"Todd Hoffman is out to get twice as much gold as ever before." "We're going to turn this thing up to 300 yards an hour and start kicking some ass." "he has to figure out how to run double the dirt." "This is our year and we're not turning it down." "And when his crew is overcome by a mountain of tailings." "I can't keep up with it. hit it." "Pits father against son." "Stop." "Just be quiet." "I know how to back drag." "No you don't." "Parker Schnabel's season is in shambles." "This season's gonna be a fight." "His cut is flooded." "Fuck." "The water's pouring in here like a fuckin sieve." "He's yet to see a speck of gold." "This is just hellish up there." "And he's forced to make a decision that could make or break his season." "Do we hightail it outta here or do we sink a pile of money into that cut." "We all have to learn the hard way sometimes." "And when Tony Beets hands the keys to his ancient gold dredge." "to a rookie operator." "it looks like I'm the number one winch man." "The million dollar dredge comes to a grinding halt." "Shut her down." "Shut her down." "This fuckin stupid thing." "100)\fs36}McKinnon Creek" "Todd Hoffman has set his crew their biggest season goal yet." "2700 ounces." "harder than ever before." "359)}We're gonna turn this thing up to 300 yards an hour and start kicking some ass." "361)}I just want to make sure everything's dialed and everything's perfect." "Jim Thurber has to load far more pay dirt." "300 yards an hour." "301)}I think the first time I ever mined we did 25 friggen yards an hour." "We're doing 300 now?" "Holy crap." "before they pile up and hit the end of the stacker." "absolutely stupid." "Thurber." "How you doing?" "How you doing?" "Oh great." "I'm just...." "I'm clear up to my ass in gravel." "just keep at it." "I can't keep up with it." "Hey." "Just get into a rhythm." "Yeah." "I got the rhythm." "Kill the old guy." "I got the rhythm." "Whatever." "Hurry up." "Hurry up." "We got to go faster." "Fuckin bullshit." "Friggen sick and tired of it." "What are ya doing?" "201)}Keep going." "361)}Can't keep up with it." "I gotta watch the plant." "I gotta check other things." "101)}Lookit." "Friggen mountain of tailings." "261)}I'm not turning it down." "301)}So you're gonna have to just friggen do it." "261)}Try it." "You don't think I've tried?" "261)}I know you're trying but it's just you gotta get this pile over that cliff." "Get back in there and just keep doing it." "Okay." "I'm busting my ass." "You know what." "This is our year and we're not turning it down." "Todd calls the crew in for a meeting." "Listen." "Guys." "It's gonna be tough." "Okay." "But guess what." "We're gonna win this year." "We're gonna conquer this thing." "hard core miners if we can get 2700 ounces." "That's like 3 million dollars in gold." "More gold than we've ever seen." "Todd needs to push his crew like never before." "We gotta run more dirt." "and I'm not kidding you." "It's gonna take 300 yards an hour." "is if we're a team." "We got a new face in camp one." "We got at least one." "One's a mechanic." "Got a great resume." "He's worked at mines." "The main thing is he's a family guy like us." "Juan." "You're gonna be working with Randy." "Hopefully you guys can keep this stuff floating because we're not gonna make it through this season if we can't keep the stuff running." "Alright." "Okay." "Definitely." "I'll work my hardest and we'll get at it." "and I think this is the year." "We're gonna look back and go "We kicked ass." "And it starts now.." "Definitely a really tall order." "2700 ounces is no small feat but uh." "in any which way I can." "listen to me." "but you gotta keep up." "You gotta figure it out." "you know." "Fuckin bullshit." "doing tailings all friggen night long." "You know I've traveled a lot of road with Thurber." "I've seen him overcome a lot of things." "I don't know if this is gonna be one of them." "and he's yet to find a single flake of gold." "His crew's been clearing 40 feet of overburden in the berm cut." "Now the early summer sun is rapidly thawing the ground." "The water's pouring in here like a fuckin sieve." "It's just a mess." "we're fighting the water." "It's frustrating." "but this season I'm a little scared." "so." "I don't know how to deal with it." "Gene was the one that had us up on step for the last 2 years and we're in over our heads." "You know this cut...is kicking our ass." "refused to work with him this season." "Parker's had a disastrous start." "He desperately needs to replace him." "We're at a point now where you know how losing Gene is gonna affect the operation." "and a..." "I apologize." "Your attitude controls the attitude around here 100%" "Right." "Probably a lot more than you know." "Yeah." "And I don't think about that kind of stuff." "Yeah." "I know." "Yup." "I bulldoze around when I'm pissed off like a maniac." "to a certain extent I'm scared because of.." "I am not gonna look like a failure up here." "Yeah." "Right." "success is the thing that matters to me." "Um huh." "I know that you feel the same way." "Um huh." "So" "I need a new foreman." "So oh." "you know." "I certainly hadn't thought about that but I guess." "do I?" "it's your choice because this has got to be a life for the next six months." "Yup." "It is a big responsibility." "But I'm up for it." "Good." "Yeah." "Thanks brother." "Let's do it." "I kinda feel that I've stuck by him the last 4 years." "and I'm super glad he's given it to me." "Rick's first task as foreman is a tough one." "Drain the berm cut." "boy." "That's deep yet." "definitely tiresome by the end of 12 hours." "This is a nightmare for sure." "Definitely could use some dry ground." "it's a pretty big project and you know." "Gene was always a guy for that." "He's a mastermind." "But this is definitely a first for me." "Got a sea there." "I need someone to come look at this truck." "It just died on me." "Yeah." "I don't like it." "They're losing machines to the flooded cut." "so uh." "It's not going very good right now." "Water everywhere." "Rick." "We need to get the water draining." "Yeah yeah." "I'm on it." "whatever." "is to manage water." "What a fuckin mess." "310)\fs36}At Scribner Creek his first task since Parker made him foreman." "Made it out of control here with this bug so." "We got to get a handle on it while otherwise we can't run trucks on it." "If we ain't running trucks on it we ain't moving anything." "Hey Brandon." "You got a copy." "Okay Rick." "Dig that ditch as deep as you can go all the way." "Okay." "I'll do that." "You betcha." "We got to keep a ditch flowing with all the ground water the entire length of it." "Rick comes up with a plan." "Dig a 250 foot ditch 10 feet deep along the side of the berm cut." "eventually drying out the waterlogged cut." "He'll put a culvert in the ditch beneath the haul road to allow water to flow out into the creek." "Brandon I got that pipe." "What do you say we drop her in and see what we get." "Yeah." "Let's get out of here man." "Okay." "I think we actually got it in place here." "You can wrap it and cover it up." "It's a short pipe." "It'll give us our one lane." "I think this is actually gonna work out pretty good." "Nice work today Boss." "We did good." "Whoo." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "100)\fs36}At Eureka Creek just like it did in the 1930's." "he needs a whole lot more." "000 he spent on the old machine" "Okay." "Got water." "We're in business." "Okay." "but he's heading home to see his family." "one of the machinists that rebuilt the dredge last year." "Okay." "roughly." "We gotta swing it first." "We'll just bring it up and let it bunt in there." "Yup." "Drop 'er down." "The key to running the dredge is mastering the winch levers that control the 72 buckets that pull pay dirt out of the ground." "Well every day of my apprenticeship as a winch man." "I'm going that way." "I know." "You want to be going that way?" "Oh." "Jerry's getting along really well for the short time he's been here." "All he needs is a little more practice." "Just give 'er another little shot." "That enough?" "Now you got the procedure." "then I'll bugger off I guess." "putting Jerry in the hot seat." "So I guess I'm gonna try to operate this." "but there's a lot to keep track of." "I'll say something." "Gordon hasn't been gone 10 minutes and here I am sitting in his chair." "It looks like I'm the number one winch man." "Gawd." "Dammit." "The operators forgot the brake on." "That's what caused it to start smoking like that." "They're just made of wood." "So it'll smoke and smoke and catch on fire." "What is the issue Jerry?" "Should have taken the brake off when we started the bucket line." "Think about what you're doing." "other than Gordon." "Brakes are off and we're good to go." "I'll be pretty pleased with myself." "Fuckin thing won't release." "Piece of shit thing." "Shut 'er down." "Shut 'er down." "It's off." "Fuck." "What happened?" "I don't know." "The winches quit?" "What the hell you doing Jerry?" "The winch shut down." "Overloaded." "You were moving those hand winches?" "Yup." "Uh huh." "It's like a friggen circus around here." "I'm telling ya." "Todd Hoffman is out to get twice as much gold as last year." "his crew needs to run 300 yards of dirt an hour." "But they're struggling." "We're drowning in tailings right now." "We're trying to hold at 300 yards an hour." "It's not working." "And it's adding up every day." "Boom boom boom." "Todd has a fix." "000 dollars." "I found a solution." "Cause the guy said this'll move well over 300 yards an hour." "Sounds too good to be true." "There it is." "How you doing man." "You Todd." "Good." "Todd's new conveyor should be able to move his tailings another 100 feet from the wash plant." "and it will actually power itself and shoot the tailings off the cliff." "the tricky part is you gotta get it in the mine." "How long are you with the truck?" "94 feet." "Front bumper to back bumper." "Alright." "Let's load up." "Todd Hoffman now owns one of the Klondikes biggest tailings conveyors." "he needs to haul it 60 miles to his claim." "it's gonna start getting bad." "there is no way." "we need to get 'er into the mine by tonight." "it's downhill." "but it's not." "okay." "Yup." "just around that corner." "Okay." "We got a hairpin tun right here." "It's downhill." "That is some unstable ground." "It's just muck." "Well hit it with everything you got." "Okay." "Okay." "Keep going." "Ah ha." "We're spinning." "We're spinning." "Hit it." "Hit it." "Hit it." "Hit it." "Lock up." "Now we're for real stuck." "Hang on." "Todd Hoffman's new super stacker is stuck deep in melted permafrost." "we sunk right up to the bumper." "How bad is it?" "Actually we're right on the axle." "We have to lift the front." "Hunter." "You got a copy?" "and a strap." "Okay." "I'm coming down then." "It's really hot out so." "All the permafrost underneath here is actually starting to melt and crack." "You can actually see it right here." "It's even oozing mud up out of there." "We gotta get it out of there quick." "I don't want it to keep sinking." "Thawed permafrost runs right down the middle of the next 100 yards of road." "That's just me." "I don't weigh as much as that front wheel." "Comes Hunter." "arrives in the 34 ton loader." "His first task:" "Pack down and flatten the road's muddy center." "Keep your wheels like that." "Don't get in the middle." "Hunter has to make sure his heavy tires don't make things worse." "Easy." "Turn your bucket." "You got your wheels into the mud." "No." "Not too much." "Whoa." "Stop." "The F tire's on the F-in road." "Go." "Quit putting them in the middle." "Look what you did." "Okay." "I was stuck in the middle and I had o cross the road to get to the other side." "I can't jump the loader." "You set it up wrong." "don't say that." "Your tire needs to be here." "If you guys will back up I can see and I can line up." "a little more." "Okay right there." "Stop." "Stop." "Put your bucket down and back her like that." "Tip it up a little more and then come down." "Un-tip it." "Tip it up." "Fuck off." "down." "Okay." "Just be quiet and let me back drag it." "I know how to back drag." "No you don't." "Holy..." "Keep going so you don't leave a mess." "Here." "Here ya go." "Good." "We're gonna try to do is lift his truck up okay." "Nice and slow." "Lower the bucket a little bit." "put it in reverse." "Keep your foot on the brake." "Hey." "Both of you guys are saying two opposite things." "I don't know what to do." "I wouldn't look at your grandpa." "Look at me." "Ready." "Go with him Hunter." "Go with him." "Hold up." "Hey." "Keep going." "Yee haw." "You did it." "Ya I don't know." "Maybe I'm just being a bad dad." "Who knows." "but." "To communicate from father to son is damn hard." "Hey guys." "We got a conveyor rolling into camp." "that we got it out and it's over with." "(Todd laughs)" "What do you mean?" "That's about all that I think about this." "I think I need a drink Thurber." "Let's do a double iced tea." "I like my dad and everything but like." "Just I don't work well with him I guess." "I don't know." "and he's frustrating to work with so." "It's hard." "Hey." "Sorry I yelled at you." "You did a good job." "You get frustrated you know." "I just don't want anybody to get hurt." "That's all." "Know what I mean." "You did a good job buddy." "Come here." "Let me get you an iced tea." "330)\fs36}At Scribner Creek" "New foreman Rick Ness's drainage channel is working." "The berm cut is dry." "Hey Burn." "You ready for this." "You betcha." "That black stuff." "That's our stuff." "I'll get you loading out some pay dirt." "Awesome." "they're down to their first pay of the season." "Parker's crew is getting back on track." "This is the minute I've been waiting for." "Can't wait to see the little yellow flakes on the sluice-box." "Whoo." "Oh yeah." "This looks good." "Move it." "Here's trucking gold up to the wash plant." "They can finally start to make money." "But half the cut is still covered in 40 feet of overburden." "and hundreds of man hours to clear the rest." "foreman Rick wants to be sure it's worth it." "It's been an all out brawl at this point just to get to where we're at." "right?" "because this it ain't worth a fight." "It's expensive stripping." "That's for sure." "where do we go from there." "I'd rather find out now." "Let's do it." "It's probably a good move to make." "Rick's thinking on his feet." "Which is good to see." "for the first time this season." "It's show time right now." "I love it." "Go wash some rocks baby." "We're looking good." "That's the sound I been missing." "That's all the rock bouncing off that metal plate." "It's good to hear it again." "Hey Parker." "Good news buddy." "She's up and running." "We're gold mining." "good job man." "mining legend John Schnabel arrives for his first visit of the season." "look who's here." "Ha ha." "Alright." "Ah ha." "Ha ha." "How you doing grandpa." "happy to be here." "It's good to see ya." "You're looking wonderful." "So are you." "Well thank you." "I'll show you around." "I'll hop in with you." "Ho ho ho." "Now things are chugging along up here." "It's been tough to get up on step." "I hope you hit the real profitable ground this year." "Yeah." "We need it." "Well." "like it's expiring." "You can't make it unless you spend it." "really." "Tell the fuel company that." "(John laughs)" "330)\fs36} At Eureka Creek and Tony is losing money." "Jerry Rhodes first solo mission at the helm has not gone according to plan." "This dredge hasn't been run in 27 years." "We didn't repair much of anything." "We tool it apart and threw it back together." "And we're finding things that should have been repaired." "It's a pain in the ass. 370)}The electronics are really sensitive." "It's one single motor that runs all the cable winches." "it loads up that motor to a point where it trips out." "Jerry raised the bucket line and operated the steering winch at the same time causing the motor to overheat and the electricity to cut off." "that's gonna overheat that motor." "We're gonna have to figure out some way to make it work." "We need to be able to run more than one function at a time on the winches." "can't keep that motor cool." "It's spinning way too slow." "I think we'll be okay." "Now I'll see if Tony can get a smaller pulley to get that thing spinning faster to cool itself." "Tell you I think it'd really be a good idea to get a smaller pulley." "but it's motor is overheating." "Gene plans to replace the drive pulley with one half it's size." "making the fan go faster and stopping the motor from overheating." "While the winch mechanism still runs at the same speed." "Tony's just arrived from Dawson with the smaller pulley." "Well." "Want to give me a hand we'll get it done." "the key." "The internal cooling fan wasn't turning fast enough to cool it with the bigger pulley." "A smaller pulley's gonna make it turn faster to accomplish the same thing." "Yeah hopefully." "You got it." "Todd's plan to double his gold this season has hit a roadblock." "Wow." "This thing is bent bad." "Hey Todd." "I think we got an issue." "Aw frick." "2 inches over here." "good lord." "What happens if we just run it like this?" "The belts gonna run off center and eventually it'll start to tear." "What do we gotta do?" "300)}We're gonna have to cut this whole front piece off so we can get in there with our tools to basically straighten and put it back in." "so basically we gotta rebuild the whole back end of the shaker." "and he has a plan." "Juan's got some magic up his sleeve." "Right now we got that front plate off we'll be able to put the hydraulic ram in between." "That way I can pull it and be able to straighten this out." "Juan should be able to get the sides of the stacker back in line." "Now it's looking okay." "See now." "It's quite a bit straighter than it was." "working with my dad every day after school since about 8 or 9 years old." "I followed in his footsteps and took it a little bit further." "make a little better living for my family." "The last step." "Juan welds on a new end plate." "it's really really close." "It's gonna be strong." "Juan has delivered." "The stacker's bent nose is fixed." "Looks like Juan did a good job." "I think she's ready to go." "It's moving guys." "Whoo." "Look at that dude." "That's unbelievable." "Monster Red's current stacker moves tailings 45 feet from the wash plant." "145 feet from the wash plant." "Allowing them to run 300 yards an hour without interruption." "I think we're ready to shoot some tailings over the cliff and put some gold in the box." "Fire in the hole." "(Honk Honk)" "Streams coming on." "Feed conveyor." "It's moving guys." "Whoo." "Looks real good." "We can actually move the pile over." "That's the beauty of having a radial stacker." "We can actually spread the tailings out." "What do you think Thurber?" "I love it." "A lot better huh." "that is heaven." "Bye bye." "Ha ha ha ha." "I love it." "What will we do with Thurber?" "Thurber." "We're gonna have to let you go." "(everyone laughing)" "330)\fs36}At McKinnon Creek" "The population has doubled overnight." "Hunter." "Come here to grandma." "I'm so glad to see you honey." "The miner's families have arrived for the summer." "I always wanted to be a bellhop." "The real joy is just having doing this with them." "400)}It isn't the gold in this pan." "It's just being with my family up here." "I quit." "I'm sticking with the heavy equipment." "290)\fs36}Scribner Creek" "Parker needs Rick's one thousand yard test to pay off." "Grandpa John and Parker weigh the gold that will determine whether or not the berm cut is worth mining." "ten or twelve ounces." "Yeah." "any sign in there?" "Oh yeah." "Oh." "we're on to something." "That's pretty nice." "How's it going in here." "Not bad." "Oh." "Just finishing drying up right now." "Looks so light eh." "Eh." "It's hard to predict." "Buddy." "went well." "Let's go weigh it up." "Parker has to get at least $10 a yard." "This one thousand yard test should produce at least 9 ounces of gold." "With that nugget we're at 7.1" "Eeehh." "That's certainly not as good as what we're hoping for." "I wouldn't mind this result on normal ground." "this is just hellish up there." "You know that ground's a lot deeper than our average ground." "the first section of the berm cut produced twice as much gold." "Parker faces a decision that will make or break his season." "That's a lot of fighting for not a lot of result." "Do we cut our losses and hightail it outta here?" "On that result?" "Or do we.." "Sink a pile of money into that cut." "I'm not gonna tell you how to spend your money." "That's for you to decide." "I wish you would." "we all have to learn the hard way sometimes." "There's gotta be more." "Yeah." "I think you're right." "I'm inclined to go with my gut." "If it were my money" "I'd go for it." "(laughter)" "I vote my own." "determination to get up." "(more laughing)" "Nice nugget." "It's a pretty good" "A signal that you can expect better recovery." "Let's hope you find a thousand of them." "So we're going for it." "Let's do it then." "Yup." "Thanks Rick." "I think it was a good hope." "Right on." "Ha ha ha." "if it was his money he'd do it." "right?" "gambling." "330)\fs36}At McKinnon Creek running a full 300 yards an hour." "Todd's ambitious plan to double their gold haul depends on the gold in these mats." "Damn Fred." "She's yellow all the way across." "and it's fun." "Hey Kevin." "Your butts right in my face." "You put your face in my butt." "No!" "You put your butt in my face!" "You put your face in my butt!" "You both liked it." "The Hoffman crew gathers with their families for their first proper weigh in of the season." "Now Jack's gonna walk out here." "And he's gonna have some gold in his hands." "And that's gonna be the fruit of our labor." "Juan." "If we hit our goal of 2700 ounces a lot of that will be because of you." "(Everyone claps and cheers)" "I appreciate you guys taking me in and treating me as one of your own." "I really do." "we need to clear over 200 ounces a week to make our goal." "okay." "So we need to clear at least 100 ounces on this." "Or we're gonna be in a hole." "Here comes Jack." "it was a guitar." "Quite like I was really expecting." "There's one hundred and forty point five five." "(claps and cheers)" "That's impressive." "Yeah." "000 dollars worth of gold we did in 3 days guys." "Yeah!" "303)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs36.727\b1\i1} Jack T" "This summer we're gonna go flying right past that 2700." "You think so huh." "I think so." "(cheers and whistles and clapping)" "330)\fs36}On the next Gold Rush" "Yeah!" "Finally got 300 yards an hour and it's kicking our ass." "See that water coming over?" "Hit the bypass." "Shut it down." "There's something wrong with the system." "Stand around and whine about it." "Just get the thing fixed." "One more time." "Voila." "Ha ha ha." "Scatter." "Work hard." "Play hard." "Right?" "you can't help but win."