"the sooner we can actually start making money here." "300)\fs42.332} On this Gold Rush Let's get going." "I'm right on the edge of the road here." "Well well." "We're 65 ounces short." "That's not good." "We're out of water." "Look at the line." "Way down." "We won't be able to mine if this hose doesn't work." "sweat and tears." "I'm not very happy with you or Carl." "It's a fuckin mess." "I can't really stand having you around here right now." "You can only take so much fuckin bullshit." "I've had enough." "I'm just going home." "I wouldn't treat my dog the way that he's treating people that work here." "You are making an enemy out of me." "So." "Leave." "I see some good numbers by the end of the season." "for the very first time." "it's nice to have this thing running." "there's one guy feeding it right now." "That's it." "a mega break of the season changer." "This is it." "This cut." "That plant." "Parker's rolled the dice on a new radical way of gold mining." "the boundary cut." "000 yard stockpile of pay and he's running dirt almost twice as fast as ever before." "But to execute his new plan he's pushed his crew to their breaking point." "I'm just completely tired and burnt out." "376)} If you're ever gonna put in a lot of long nights and hours to get this plant up and running." "it's no different than running this equipment into the ground." "Things will break down on you." "Willy spots a problem." "Hey!" "Hit the feed." "Hit the feed." "No water is getting to the prewash." "The pay is piling up." "the feed." "And water is gushing underneath the plant." "Willy hits the bypass." "What hose?" "Fuck!" "I'll go get Derek." "Water hose blew apart that feeds the plant." "hour and a half to get going again." "Uh oh." "I guess we got a leak." "right there." "Hi ya." "arrives to fix the pipe." "This sucks." "Parker hired Derek just last week as his third and youngest mechanic." "I guess we'll try sucking down some more on the clamps." "shit happens." "What can you do?" "I thought you said you had that thing tight." "I thought you said it was good." "Ha ha ha." "That's the pipe that Parker and Derek were working on." "Late in the middle of the night after a long long long long day." "The shit and dust is all over." "Look at all the dirt it washed out." "You get speed or quality." "Ninety percent of the stuff they're doing someone else is having to go back and redo." "Parker's two long serving mechanics rush in to make quick fixes." "Mitch levels." "While Carl welds." "uh." "386)} He wants to get it running all the time and run it wide open but we got to address the little things first right." "me and Carl are back in here 10 minutes later having to clean up their mess." "which is what Derek's feeding him every day." "then we're all to blame for it." "and not enough Indians." "376)}There often is confrontation between mechanics because 376)} Mechanics don't often agree on the right way to do it." "Nobody wants to take responsibility when something goes wrong." "down." "Down down down." "like talking to a dog." "Derek's mistake has cost them 3 hours." "All ready to go?" "Yeah." "Yee-hah." "I'm still messed up but." "I'm good." "At least it's fuckin running." "I think we're good." "Good job." "Ah." "fits right in and he's doing great." "It's nice to have somebody that's really stepping up." "Ah yeah? Yo-ho." "Paradise Hill." "The Beets family's bread and butter for the last 25 years." "Tony and his daughter Monica are about to start work on what should be a very profitable double seam of paydirt." "So what's the plan here dad." "So what does that." "Why's the bedrock buck.... eventually forcing one section to rise up and over another." "Giving Tony a bonus." "Two layers of gold rich paydirt." "Well?" "Perfect." "Let's do it." "Monica washes the overburden off the paydirt with a high pressure water monitor." "Getting rid of all this overburden is going to get us the sooner we can actually start making money here." "Tony heads out to inspect the flow of water from the monitor into his settling ponds." "down a channel into a series of settling ponds below." "the silt gradually settles." "But the new mud and water are causing water levels to rise." "one hundred million gallons of water will flood the valley below." "and fast." "Okay." "Let's go." "Day 2 of Parker's new mining operation." "Chris Doumitt feeds it into Goldzilla at 200 yards an hour." "What's going on now?" "Hey." "We gotta shut this plant down." "What the fuck now?" "all those welds are pounded out." "A four foot steel plate has ripped off the prewash and landed on the screen deck below." "Those big plates are halfway down the shaker deck." "Piece of fuckin shit." "You know we get the plant moved and everybody thinks that life's over." "Put in a few long days and everybody just turns to shit." "you know what welds need to look like to get fuckin to stay right." "Everybody thinks they're the boss up there." "So you pick somebody." "That can go up there cause every time I go up there and try to tell them something I get lip." "That's not a reason to just fuck off." "What's that?" "That's not a reason to fuck off and leave a fuckin mess." "There's a million things that need to be done on that plant." "We had a day to do it." "And now we're gonna spend another 8 hours with it down." "Every weld Carl welded is cracked." "I've had his chicken shit no good fucking Carl's welding." "I can't wait to see the look on his face cause I know the look already." "um" "Let's get you burning rod and us putting bolts in and we'll have to burn those bolts back in." "probably would've cut the conveyor belt." "loss of money." "Was it you who did it?" "Not me." "and it's still there." "Fuckin bunch of dickheads." "Hey Carl." "call it a day." "You already tighten this up?" "No." "Okay." "I can't really stand having you around here right now so." "He can think whatever he wants." "It's not my fault that fell off so." "with him standing next to me." "Don't wanna be fuckin irritated." "All the material's on the left side." "How long did I fuck." "Probably for 15 minutes on that. 15 minutes." "The top is what I did." "What's up?" "I'm just going home." "There's a good mechanic to keep shitting on." "It's real smart." "everybody's been out here working on this thing." "Trying to get it up and going." "Needs two weeks worth of work." "Wants to do it in a day." "I'm not into charity work." "Do you want to be here?" "Fuckin work and get the plant going." "Been out here for 3 months working every day." "that we're not working hard enough." "Give me a break." "care about this place." "Everybody's trying to give 'er." "To make things run and work right." "Okay." "I know that." "So I just need.." "We're down." "The fact of the matter is we're down." "But if it'd been done right this wouldn't happen." "And that's not all on you." "I'm not saying that's all on you Mitch." "just" "That's not all on you but some of it is." "Yeah." "What " "What's up with me?" "Just packing up man." "I've had enough so." "You can only take so much bullshit right." "It's too bad he's got to treat people like he does." "You know what I mean." "He's got a lack of respect for just about everybody." "people aren't gonna" "Put up with his shit all day long." "Monster Red plows through 300 yards of paydirt an hour." "worth over one and a half million dollars." "This year they plan to double that." "376)}Everyone' busy." "I think if we run at this pace we'll be good." "Thurber loads dirt into the wash plant." "Everything's running right." "Plant's running good." "We're not running out of pay." "I think it's good." "Hey." "What happened to our water?" "We're not getting washed." "What happened? Dad!" "Shut it down." "run down there." "The pond is too shallow for the pump's intake hose." "What is it?" "The pump?" "No." "The pump's fine." "We're out of water." "Know what." "That's what I was afraid of." "I knew it." "I knew we didn't have enough water volume in here." "way down." "000 gallons of water a minute." "most of the water returns to the lake." "But a mid summer drought has left the water levels at an all time low." "There's not enough water to pump back up to the plant." "376)}I'm actually losing more water to evaporation than I'm actually bringing into the lake." "so." "we're not gonna be sluicing." "to solve his water problem." "it's not gonna be fun." "You saw the lay-flat on the flat bed trailer?" "Yeah." "000 feet." "How am I supposed to do that?" "I don't know." "You're smart." "Figure it out." "all the way to a feeder pond which supplies Lake Todd." "and roll them which he doesn't even know how to do it." "cause it's just a swamp all the way there." "He's at that age where his dad doesn't know anything so." "I was at that age and my dad didn't.." "Wait a minute." "I'm still there." "I don't know." "Hopefully he grows out of it." "we're gonna get water." "Come hell or high water." "and grandfather Jack to help." "he has to get the pump set up at Montana Creek." "Take the straps off if you can." "We're past that point." "We still have to lay all the hose back to camp." "The lay flat's not light." "You got these big heavy rolls." "381)}We're gonna have to figure out a plan on how we're gonna do that." "Gawd damn." "I'm feeling my toe." "we got no plan." "The only plan we got." "Oww." "Ha ha ha." "I wa like blasting the light 326)}Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Hands on it." "right." "This is so fucked." "This whole thing." "we'll be surprised." "Let's get going." "At Paradise Hill" "We gotta fun drive these things again." "have an emergency on their hands." "There." "The water level in one of their settling ponds is dangerously high." "100 million gallons could burst through the dike wall." "it's also a road just wide enough for a truck." "It's made of half a mile of coarse tailings." "The plan is to use rock carrying belly dumpers to release enough tailings to raise the dike another 4 feet." "I've never really drove the belly dump before." "and" "I really don't want to disappoint my dad." "I didn't know." "Yes." "really narrow." "I am right on the edge of the road here." "the truck will get stuck." "That was the first dump I ever did with the belly dump." "Almost like I'm a real truck driver now." "we're gonna fall off the cliff." "Adds a bit of pressure. 376)}Tony and his kids have shored up the dike." "Crisis averted." "They can now run Monica's double layer of paydirt and start catching gold." "Bullshit you will." "Let's go." "Shit yeah." "I'm not doing this again." "Lake Todd is running out of water." "And Monster Red has been down for 12 hours." "000 feet away." "how do we do this?" "set this roll in here." "And then just drive." "And see if it'll just unspool itself." "Okay." "it would unroll flat." "And we can use these bungee cords." "Ready?" "Yeah." "Nice." "Whoo!" "Alright." "Let's just go grab the other roll." "Hook it up." "Do it 6 more times." "Yup." "(groaning from effort)" "Hey this sucks." "dude." "My finger's in it." "Don't shove it down on top." "That's good." "Where's the fuckin hose clamps dude." "We didn't put them on." "Ha ha." "Oomph ha ha haa." "I just want to get this done." "That's the very end of it." "(laughing)" "This has been the longish project." "Unhh." "There we go." "Good work." "It's the moment of truth." "Sterling." "You guys did a great job." "I'm proud of you guys." "Randy Hubler turns on the pump down at Montana Creek." "the water must make it to the holding pond that feeds Lake Todd." "How long do you think it'll take to get water here?" "15 seconds." "I wo.." "We got water coming." "There it is." "Boom." "Yee-aah." "Good stuff." "Nice job." "We got water to sluice." "Look how clean that is." "That is awesome." "000 gallons of water per minute into Lake Todd." "Alright." "We got water." "Now it's replenishing." "We're filling it back up." "That water right there's just saved our season." "000 feet from Montana Creek." "I'm proud of them." "They did a good job." "Heavenly father we thank you for the gold that you've put in the ground for us." "And it's in your name we pray." "Amen." "(All)Amen." "Everybody." "Right here for Monster Red." "Wooh." "Let's fire it up Dave." "Okay." "Coming on." "Streams coming on." "I'm back baby." "Last 5 days I've worked over a hundred hours on this wash plant." "reaches the end of his third nightshift in a row." "I wouldn't treat my dog the way that he's walking around treating people that work here." "I know people in jail get treated better than that." "The only reason I'm sticking around is cause I heard Rick's gonna be back and we'll see if things change." "you know what?" "My truck's got wheels for a reason." "is working alone." "I've been going since 5:30 this morning already and I'm still working." "And nobody's here." "Whatever." "Nobody likes the new guy I guess." "I've only been here." "less than 2 weeks and some guys have been here with him for a couple seasons." "here." "I don't know." "We'll see what happens." "We'll see what's left by the end of the day." "Parker's foreman Rick is on his way back from a family emergency." "and that Derek is causing a rift in the crew." "I don't know what I'm gonna do when I meet this guy." "I'm not gonna just walk in there and that's what I want to do." "How's she going?" "Good." "How's your mom doing?" "Good." "what's bad about it?" "in 10 days." "I ran into Carl on the road actually." "Pretty bummed about that." "Yeah." "I'm bummed about Carl a bit." "Oh well." "Alright." "and I'm ready to go." "and" "The one other guy that matters doesn't seem to see it." "Parker." "Let's meet Derek." "I want to introduce you." "I don't really want to meet that guy." "I'll be honest with you." "Why?" "I don't have anything to say to him." "I've heard enough." "From who?" "Everybody." "I don't know how it's gonna go with this guy." "Just tell him to stay the fuck away from me." "Rick." "I'm serious." "That's not a position that I like to hear from you." "and we're running" "Talk." "And talk shit about everybody that's been here making this what it is." "And" "And that's fuckin bullshit." "Don't put me in this position." "What position?" "Pitting everybody against each other." "and punch him in the face." "But you won't walk up to him and shake his hand either and that's a problem." "Yeah." "I don't think it's part of my job to have to shake somebody's hand." "I don't want the guy to prove anything to me." "I don't want him to earn my respect." "I just want him to leave." "Before it fuckin gets ugly." "I just want to punch him in the fuckin face just looking at the guy." "He looks like a fuckin idiot." "How's it look." "It looks dang good." "Jack Hoffman finishes up the weekly cleanup in the gold room." "Hey." "Hey Todd." "right?" "306)}Let's weigh it." "well." "Let's hope there's 200 there." "This is it." "50" "Come on Jack." "Stretch it." "Not gonna make it." "120." "Not gonna make it." "Crap." "136." "Ooh." "Eck." "000 dollars." "I don't know what to say." "We had a lot of problems with water this time." "Yeah." "We were shutdown today for water." "200 a week guys is what it's gonna take to hit our goal." "we ain't gonna win." "We just can't do it." "I don't care what happens." "We have to figure out a solution a lot faster than that." "We just didn't get the gold." "Alright." "Well." "We'll jar it up." "Okay." "See ya." "You know what?" "We're 65 ounces short." "That's not good." "So." "you know." "That 2700 slips away." "Little by little." "run." "our plant holds out." "Parker has an angry fractured crew on his hands." "the quality I'm seeing here." "It's terrible." "He's got this arrogant attitude." "Kinda rubs people the wrong way." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "There's one thing toxic here." "And it's one guy." "Uuhhh." "I got work to do." "or get on." "Parker says I'm here to stay." "The new guy's not leaving." "Everything alright." "Yeah." "Did you tell Rick you wanted to strangle Derek?" "I don't think so." "Everybody likes seeing gold in the box." "Everybody." "Monica Beets has been running a seam of double pay for 4 days straight." "It's time to find out if it's as rich in gold as Tony hopes." "you might as well." "Kinda interesting to see what's there." "100 150" "180 200" "240" "260 280" "It's 318.4" "Three hundred and eighteen point four." "Me too." "big time." "Huge stake." "I think you almost messed up only having a few of us eh." "As long as I'm still the baby I don't care." "Holy smokes." "Where'd you find that?" "In the box." "Nice." "Nice gold nugget." "and new plant are producing gold." "that's a good sign." "And what I like to see is that it's down in the mat." "There's a nice chunk right here." "That's good to see." "Hmmph." "Oh you been hand panning again?" "He just pulled that outta there." "There's one handful out of there." "Wow." "really good." "Argh." "Too much gold in there." "You can't even lift it." "Parker is on the gold." "But the crew is more divided than ever." "right." "This morning to go to meet him he wouldn't shake my hand for some reason." "Uh." "A handshake means a lot." "ah." "you might as well just spit in my face or knock me out." "I would've rather that." "Rick could've brought life back in this place." "Instead he's 356)}And he will." "he's not right now." "376)}Well no." "He's only been here a few hours." "Good grief." "look at the turmoil he's caused." "Should I fire him?" "no." "I've seen the pattern." "they walk." "That's not good." "And don't do that to Rick." "376)}Because these people have been with you a long time." "we are not a crew here." "We are a family here." "We are." "what?" "A couple weeks." "376)}Who would you get rid of?" "376)}I honestly don't know what to do." "You know I.." "Dozer's my only fuckin friend anymore." "Nah!" "I don't know 376)}Oh geez." "you know." "Like." "I can't see Parker losing his right hand man." "four years now." "Rick has always been there for him." "Always." "So you want to tell me what's going on?" "With what?" "You know with what." "I just don't like the guy." "I don't think it's my job to like everybody is it." "I just don't like him." "You never met him." "You don't get to just not like somebody." "That is right." "You have to at least give people a chance." "That is a job requirement." "Yes!" "You are making an enemy out of me." "that is the result." "Look at the position you're putting me in." "What am I supposed to do?" "I" "The only result is that things were going fine when you were gone." "Uh huh?" "So." "Leave." "307)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T 320)\fs36} On the next Gold Rush" "I don't know if I'll be able to keep up." "There's our boy." "I was wondering if you could help me." "No problem." "You have reached beyond my expectations." "We got a real chance to beat that kid." "Shut it down." "You gotta watch this shit." "I'm gonna be friggen pissed." "Hey!" "When do you want us to do all this?" "You don't fuckin listen." "and it's good stuff." "That's the fuckin bottom line." "have it. ♪♬ ♪♬ ♪ ♪ {\alphaHFF}" "360)\fs42.332} Up ahead. 406)} position"