"In a lot of ways I feel like a fool." "I left the Klondike and I tell the whole world I'm going to get 5,000 ounces." "It blew up in my face." "What I don't want to do though is let my guys down." "I want to put gold in every single one of their pockets." "And to do that we need 1,000 ounces." "And that's what we're going for." "It's been a very different season without my grandpa here." "I always relied on him a lot when it came to big decisions" "And it's tough without that guidance and wisdom." "Deciding to do a second wash plant is a tough call to make." "Rick really had to step up and he's done that." "But now we just have one goal left to achieve." "And I am not leaving without that 4,000 ounces." "Let go of me now!" "On this season finale of "Gold Rush."" "I feel our team is falling apart." "I will resign." "This is a really dark day for our mining company." "If we stop moving at this point we die." "We've just got to keep everything going." "Bye-bye, frost." "Shut her down, shut her down!" "Woo!" "Woo!" "So Doumitt, what's our season total." "You ready for this one?" "Narrator:" "All season, Tony Beets has been trying to barge his 2nd dredge from Thistle Creek 100 miles down river so he can get it producing gold on his own ground." "It's still got warranty on it." "Narrator:" "Finally he's on site with a crew, a crane and a barge big enough to transport the massive sections down river." "We're a taxi?" "Narrator:" "But any day the Yukon River could turn to ice." "I found another pin." "Watch the light, watch it, stay down." "Think somebody's trying to get your attention, Tony." "Yeah." "This is from from Minnie." "you bet" "Narrator:" "Tony owns the dredge but not the ground it sits on and he failed to get a permit from the Yukon government before he started to move it." "You cannot move the dredge." "Somebody complained." "you can jump high, you can jump low" "You think I like it?" "No." "It's even worse than you think." "you can't move the dredge because you're not allowed to put pressure on the ground." "You're not allowed to do anything there." "Your thing is dead in the water right now." "You have to get a land use permit." "No." "Because you're going to end up getting fined through the yin-yang." "You're gonna get so many fines it's going to double the price on the dredge." "No." "Don't even think that." "It's not worth it." "You're gonna have to apply for the land use permit and then you'll move it next year." "Narrator:" "In a last ditch attempt to salvage his disastrous season," "Todd Hoffman is running two crews and two claims," "Sacramento and Fairplay." "It's really late in the season but I want 1,000 ounces before the snow flies." "Wow." "That looks flippin' good, man." "Narrator:" "Freddie Dodge and Trey Poulson are running the mine at Fairplay and they're on a hot pay streak." "Freakin' awesome." "Think about all of the rest of that, that's all virgin." "But at Sacramento" "Dave Turin is struggling to produce half as much gold." "I'm depressed because there's no gold and everybody's frustrated." "I, I feel bad." "The guys at Fairplay," "They're carrying the ball right now." "We got to get Sacramento paying but the gold's not there yet." "Narrator:" "Dave's working flat out and feeling the pressure." "I'm a leader." "I feel like I've let the guys down." "I'm 57 years old and" "It feels like at times I'm just a... another worker." "just another loader operator." "And so I don't know." "It's been a tough year." "There we go." "Narrator:" "Todd's testing different parts of the claim in an attempt to find a richer seam." "Todd." "What?" "If you guys can hear that stuff you got to let me know." "I can't hear anything." "Yeah Freddy, what's up?" "I'll go ahead and shut down and send Dave down there with the loader he ain't going to be happy, though." "Dave, you got a second?" "Go ahead." "Fairplay shut down." "They're broke down?" "Their loaders are broke down over there." "if we could shut down and get that loader over there, we could at least get Fairplay running again." "Save their ass for a little while." "Go ahead and run that over there, Dave." "All right." "I'm headed out." "I can't believe it." "Kind of pisses me off." "Like every time they break down we have to shut down." "This is bullshit." "We're not producing as much gold." "Sometimes you got to sacrifice to keep the mother ship running." "Right now the mother ship is Fairplay." "Hey, shut this down." "I'll do the pumps and the bypass." "One of you's gotta stop." "Let go of me now." "I'm going to fuckin' kill him now." "Let me down him." "Knock it off!" "Trey." "Dave." "Trey." "One of you just stop." "Please fuckin' walk away." "I'm not gonna stop." "Shit." "Dave?" "Chicken shit." "Is that your best shot?" "No, it wasn't," "Hey." "Was that your best shot?" "No." "Fuck, Trey?" "Dave. please." "Please, Dave." "Let..." "Let..." "Bring the fury down." "Fuck." "Bring the fury down." "Fuck." "I'm done with that shit." "Fuckin piece of fuckin' shit like that." "Please, Dave." "Let go." "Coward." "Just stop." "Knock it off!" "Trey?" "Trey." "Let's go." "Follow me." "What's going on?" "Battle of two bad tempers." "Whose?" "Dave's?" "Dave and Trey." "Where are they?" "Dave left." "Dave's with Andy." "What do you mean, he's with Andy?" "Dave.." "They okay?" "Andy got him to fuckin' walk away." "No." "It's not good." "Did they fight?" "They get in a fight?" "No." "Fuck." "Trey, Dave." "Dave, get the..." "Dave!" "Oh, no." "Whoa." "No,no, no, no, no,no." "Trey." "I got him." "I got him." "I got him." "I got him." "Trey." "Come on" "Stop, fuck." "Trey." "Dave's not fuckin' beating me." "Shit, Trey." "Stop." "Leave right this fuckin' second." "Trey, please." "Andy, fuck, stop." "Walk." "Let's walk." "Trey." "Let's walk." "Let's walk." "Let's walk." "No, watch it." "Fuck." "Come on, let's walk." "Trey." "Come on, let's walk." "Hey." "Trey." "Me and you have been friends forever, please." "Let's walk." "Everything I own is on the line here." "This, it's mine." "I'mgonna walk." "No, you aren't." "No, no." "No." "Let's walk." "Trey." "Nobody's quitting." "Chicken shit." "Fuckin' shithead." "Trey." "Let's walk." "I'm not gonna take some back jumping fuck." "Let him up." "Let's walk." "Let's walk." "Come on Dave." "Let's finish it." "Trey, please." "Fuckin' coward." "No, no, no." "Dave." "Trey." "No, no." "Oh shit." "Enough, Trey." "Look at him." "Look at him." "Fucker's taunting me." "No he's not." "I'm done." "Just take me home." "I'll take you." "Just pack my fuckin' stuff and go." "Trey, please don't go yet." "I'm done." "Bullshit." "He came over here, He ran his mouth first." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew is falling apart," "After a bare knuckle fight between Trey Poulson and Dave Turin." "Just sit in your truck and calm down, Trey." "No, I'm going." "Come on, man." "See you, buddy." "Aww." "I'm done done." "No." "You're leaving or?" "Yeah, I got to pack, guys." "Sorry." "I didn't think it'd end like this but unfortunately it has." "I would never think that Dave would be that kind of guy, but obviously..." "You know, when times get tough and the pressure's there people's true colors end up coming through." "So..." "I don't know." "Dave was bringing us a loader." "Had no idea the plant was down because of the screen." "So when he gets there, the first thing he says is, I don't..." "The plant's down." "Why in the fuck am I bringing the loader over here." "I argued back, I jumped back, got hot." "And he tells me, "f" you." "Well, that's not gonna, that's not gonna fly." "I'm not gonna, I've gone" "I've gone this long through life without being told, damn, I'm not gonna go any farther." "So, I knocked his hard hat off and... told him "f" you and then that was it." "I don't know how it's gonna pan out." "I think for now it's best to just go our separate ways." "Narrator:" "In town, Dave, Todd and Freddy regroup." "But they don't want to be filmed." "He's got lightning fast hands." "he hit me with the second one" "I never saw it coming." "And you hit him in the back?" "I never hit him." "yes, you did." "no, I didn't." "Yes, you did." "Yes, you did." "I'm just glad nobody got hurt any worse than they did." "Trey and I have had an issue from day one, and since that day," "And I'm going to be honest with you, he's never done a single thing I've asked him to do." "Not one thing." "He's showed me absolutely no respect." "I won't work with him." "There's more on the line than you know, a couple guy's tempers." "We just got to stick together." "we've got to get shit done." "Think Freddy's gonna talk about it?" "Nope." "Bad day." "Bad day." "You guys stay away from us right now." "Narrator:" "Dawn at Scribner Creek." "10 degrees below freezing." "Morning boys." "morning." "morning." "Parker Schnabel still needs three-quarters of a million dollars worth of gold to hit his season goal." "So right now we're at 3375" "Which is a hell of a lot of gold." "That's 10 ounces more than we found last year." "We could walk away pretty damn proud of what we've done so far." "But we set a 4,000 ounce goal and the job ain't finished until there's 4000 ounces in the box." "I'm feeling ready for a final push here." "What about you guys." "Oh, yeah." "Let's do it." "It's gonna be tough, cause it's cold out." "If we stop moving at this point, we die, right?" "Water starts freezing fast, and both plants are gonna be a bitch to keep going like this." "So we just gotta keep everything going." "I think we're all game." "Good." "I hope you're all ready for some fuckin' fighting cause that's what it's gonna be." "Let's get scrapping, boys." "Let's do it." "Yeah." "All right." "Let's grab us each a bucket, amen." "Narrator:" "At Indian River, despite the cold, Big Red has managed to keep sluicing through the night." "Over at the Creek Cut" "The night crew was forced to shut down Sluicifer and once the water stopped running," "It turned to ice." "It's frozen solid." "Aw, that's just great." "Well, there's a chance here this thing ain't running again." "This main valve for a plant that's closed," "We're just gonna try and thaw it, and chisel it away and..." "Get that valve open." "Oh, there it goes." "There's a fucker." "This is our bypass." "it's completely frozen solid." "I'm gonna head down to the pump, see if we can't get it thawed out." "All right." "Aw that's not what we wanted to see." "You know if it looks like that on the top, this whole pipeline's gonna be froze up." "Not good." "This is all we can do, is just put the torches on it and try and put some heat in it." "I think we're pretty close." "Mitch got the pump thawed out we think." "So he's gonna fire 'er up." "What I'm afraid of is the pipeline's all froze." "So, if that's the case.." "she's gonna blow up." "Yeah." "We could blow the pipeline." "Or send a big chunk of ice straight to the plant." "Yeah." "Neither one of them is good." "Fire in the hole." "If the main pipeline's frozen, we're screwed." "Got water." "Parker, you ready?" "Give 'er." "Conveyor's working." "Throw a little in there, let's see what it does." "Here we go, first scoop." "Narrator:" "Sluicifer is back up and running but the Yukon winter could freeze them out at any time." "We've got over 600 ounces to go and I don't know what the weather is going to let us do, but we've got to give it everything we've got." "Narrator:" "All mining's stopped on the Hoffman claim after a feud between Dave and Trey erupted into a fight." "There was a time when we all loved each other, you know?" "This is a really dark day for our mining company." "And we just lost a full day's running at two months." "The problem is us." "We only have a little bit of time left and we're this close." "Come on in, Dave." "The honest truth is that I fucked up today." "and I want to apologize to you guys 'cause you're my friends and I've worked with you guys for a lot of years." "and I made a mistake." "I'm 57 years old and I'm still fighting and I don't like it." "Walk away." "I gave you so many chances." "I know." "It's easy to just walk away." "I know." "I know." "I asked you to walk away." "I know." "Now it's in my head, what could have happened." "I think I failed this year." "And because of that um," "I will resign" "Just 'cause I" "feel like can't..." "No." "Wait." "Don't go anywhere." "we're not done yet." "I'm not asking for anybody's fuckin' sympathy." "I just think it's the best thing." "Hey, come on back." "Come here." "I know but, I make a lot of mistakes." "You didn't give up on me." "You didn't give up on me." "I have anger issues and you didn't give up on me." "You made me who I am now." "Look at where I came from, look at what you've helped me become." "You, young man, are the..." "You're the fuckin' greatest accomplishment." "'Cause I watched you grow." "You came to us as a skateboard kid." "I love you." "I don't need you..." "I don't want you to leave, Dave." "Look at what you've done to me." "Dave, you're not going anywhere until we all decide you're done, and you ain't done yet." "So last this with us." "I want to hear from Freddy." "I've never been in that situation before and I don't want to be in that situation again." "And uh, 'cause I care for both you guys deeply." "Truly in my heart." "And uh," "I don't hold any grudge." "You're forgiven from the bottom of my heart." "Okay?" "We got a lot of gold to get still and a short amount of time." "Everybody on board?" "We can do it here." "I will finish what we started." "One thing after another." "Narrator:" "At the start of the season, Tony Beets had two ambitious goals." "Fetch his dredge from Thistle Creek" "And get 2,000 ounces of gold." "Now that he can't legally move his dredge out of Thistle, he and his crew are heading back to Eureka Creek." "I'm feeling kind of cold, Tony." "Or you fight the whole way." "Narrator:" "Tony pulled his entire crew out of Eureka Creek a week ago and since then both his dredge and his wash plant have frozen solid." "Ooh ooh ha ha h a." "He's in a big mood to get fired up." "This is usually when it breaks." "Okay." "Everybody stand clear, dropping the bucket line, going backwards." "Bucket line is pushing." "Oh shit." "Buckets are frozen half solid." "Narrator:" "Dredging through frozen ground could force the bucket line off the ladder." "Give it a sec." "Yeah, perfect." "Oh, yeah." "It turns." "Got it running again, huh." "Got to defrost the plant." "Anybody with half a brain would have left, which explains why I'mstill here." "Solid, filled with ice." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Ah." "Narrator:" "10,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains" "The Hoffmans have been shut down for 24 hours and they're struggling to get started." "All this ice is new today." "The wind is gusting." "Our belt is freezing up." "These shutdowns are gonna hurt us." "We're going to try to fire up." "It's colder than fuck in this wind." "Kev." "Just going to turn the rock conveyor on." "Clear." "It's spinning." "Got it going." "Narrator:" "After fighting with Dave," "Trey quit the crew." "Todd wanted me to come up here and meet, so I don't know if he's asking me to leave, giving me my last check." "I have no problem meeting Todd right now." "But I'm" "But I don't think that I'm ready to see Dave." "Hey, Trey." "I brought Dave." "I was hoping we could talk and maybe solve some things." "Mind if we get a bench over here." "That was tough for our team, man." "It was tough." "That's an understatement." "Yeah." "I tell you what, though," "I'd like to finish what we started this summer." "And I know it's been horrible." "I agree." "And I know what Dave did and I know what you did." "But I want to end this thing right." "And that means you, with the team and let's go get some damn gold." "They say that there" "Let's go kick some ass." "There's guys that need gold besides you and me." "It's not gonna be easy." "I want to apologize for what I did, what I said, my actions, and uh from the bottom of my heart." "And I hope you'll accept my apology and hopefully we can move on, because uh" "I felt, felt horrible." "What I did was wrong." "Totally wrong." "And um hoping you'll forgive me." "Likewise, Dave." "We were both way wrong." "Just not" "Can we get through this?" "Why don't you guys shake hands." "Try to get through this season." "Yup." "Narrator:" "To have any chance of hitting his 2,000 ounce, $2.4 million season goal," "Tony Beets has to get running water to his wash plant." "But the 300-foot pipe from the pond is frozen solid." "Sounds good." "Narrator:" "He's called in a steamer truck to thaw it out." "Okay." "Won't take very long at all." "Yup." "Narrator:" "Tony cuts a hole into the pipe down by the pond." "That'll do." "Kevin cuts a second near the wash plant." "These are very drastic measures but it's what we've got to do to make our total." "Oh, wow." "Look at how frozen that is." "Cuh..." "Careful with that pipe, Tony Beets." "The tip sprays water forward and three jets back so it pulls itself through the pipe." "I've got this running about 170 degrees." "Yeah." "The water's coming out about 2500 psi." "Narrator:" "Steve inserts the steamer hose into the hole by the pond." "Three jets of stream point backward propelling the forward facing jet through the pipe." "This should melt the ice all the way up to the wash plant." "To check the steamer has thawed the ice," "Tony pumps water through it at 200 pounds per square inch." "Kevin, Kevin, Kevin." "What am I doing?" "Yikes." "Narrator:" "The first 20 feet of pipe is clear of ice." "But the water has still not made it up to the wash plant." "Narrator:" "All they have to do is plug the holes in the pipe and they're ready to run." "It's 10 degrees below freezing but Kevin's dredge and Monica's wash plant are running a total of 275 yards of dirt an hour." "When my dad gets something in his head, there's really no stopping him." "Narrator:" "With just 58 ounces to go," "Tony's back with a fighting chance of hitting his 2,000 ounce goal." "Weather this year has been coming in quite quick." "You know, it's nice, it's blue sky, it's not pissing down rain or snow." "But without that cloud cover, blue sky means real cold this time of year." "It's rather satisfying busting up all this stupid frost." "Narrator:" "At Indian River, Rick is fighting for pay dirt." "Every now and then you got to go all caveman on this fuckin' frozen ground." "Fuck you." "Narrator:" "Seven miles away in the Creek Cut Brennan is loading trucks." "What the fuck was that?" "For fuck sakes, man." "I can't even move it now." "Mitch, you got a copy." "Yeah, what's up." "Well, I just heard a really loud noise coming out of the 700 here." "I don't know what it is." "I'll come down and take a look at it." "What's going on, man?" "I just took a scoop and swung it in the pile and I heard "pow pow pow."" "Never heard that before in an excavator so I know that something's not good." "I'll uh, take it out of here if you want." "Sounds good, man." "Ohh, really?" "That 700 being down really fucks us." "Narrator:" "Without the 700 to load trucks," "Parker is forced to improvise and push pay to the plant with the D-10." "Dozers aren't the machine to get pay to the plant with." "We don't have much of a choice though because we only have one running hoe and it needs to feed the plant." "It's a pretty long push but we'll just make it work." "Narrator:" "he's burning twice as much fuel and moving a quarter of the dirt." "The pressure is on Mitch to fix the 700." "Just drain the oil out of the swing drive." "This will be a good indication if we got something going wrong." "Uh huh." "That's not good." "Oh, man." "Ho ho." "A lot of silver in the oil." "And you can actually see some uh, larger chunks of metal here." "We're going to need to take a closer look at the swing drive." "I'm just pulling the swing motor apart here on the 700." "Got a lot of gears here and we want to inspect everything, make sure it looks good." "And, uh, it's a good sign so far." "Well, this is called a sun gear." "See what we got going on." "Well, that's not good." "Nothing left." "The sun gear is basically just destroyed." "There's only a couple of teeth left on it." "Narrator:" "The rotation of the excavator arm is controlled by a planetary gear system." "From the center the sun gear drives the orbiting planet gears." "The teeth on the sun gear are stripped so the arm won't swing and the excavator is useless." "You can see all of the gears missing here." "This is pretty much a paper weight now." "Well, that don't look good." "Lookit, this is destroyed." "Ho ho ho." "So this ain't spinning no more." "I wish I had some good news for you, but the 700's dead." "God, we're so fuckin' close though." "I bet we need 50 hours." "You're just gonna have to keep using the cats." "The only thing you got left." "Well, that's the last thing we need to hear." "I really don't like pushing pay like this but we'll do what we have to to keep the plant running." "Getting freakin' cold." "See all these pretty icicles are here." "Yeah, let's fire up." "When it get down into the teens, it's usually time to go home." "Narrator:" "At the Hoffman's Sacramento claim," "Dave Turin is back running Double Trouble." "The dirt is poor but they're pushing hard for every ounce of gold they can get." "You know what?" "If we can get 1,000 ounces, I think that the guys will come back." "That's what I want." "Narrator:" "To reach his season goal" "Todd is relying on the gold rich pay dirt at Freddy's Fairplay mine." "Shit." "Hey, Kevin." "The motor's smoking." "The motor's smoking." "Get the water!" "Uh-oh." "Fuck." "You got the water, Kevin?" "Yeah, I got the water." "(flapping noise)" "Was that a belt?" "No, it's not a belt." "It's the friggen motor." "No." "Something's burnt in it." "Frig." "It's hot." "Let's take a look." "Aw, geez." "Still smoking, huh?" "Yeah." "Can't we rewire that thing?" "Come on." "There's no rewiring this, Todd." "Todd." "Look at all this carbon." "It's fried." "See all the smoke coming out from inside the motor?" "Obviously the windings shorted out." "I've seen this a thousand times." "It's shot." "Aw." "How long will it take to get a motor?" "It's not a motor off the shelf." "Come on!" "Narrator:" "Without Rusty Red they can't process Fairplay's rich pay dirt." "I never pictured it ending like this." "I thought I'd at least get a good week in, you know." "Leave with the weather." "Not the way I wanted to end the season." "Not at all." "Perfect." "Everything's going good." "The only fuckin' motor I can't find in the state blows up." "Just great." "So the plant's done, huh?" "We're done." "We got gold in the ground." "And we've got two days worth of pay in there that I bet's got 200 ounces in it." "At least." "That's the best pay." "It's sitting there ready to go." "The gold's in it." "I know." "That's the problem." "What if I cut a road all the way from here clear to Double Trouble and we hauled that pay to you." "Well, if we had good pay, we're kicking ass." "If you think it'll work." "Cut the freakin' road." "Bring the pay." "Let's finish this with Double Trouble and get our thousand." "That's all we can do." "Do it." "Still hit it." "Andy'd walk it man." "Whatever it takes to get the road done." "By tomorrow morning we want to be running dirt." "So I've got to get these two mines connected as quick as I can." "It's our only option." "It's our best hope right now." "Narrator:" "The only route between Fairplay and Sacramento is over a mile long." "If Andy cuts a direct path between the two claims, he will reduce that distance by half saving the Hoffman crew precious time and fuel." "Yeah, it's been a long day." "Everybody's back at camp." "Sleeping." "But..." "If I get this road done we get back to hauling pay, that's all that matters." "Sacramento and Fairplay are now connected." "Got about" "Two hours before the sun comes up." "I'm tired." "I'm going home and going to bed." "Narrator:" "By dawn the entire crew is hauling high grade Fairplay dirt to Sacramento." "This is the most important pay that we ever hauled this whole season." "Narrator:" "Ready to run through Double Trouble." "The final push." "The end of the season." "I don't know about tomorrow, but today, today we're running." "This is definitely the coldest we've seen." "In an instant too." "Oh, it's like a slap in the face." "Well, let's do what we can." "we got all hands on deck, so..." "Did you shoot a beaver and put it on your head?" "Yeah, man." "Not holding back anything this year." "Those flaps come down, we mean business." "(Rick is laughing)" "Let's go get some pay out there." "Narrator:" "Parker's crew is battling freezing temperatures in a desperate bid to mine another 625 ounces of gold and hit their $4.8 million goal." "We need that 4,000 ounces." "We've never failed yet." "If we fail now, we can't ever say never again." "Wash plant's just one big shower you know and..." "As soon as that water hits the cold steel, it's trying to freeze, so if something happens we've got to catch it quick." "Otherwise it's game over." "Just another day in Paradise, huh?" "We're fighting for every bucket we put through this thing." "The pay dirt that we have to run is this gnarly frozen shit pile." "The pile itself is so frozen solid" "It's like trying to dig out a brick wall, for fuck sakes." "Hey, Brennan, you got a copy?" "Hey, Rick." "This is just bullshit, man." "I can't even get it to the plant." "Fuck, no, man." "I can't even see what I'm digging down here." "I'm digging in a five foot deep puddle." "I can't see fuckin anything in front of me here." "Fuckin' bullshit." "Fuckin' shit." "Shut 'er down!" "Shut 'er down!" "Fuck, fuck, fuck." "I don't know." "We got a bunch of material flowing out of the prewash.." "Shit, again." "Dude, shit." "Fuck." "It's slippery up here, man." "Oh, is it ever." "Just big fuckin' chunks." "Sketchy man." "it's slippery as hell up here." "Be careful." "Watch out!" "Fuckin' ice block." "We can't keep running this shit." "Shit, we'll kill ourselves trying to keep this thing going." "This ain't the safest thing in the world." "Let's get off this death trap." "I'm fuckin' beat." "Yeah, I'm right there with you." "I think we should just call it a night." "Yeah." "Shut er' down." "Good job tonight, man." "Yeah, you too." "We've all been going for the better part of the last 40 hours with a few naps,so time for another nap." "[ horn honking ]." "Narrator:" "Only three hours later, dog tired, Parker and Rick are back for another day fighting the Klondike winter." "That was a pretty rough night last night." "Yeah, no doubt." "We'll just see where we're at." "Well the water's still moving." "The wash plant doesn't look like it wants to move." "Oh yeah, that's a fuckup." "That's pretty bad." "I don't even know how there's still water flowing through all that ice." "Fuck." "But what can you do." "It's minus 15 out." "Narrator:" "To stop Big Red from icing up, they left the water running, but it's so cold everything has frozen solid." "I don't know what to do." "We've ran in some cold weather but this is next level." "You know, all this exposed metal it's just sucking that cold right in." "Narrator:" "They're still a massive 625 ounces short of their season goal." "I don't know if there's enough gold in the box, man." "But, I just don't think that this thing's runnable." "Let's shut her down and put her to bed, do a cleanup." "Hope we got what we need." "Sometimes you just got to know when to walk away." "We're there." "I'm gonna go fire up the generator." "All right." "I'll run down there and get the pumps going." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew is 90 ounces short of their 1000 ounce goal." "For three days they've run Fairplay dirt through the wash plant at Sacramento." "Everything's frozen up pretty good." "I'm gonna to try to get her fired up." "Come on, baby." "Narrator:" "The temperature is down to 8 degrees, and it's a battle to fire up the equipment." "Boy, there's not much water coming in." "Oh shit." "This is our intake water right here." "It's dry." "There's nothing." "It's just about empty." "Todd." "Yeah." "We're out of water." "We got nothing." "We got some, right?" "No." "There's absolutely no water." "So you don't want to fire up?" "Well, we can't." "We better figure out where our water is." "Let's go up the creek and take a look." "All right." "Narrator:" "The holding pond takes it's water from Sacramento Creek." "The source is 2,000 feet higher up the mountain, far above the snow line." "That looks like the valley right there that goes into Sacramento creek." "Let's just look at the head waters, take a peek." "Yeah, this is nuts." "This doesn't look good at all." "That's the head water right there." "See that little frozen lake?" "Holy cow." "She's froze tight." "Hate to say it, buddy, but I think it's over." "We have worked so freakin' hard." "We're so close." "Well," "Let's pull the mats and see what the hell we got." "Hopefully we got 1,000." "Hope we can get it out." "Narrator:" "On Tony Beets Eureka claim, the big freeze has also shut down Kevin's dredge and Monica's wash plant." "See the ice on there?" "Yeah, the whole fuckin' thing's frozen through." "Narrator:" "Tony's desperate to hit his 2,000 ounce goal, but they've only managed to sluice for 5 days." "Well." "Narrator:" "It's crunch time for the Beets family." "The final gold weigh of the year." "Some of the things you couldn't do anything about either." "The total right now from Eureka is 1942." "Right?" "Yeah." "So we need 58 more ounces all total." "And seeing as Kevin was bragging he was gonna get that." "I think I did." "Let's see what the dredge has." "Okay." "Good luck." "Let's see what it is." "That's it." "Bullshit." "That's it." "Where the fuck is the rest of it." "It's in the ground still." "How much is it?" "44.1" "That's not good." "So all we need is 13 more ounces." "Kevin, are you getting jealous." "So how much gold is in there?" "So I would have completed without Kevin's gold." "So the combined total between Monica and Kevin 2176 ounces" "Which is actually really really good." "Narrator:" "Six months of mining has delivered over $2.6 million worth of gold." "It's nice to send you guys out and you all come back with gold." "I think you should keep that up." "I'm not going to cry about a wash plant." "It's a piece of steel." "It means nothing to me." "Narrator:" "Parker and his crew are pulling the mats for the last time on Big Red, the plant Rick resurrected and took charge of this season." "I'm glad it's over." "I'm gonna his this like I'm going to miss herpes." "There's a cure for this." "Go home." "Everybody's excited to go, but I think it's sad." "How do you think I feel that." "I worked with that all season long." "Come on." "Get it." "Ready T?" "Yes, sir." "Ah." "End of a season." "It was a stressful one." "Well, we're done now." "What's in the box is in the box." "Narrator:" "Six months ago, Parker Schnabel set a mammoth season goal, 4,000 ounces of gold." "Okay." "This is serious." "Let's make some gold." "Narrator:" "His crew needs to find out if over the last two weeks... they've managed to mine the 625 ounces they desperately need." "All right." "Let's get down to business." "Yeah." "Is that pan going to be big enough?" "Fuck, pour, pour Parker, pour I got, I got another one." "So, this represents everything we got up until about 10, 12 days ago." "Man oh man, that's sweet." "So this right here is 812 ounces from Indian River." "So that's a hell of a lot of gold." "And that's out of Sluicifer, 2563" "So that combined is 3375." "Narrator:" "3375 ounces of gold is worth over $4 million." "You can already feel the table just starting to lean that way." "Don't say that." "that's a lot of gold" "But we'd set a 4,000 ounce goal." "Narrator:" "They need another 625 ounces." "So we'll do Sluicifer first." "Filled right to the top." "Filled to the brim." "What do we have in it." "Wow." "That's insane man." "Lookit that." "496" "So Sluicifer definitely delivered." "But our goal is 4,000 ounces and we still aren't there." "Without Big Red's final cleanup." "We need over 129 ounces to hit that." "So Rick." "This is all on your shoulders, bud." "Oh boy." "That's a big jar." "No way!" "Woooo." "Nice one." "Bingo." "That's 440 ounces." "(laughing)" "Ow." "So Doumitt, What's our season total?" "You ready for this one?" "How about 4311 ounces." "That's just over $5 million bucks worth of gold, over a million more than last year." "Whoo." "You guys did a good fuckin' job this year." "I'm damn proud of all of you guys." "And Rick, you've done a hell of a job this year, you know." "That, all, is thanks to you." "Okay man." "Thank you." "My grandpa's funeral was this spring and a very good friend of mine gave me this very nice bottle of whiskey" "So we're all gonna have a toast for my grandpa." "None of this would be happening without my grandpa." "And uh, it's been a bit of a weird season without him." "He definitely was a big part of what we do." "Salut." "Cheers." "To grandpa John!" "To grandpa John!" "To John!" "We've got some good memories." "I started out this season, we wanted 5000 ounces worth." "We're nowhere near that." "So what if we don't get to a thousand." "Narrator:" "Todd has given up on making any profit this year." "But to send his guys home with the money he owes them for the season he needs 1,000 ounces of gold and last time he checked he was 90 ounces short." "Alright boys." "Here we go." "At the beginning of this week guys, we had 910." "We're going for a thousand." "Well." "Fairplay didn't live up to the deal." "We missed it." "We only got 57.02 ounces." "Come on, man." "What about Sacramento?" "Well, with Sacramento we slid right past it, 133.65 ounces." "What!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Woo!" "Woo!" "Yeah!" "Good job, buddy." "So what's our total?" "1100.77." "Yeah." "1100, guys." "That's $1.3 million, guys." "When we left Oregon we had 200 ounces." "200 ounces." "In a month and a half we cleared 1100 ounces, guys." "Unbelievable." "I know it ain't the 5,000 but I tell you what." "We did that 1100 as a team." "And I know that there's still hurts and hard feelings." "We can get through those problems." "Freddy, you want to get the guys the gold?" "I'll pass them around." "Todd promised everybody a good cut of the gold." "That is nice." "You know what this is, you guys." "Gold for the winter." "Want to say a quick prayer Dad and end the season?" "Our heavenly father we thank you for the opportunity that you gave to us." "Lord we ask that you just bring us all together next year." "We can only do that if you're with us." "And it's in your name we pray, amen." "Amen." "Subs by JackT" "Let's pack up and go home." "I love you guys." "Just want to say I don't know what the future holds for us but I wish you the best of everything." "Likewise Dave" "Yeah" "You've got a great family." "Take care of 'em." "Thanks, Dave." "Alright." "You too." "Thanks." "Yeah, absolutely." "Next on Gold Rush," "This season's untold stories." "There was a full blown panic right there." "I thought he was dead." "Everything I have is gone." "That may be the dumbest thing I ever do." "I mean, I don't really care what the family thought about it." "Bit off way more than he could chew." "You have to have this piece of paper and without it you're not doing anything." "Dave and him do not get along." "I don't know why it got so violent." "They were like wanting to like kill each other."