"320)\fs40} On this Gold Rush" "We're losing gold." "Grraggahh!" "Bunch of fuckin assholes." "What a fuckin joke." "Here we go." "Gonna make a million dollar mountain." "Whoa." "It's fuckin on fire." "That's it." "Cut it." "Take the shaft and weld it right into the engine." "I don't care." "This was just a stupid call." "we're broke down." "We're gonna fail if we keep doing this." "That plant needs to be running." "Uptime." "Uptime." "Uptime." "but." "I don't think he stands a chance." "Whoo." "We been busting our ass for that stuff." "Keep going." "Keep going." "Keep going." "Are ya gonna take my deal or not." "I would love to kick your butt." "I'm not here to lose." "What a fuckin disaster zone." "Todd Hoffman." "That loaders thrown all over." "They aren't running 300 yards an hour." "I'll tell you that." "man." "Parker has made a comeback." "trailing the Hoffman crew by just 250 ounces." "how are ya." "I'm alright." "buddy?" "I actually heard that you might be interested in selling that gold room you got." "I would be open to it." "That's it there?" "Yup. wanna go look at it?" "Yeah." "If we could." "Your table will fit right on there." "Your jigs'll go right down there." "and then you just shovel in." "What do you want for this?" "I got $30.000 in this thing." "The last year did about 1.7 million." "And then..." "You're talking about it like you had something to do with it." "Why don't you make me an offer Parker." "Aah." "I don't know..what the thing's worth." "Take 12 thousand bucks?" "This is the deal." "this year." "I might give you this container." "Okay." "You do not have to pay for it." "But if you beat me." "at the end of the season." "This is a great bet." "It's a bet." "It's a good bet." "Got nothing to lose." "You really don't." "I'm just trying to figure out what your angle is." "I've probably pulled off a miracle down here." "And you probably had some things go wrong down there." "And at least one guy did something good for you this year." "And that would be me." "I'm not here for favors Todd." "you can do it either way." "Are you gonna take my deal or not?" "You got a chance of not paying me." "By losing." "I'm not here to lose." "206)} Take that one." "I'm taking the deal and I'm gonna pay you cause I'm gonna beat you." "Challenge accepted." "It's yours." "Consider it a birthday gift." "Don't get me wrong." "I would love to kick your butt." "I think I got more heart." "Really?" "I do." "We'll find out." "I think we've got more discipline." "We'll find out." "I doubt it." "Really?" "Heh heh." "We'll find out Parker." "Oh man." "I was his age once." "I was 21." "I don't believe in Parker's ability to keep his team together." "He's playing a game." "I kinda guess." "I think." "We got a better team and we got bigger hearts." "And that." "That's why we're gonna beat him this year." "He said they've got more heart than us." "what does that even mean? and his son Kevin on a 60 mile trip to see the latest addition to his operation." "Tony has doubled down and bought a second antique mining machine." "The Thistle Creek Dredge. and has survived 70 Yukon winters. why not make it run." "Everything's pretty much complete." "The Thistle Creek Dredge is missing it's bucket line." "the dredge is useless." "Could have found an easier trail maybe." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Doesn't look to be horrible." "I got 37 also." "Tony's only option is to take one bucket to use as a model to have replacements cast." "so they can remove it's connecting pin." "this is about the easiest one to try." "Grab 'er." "Oh yeah." "There you go." "Grrrowll." "Give 'er." "You got a chain?" "it also has to free it from the mud it's been sitting in for over half a century." "Here we go." "the Hoffman crew has reached a watershed moment." "386)} Right now we're stripping the very very last of the overburden in the extension of the supercut." "386)} I want to get this out of here as fast as we can." "what I want to do is move every piece of equipment we have." "and five 40-ton rock trucks and the D-11 dozer." "a lot of manpower and quite frankly it's a lot of money." "Everybody's got to be on their game." "Let's get this stuff out of here." "Just two months ago I said to myself that that will never happen." "We will never get to the end of it." "And now here we are." "This is it." "This is the last of the overburden." "the Hoffman's still need over a million dollars worth of gold." "We're gonna start running pay." "We're gonna keep sending enough pay until we got a million dollars worth of pay sitting up on the ramp." "We're gonna make a million dollar mountain." "All season the Hoffman crew has used 2 rock trucks to haul paydirt to the wash plant and 3 rock trucks to remove overburden." "they can use all 5 rock trucks to haul pay to the plant." "allowing Todd to build a 40 foot tall stockpile that he hopes will hold a million dollars in gold." "Hey Kevin." "The overburden's done." "I'm gonna give you a million dollar pay pile." "Bring it on Logan." "in pay." "Being drowning in pay right now isn't such a bad thing." "our pay problems are over." "A million dollar pay pile?" "Bring it on." "Whoa." "Fuck." "it's on fire." "Cut the power." "Fire." "Get up here quick." "Smoke is pouring out of the Hoffman's radial stacker." "I'm telling you." "It caught on fire." "But I don't know." "What's going on?" "I gotta wait for it to cool down." "Oh no." "no no." "We can't afford to be down." "it's sizzling still." "Todd." "I think it got caught on fire and burnt up." "How bad is it?" "There's something massively wrong." "Hang on a second." "Shit." "You alright?" "Yeah." "for the gear to grab." "It tore them all out." "It's plastic." "it melted them out and it's toast." "All those little ribs are gone ." "The tailings conveyor is powered by a motor at it's base." "that powers the conveyor mechanism." "But teeth on the metal cog have destroyed the teeth on the plastic wheel." "And the friction eventually started a fire." "It would take 2 weeks to get a replacement part all the way up to the Yukon." "mechanic and fabricator Juan Ibarro has to come up with a solution." "I'm gonna make a different style coupler out of mild steel." "Still not 100% perfect because we don't have the tooling here to be able to make certain that its 100% standard." "386)} We'll do the best we can." "Hopefully it'll get us by for a couple more weeks." "Machining a steel wheel and getting it perfectly aligned could take 2 days." "000 dollars in gold." "Dude." "Walk with me." "Walk with me." "Normally I would never do this but I don't really have any other option on this one so." "Yeah." "you gotta get it running." "And I know we don't have that part." "that thing's a piece of crap." "There's no way it can work." "206)} Take the shaft and just fricken weld it right into the engine." "I don't care." "Juan's bush fixed a lot of stuff." "is too long." "You gotta friggen figure it out." "If we do a 2 part epoxy and we stick it in there with the dry gear and let it sit." "What it does is that it fills in all the holes." "and then turns hard as a friggen rock." "It basically renews all those plastic teeth." "Then we got 'er." "We're good to go." "Get on it Randy." "Get that part." "Let's epoxy it on there and let's give it hell." "over Juan's steel replacement wheel." "We gotta come up with some other plan." "That won't work." "That's not gonna happen." "That's not gonna work huh." "Nope." "No it won't Juan." "This is just friggen stupid man." "This is just a stupid call." "This is just taking time away from us from being able to run." "how in the hell are we gonna do it if we're just shooting ourselves in the foot." "We're screwing ourselves." "It's stupid." "How did Juan get in here." "He's bigger than me." "Mechanic Randy Hubler begins his bush fix." "5 minutes." "5 minutes ticking." "Ready?" "Yeah." "Dave and Randy have just one chance to make it work." "That's a lot riding on plastic." "both parts will be useless." "Um." "This part helps." "Ah." "Go inside." "there." "It went in." "Nice." "Now we gotta get this bolted up." "Let it set." "Then the real test will be the first time we fire it up." "Tony Beets is still struggling to mine the gold he needs to pay off his million dollar dredge." "what a joke." "Hey man." "Let's go ahead and shut down." "We got some problems with the sluice runnings here." "Seriously." "Yeah." "they've had a problem with fine tailings blocking the riffles where the gold should collect." "it's gotten out of control." "386)} Hey." "I know we want to make it run." "Make it work." "But this isn't really fuckin working." "The way our plumbing is right now we can't really speed the water supply up." "So it's gonna back up." "it's not washing it out as fast enough." "the riffles have been clogged." "We're losing gold so." "It defeats the purpose." "it's gonna be an issue." "It's on foreman Gene Cheeseman to come up with a solution." "I just don't see how it worked before." "Where the stuff comes underneath the trommel right now it's going out in all them runs this way." "so it all eliminates these side runs." "Five sluice runs on either side of the trommel collect all the gold and fine material." "Gene's plan." "Eliminate four out of the five sluices on each side." "Then install a pair of 15 foot long sluice runs." "allowing gold to collect in the riffles." "Okay." "Sounds good." "blocking off eight of the sluice runs with steel." "so we that we shouldn't have as much of a sandbar issue as we have." "Eight runs are blocked off." "Water will now be diverted into 2 new custom built sluices." "Tony's crew now installs the massive one ton sluice runs." "Yeah." "Just keep coming." "More." "inch and three eights right there so." "They've extended the runs going out the back." "A little bit more to go." "And she will run again." "Just gotta put these channels in." "There's ten of them." "Finish up the last details." "Fire things up here." "mats and ripples are in." "It's time for a test." "Tony and crew have to run for at least a day to find out if their new sluices are catching gold." "Off we go." "we gotta keep this plant running all the time you know." "Big Red." "and beat the Hoffmans." "we're not making any money." "is taking it's toll." "386)} I guess the biggest problem right now I can see is how much dirt we're running through Goldzilla." "It's just how fast things are wearing out." "You know that's just the cost of running that fast I guess." "Fuckin rock." "you don't have to do any maintenance on." "Goldzilla." "Fuck." "What can I do to help?" "the screens are about ready to go here." "Just this first bunch getting pretty shot." "I was wondering if we should take that little 2 foot section at the bottom and put it up at the top." "Get a few more hours on 'em." "but sharp bedrock has cut holes in the upper screen." "allowing large rocks to fall trough and damage the lower screen." "." "They are causing cracks in Goldzilla's steel structure." "and moved this up there." "Drag it down." "Slide it down." "A fuckin piece of shit." "It's tough because you know we run it hard and stuff like he screens wear out fast but then we need the up time too." "gets tougher every hour the wash plant is shut down." "could make the difference between making it or losing it really." "Every minute that plant's down there needs to be panic mode." "It needs to be running." "Uptime uptime uptime uptime." "Oh." "Whoever built this thing is a fuckin idiot." "Some people rotate their tires." "We rotate our screens." "Get every mile out of them." "Should be thrown away." "That scrap pile comes to mind when I think about where they should go." "Screen changes should take a half hour." "Really." "We need to start focusing on uptime." "we need to try to keep it running." "Right." "that kind of shit is done." "The downtime is gonna stop." "Another expensive meeting." "I'll um." "I'll hit the belts." "Should we really do this?" "The Hoffman's radial stacker has been down for over 6 hours." "Todd went with a quick fix using glue." "Get ready with the fire extinguisher." "just waiting for it to cure." "Alrighty." "Here she comes." "That's it." "Cut it." "Done." "It's toast." "Randy's epoxy fix has failed." "It doesn't look pretty." "I don't think we're gonna be able to run this again." "There's nothing I can do about it." "It's a piece of plastic." "The Hoffmans are back at square one." "again. it didn't hold it." "We knew it wasn't gonna hold." "why they even did it is stupid." "And now we hit." "We're broke down." "we should have fixed it right the first time." "Or at least done a better job repairing it." "it shouldn't have been done that way." "This fix is gonna be a bush fix as well." "But it's gonna be a little different in the sense that we're not gonna be using glued." "he'll weld it firmly in place." "I have no idea why it didn't happen in the first place." "We're gonna do it now." "And uh." "We'll get it up and running." "Todd's million dollar pay pile is growing by the minute." "But he hasn't run a yard of dirt in nine hours." "It's 2 ounces an hour that Parker's catching me." "that's 2 ounces too much." "Juan and Kevin work into the night." "Want to give it a shot?" "Yeah I'll give it a shot." "See if it fits." "That's it man." "That's it?" "That's it." "Yeah." "they're finally ready to test Juan's custom built part." "it'll shear off as soon as they hit start." "Ready Juan?" "Yup." "Okay." "you can see." "the conveyor." "There she goes." "it is good." "That's it buddy." "Right on man." "but Juan has fixed the stacker." "He saved the Hoffman crew 2 weeks of running time." "And hundreds of thousands of dollars." "Everything's looking good." "We just need to keep an eye on it for the rest of the night." "Alright fellas." "Let's make it happen." "There's paydirt to haul." "We gotta keep it going." "Foreman Rick Ness is enforcing Parker's new "no down time" rule." "But wash plant operator David Kroeker has a problem." "I helped run this plant before." "Or the guy who owns it was running it." "386)} But I told him I'd take care of it and I'd let him know if shit gets bad on it." "Parker has put maintenance on hold." "Oh yeah." "All's you need is the rocks to plug the hole." "Ain't just the rubber." "Alright." "It's just right in there." "Goldzilla's sluice has sprung a leak." "maintenance is key." "then you keep up your run time." "Rick and Mitch attempt to plug the hole without turning off the oscillating sluice box." "We don't even shut down to fix leaks." "We just drill holes in the sluicebox and plug them with rubber." "Ha ha ha ha." "How does that feel?" "Like my hands got sandblasted." "I can stand here all night." "Bring me some dinner and some beers." "Mitch opens up a hole to allow the plug to fit." "That's gotta be good for a drill." "I can't get the rubber down because the rocks get under it." "and then you got a major failure on it." "Something really breaks on it and then you're screwed." "Like right now." "Something's smoking up there." "but it's just a rock caught in the belt." "David Kroeker checks for damage." "Kroeker?" "What's up?" "We short on steel around here?" "What's that?" "Are we short on steel?" "I don't think so." "Why?" "Why didn't they fix that stuff when they had the screens out?" "We're gonna do it on the next round." "We just want to try to get going." "we just need to get the right fuckin thing." "It's wearing on original steel." "I don't know what to say about it." "We'll get new steel put in it." "It's just" "Try to get it running now." "That's about it." "Everything else is good to run though?" "should be." "I asked if he could shovel that mouth out." "uh." "Right underneath the belt there." "I can go shovel it while it's running." "But you gotta get in the mouth to get it." "Is what I'm saying." "man." "let's just run." "Alright." "Fuckin sick of arguing with this guy." "Any little reason he can find to not run this thing it seems like he wants to do it." "it ain't right shit." "Shit happens but." "We gotta run." "You know that's all there is to it." "I" "Ahh!" "I'd love to shutdown for a fuckin week and get everything perfect but it's just not in the cards so." "Rick follows Parker's orders." "206)} Get it running." "once again. bur Kroeker's convinced that ignoring routine maintenance will backfire." "Parker gave the plant owner his word that he would take care of it." "it'll just get taken away and he won't have any production then." "Goldzilla's owner sends one of his men to perform a surprise inspection." "and Parker will be unable to mine." "In 2 days." "Yes." "I know the owner of the plant very well." "Know the agreement that he has." "I don't think anybody honestly around here could say that they are." "we're gonna be shut down for awhile." "and then we just gotta... but no." "I don't like it anymore than you do but." "If we're prepared for it you know." "We can make a lot of repairs pretty quickly. exactly." "Yeah." "Exactly." "We'll get 'er dialed in." "Sneaky." "I just think that's pretty shady." "I just find it pretty hard to believe that this guy just wandered in here today." "On a coincidence I'm fairly certain that Kroeker probably called him and ratted on us." "I guess his allegiance is more towards his buddy that owns the plant than it is to this team so." "Pretty shady way to go about things." "Rick has no choice but to shutdown to make repairs." "Every once in a while you have to stop and maintain." "Sideboard screens and let's just weld up all those cracks." "on the next clean-out we got to get fuckin everything ready ." "Mechanics Mitch and Derek weld the structural cracks and replace the screens." "We got everything we need out here so we'll just do it." "It's burning way too hot." "I'm gonna drop it." "Watch yourself." "Yeah." "In less than 4 hours They're ready to run dirt again." "It worked out." "Worked just fine." "We got a lot going on but at least we know it won't fall apart." "Parker's crew lost a total of 12 hours to repairs this week." "They won't know how much it's cost them until their weekly cleanup." "Well it's up and running." "Let's hope it lasts we're not making gold." "The beets crew has struggled all season to get good gold." "All of their hopes now rest on Gene Cheeseman's new sluice boxes." "The increased water flow has cleared the sluices of silt." "But to prove it's worked they need to check that it's not blowing all their gold along with it." "Yeah." "After 2 days of running a pan should produce at least some visible colors." "Gene's new sluices have the ancient dredge catching good gold once again." "We're wearing out our dozer pushing tailings." "the Hoffman's wash plant pad has once again grown too big for their tailing's conveyor." "Todd has a 180 foot solution." "(Honk Honk)" "We got all these conveyors here." "Radial stacker.." "Dave." "Swig 'er over." "And we'll bail it out another 70 to 100 feet." "Ho Dave." "Let's set 'er there." "Andy." "We're like half a mile from the wash plant." "Ha ha ha." "Think we're ready to try it." "Doug." "and more time running their million dollar pay pile." "Will that be enough." "I don't know." "We're gonna find out." "386)} There's some gold in it." "Doesn't look as good as it did the other day but." "366)} Know you're gonna have those days." "Your ups and your downs." "Juan's fix on the radial stacker has kept Monster Red running the rest of the week." "That's what gold is." "Once you think you got it all figured out." "That's when it bites you in the butt." "This is the first test of Todd's million dollar mountain of pay." "Okay." "Just work on draining underneath there." "we'll find out huh." "Yeah." "it's time for Jack to reveal if they've hit their weekly goal of 200 ounces." "What do you think?" "it looks like a lot." "What is it?" "How much dad?" "we need 200 this week." "One sixty." "worth 2 million dollars." "we need 200 a week." "we're over 40 short." "and you're 40 short next week." "that's right." "we're way short." "We're not gonna reach it so." "I think it's gonna get better though." "We're starting to get our groove." "Oh no." "We've moved all the overburden." "That million dollar mountain's starting to look like about a half a million dollar mountain." "keep on this pace we ain't gonna hit it." "Well that." "You're right." "You're right." "We're gonna have to keep the plant running." "But we are behind now so." "We are." "Alright dad." "Thanks." "it's aggressive." "Can we hit it?" "I don't know." "Todd's ambitious 3 million dollar season is slipping from his grasp." "We're gonna fail." "We're gonna fail if we keep doing this." "Things with gold and silver are going well." "Parker has shut down to find out if his ban on downtime has paid off." "What I'm doing is doing some hand panning." "Get an idea what kind of gold's in there." "366)} That's one handful." "How many handfuls are in this tank already." "but we have our feeder sitting in the middle of a million dollar cut." "Which one would you choose?" "I'm kinda eager to get this down to the jig though and start running it." "See what we got." "Oh ho." "That's a lot of gold." "Yeah." "Whew." "Looks like we're doing real good." "Been busting our ass for that stuff." "Keep going keep going keep going." "So that's 351.87 ounces." "000 dollars." "Oh." "Ho ho." "Nice week." "Man." "That's outstanding." "Thanks for keeping the plant going." "Great." "Yeah." "****" "That's awesome." "You guys have done a hell of a job." "Guess we gotta take back all the bad things we say about Goldzilla." "no kidding." "We called it a lot of things last week." "that oughta pay the bills." "Pays some bills." "that's a months wages." "That's not bad." "That brings us to like right over 1800 ounces." "Just a hair over. 1801 or something." "I know Todd's up and going pretty hard but uh." "then I don't think he stands a chance." "keep that thing chugging along." "Parker Schnabel is only 60 ounces shy of catching Todd Hoffman." "I'm gonna start hyperventilating if I don't do this." "I've go to." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Right as a wimp's pick arm." "There's a wimp." "000 dollars in a week." "Parker is on track to mine over 3 million dollars in gold this season." "Yeah." "That's one hell of a result." "You know that's a lot of gold." "The guys seem stoked." "297)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T" "We're all pretty worn out." "everybody right there." "Hopefully we can keep this pace up." "it'll all pay off in the end." "Come on." "120)\fs35} On the next Gold Rush" "We brought you some gold." "I can't believe Parker just did that man." "I really think that 3000 ounces is well within reach." "What the fuck." "There's no way we're gonna hit that target." "Let's rip fuckin things up." "It's hitting too low." "We're very much stuck." "That's what it fuckin takes." "Fuckin done." "If you want it done right you gotta do it yourself." "Gimme just one day in that cut with the D-11." "Whoa whoa." "Just a black muddy mess." "If we don't have gold in this cut we're pretty much screwed. {\alphaHFF}"