld then on." "expansion is gonna be at different rates." "it's just not good to weld on it." "We only probably got a 50/50 chance that the piece of junk won't just break off and fall on the ground." "If this doesn't work we're gonna be filling up this pond with sand and then that's it." "We're done." "(Honk Honk)" "Firing up." "Okay." "Coming on up." "850." "Fingers crossed." "There she goes." "Up to the top." "Come on baby." "Take it." "This had better work." "Doing it's job." "and into the holding pond." "Perfect." "This is gonna work." "I'm pretty damn happy with this morning." "A couple little glitches but you know what?" "It's time to make some gold." "301)\fs32.136}On Parker's claim." "Morale is at an all time low." "His season has been a disaster." "And he's taking his frustration out on his crew." "he shuts down early." "(duct tape tearing) we're covering up all the holes so the clutch doesn't get wet and make us sink." "(more duct tape) and there's a hell of a lot of hard work left to do." "you know." "Work hard." "Play hard." "Right?" "My grandpa's always said to take some time to have fun and." "Bond with your crew and." "so." "(Knock Knock) Time to do it." "How many holes are down there." "I had to put a 2 rolls of duct tape into this thing." "We're looking forward to having some fun today so." "371)}Hopefully nobody gets hurt and we just have a good day." "Now we get to play so." "Play we shall." "What'd you pay for it?" "$1500 bucks." "Jeez." "Will you buy it from him?" "Why not." "Ha ha ha ha." "I'm ready." "(engine revving)" "Ha ha ha." "Watch out beavers." "(many engines revving)" "Ah." "He rode right up the hill already." "Parker's snow machine is first to hit the water." "Oh." "Carl's don't sound good." "Carl's wet." "Aw." "Carl's down." "Haw haw haw haw haw haw." "Ha ha ha." "Ah." "so." "It's turned into a kind of contagious day off." "(everyone is having fun)" "That was a quick 1500 bucks." "(laughter)" "Thanks." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Parker took his grandpa's advice." "Building team spirit is already paying off." "it's night and day." "quite honestly everybody's having fun." "You know it's all about his attitude." "His attitude carries this place so." "A night like tonight is great for everybody." "Cu cu kooo." "and a million dollars on his 75 year old gold dredge." "It's going." "Jerry has a theory." "Well when we went to put this together last fall we didn't have enough buckets to make the chain no matter what." "So we put 3 buckets in." "We don't know if we should have put maybe just two in not three." "Gene is finally coming around to Jerry's way of thinking." "The bucketline is too long." "So I think the best thing to do is try and pull a bucket out of it." "Okay." "but Gene and Tony are going to do it without him." "I haven't talked to Tony about the problems we have here." "Gene's in charge." "but it's stuck." "Now it's pulling the buckets off the side." "Last inch there." "Gene has these simple answers." "I guess just go smash the ladder with a sledgehammer whenever it sticks." "they close the gap and reconnect the bucketline." "About time somebody did." "Yup." "Okay." "and hard at work." "It's their third day of hauling pay from the berm cut to the plant." "I don't have very much left." "Yeah." "Hopefully it pays off for us and we find a lot of gold." "Parker's decision to make teamwork a priority is starting to pay off." "361)}Felt nice that Parker kinda took us out and gave us a fun night and showed us how to have fun." "Heh heh heh heh." "All the excavator operators and dozer operators and equipment operators are all doing a great job." "I feel like they've made me feel a little bit younger." "a little bit." "That popped it." "Aw fuck." "Matthew Knopp rolls his rock truck." "Hey guys." "I need help." "My truck's fucked." "That's bad." "Aww." "The whole cab almost went." "I'm lucky." "It almost pulled the whole truck down into a ditch." "I got to get access back there right now." "So I'm hoping to get back there and lift it up." "I'm just worried that I don't have enough room up here to maneuver." "No." "That ain't gonna work." "Brennan." "I'm gonna need you over here man." "I can't get this with just one machine and I just.." "I can't get it on my own." "you bet." "I'll come down." "Yeah well." "We get it back on all six wheels and get it the hell out of here." "Rick needs help from Brennan in the 460 excavator." "Ready?" "just push." "We're just gonna have to work together." "I think we can get it." "Come on." "Just a little bit more." "Nice job buddy." "Good teamwork." "It took but we're a young crew." "make mistakes together." "so." "I can get back to hauling." "A pair of trucks back on it's tires." "Looks like we're back in business." "but they're starting to pull together as a team." "since it's bucketline was fixed." "Jerry?" "Ready?" "Yeah." "Jerry and Mike are still struggling to keep the vintage gold mining machine running." "right." "That would be the best thing that could happen." "three people's enough on here." "three people isn't enough." "to arrive with the results of the all important weekly cleanup." "000." "he needs a 50 ounce cleanup each and every week." "Look." "That's it." "That's it." "Eleven." "Eleven point two five." "000 dollars." "Just kinda disappointing." "Really?" "We weren't very consistent but we ran and fixed the bucketline so." "We know we can do is get better so." "Try it again next week." "Yeah." "331)\fs32.136}At McKinnon Creek" "The Hoffman crew is building a new gold room for Jack." "you know." "so." "We built Jack's shack and it is absolutely what I wanted." "Thurber and Hunter are hard at work cleaning up this week's gold." "Okay Hunter." "I'll take some more." "Pour it to it." "you gotta wash it off." "Okay." "Okay." "You can quit swimming." "It's over." "Okay stop." "Tell you what." "I don't know if we're gonna make the 200 this week." "the Hoffman's need 200 ounces per week." "Hey guys." "ah." "Wish it was more." "Come on." "but this is 110 ounces." "In 3 days." "they lost half a week of running dirt." "You know what." "I think we did pretty good for the time we had down." "It's not all bad news." "we would have had beyond 220." "Don't think of it as that bad of a deal." "Hey Freddy." "Thanks for your work man." "Good job." "You too Juan." "Better get to work." "Thanks guys." "110 isn't too bad." "000 dollars." "Parker Schnabel has only mined 7 ounces of gold." "But he's celebrating his grandpa's last night on the claim with a King Crab feast for his crew." "That's a lot of crab." "Those are big ones." "I think they're done." "They're done." "What do you do?" "I'm just running rock truck." "Oh thank you." "You're welcome." "Oh." "Mmm." "Wow." "That's good." "You are having a good time." "I think everybody is." "they wouldn't have that good time." "Ha ha ha ha." "that's true." "Ha." "Hey." "What's up boy." "Not a whole lot." "Finished up the cleanup?" "you know." "We've lost some people." "I've" "I'm glad you're all here." "You know." "Honestly." "Parker took his grandpa's advice and decided to go all in on the berm cut." "Their first cleanup will determine if he made the right move." "7000 yards?" "Yup." "we pulled some gold out of that?" "the 7000 yard run needs to produce around 70 ounces of gold." "That right there is 66 ounces." "Sixty six point six." "So." "but the thing that has me happy about it is these." "Ha ha." "Right?" "Those are just as good." "We're on the right track with those." "See what's covered here" "Oh yeah." "Those are nice." "Sixty six point six ounces is worth over seventy thousand dollars." "But the nuggets are a sign of big gold to come." "That's amazing." "Look at that John." "Every time that we've found anything big it's been good." "So I'm hopeful that it's only getting better." "Hey buddy." "How many more of these do we have?" "Hopefully like 30 more." "Yeah." "you guys made this happen." "I'm glad you guys are all here." "I am." "you can't help but win." "It's gonna be a good season." "It's gonna be." "Thank you Rick." "Heh heh heh heh." "Buddy." "Good job man." "Parker is finally building a team that just might get him back in the game." "Parker has got a fine team." "I think he's learned to realize that he's part of that team." "He has to work with others to win." "I think it went really well." "We've got an outstanding crew." "303)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs36.727\b1\i1} Jack T everybody's excited now that we've seen gold." "And uh" "I expect great things from this season." "341)\fs32.136}On the next Gold Rush" "Hey!" "Shut it down." "Shut it down." "That belts off." "Hit the bypass." "it ain't making it in to your wallet." "Treasure Island." "That's a good pan." "I'm gonna be shot." "He's not a quitter." "What was that?" "We're all sanded in." "We gotta get the lead on this thing." "What is the issue Jerry?" "It's not a fuckin cruise ship." "It has to make money."