"314)\fs36.883}On this Gold Rush 12 hours isn't what I was promised." "We're the ones that took it apart and put it back together for you. what isn't gonna happen." "Holy crap." "Fuckin mammoth tusk." "Whoo." "That thing's amazing." "We got problems in the cut." "We're shutting down." "All friggen mud." "guys" "Treasure Island is done." "I'm not arguing with you but that's pay." "or you don't." "This is the best cut we've been in." "You think we'd be getting every last spoonful." "Geez boy." "this is it man." "Treasure Island is done." "removes the access ramps to their Treasure Island cut." "Treasure Island produced 256 ounces." "Holy fuck." "Worth well over a quarter of a million dollars." "More than doubling Parker's gold haul this season." "But Rick is out of thawed paydirt." "We stripped the last 3 feet of overburden gravel off of it and the pay is all frozen underneath it." "It's been great but time to move on." "Claim owner Tony Beets has come to inspect Parker's richest cut to date." "So this is Treasure Island." "Oh yeah." "It was great ground." "Actually a lot better than what the berm cut was." "We usually do pay pretty good attention to that." "Yeah." "I'll go in there and walk it myself and make sure that we got every last bit of it out." "Alright." "Parker takes one last look at the best ground he's ever mined." "actually." "probably in 3 years." "379.592)} You'd think we'd be getting every last spoonful." "we will." "What the hell's that?" "Thawed pay." "How'd that happen?" "You're asking me?" "What the fuck?" "It looks like it's under all these piles." "None of that got taken." "There was 4 foot of muck in this ditch." "Know what?" "I dug the thing out." "but that's pay." "right here." "I don't know how I missed that?" "Rick was certain they had mined everything in the cut that wasn't frozen solid." "But Parker has found a strip of thawed pay in one of the sidewalls." "He's sure there's even more gold to be had on Treasure Island." "Is your ramp still half-assed usable?" "No." "cause we're not leaving an ounce of pay in this cut." "I'll get in here and get it out." "That went well." "You fuckin kidding me." "DONE." "now where the fuck are we." "Tony Beets is on the way to his 75 year old dredge." "000 dollars." "Tony's dredge experiment is headed for failure." "Looks like Tony's here." "that's never good." "Are you serious already?" "That's taking a pretty big chance putting rookies up in the house Tony." "I don't think we're ready yet." "We need lights and stuff on there." "You know we're I don't know if we're quite ready but I guess we'll give it a shot." "get going." "Okay." "We'll get after it." "We'll do our best." "Let's get to work." "we were gonna do it." "It's just when we were gonna start it." "like I said." "Time to kick the training wheels off and go to work." "um" "I don't think we got enough inner structure right now to run it 24 hours a day." "I mean Tony and Gene should sit their ass on this for 12 hours a day for a week and see how they enjoy it." "Look at that." "We haven't broken again." "No." "I'll let you take care of that." "Okay." "Wanted you to speed it up." "Jerry Rhodes and dredge electrician Jason Folster take the first 12 hour nightshift." "he's operating it." "I was told 8 hours." "this year." "It's Jason's first week operating the old machine." "there's a lot to watch." "A lot to pay attention to." "Three hours into the nightshift." "Got a huge boulder coming." "Jerry triggers the grizzly bars to keep the boulders from dropping into the wash plant and wrecking the trommel." "Got it." "Aw fuck." "Got another huge boulder." "But there are two more on their way up the ladder." "Those three great big ass boulders ended up in the trommel." "but their combined weight proved too much." "A bolt sheared off and they fell into the trommel below." "The boulders pick up speed" "Is it okay?" "the most vulnerable part of the 75 year old dredge." "Two big ones went in side by side." "They're locked in there." "tearing the belt off tonight." "Shut it down." "in a desperate attempt to recoup Tony's million dollar investment." "Is it okay?" "Jerry and Jason have allowed three big boulders to get stuck in the tailings conveyor." "There's some big ones went in side by side." "They're locked in there." "Shut it down." "I need the pry-bar." "I might need a hand." "The boulders are too heavy to remove by hand." "We got to work these three big boulders out the stacker." "Are you clear?" "Yeah." "Clear." "but it's a risky move." "Oh." "The jagged rocks could easily rip the 166 foot rubber belt. and they don't have a spare." "Hold it." "The first two rocks make it out." "Oh." "Gonna rip right through." "and could tear the belt to shreds." "(grunting with effort)" "That was fun." "Yeah." "The most excitement I've had in a while." "some of the skirting came loose up there." "Hopefully it'll heal itself." "You hooked." "The conveyor is clear." "Jerry and Jason can now winch the broken grizzly bars back into position." "Fuck." "Fuck." "Grizzly's fixed." "Fire it up." "we'd be down for a helluva long time." "It's not like we can just pick one of these up at the local store." "We were quick to act on it and we didn't damage anything so." "I think it's great that we got it fixed." "Jerry and Jason have processed close to 1000 yards of paydirt." "is working." "That's it for today." "We're shut down." "it's too long." "I'm too old for this." "332)}I got a good feeling about this year." "I think we're gonna kick some ass." "processing 300 yards of paydirt an hour." "3 million dollar goal just might be within reach." "382)}You know. today is one of those days that you dream about in the Yukon." "equipment's running." "The ground gets better as we go upstream and we just wanna keep going." "Todd finally has his operation running just the way he wants it." "there's something that's even more important that's bothering me and I feel like I'm losing connection with one of my kids." "are you ready?" "Ready to go?" "Yup." "bye hon." "you know." "And hopefully I can really connect with my son." "Alright man." "Alright man." "See ya." "Keep the plant running." "Ya." "Listen." "Tell you we're getting 50 ounces a day." "2700 ounces is within reach." "It is." "But we gotta stay running." "I've got it." "Take care of your family." "Thanks Dave." "Have a good trip." "See ya man." "Bye Hudson." "Yeah." "We all get a hug." "Once a year." "(All laugh)" "Ha ha." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." "That just happened man." "Let's get out of here man." "It's getting weird." "Let's go." "Being a good father is a priority for Todd." "But this is the second week in a row he won't be mining at McKinnon Creek." "So it looks like Todd took off again." "We're all here busting our asses." "There's a lot of work to be done." "We need him here more." "I'm gonna try my hardest." "To make sure this thing keeps going." "And does nothing but collect gold." "We made a commitment we're getting 2700 ounces this year." "That's doubling up on everything we did last year." "Andy Sphinx keeps the plant fed with paydirt." "What the crap?" "All friggen mud." "That ain't good." "you need to get over here." "I need to talk to you right away." "What's up?" "we got a big issue." "This stuff stinks." "I'm down 2 feet and I'm still in mud." "I haven't hit any gravel." "Yeah." "See it." "Really black looking." "Yeah." "but this is several feet thick." "Andy has discovered a deep channel of rapidly flowing black mud running right through the supercut." "that will bog down the Hoffman crew." "And prevent them from reaching the pay they need to keep Monster Red fed." "Why can't you just haul it out." "a dozer in the cut two excavators and five trucks." "I need more bodies is what I'm gonna need." "The problem is that you're running the wash plant 24/7." "That wash plat's not shutting down." "You tell me a better way." "this is what we gotta do." "but we better get out of here cause I'm only shutting it down for one day." "Let's do it." "You got 24 hours." "Okay." "Hey Kevin." "That's it." "We're shutting down." "Last bucket." "What?" "Is there something wrong with the plant?" "What's going on?" "working in the cut." "and we can make it." "But we gotta run the plant." "we're gonna deal with it for weeks." "We're shutting down for 24 hours and it starts now." "So we need to get with it." "I got guys that disagree with the decision I made." "only time will tell." "Monster Red is at a standstill." "The entire crew is down in the cut." "We got everybody down here." "And we got absolutely no gold coming in." "removing a frozen channel of black mud before it thaws and wreaks havoc in their supercut." "so I gotta get rid of it." "It could be a really long night for these guys." "They're not real happy with either Andy or myself." "Oh my word." "I don't want to be driving a rock truck going overburden." "I want to be feeding that wash plant." "I want that wash plant running." "That's where we all make our friggen money." "Holy crap." "you copy." "it's Dave." "Go ahead Andy." "Hey uh." "Why don't you and Sterling come down here and bring a pickup." "I just found something that's pretty cool." "Holy smokes." "Whoo." "Huh." "Is that an ancient tree?" "It's a friggen tusk dude." "A mammoth tusk." "hey." "Alright." "Go." "Ooh." "Geez." "Lookout." "Aww." "Herb." "You alright?" "Yeah." "This thing is heavy." "Pull it up onto gravel." "cough.)" "Why don't we knock some the mud off of it." "Andy." "That thing's amazing." "it took 4 of us to lift it." "You know what they say." "there's good gold." "Did Jack tell you that?" "Ha ha ha ha." "All the old miners say that." "When you start finding mammoth tusk and you can smell that stinky rotten smell." "You find good gold" "You start finding gold." "Let's get this sucker loaded in the truck and get out of here." "I'm excited." "There should be good gold." "But we got a lot of work to do to get to it." "which is good." "removing a new section of thawed paydirt that Parker discovered." "I'm gonna dig down all the way up to this square that we got cut out." "It's all pay through here." "so far." "Do you have a pan?" "Parker inspects freshly exposed bedrock to determine if Treasure Island still has gold." "funky stuff." "And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of gold sinking down in it." "Bedrock is real hard to test." "it's just a bunch of rock but the gold sticks to it so." "two." "Certainly gold in the bedrock." "and it's that." "it's kind of on the edge of where that flaky stuff is and that big fractured stuff is." "at that depth." "Parker orders his crew to dig deep." "Four more feet of Treasure Island gravel and bedrock." "Got a big frozen chunk." "Completely slowing me down here." "Not too sure what we're gonna do now." "Hmm." "This isn't good." "That was hard as old hell right there." "you said couldn't get through it." "Barely got a ditch into that other one." "we'll be over here another 3 weeks." "Hey Rick." "What's with the hump right there." "is frozen." "I have no problem if you want to have Mitch come in here and start ripping." "Is there a good point on that thing?" "Should be." "Parker brings in mechanic Mitch Blaschke to rip frozen gravel in the D-10." "froze up extremely tight." "But it's risky." "The dozer's ripper tooth is only designed to tear through mud." "Frozen gravel could easily snap it off." "We don't have time to let Mother Nature thaw it out so we're using some horsepower to get this pay up to the wash plant." "This isn't the way we normally like to do things." "Ripping gravel's expensive and really hard on our machinery so." "Hopefully we can get through without breaking anything." "but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of gold sinking down in it." "We're not here for mediocre." "We're here for greatness." "on the dredge." "That's where I wish I was tonight." "Arizona." "Jerry Rhodes is back on board for his second consecutive nightshift." "In an attempt to get Tony's ancient gold mining machine to start paying for itself." "I signed up a year and a half ago to take the dredge apart and put it back together." "And I did that." "so I have a really piss poor attitude." "who rebuilt the dredge with Jerry last season." "it's got some issues and stuff and we've had problems with it." "foreman Gene Cheeseman is also on board." "If there's a job to be done I'll do it." "and do what you're told." "Operating the dredge in the pitch black is a risky business." "Well the bucket line sure is dark here." "We need a light right up overhead." "right." "yeah." "Well we got a really good excuse if something fucks up we couldn't see." "it's time for Jerry to move the dredge on to new ground." "You have to let the bucket line down." "Then the clutch will raise the buckets." "Aw fuck." "What was that?" "Aw." "Shut 'er down." "Shut 'er down." "Huh." "Aw fuck." "What was that?" "Aw." "Jerry has jammed the bucketline." "Shut 'er down." "Shut 'er down." "but forgot to lift the gangplank first." "Now the winch cable that lifts the bucketline is stuck beneath the walkway." "So it won't go down and it's still engaged." "Nothing's moving at lightning speed here." "We got to pay fuckin attention." "Hey Jerry." "Are you gonna kick the winch out or what." "but the cable is still straining to lift the 40 ton bucket ladder." "coiled up like a snake." "it could slice him in two." "Fixed it." "that's how I do it." "See if it'll go down now." "It's moving." "I think he's got 'er going here now again." "You watch what you're doing." "Watch what the winches are doing." "and broke the line." "but not everyone agrees with his methods." "You aren't supposed to have to hit stuff with a hammer." "That's not how this thing was made." "But some people just seem to be more interested in running it 24 hours a day than fixing the things that need to be fixed so it can operate properly." "Main problem is Gene is such an expert on anything you can't talk to him about anything cause he already knows more about it than anyone else." "9 hours into the nightshift." "Jerry is fading fast." "to tell you the truth." "12 hours isn't what I was promised." "We were promised 8 hour shifts as Winchmen." "But that hasn't happened yet." "but the long nightshift has taken it's toll." "I feel it catching up with me now so." "Just tired now." "A time to go rest." "so I think tomorrow it's 8 hours." "There's a lot more important things in life than operating a dredge." "At McKinnon Creek the Hoffman crew removes the last of the black muck from what they've dubbed the Mammoth Channel before it thaws and swamps their supercut." "You can see the mud." "Just a muddy mess." "Had we not shut down we'd been driving in that for a week or two." "Hopefully there's enough gold under here to make it all worthwhile." "gone really good." "Let's not belt it out before we get rid of it so." "This was the right call and the way to move the mud." "I think we did it." "We got a weird gravel so." "That's paydirt." "You hit some gravel?" "I think we're through the mud." "Alright." "Coming over." "We got it." "Look at that." "Our mud's gone." "look." "Big quartz." "This mud's been nothing but a pain in the butt." "We lost 24 hours of sluicing." "I know." "This better be good enough to make up the difference." "This was the right way to do it." "And we found a tusk." "It all makes sense." "It's gotta be right." "You better be right." "And those old miners better be right." "I'm in trouble." "Screens coming on." "Am I good to go." "Good to go." "The Hoffman crew is back in business." "See to getting this thing going again." "We got some ground to catch up Kevin." "We lost 24 hours of sluicing." "It's hard to recover." "So now we're gonna have to work harder." "And we gotta hope and pray there's no breakdowns with the wash plant." "Jerry and Mike are refusing to work another 12 hour shift." "Mike and Jerry." "Mike." "Morning." "those 8 hour shifts." "Is that correct." "You said right on the end of the dredge there." "282)}No no no no no no." "After you did to us." "huh." "We do the majority of the work." "We wore ourselves out taking that dredge apart." "What have we not done for you?" "huh." "It's been bugging him." "It really has." "We're the ones that took it apart and put it back together." "You and Tony wouldn't have a dredge if it wasn't for Mike and I." "We really don't give a fuck about Tony or the dredge anymore." "I don't." "Jerry and Mike are through working for Tony Beets." "They're about to head home to Arizona. what the fuck isn't gonna happen." "by him." "Man if anybody had the hours on that dredge it was us guys." "And it wouldn't have been put together if it wasn't for us." "He doesn't need us now and throws us away." "Huh." "It don't set real good." "I'm done with it." "We're done." "We're done." "It's nice to be back hauling pay." "I think it was the right decision." "We'll see when we run it through the sluice box." "the Hoffman crew has run an impressive 5080 yards of paydirt in a battle to make up for lost time." "Everything going good this morning?" "Yeah." "Everything is fantastic." "No issues on our end." "Good job Kev." "Alright." "Todd Hoffman is back on the claim." "See you man." "Love you." "I love you too." "It was a good trip home." "Hudson and I got to spend a little bit of time together." "I gotta get back to work." "So how'd it go?" "How'd it go this week?" "we ran into some roadblocks." "Uh oh." "Last thing you said when you left." "Don't shut the plant down." "You had to shut the plant down." "We got an old channel of the river coming through." "I was here." "I saw the mud." "It had to be moved." "And here's the other thing." "We found a mammoth tusk." "Is that good or friggen bad?" "there's gold." "That mammoth channel better have a lot more damn gold than the regular stuff." "cause now we're coming from behind." "The crew hasn't run the mammoth channel mud yet." "But they're ready to pull the mats from 5 days of running supercut paydirt." "This is a good cleanup." "This is gonna help." "This may redeem us after shutting down." "I think we're gonna be short." "I don't" "You know what Kevin." "I'll bet you there's over 200 ounces in this cleanup." "I'll take your bet." "you make me pancakes." "Listen." "You're wearing an apron." "You're gonna wear an apron when you're" "You're the one cooking." "It's over 200 ounces." "Hey." "Their total for the week will reveal how much gold they lost shutting down to clear the mammoth channel." "each and every week." "Pulitzer pile." "It's the moment of truth right here." "We didn't quite get what we hoped for." "You know It's only not quite." "one twenty one point one five." "Ooh." "That's a little more than not quite dad." "That's 80 friggen ounces short." "That's nothing to sneeze at." "guys." "We had to make a decision." "I know the shutdown cost us a lot of sluicing time." "This is not good." "000 dollars." "we lost this battle." "We're not out of it though." "I still believe there's good gold in that mammoth channel." "We're not out." "and he's come to weigh his week's gold with claim owner Tony Beets." "They'll soon find out if his extension to Treasure Island has delivered." "Hey Tony." "How are you." "It's the first time Tony and Parker have weighed gold together since their heated claim dispute at the start of the season." "we've got some gold from Treasure Island." "Shall we weigh this stuff up? two eighty three point two." "Geez." "That's a hell of a week there." "Thanks for the suggestion about making sure we get everything out of it cause" "We ended up getting a lot more pay out of it 313)}than we thought because just not only did we find more ground but" "We're taking a lot of bedrock." "A little under once you get your cut." "42.48" "This is the 2nd week in a row Parker has produced over 250 ounces." "000 dollars." "He's only 30 ounces behind the Hoffman crew." "well thank you Tony." "You too." "you know." "It's kinda back to the old for the time being." "The old fun loving 307)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T close making money time so." "We're making money boy." "have finally buried the hatchet." "And they're reaping the rewards." "314)\fs36.883}On the next Gold Rush Not getting scrubbed clean enough." "I don't have any curl." "Any gold in the thing or what?" "That's it?" "I need that mammoth channel to have friggen gold in it." "That mud will not go through." "Whoa." "I think the sky's the limit." "What a fuckin mess." "Our whole cut's flooded." "Parker doesn't like to lose so." "We're really throwing everything we got at this cut." "I hate the thought of getting beat by Todd. {\alphaHFF}" "414.33)\fs36.883}Up ahead. 413)} position"