"Narrator:" "On this "Gold Rush" "000 bucks." "I don't want you guys [bleep] following me right now." "I don't even wanna hear it." "We need it running." "It really feels like mine right now." "Shut it down!" "Shut it down." "What the hell's he doing here?" "Todd:" "Coming to Oregon wasn't the right move for us." "I am tired of feeling like a frickin' loser." "500 yards of dirt." "Parker Schnabel is running 250 yards of pay dirt an hour" "Sluicifer." "Parker:" "There's lots of ground open." "So Tyson and I should be able to keep motoring on our own for quite a while." "anyway." "Parker is less than a third of the way" "$4.8-million goal." "Rick and the rest of the boys are down in Indian River." "Narrator:" "Parker is depending on Rick to salvage his season by opening up a second operation." "Parker:" "Now I'm waiting for Rick to be ready to start sluicing down there 'cause we're burning daylight and burning it fast. 000 bucks." "And it's not two operations until there are two wash plants sluicing. foreman Rick Ness has been struggling for nine weeks to get his operation up and running." "000 yards of pay dirt." "And he's determined to be running by the end of the day." "The one things that's bringing Indian River to life is just perseverance." "It's something that my grandpa taught me." "the name of his boat was Perseverance." "That's why I've got this tattooed on my hand." "And that's the biggest reason why Indian River's going online today is 'cause I never gave up on it. sluiced over $5 million worth of gold for Parker." "But it's stood abandoned for the past year." "How are you liking having everybody's hand-me-downs?" "This is kind of like having a bunch of big brothers that you get all their old worn-out clothes." "except I'm older than the person" "I'm getting all this hand-me-down shit from." "is smoothing the rim." "It's a lot more lighter of an atmosphere down here. have a little bit of fun in between." "And it's great." "That's how it should be." "nor did we have any plans to." "So we started cannibalizing it." "Big Red's kind of like Humpty Dumpty's wash plant here. try and get 'em all back together again." "Give me a little boom down." "Good!" "Careful with her!" "It's the only one we got!" "Right on the money." "Good." "It's on to the next step." "Rick's hired a 40-foot hopper feeder from a neighbor." "000-pound load up the ramp to the plant." "Please have the clearance." "really muddy." "I don't wanna do it." "man." "diff's locked." "All right." "Enough thinking about this hill." "I'm just gonna give her." "I'm pretty much screwed." "I'll have no way to stop it." "baby." "Shit!" "Oh fuck!" "Fuck." "baby." "Don't spin." "Don't spin." "We're spinning." "Fuck." "Way too muddy." "Fuck fuck." "Brennan." "Can you help me out?" "Ruault:" "Move the whole thing?" "Let's give her." "I'm sick of screwing around." "bro." "Is that looking good?" "Feels like the ass end of my machine's coming off the ground a bit." "Fuck." "that's teamwork." "Teamwork." "that's a long unit." "There you go." "Perfect." "That's good!" "Whoo!" "[ both laugh ] That's a pretty big disadvantage." "000 hours of run time." "this is the wash plant-iest." "dun." "[ snake rattling ]" "I can't believe what's happened this summer. leaving just his family and old friend Jim Thurber." "Hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hole." "And I got all this equipment leased." "But I have a little bit of fuel in the tank." "I really don't have any other choice." "We're gonna run the mine. 000-ounce season goal." "he has a disastrous 206 ounces." "Todd:" "Feel like we did all the right things." "Those old-timers didn't leave us much." "maybe coming to Oregon wasn't the right move for us. desperately hoping to hit another pocket of gold. how did the train get so far off the track?" "you know?" "And that's not what I raised." "And he's gonna have to trust God on this one." "That's all there is to it." "I know my Dad's really down right now." "but" "It's not his fault." "Dad?" "I think I'm at the end of my rope." "Just try to stay positive." "man." "I'm just sorry." "I don't know." "I don't know what else to say." "Maybe I'm just fooling myself." "I'm just here with you and grandpa. the Hoffmans shut down Monster Red to check if they are on the gold." "you wanna kill the blade mill?" "Blade mill going off!" "Hunter?" "I don't know." "It doesn't look very good to me." "Another downer." "Oh." "guys." "I'm scratching and biting for pay that's...that Andy missed." "he didn't." "there's a little dinky bit there." "But it's just not enough." "I don't know what to do about it." "It's up to you." "let's go down in there." "Let's see if we can find some other pay dirt." "And see what we come up with. 000." "Thurb." "that looks promising right there." "We'll pan it." "see if Andy left any spots back here.." "on top of bedrock." "Nothing in that stuff at all." "Really?" "Not even a... speck." "Right there." "that little river gravel?" "Yep." "he left it for some reason." "We'll see." "huh?" "I know." "It's just nothing." "Anything?" "Not yet." "I haven't seen any." "We're the last four original guys on my team." "And uh... what it looks like is we started together and we're gonna finish together." "Look at that." "That was laid in there." "That's stream bed." "Yup." "Yep." "That's definitely stream-borne there." "Yeah?" "Yep." "That looks more like it." "this is some better looking stuff." "This here's" "It's all been running down the stream." "Yeah." "That looks.." "That looks way more..." "that looks more like it." "baby." "baby." "Yep." "And there you go." "Thurb." "Mm-hmm." "There is gold in here." "But it ain't impressive." "But it's gold." "Tony Beets spent $1.5 million on a second dredge which has been abandoned 100 miles upriver since 1952. to transport the dredge down the Yukon River. who's been making final preparations." "But things haven't been working out." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Okay." "the barge is going nowhere." "But Tony already has a back-up plan." "Gene Cheeseman rebuilt the Jasmine B and is an experienced skipper on coastal waters but has never navigated the Yukon River. he wants to scout the route." "First time I've ran up the river." "Just gonna check things out and see what it's gonna be like to run the barge up there." "just get a feel for things." "Narrator:" "Gene plans to head south from Dawson City and explore the 100 miles of Yukon River that he'll have to safely navigate to get to and from Thistle Creek." "I've been on the water quite a bit all my life but never on a big river like this." "Very nice." "Rick Ness has vowed he'll have his new operation up and running today." "He has Big Red's hopper feeder in place." "He's attached the sluices." "The final step...just add water." "Just hooking up the water supply line to the wash plant." "Down a little!" "Down!" "Set her down right there!" "Perfect!" "Rick!" "Okay." "It's getting there." "It'll be impressive soon." "I can't believe we found all the parts and pieces to make this plant again." "That's it." "That's it?" "Firing up." "[ engine sputters ]" "Come on." "you jerk." "It's been sitting a while." "Let me prime the fuel." "This is just the Generator." "[ laughs ]" "This just the first step." "Go ahead and try and spin it up again." "[ engine starts ] hello!" "Booyah!" "That's what we wanted!" "yeah!" "Like it never turned off." "Try the shaker out and see if it's turning the right way." "That's a big pay." "Step one." "She's rising from the ashes!" "Dude!" "This is gonna be the first time Big Red's seen water in a long time." "fire it up!" "yeah." "Water to the plant." "[ engine starts ] we set the sluices." "Mitch and" "Kelly and Brennan and I. We set this feeder in here." "I went and got this feeder." "I made the deal for this feeder." "This... really feels like... feels like mine right now." "It's awesome." "Damn it!" "that ain't good." "This thing is fucked." "This thing is fucked." "Watch out!" "Got ourselves a sprinkler." "Damn it!" "Narrator:" "Big Red is ready to fire up." "But its water supply is leaking." "Blaschke:" "We got water blowing out here on the other side." "More broken valves." "Hey!" "Shut it off!" "We got a leak." "Where?" "Right at the lay flap." "We can cut it here and move it a foot but..." "I don't know if you'll be able to pull it through." "I'll send Brennan up here." "Okay." "I'll get this undone." "Narrator:" "Mechanic Mitch removes the leaking section of pipe." "I don't think." "Yeah." "You just take some weight off of it." "Brennan needs to dig out the pipe." "Fuck." "[ engine shuts off ]" "[ sighs ] Shit!" "Fuck sakes!" "[ sighs ] Shit." "'cause it was way off to the side." "[ sighs ]" "Fuck!" "Rick's gonna be fuckin' pissed." "Okay." "Quit filming for a second there." "Just fuckin' pissed." "I don't want you guys fuckin' following me right now." "What's up?" "man and I put a hole in it." "Comment:" "Marked=0,0:20:15.70,0:20:16.21,Default,0,0,0,Aw, damn it." "I was going so fuckin' slow." "I could barely pull the joysticks 'cause I knew it was close." "buddy." "I'm fuckin' sorry." "it's all right." "Shit happens." "Ah." "We'll need the fusion machine and we'll need a Generator." "so..." "Don't stress on it." "Let's just get it fixed." "Yeah." "Yeah." "For sure." "Alright" "Thank you bud." "Yep." "he would've just.." "you know." "I mean.." "I'm happy that it was Rick." "uh" ""Let it go." "Don't let it ruin your day." "Seen the fusion machine?" "The fusion machine?" "Yeah." "What for?" "I just fuckin' was exposing the water line for Big Red and I clipped it." "I don't even wanna hear it." "but we need it fuckin' running." "We need that plant running." "It's over by the CMI container over there." "man." "Ness:" "I'm trying my best to not...upset about it." "I'm not fuckin' mad at Brennan." "I've... it's you know?" "It's gonna set us back a couple hours." "Get it fixed and move on." "Narrator:" "Brennan's mistake means they have to remove several feet of pipe before repairing and dragging the entire pipe forward to fix the original leak." "Ness:" "Gonna try and get her lined up with the pipe." "It's 5:00 p.m." "500 in gold." "[ engine starts ]" "Just gonna take a few minutes." "We got to heat the pipe up." "then we pull the heat blade out." "Join the two pieces together." "Then it's just a matter of letting 'em cool." "Hopefully within an hour now." "Be putting dirt through Big Red." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come onnnn!" "[hi pitch] Get hellip." "do you wanna go put the end on that and then just join the..." "snap connector?" "Yeah." "We got our pipe back together." "We just got to go... to fix our original leak." "See what it does." "Fire it up." "You ready for the shaker?" "It is happening." "First bit of Indian River pay dirt going through Big Red right now." "Booyah!" "Narrator:" "Rick's achieved his goal one hour before sunset." "I just walked in." "The sluice box put a big smile on my face." "I haven't had this thing running in... you know?" "Ness:" "Look at this." "I got a frigging rainbow coming down into the cut down here." "Uh." "That means there's lots of gold in this cut." "Pretty damn sure." "[ laughs ]" "Narrator:" "Tony Beets needs to barge his 70 year old dredge down the Yukon River." "takes the helm they're out scouting a safe route." "Nothing worries me so far." "No!" "No." "yeah." "000-mile Yukon River is a constantly changing network of channels." "it's over a mile wide." "And the depth can drop to less than a foot." "They've just entered one of the most braided and shallow sections of the route." "Yeah." "It's shallowing right up." "[ beeping ] is it?" "No." "Pretty tricky here." "I don't know." "Can you grab that pipe pole and see?" "I can feel us sitting on the bottom even." "Fuck." "I can't even make it in this." "I got to pay attention before we end up in a real problem." "Looks like there's a lot of water there." "But definitely not deep enough." "The outboard on Gene's skiff needs just 18 inches of water." "draws three times that." "Okay." "Oh." "I'm gonna slow down here and just kind of nose in there." "Yeah." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa!" "[ skiff thuds ]" "We came all this way." "we're right there by Thistle." "And we can't get there from here. 60-ton Jasmine B." "But scouting the route to Thistle Creek has proved he needs a highly experienced Yukon captain to operate it." "Two large vessels operate out of Dawson City..." "The car ferry and a tourist paddle-wheeler." "Tony's only hope... the captain of the Klondike Spirit." "Tony has known captain Brad Whitelaw for over a decade." "Tony!" "All right." "Come on in." "Holy crap." "Come on in." "I'm all right." "I'm flattered." "well..." "There's nothing more I'd rather do than drive a barge like that." "Tony." "Somebody's gonna get hurt." "You got to have somebody that does know the river." "There's uh... You wanna do it right." "I'd really love to do that." "It's just my hands are tied." "sometimes six trips a day." "This tour boat is just loaded." "And it's such a good gig and..." "I can't turn my back on this for a day." "Ohh. at least another month or so." "But if I can help you out then..." "You just get a hold of me and see where we are then." "Absolutely." "Absolutely. his dream of running a second dredge is on hold." "Fuck!" "it's good." "it'll fool you." "Have a lot more gold than you think." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew is down to just four men." "Todd:" "It's definitely not one of my best summers I've ever had." "I'll tell you that much." "Todd thinks he's finally hit a streak of side pay that could get him out of the hole." "Todd:" "Trying to stay positive." "Gonna go ahead and run this dirt." "And hopefully... it works out." "uh." "Somebody's pulling in." "What the hell's he doing here?" "Todd?" "Not so good." "Freddy." "Kind of what I heard." "What are you doing here?" "I got word that.." "pretty much everybody" "Todd." "is because we got... seven years of mining together." "you know?" "Sorry the way I left." "I just want you know I wasn't bailing on you." "I've been pretty dang busy." "Freddy." "It felt like it." "I didn't bail out on you." "What... where'd you go?" "Colorado." "Prospecting... on a friend of mine's ground." "for us." "for us"?" "Have a look at that." "000-yard test." "That's 19 ounces." "Wow." "I've got an old wash plant I'm putting together out of pieces." "But uh..." "I don't have heavy equipment." "And I don't have a team." "I literally don't have anybody left." "I just have a little skeleton crew." "And I... but I got machines?" "I got machines galore." "We can mine this property with five people." "we can do something." "But we're gonna have to make a decision quick because 000 feet." "And winter comes fast there." "Wow." "It's high in the Rockies." "Freddy." "There's decent gold there." "I think we might be able to uh... at least break even." "mentally and... man." "okay?" "Let me know as soon as you can." "Freddy." "[ sighs ]" "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek..." "All right." "I'll give you another offer." "Producer John Milmo has worked on "Gold Rush" for two years but has never owned any gold." "I'll give you two gold nuggets." "Milmo:" "Crawl through there?" "It actually makes me feel a bit claustrophobic." "Milmo just doesn't want the gold bad enough." "we do what it takes to get the gold." "I'm leaving." "Cameraman:" "He's going in!" "He's going in!" "[ laughter ]" "How's it going?" "It's going great." "huh?" "[ laughter ]" "You manned up." "Do I get to pick my nuggets?" "Yep." "Ha ha!" "Sweet." "earrings?" "Milmo:" "My mum quite likes delicate." "You want those two?" "Thank you very much." "My pleasure." "[ laughs ]" "Bring on the dirt!" "Narrator:" "Rick Ness has just opened up Parker Schnabel's second operation at Indian River." "000 ounces before we get snowed out." "Narrator:" "Scribner Creek has not paid out as hoped." "So Parker's relying on Rick's team to make up the shortfall." "yeah man." "Good feeling." "I'm still gonna beat the Hoffmans." "[laughter]" "You already did." "[ both laugh ] you wanna feed this a few buckets so I can run up there and look?" "Yeah." "Whoo!" "Congratulations." "buddy." "The old girl's running again." "fuck." "Ness:" "Jam-up." "Shit." "Shut it down!" "Shut it down!" "Shut it off." "Blaschke:" "Cut the conveyor!" "Hey!" "Get me a bar!" "Let's get her shut off before it rips the belt!" "Watch that you don't push it down too much." "Still have to get it up." "[ machine powers down ]" "Parker." "You got one coming back at you." "There she goes." "Big cut." "Holy shit." "That's a big fucker." "wait." "There's a couple." "This feeder would work perfect for you." "not my problem." "[ laughter ]" "Narrator:" "Big Red has run for six hours." "they take the opportunity to check the sluices." "Holy smokes." "Look at that." "yeah." "There's some gold in that fucker." "Hello." "You got some over here." "yeah." "I didn't even get a look in the sluice box." "It's all in the distribution run." "that is awesome." "That's the first gold out of Indian River right there." "Everybody's done a great job getting this thing going." "Now it's time to get some hours on the box" "See if we can find some gold." "Ness:" "Hell yeah." "Ohh." "You know what?" "I'm proud of everybody." "We've been busting our ass on this." "And I know that we're not the greatest operators in the world." "you know?" "and..." "They don't look good." "Don't look good at all." "Hunter:" "We gave it our best shot here." "And I don't think it can get any worse." "So can't get worse than that." "I am tired... of losing." "I am tired of feeling like a frickin' loser." "Freddy Dodge came by today." "He didn't just split on us." "He's actually been testing a new claim in Colorado." "And he wants us to come mine it with him." "He has a plant." "But he doesn't have the guys." "And he doesn't have the machines." "We got the machines." "Is there good gold there?" "Yes." "This is what he handed me." "And it's 19 ounces of gold." "000 yards." "Thurber:" "That's nice." "Georgia:" "Really?" "Wow." "So there's a possibility of salvaging this season." "Really?" "And the bad part..." "It is way up in the mountains." "500 feet." "Holy crap." "The snow is gonna come earlier than the Klondike." "And this could be strike three." "You got to... we all got to know that going in." "I'll take this..." "this third chance nothing... nothing's looking good." "Thurber:" "When would we leave?" "like morning." "Seems so late in the season to go try again but..." "It's gonna be hard" "If we go there or if we stay here." "And this doesn't look good." "So I'd rather go for something that sounds better..." "Yeah." "I don't see anything changing at the Buckland." "My family's gonna think I'm nuts." "I mean... but..." "We have no other option." "If we could salvage this season I'm for it." "okay?" "guys." "Guess what?" "heading to Colorado." "Let's do it." "Let's do it.[giggles] then." "Ha ha ha." "Great. 000 miles south to attempt to save his season" "With what will be his third mine in just three months." "327)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by JackT" "Freddy threw us a lifeline and we're gonna grab on to that lifeline and kick some ass." "Here we go!" "it'd be hope." "there's your problem." "Narrator:" "On the next "Gold Rush"..." "This is a fuckin' piece of shit." "That's toast." "Yeah." "We are kind of dead in the water at this point." "Blaschke:" "That thing is huge!" "I'm not gonna say it's the dumbest thing we've ever done." "But it's gonna be right up there." "This is Rick's gold." "Ness: 94.35" "Yeah!" "We're in the last-chance saloon." "Dodge:" "Snow on the mountains." "We don't have time to waste." "We will not quit." "boys."