"The materials stack up." "Shut it down!" "On this "Gold Rush"...." "Creek's completely dried up now." "Without any freshwater, we're screwed." "Let's get the son of a gun unplugged." "Forget about it, Freddy!" "Freddy!" " Aah!" " Freddy?" "She's finally here!" "We can get some dredging goin'." "There's no millimeters." "There's no thousandths of an inch off." "It's gotta be dead center." "Are you kidding me?" "Bit off more than I can chew." "Well, I think this plant's about ready to move." "Let's try to get this done as quick as we can." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "For fuck sakes." "Blew my fuckin' track in half." "Shut it off!" "I don't have a plan." "So stop fuckin' asking me." "Hey, can you ask Brennan to grab another pipe?" "Roger that." "Lookin' good, brohammer." "It's 6 a.m. at Scribner, and Parker's crew is already hard at work." "[ Strap snaps loudly ]" "Our strap just broke, so I'll have to grab another one." "We need another chain." "We're moving Sluicifer today, which is never easy but hopefully we won't have as much of an issue." "In theory, we should go a lot better than last time." "Just throw this chain on." "We'll get goin'." "Parker is still almost 2,000 ounces short of his 4,000-ounce season goal." "In an attempt to get back on track, he's come up with a bold plan." "That creek diversion?" "Hopefully there's still a lot of good pay left in there." "We need it." "so we'll try to make it work." "Parker's abandoned the Boundary Cut Extension." "Now, he needs to move Sluicifer 2,000 feet to a new pad beside the Creek Cut, where he is pinning all his hopes for a $4.8 million season goal." "We got a lot to do this morning." "Ah, we definitely weren't planning on moving Sluicifer again this year, but just what we have to do.." "All right, well, I think this plant's about ready to move, isn't it?" "Yeah, looks like it." "Let's try to get this done as quick as we can." "Yeah, all right." "Back sluicing." "I agree." "Parker is losing $2,500 every hour he spends moving Sluicifer to the new pad." "When you're pullin' this thing, just... nice and easy." "Okay." "Got this yard on it?" "(laughs)" "Good luck, champ." "Thanks, buddy." "It's Brennan's first time moving the $600,000 wash plant." "I was gonna drag it." "But, I'll let Brennan do it and see what he can break." "Drop the bucket down!" "Everybody's definitely feelin' the pressure today." "You know, we're tryin' to get this plant moving as fast as we can and get everything set up because, we don't wanna lose any time sluicing." "Come on, baby." "You're good, bud." "[ Grinding ]" "A little nervous." "So hopefully this baby makes it over there in one piece." "Sounds like it's rising up from hell." "Pretty fuckin' impressive, really." "[ Grinding Continues ]" "Very cool." "Hey, Brennan, I'd put that thing in low gear." " It is!" " Okay." "That's low gear?" "Seemed a little fast." "Easy, buddy." "[ Rattles ]" "Nice and easy, buddy." "Whoa!" "Careful here." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "[ Scraping thud ]" "Easy, easy, easy!" "Aww!" "Shut it off!" "Just blew a hose, guys." "Why do I smell hydraulic oil?" "Yeah, it looks like it's makin' oil to me." "I can't feel it, though, on the lines." "But... hydraulic oil everywhere." "Try hitting' that switch just real quick." "I don't usually like doin' this with the oil hot." "To find the leak, Parker needs to run the machine." "Don't get it in my face." "[ Engine starts ] All right!" "It's this one." "Yup." "There's a fan." "It's a real nice spot." "Bad timing." "All right, Mitch." "Looks like we've had a hose blow that goes to our cooling fan." "Now we got some room, we can see what we're workin' on." "Okay, why don't you go ahead and pull that out, Parker?" "I'm fairly certain that's the one." "Well, that doesn't look good." "I don't know." "I don't have a plan, so stop asking me." "We're done." "We gotta get this machine back up and running. otherwise we're not gonna have Sluicifer moved over" "and I don't think this is the right one for that, but it's the only thing that had the right... even close to the right fittings." "Well, this is the one I was hopin' we had, premade." " Looks a little longer, but..." "No, that's fine." "They're gonna have to wait." "They're gonna have to learn some fuckin' patience." "(Takes a big breath) It's just in a real tight spot here." "Do you see the end there?" "Little bit more, push, push, push." "Yeah, I'm tryin'." "Yeah, I got it." "Okay." "Hardly see it," "Barely reach it, not really fit in here." "There's a lot of hoses that could've blown that would've been a lot more accessible." "But... of course, it had to be a bad one." "Almost there." "[ Click ]" "Oh oh....yeah." "That's what we wanted." "Go ahead and fire it up." "Everything looks really good." "all the lines are tight." "[ Engine Starts ]" "Nothing's leakin'." "See if we can't get Sluicifer moved." "Start dragging' it over." "We ready to roll?" "Don't break this one." "That fell apart on me." "(laughing)" "It's your fuckin' fault for that stupid name you give that plant." "[ Laughs ]" "That name, Sluicifer..." "cursed, buddy." "[ Engine revs ]" "[ Thud ]" "[ Scraping ]" "Lookin' good, buddy!" "Keep tracking' like that, you'll be okay." "Beautiful." "Lookin' good!" "Send her home, buddy!" "Almost there!" "Shouldn't get excited so fast." "Yep, that's it." "Ho!" "We'll need to spin it... this way." "We too far this way?" "You pull it this way a little bit." "You can just climb up the bank and uh, pull this thing forward." "Tryin' to get that bucket underneath here?" "I..." "I can't lift anymore." "Swing her this way a bit." "It might reach right now." "Pull it forward about 8 feet." "I know." "[ Rustling ]" "That's good!" "You the man, sloth!" "Whoo!" "We did it, son!" "[ Laughter ]" "Good job, guys!" "Hell yeah!" "Well, got her in place." "Looks like a wash plant to me." "Big cat!" "Yeah wooo." "Nice work, buddy." "You've got a gold star." "Yay!" "[ Laughing ]" "Does that mean I get the day off tomorrow?" "No." "No." "No." "So we need a de-watering pump." "We need water up here." "Yep." "And we need power up here." "Yeah." "♪♪" "Dave!" "I'm gonna crank up the dirt." "Todd Hoffman is running two operations..." "Fairplay..." "Sure lookin' good this morning, huh Fred?" "It's a nice site, Trey." "and Sacramento." "How's that, Dave?" "Sweet!" "To help Todd get to his new 1,000-ounce season goal," "Sacramento's Double Trouble is hard at it." "How fast are we goin' right now, you think?" "Gotta be 330 yards an hour." "So far this year, Todd has 561 ounces of gold, worth $670,000, just over halfway to breaking even and giving his crew a paycheck to see them through the winter." "We're just hauling' ass." "I wanna help the team, and I gotta get 1,000 ounces." "Let's see if we can keep it goin'." "Hunter, stop!" "Hunter, hold up!" "Hold up!" "The dirt's piling' up!" "We got a jam-up!" "The dirt is too dry." "It's clogging everything up." "The biggest stack-up of dirt..." "It's not goin' down that chute." "There's not enough water to push this rock and dirt through the prewash!" "Material's not goin' down that chute." "It's just not enough water pressure to push this through." "What do you think happened?" "I need frickin' water to keep this goin'." "Hey, Todd!" "Yeah, I got a copy." "We got a problem at Fairplay." "Tell me you're frickin' kidding!" "Shit!" "A mile southeast at Fairplay," "Freddy Dodge is having water issues of his own." "Fuckin' Mud!" "Hey, Kevin!" "Shut it down!" "All we're pumpin's frickin' mud!" "Ten-four!" "Shut the pump down!" "Fuck!" "We don't have any freshwater." "Our freshwater's off." "We're sluicin' out of a mudhole." "Hey!" "What's goin' on?" "Fuckin' water's off!" "Look at my mud puddle." "Why, I see it." "Sacramento's down." "Fairplay's down." "We got no water, Freddy." "Water runoff from the glaciers of the Rocky Mountains feeds a creek, which supplies water to both Sacramento and Fairplay." "We're down." "You're down." "Now we're both down." "So we better solve it." "That creek should be about a foot deep right now." "And I have no water comin' into the pond." "So the water's gettin' lost somewhere up above us." "We gotta figure out what the hell's goin' on." "Let's go!" "Let's go figure it out." "Start walkin' the ditch." "Let's do it." "We're both dead in the water right now." "If we don't figure it out quick, every day we're losin' $30,000." "Without water, we're not gettin' any gold." "Trust me." "Tony Beets has a problem." "His dredge hasn't sluiced in 4 weeks while he's been waiting for a vital part to be delivered." "What the fuck is that all about?" "Four weeks ago, the idler wheel on the bucket line..." "There's your problem." "chewed through its bushing and the housing." "Yeah." "Well, she's finally fuckin' here!" "Finally start makin' some money!" "Forty thousand dollars later, they have a completely reconditioned idler wheel" "and they can at last start the repair." "Ha!" "This is quite a set-up." "Tony has hired machinist Gavin Hill to begin the precision installation of the idler wheel." "Yeah, I haven't done anything like this before." "No?" "You don't always get a nice shop to work in." "Oh Man." "It's slick." "I'm layin' on fuckin' cobble and cardboard, right?" "Yeah." "To hold the idler wheel," "Gavin smooths out two rough semicircles at the end of the bucket line arm." "I think we should just seat it in how it sits right now." "No?" "We'll... okay..." "Okay, no problem." "Okay." "I can do that." "Tony wants a smooth, even surface, and both sides perfectly aligned." "His plan?" "Insert a line-boring bar, a precision drill which will machine the housing to within a thousandth of an inch." "If the alignment isn't perfect, the 3-ton idler wheel will rock and destroy the new bearings and its housing." "[ Rumbles ]" "[ Clattering ]" "Need to go back more, Mike." "That should be good there." "We can't fuckin' hook it up." "It's gotta be dead center." "Can't miss it." "This side is a little lower than that side." "Gotta come up a quarter-inch." "Four and a half." "That's close as it's gonna get." "After lining up the boring bar precisely," "Gavin now needs to secure the bearing that holds it in position." "We just gotta get that bearing welded up to here." "All right." "sounds like a plan, then?" "It's your plan, not mine. (laughs}" "If we were in a shop doin' this, we could custom make special proper holding bars and stuff like that." "Would be a bit easier for sure." "One hundred miles from the nearest machine shop," "Gavin has to Macgyver two support brackets." "Starting to figure out nothin's easy in the Yukon." "A bit nerve-racking." "And Tony's a hard-ass, so the pressure is on." "Once the bar is centered and supported..." "Yeah, so we're in business, buddy." "the crew can start boring." "The cutting tool shaves five-thousandths of an inch off the rough surface every pass." "Yeah, it's workin', one step at a time." "Round and round it goes." "[ Whirring ]" "[ Clanks ]" "Christ." "Fuckin' brakes?" "Fuck, bit hard there." "Now, don't be pullin' on it," "Because the bit that's bound right up right now." "The bit has dug into the housing, and is stuck solid." "We hit a high spot and bound everything up so now we're tryin' to delicately take it out to save it." "There it is." "You got it?" "Yep." "I don't know if we've moved somewhere here." "Let me do a quick measure." "Ah, it's a little plus... plus seven." "Something's movin'." "Yep." "Okay." "Back to square one." "Everything fuck up and moved." "Shit!" "Fuck it." "Leave it." "Love my job." "Cut the level for that pump, for..." "If we have any hope of keepin' up we could be sluicing tonight." "I mean, there's no reason why we can't be." "Unless there's some sort of hiccup with the plant." "It's mid-afternoon at Scribner," "And Parker's entire crew is busy moving the pumps, pipes and feed system for Sluicifer." "What in the hell is he doin'?" "That'd be a real easy way to break that." "It's gotta be Brennan." "Hey, Brennan are you tryin' to bury the..." "Hey guy, what's goin' on?" "He must be day-dreamin' there." "That's a deep spot!" "Shit!" "[ Thud ] For fuck sakes!" "You gotta be shitting me right now." "Just blew my track in half." "Always on a plant move, it's a good day." "Ah, boy." "Now we've got another problem." "At Scribner Creek," "Parker's plant move has hit a roadblock." "That's nice." "Track just broke in half." "Brennan has broken a track on an excavator 60 feet down in the old cut." "We'll get it out of the pond.(Laughs}" "I don't know." "Just fuck that..." "You might fuckin take that roller out is the problem." "We'll flock it out, just have to be real careful to keep this end up and not snag the roller and lose it." "I'll take it outta here." "It gets pretty deep in there." "Like, it looked like a boat when he was comin' across here." "It was right up to the car body." "Not ideal here, so just gotta be real careful." "We hit our old ditch here and drop this machine down?" "You know, we're only about a foot away from gettin' into our electronics and, this machine'll be dead in the water." "[ Squeaking ]" "Mitch needs to maneuver the excavator to the lowest part of the bank." "We could smooth that spot out over there." "[ Rumbling ]" "All right, right now Brennan's gonna cut a road in here, with the cat, and we're just gonna try and limp outta the cut." "Mitch's plan?" "Use the bucket arm as a crutch to keep the exposed rollers off the rocks." "Just gonna try and crab walk the machine over here." "Ah, it's kinda, like, limping' along on one leg." "Normally you can use your bucket to kinda pull yourself along here." "But, I've gotta use the bucket to hold up the side that doesn't have the track." "So I can't use it to help pull myself along here." "[ Whirring ]" "This is ridiculous." "Why does all this happen on one day?" "It's always plant move day." "Everything just goes to shit every time." "Now, we're puttin' all the strain on just one track so we gotta try and get this machine to walk up on top of all this wet material here." "Just wantin' to dig in right now." "We really risk breakin' another one tryin' to do this." "[ Grinding, squeaking ]" "Come on, baby." "Come on, baby." "Come on, baby." "There we go." "[ Thuds ]" "That's what we call crab walking', boy!" "[ Laughs ]" "At least she's back on dry land, man." "Nice job, buddy." "Thanks for the road." "Yeah, you bet." "Gonna name this machine Old Lucky." "Felt like an old soldier limpin' off the battlefield, there." "What's happening today?" "I don't know." "I think Sluicifer's cursed." "It's 'cause we named..." "It's your fault, Mitch." "I need some tranquilizers." "You guys got any, like, horse tranquilizers or anything?" "I don't know if I'm gonna puke or, like, laugh hysterically." "Or what's gonna happen here." "♪♪" "Got the plant moved," "But right now, we gotta get sluicing and get gold back in the box, you know?" "Hey, Rick, can you hear me?" "Yep." "I'm thinking about tryin' something else out." "Gotcha." "Instead of using his super stacker." "to feed Sluicifer..." "Parker's come up with a radical new plan to speed things up and increase production." "He's going to use his new $300,000 super conveyor." "Moving this conveyor may be a pretty risky move, but I think we have to do it." "We can't just keep losin' money." "Where's the wiper?" "Six inches back from the top!" "Are you happy with that?" "Okay!" "We got her in place, boys." "For the day we've had, good job, guys." "Let's get sluicin'." "Yeah!" "Sounds good, boys." "Ready?" "It's time to add water and dirt." "Let's fire it up!" "Yeah!" "Yeah, buddy!" "Go ahead and throw some dirt on it." "We're ready." "Let her rip!" "See what she's got!" "Time for the first scoop of Creek Cut pay." "Here we go!" "'Bout to see the first dirt go through it." "Look at that!" "Boom!" "No more super stacker." "Movin' this conveyor in was nice and quick." "This thing needs to pick up the torch and it looks like it's been a good decision so far." "It feeds that plant nice." "We've got pretty high hopes for the Creek Cut." "You know, we need a lot of gold in a short amount of time here." "Hey, Todd." "Meet me a quarter-mile west of Double Trouble." "I found the real problem." "In Colorado," "A lack of water has forced Todd Hoffman to shut down both his operations." "Now Freddy Dodge thinks he's found the cause." "What's goin' on here?" "The reason we're outta water..." "Frickin' beavers." "Got this culvert plugged up, diverted the water." "Really?" "It's plugged solid." "Now what do we do?" "Got a backhoe here." "I'm gonna wade up it." "You feed me the chain." "Okay." "And that'll drag it out." "To get water to their wash plants," "Freddy needs to take drastic measures." "Feed it through there." "His plan?" "Take the grappling hook through the culvert to the beaver dam." "Then, use the excavator arm to drag the branches, mud and debris out and release the water flow." "Kinda had the flu." "But kinda need water to mine gold, so let's get the son of a gun unplugged." "You sure you wanna do this?" "This is frickin' cold, boy!" "The glacier-fed creek water is only a couple of degrees above freezing." "Freddy, you good?" "Okay, the end." "I don't wanna go back in that fuckin' hole again." "Give her hell, Todd!" "Everybody clear!" "Go ahead and pull it through." "[ Whirring, water bubbling ]" "[ Rustling ]" "Here!" "Fuck!" "Jumped up over the top." "We'll have to do it again." "Gotta go back in that cold." "So we're gonna get the fucker out one way or the other." "To make sure the grappling hook holds," "Freddy must find a way to hook it firmly in the center of the beaver dam." "[ Freddy gasping ]" "Freddy, what are you doin'?" "Tryin' to wedge that hook in the logs." "I'm gonna have to go underwater on this, Todd." "Freddy!" "[ Splashing ]" "Freddy!" "Freddy!" "In Colorado, Freddy Dodge is in a fight with a beaver dam." "You good?" "Aah!" "Freddy!" "I'm okay!" "Have him pull!" "Pull!" "[ Whirring ]" "Keep goin'!" "Keep goin'!" "Keep goin'!" "[ Creaking ]" "Keep pulling'!" "Beaver ain't gonna beat me." "My hand." "There's thick..." "Thick logs and rocks!" "Todd, is the water comin' through?" "Good job, Freddy!" "I win, beaver!" "We'll have water now." "Us one, beaver zero." "Good job, Freddy!" "That's it." "It's out." "You did it, buddy!" "Look at all that!" "So we got water." "Gonna be headin' down the ditch." "Now we're gonna go kick some ass!" "Trommel's comin' on!" "[ Horn honks ] [ Whirring ]" "Plant's comin' hot." "[Buzzer]" "Everybody clear!" "Fire it up!" "Let's make some gold!" "After a month down," "Tony's dredge is close to running again." "The reconditioned idler wheel has finally arrived." "But machinist Gavin's attempts to rebore its mount have failed." "Bit off more than I can chew." "We're out in the middle of nowhere." "Fuckin' machinist that got hired doesn't even know how to run this thing." "Mike Beaudry has 15 years experience as a bush mechanic." "Well, we need to fuckin' true this thing up because these are not adjustable." "[ Buzzing ]" "The previous supports for the line boring machine didn't hold it accurately in place." "What do you think about using these bolt-holes?" "We can weld something directly to that and then we can build spacers out." "So I'm thinking with the 2-inch tube, and weld that solid to the bolt." "That'll get us out far enough and then you can just do an adjustment, so we can fine-tune it." "Mike's plan?" "Use the four existing bolts to weld on a rigid frame structure" "inside the frame, he will fit eight new bolts attached to a mount for the boring bar." "By tightening the nuts, they'll be able to maneuver the bar till it's perfectly aligned." "Fully." "Gonna get that boring bar right in the center." "Yeah." "Okay, so all we gotta do is weld those onto these." "First step, weld the mounting points for the bracket." "You know, we're out in the middle of nowhere." "We don't have fancy out here." "This is what we get to work with." "You want the hex right to the end?" "Yeah, I think that would be best to get a better weld on it." "That hex right to here." "That'll work." "So these bolts are gonna allow us." "to place the boring shaft dead center in the hole." "That's gonna give us an accurate bore and that's gonna make our holes perfect and true." "Nuts and bolts and welding rods make it happen." "And we do a fuckin' good job at it." "Boring shaft is in." "Now we're just gonna make sure we're true." "Move it towards me, Len." "It's not much." "An eighth of a turn, maybe?" "How's that for an adjustable bracket?" "It's fuckin' slick." "It's very slick." "I like that." "It's a good idea, Beaudry." "So we're within a thou." "The boring bar is aligned." "Well, that's as good as it's gonna get." "But it needs to hold perfectly in place when they start reboring the idler wheel mount." "[ Whirring ]" "Looking good." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah, we're through." "[ Whirring stops ]" "That's good." "There we go." "Tony swings the 3-ton idler wheel into place at the end of the bucket ladder arm." "Bingo!" "If the mount is misaligned... as the 24-ton bucket line rotates... the idler wheel will grind and destroy the new set of bushings, losing Tony another month and $40,000." "[ Clanging ]" "Bada-boom!" "We got life!" "After 4 weeks and $700,000 in lost gold," "Tony's moneymaker is finally back in business." "Yeah, I don't hear no squealing'." "♪♪" "Look at this, Chris." "Yay!" "We don't get this size nuggets at Indian River." "Parker Schnabel is making a rare appearance at an Indian River cleanup." "I don't like this at all." "Carrying a shovel full of dirt is not the best way of doin' this." "Could you bring a bucket out of the gold room for me please?" "Well, we got a bucket on its way." "Well, normally we don't throw shit all over where we were walkin' through." " Well, where..." " That what you're sayin'?" "Where should we put it?" "We usually put 'em up on top." "Now, we're back to havin' fun." "Yeah!" "I have absolutely no idea why Parker's so grumpy today." "He's upset that we carry it across the sluice and dump it into the tank, like we're gonna spill some." "I think he's just under a lot of stress right now, and he's just..." "any little thing, and then he blows it out of proportion." "Tell you the honest truth, this has been just the toughest week we've been... since we've been in Colorado." "Jack Hoffman is finishing the week's cleanup for Todd's" "Fairplay and Sacramento claims." "There's Fairplay." "That's for the whole week?" "That's it." "They've only run for 3 days after a beaver dam shut down both operations." "How much?" "To be on track for his 1,000-ounce, $1.2 million season goal," "Todd needs his two claims to produce around 100 ounces of gold every week." "20.75, Fairplay." "Ugh." "That's not good." "No, that's not a good week." "No water, no gold." "Yep." "What's Sacramento?" "Here goes." "Twenty-five, 30, 35... 40... 48.7." "It's almost 70 ounces between us." "Worth over $80,000, but 30 ounces short of their weekly target." "Well, we know why it's low." "We ran outta water." "Next week's not gonna be the same." "Go get some more." "All right." "Let's do this." "You know what?" "It's a disappointing week." "We didn't have water." "You know, I don't want this to get out of control." "But that's the beauty of havin' two plants." "When we have a bad week, we still got 70 ounces of gold." "And you know what?" "It's better than nothin'." "Well, how's it lookin'?" "Chris is just finishin' her up." "Parker and his crew began the week just over halfway to their 4,000 ounce goal." "That's Indian River." "Rick, get in here." "To keep Parker on track," "Rick's Indian River operation needs to contribute 110 ounces a week." "Ten, 25... 60," "75, 90..." "We're over 100." "Keep it goin', Rick." "Keep it goin'." "Oh. baby." "Come on, baby, get in there." "129.1" "All right." "Worth $155,000." "Let's see what old Sluicifer's gonna put out." "After weeks of poor results from the Boundary Cut Extension, to get back on target," "Parker needs the first four days of Creek Cut running to deliver at least 250 ounces." "There's 50, 70... 80, 120, 140," "150, 160, 180, 200." "Oh ho yeah." "230, 250... 273.4" "[ Laughter ]" "Whoa!" "Woo shit." "In its first week of running, the Creek Cut has paid out nearly a third of $1 million." "Man, that's good stuff." "That's a lot of gold." "That's a lot of gold." "I'm glad we're back to whooping' ass." "Hell yeah." "So what's that put us at for the week?" "402 ounces." "[ laughter ]" "That's awesome!" "Yeah, that's definitely the best cleanup of the season right there." "So what's that bring us to for the season?" " 2,419." "Awesome!" "Looks like leavin' the Boundary Cut Extension was probably the right thing to do." "All right." "Thanks, guys." "Yeah." "Sounds good." "It's a hell of a result." "The really good news is Creek Cut's picked up." "Four thousand ounces is still a long ways off." "We've got 1,500 still to do." "Subs by JackT" "But it's definitely manageable." "So...(sigh) I think we'll get there." "I think we'll get there." "♪♪" "It's time to go shut 'em down." "On the next "Gold Rush"..." "Wanna play a little bit of a fuckin' game here." "You're on the dredge." "You are on the conventional plant." "Start comparing cost per yard." "When you fuck up You don't do small, do ya?" "Never gonna beat Kevin with shit like that." "We've never seen nuggets like that." "You really think we can mine up there?" "Those are bigger than anything we've ever gotten." "We need a third mine." "You've still got a long ways to go." "Holy fuck." "No fixing' that one." "Do I look like a fuckin' belt fairy?" "Make it fuckin' work."