1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:16,249 --> 00:00:17,870 You know, if you work in the city, 3 00:00:17,905 --> 00:00:19,663 you don't probably get to see a bear walking 4 00:00:19,698 --> 00:00:21,732 right through the middle of your job site. 5 00:00:21,767 --> 00:00:23,284 We'd probably have to shut down the site 6 00:00:23,318 --> 00:00:24,629 and come back to work a week later. 7 00:00:24,663 --> 00:00:26,767 Everybody get proper bear training. 8 00:00:26,801 --> 00:00:28,594 Yeah, proper bear training. 9 00:00:28,629 --> 00:00:31,043 Don't pet the bears or feed the bears. 10 00:00:32,353 --> 00:00:35,870 Just the bear chilling there in the Bear Cut. 11 00:00:41,663 --> 00:00:42,698 It's a good thing we've got 12 00:00:42,732 --> 00:00:44,456 a good group of people this year, 13 00:00:44,491 --> 00:00:47,525 because we've certainly bit off more than we can chew. 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,387 27-year-old Parker Schnabel 15 00:00:50,422 --> 00:00:52,146 is making big moves, 16 00:00:52,180 --> 00:00:54,422 opening a new mine in Alaska, 17 00:00:54,456 --> 00:00:58,077 and mining more ground than ever before 18 00:00:58,111 --> 00:00:59,249 in the Yukon. 19 00:00:59,284 --> 00:01:01,525 So, Big Red's in the new cut, Easy Street, 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,146 and it'll probably be the last easy bit of ground 21 00:01:04,180 --> 00:01:06,560 for the season, so I guess it's a fitting name. 22 00:01:06,594 --> 00:01:10,663 Because everything else is not ready. 23 00:01:10,698 --> 00:01:12,594 Six weeks into the season, 24 00:01:12,629 --> 00:01:16,043 Parker's hauled in 1,200 ounces of Yukon gold. 25 00:01:17,111 --> 00:01:20,077 Before he takes on Alaska as well, 26 00:01:20,111 --> 00:01:23,077 he wants all of the 90 acres he secured 27 00:01:23,111 --> 00:01:27,146 on the airstrip claim down to pay. 28 00:01:27,180 --> 00:01:30,456 Parker's crew has already stripped and mined out 29 00:01:30,491 --> 00:01:32,594 the 14-acre Keyhole Cut. 30 00:01:32,629 --> 00:01:34,594 Now they're running pay dirt 31 00:01:34,629 --> 00:01:37,698 from the 11-acre Easy Street Cut, 32 00:01:37,732 --> 00:01:38,801 and are getting ahead, 33 00:01:38,836 --> 00:01:42,422 stripping the massive 23-acre Bear Cut. 34 00:01:44,870 --> 00:01:46,801 You know, we gotta have the next cut ready, 35 00:01:46,836 --> 00:01:48,422 or else it'll be the end of the year 36 00:01:48,456 --> 00:01:50,180 and we'll have ground that's all frozen. 37 00:01:50,215 --> 00:01:52,422 So I'm trying to stay ahead of the frost 38 00:01:52,456 --> 00:01:54,939 and stay ahead of... With the stripping, 39 00:01:54,974 --> 00:01:56,732 it's really tough when we have this much ground to to. 40 00:02:00,870 --> 00:02:02,870 Right now, we're just in the middle of tackling 41 00:02:02,905 --> 00:02:05,318 this next section right here, and, um, 42 00:02:05,353 --> 00:02:07,629 I don't know, we just have a mountain of mud to move 43 00:02:07,663 --> 00:02:10,008 while we try to get some more ground opened up. 44 00:02:12,594 --> 00:02:13,905 How's it going? 45 00:02:13,939 --> 00:02:16,180 Every single spot where we want it to be frozen, it's thawed, 46 00:02:16,215 --> 00:02:18,077 and every spot where we want it to be thawed, it's frozen. 47 00:02:18,111 --> 00:02:19,629 - Yeah. - Um... 48 00:02:19,663 --> 00:02:21,215 What do you wanna do? 49 00:02:21,249 --> 00:02:23,801 It might get to the point where they need a third truck. 50 00:02:23,836 --> 00:02:25,525 All right, sounds good. 51 00:02:28,698 --> 00:02:31,318 So, we've got Tyson in the D10. 52 00:02:31,353 --> 00:02:33,318 He's dozing up all the thaw here 53 00:02:33,353 --> 00:02:34,698 and I'm gonna load it out in trucks. 54 00:02:35,525 --> 00:02:36,663 Once we get to the pay, 55 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:38,594 hopefully it'll thaw out pretty quick. 56 00:02:39,456 --> 00:02:41,215 In the narrow Bear Cut, 57 00:02:41,249 --> 00:02:43,284 they need to dig out and remove 58 00:02:43,318 --> 00:02:45,525 15 feet of frozen overburden, 59 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,801 weighing in at over half a million tons. 60 00:02:49,836 --> 00:02:51,077 So, just to let you guys know, 61 00:02:51,111 --> 00:02:52,767 the conditions up here are pretty rough. 62 00:02:52,801 --> 00:02:55,422 Just be careful when you guys coming up the road. 63 00:02:55,456 --> 00:02:58,077 Thank you, ma'am. 64 00:02:58,111 --> 00:03:00,284 Joining the rock truck crew 65 00:03:00,318 --> 00:03:02,732 is Yukon rookie, Tyler Mahoney. 66 00:03:04,698 --> 00:03:06,387 What is that beeping? 67 00:03:07,456 --> 00:03:10,284 I don't know what that means. 68 00:03:10,318 --> 00:03:13,146 Hey, Tyler, my girl, you got a copy? 69 00:03:13,180 --> 00:03:14,594 I copy. 70 00:03:14,629 --> 00:03:16,146 How's it going, girl? 71 00:03:16,180 --> 00:03:19,387 Hello. Yes, everything's going okay. 72 00:03:19,422 --> 00:03:21,663 I'm, um, slowly getting there, I think. 73 00:03:21,698 --> 00:03:23,491 If you need anything, just radio me, 74 00:03:23,525 --> 00:03:26,422 and, yeah, if you don't, I'll see you back at camp, 75 00:03:26,456 --> 00:03:29,043 maybe for some spicy margaritas. 76 00:03:29,077 --> 00:03:31,560 Sounds like a plan. Thanks, Tatiana. 77 00:03:34,663 --> 00:03:37,905 The mud in this spot is just so thick. 78 00:03:37,939 --> 00:03:39,905 It's been a tough last few days. 79 00:03:41,905 --> 00:03:43,663 Oh [bleep]. 80 00:03:43,698 --> 00:03:45,422 What was that? 81 00:03:49,318 --> 00:03:52,387 . 82 00:03:52,422 --> 00:03:54,939 Shane, Shane, you got a copy? Shane? 83 00:03:54,974 --> 00:03:56,353 Hey. 84 00:03:56,387 --> 00:03:59,870 Uh, my tire just literally blew. 85 00:04:02,318 --> 00:04:03,870 So I need you to come and help me right away. 86 00:04:09,525 --> 00:04:11,180 Tatiana's rock truck 87 00:04:11,215 --> 00:04:14,560 is blocking access to the dump site, 88 00:04:14,594 --> 00:04:17,422 bringing the stripping operation to a standstill. 89 00:04:20,422 --> 00:04:24,663 Operator Shane Colliou tries to help free Tatiana's truck 90 00:04:24,698 --> 00:04:26,870 without doing any more damage. 91 00:04:26,905 --> 00:04:28,077 Okay, here we go. 92 00:04:52,043 --> 00:04:56,180 Yeah, I'm feeling a bit on the edge right now. 93 00:05:02,111 --> 00:05:03,801 Yeah, just go right into that ditch there 94 00:05:03,836 --> 00:05:05,111 and get around some dry stuff there. 95 00:05:07,801 --> 00:05:10,594 I'm literally sweating. 96 00:05:10,629 --> 00:05:12,732 So I'm gonna stop it here 97 00:05:12,767 --> 00:05:15,698 and hopefully this is a good spot for the mechanics. 98 00:05:17,387 --> 00:05:19,146 The ramp clear, 99 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:23,318 the other trucks get back to dumping overburden, 100 00:05:23,353 --> 00:05:26,939 while Mitch's crew get to work changing the tire. 101 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:30,525 This isn't just changing your car tire here. 102 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,767 This is heavy, it's big. 103 00:05:31,801 --> 00:05:32,870 We've gotta use a crane, 104 00:05:32,905 --> 00:05:34,353 we've gotta have an excavator over here. 105 00:05:34,387 --> 00:05:36,767 Lot involved to get this done. 106 00:05:36,801 --> 00:05:38,594 So the faster we can get her back on track, 107 00:05:38,629 --> 00:05:39,732 the better off we're gonna be. 108 00:05:39,767 --> 00:05:41,594 I'll bring the 480 over, we'll lift it up, 109 00:05:41,629 --> 00:05:43,008 let's just NASCAR this thing. 110 00:05:45,353 --> 00:05:46,905 The six-foot tire 111 00:05:46,939 --> 00:05:50,836 weighs in at over 1,200 pounds, 112 00:05:50,870 --> 00:05:55,146 and costs $4,500. 113 00:05:55,180 --> 00:05:56,422 She moving? 114 00:05:56,456 --> 00:05:58,008 She's gonna take a little persuasion, I'm thinking. 115 00:05:58,043 --> 00:06:00,146 - Wanna just give it a wack? - Yeah. 116 00:06:03,525 --> 00:06:05,318 There we go, there we go. 117 00:06:06,698 --> 00:06:08,077 There she be. 118 00:06:08,111 --> 00:06:10,905 There it is right there. Wow. 119 00:06:10,939 --> 00:06:13,318 Man, that's crazy. We haven't seen one like that, 120 00:06:13,353 --> 00:06:15,043 I don't think, probably ever. 121 00:06:16,146 --> 00:06:18,284 We're looking pretty good on our line-up here. 122 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:22,594 Down just a little bit more. 123 00:06:22,629 --> 00:06:25,111 - There it is. We're close. 124 00:06:25,146 --> 00:06:27,215 That's what we wanna see right there. 125 00:06:27,249 --> 00:06:29,318 So we've got the wheel started on the hub. 126 00:06:29,353 --> 00:06:31,836 We're gonna throw some nuts on to the studs here. 127 00:06:38,594 --> 00:06:39,767 Dude, I like it. 128 00:06:42,698 --> 00:06:44,491 - We're good to go. - Ready to move some dirt? 129 00:06:44,525 --> 00:06:46,318 - Let's do it. - All right. 130 00:06:46,353 --> 00:06:48,456 Take it easy on it. This is our last tire, right? 131 00:06:48,491 --> 00:06:50,215 Yeah, I will be extra careful. 132 00:06:50,249 --> 00:06:51,629 Thank you very much. I gotta get going. 133 00:06:51,663 --> 00:06:52,974 Have a good day. 134 00:06:54,146 --> 00:06:56,663 Up and running in less than an hour. 135 00:06:56,698 --> 00:07:00,491 Tatiana heads back to the Bear Cut. 136 00:07:00,525 --> 00:07:02,525 it's finally done. 137 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,180 Let's go move some dirt. 138 00:07:17,836 --> 00:07:19,422 We're so far behind, 139 00:07:19,456 --> 00:07:21,905 I don't even wanna talk about how far behind we are, 140 00:07:21,939 --> 00:07:23,939 but we've still got a monumental task ahead of us. 141 00:07:24,905 --> 00:07:27,043 Six weeks into the season, 142 00:07:27,077 --> 00:07:28,870 ex-Green Beret Fred Lewis 143 00:07:28,905 --> 00:07:31,284 hasn't mined an ounce of gold. 144 00:07:32,698 --> 00:07:33,767 We still can't sluice 145 00:07:33,801 --> 00:07:36,180 because the claim is under a lot of ice. 146 00:07:36,215 --> 00:07:38,008 We've thrown everything we have at it, 147 00:07:38,043 --> 00:07:40,560 except for the kitchen sink. 148 00:07:40,594 --> 00:07:43,387 Record snow this winter means an ice field 149 00:07:43,422 --> 00:07:46,249 is stopping him from getting to the gold. 150 00:07:48,215 --> 00:07:49,870 The more we sit around and wait, 151 00:07:49,905 --> 00:07:51,284 the less gold we're gonna find 152 00:07:51,318 --> 00:07:52,629 and the less time we're gonna be sluicing. 153 00:07:52,663 --> 00:07:55,594 But fortune favors the bold. 154 00:07:55,629 --> 00:07:57,008 We're making things happen. 155 00:08:00,077 --> 00:08:02,801 I hate this pump. 156 00:08:02,836 --> 00:08:06,180 Former scout sniper Stuart McKenzie 157 00:08:06,215 --> 00:08:07,663 is installing a water pump 158 00:08:07,698 --> 00:08:10,180 to help melt the quarter-mile glacier. 159 00:08:10,215 --> 00:08:12,698 Early in the season we used this technique 160 00:08:12,732 --> 00:08:16,043 where we basically pump water on to the ice. 161 00:08:16,077 --> 00:08:19,491 It creates stress fractures, it helps it go away faster. 162 00:08:19,525 --> 00:08:20,698 We leave it unchecked 163 00:08:20,732 --> 00:08:22,284 and it will probably be here until the end of the season. 164 00:08:22,318 --> 00:08:24,043 So we need to start running pay, 165 00:08:24,077 --> 00:08:25,146 we don't have any time to wait. 166 00:08:28,422 --> 00:08:29,560 Oh, wow. 167 00:08:29,594 --> 00:08:32,456 Last week, Fred found a vein of quartz 168 00:08:32,491 --> 00:08:33,767 and gold in the creek 169 00:08:33,801 --> 00:08:36,249 that he hopes leads to rich pay. 170 00:08:36,284 --> 00:08:38,180 Doesn't look like it continues much more here. 171 00:08:38,215 --> 00:08:39,525 It might go underneath. 172 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:40,974 But it's going that way. 173 00:08:41,939 --> 00:08:43,801 Waiting for the ice to thaw 174 00:08:43,836 --> 00:08:45,422 is not an option 175 00:08:45,456 --> 00:08:47,732 if Fred wants to save his season. 176 00:08:47,767 --> 00:08:50,422 So he sends his most experienced miner, 177 00:08:50,456 --> 00:08:51,836 Buzz Legault, 178 00:08:51,870 --> 00:08:54,491 to see if the vein continues upstream. 179 00:08:58,870 --> 00:08:59,974 Yo, Fred, man, 180 00:09:00,008 --> 00:09:02,111 I got something you're gonna wanna see. 181 00:09:02,146 --> 00:09:03,318 On my way. 182 00:09:05,111 --> 00:09:07,008 Buzz finds the quartz vein, 183 00:09:07,043 --> 00:09:09,525 and makes another discovery. 184 00:09:10,629 --> 00:09:11,801 Did you find anything? 185 00:09:11,836 --> 00:09:13,111 You're smiling. 186 00:09:13,146 --> 00:09:15,111 , man. 187 00:09:15,146 --> 00:09:16,387 - Lead the way, I'll follow you. - Let's go. 188 00:09:18,870 --> 00:09:19,939 When Buzz and Fred 189 00:09:19,974 --> 00:09:22,043 scouted this ground last season, 190 00:09:22,077 --> 00:09:25,629 it was solid permafrost, and impossible to mine. 191 00:09:27,284 --> 00:09:28,491 Come look. 192 00:09:28,525 --> 00:09:31,318 You see this stuff here, man? You know what that tells me? 193 00:09:31,353 --> 00:09:32,905 That there's a crack in the ground? 194 00:09:32,939 --> 00:09:35,008 No. It means that this here 195 00:09:35,043 --> 00:09:36,629 is pretty much all defrosted, man. 196 00:09:36,663 --> 00:09:38,767 So all these cracks, this is all thawed? 197 00:09:38,801 --> 00:09:41,284 Yeah. This ground is settling. 198 00:09:41,318 --> 00:09:43,732 Get that all stripped right down to pay. 199 00:09:43,767 --> 00:09:45,077 Let it all defrost. 200 00:09:45,111 --> 00:09:46,836 What about the middle there? 201 00:09:46,870 --> 00:09:50,111 Out to the next post, about 500 feet. 202 00:09:50,146 --> 00:09:52,525 - Right? So it's a big area. - Whoa. 203 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,008 I mean, just looking at the size of that area, 204 00:09:55,043 --> 00:09:58,146 there's probably at least 15,000 to 20,000 yards of pay in it. 205 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:00,387 If their pay is as consistent as it's been down there. 206 00:10:00,422 --> 00:10:02,525 More pay than we had the entire season last year. 207 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:03,836 Wow. 208 00:10:03,870 --> 00:10:07,801 - It's [bleep] mining season, man. - Wow. 209 00:10:07,836 --> 00:10:09,594 It's gonna give us financial freedom, 210 00:10:09,629 --> 00:10:12,215 so what we're calling it is Freedom Cut. 211 00:10:13,146 --> 00:10:14,525 It's huge. 212 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:16,836 We'll build a road across 213 00:10:16,870 --> 00:10:18,146 from the top, our platform, 214 00:10:18,180 --> 00:10:19,801 - over to here. - Yeah. 215 00:10:19,836 --> 00:10:23,318 Get into this freaking big flat spot here. 216 00:10:23,353 --> 00:10:26,284 Before he can start mining the Freedom Cut, 217 00:10:26,318 --> 00:10:30,111 Fred must clear mountains of mud from tough terrain 218 00:10:30,146 --> 00:10:34,422 to build a 300-yard access road. 219 00:10:34,456 --> 00:10:37,353 That means we gotta get that dozer here, like, right [bleep] now. 220 00:10:38,663 --> 00:10:39,974 Five weeks ago, 221 00:10:40,008 --> 00:10:42,008 Fred bought a 40-year-old dozer 222 00:10:42,043 --> 00:10:46,008 which is stocked 150 miles away in Keno. 223 00:10:46,905 --> 00:10:49,077 Building the road to freedom 224 00:10:49,111 --> 00:10:51,974 now relies on Fred finding a way 225 00:10:52,008 --> 00:10:54,939 to transport his monster earth-moving machine 226 00:10:54,974 --> 00:10:58,077 to California Creek as fast as possible. 227 00:10:58,111 --> 00:11:00,767 It's quite a distance, probably about a seven-hour trip. 228 00:11:00,801 --> 00:11:02,974 Maneuvering to get that dozer up there... 229 00:11:03,008 --> 00:11:04,767 Up in the Yukon, finding a bulldozer 230 00:11:04,801 --> 00:11:09,180 is easier than finding someone to transport said bulldozer. 231 00:11:09,215 --> 00:11:11,629 Working capital almost spent, 232 00:11:11,663 --> 00:11:13,939 Fred makes a Hail Mary play. 233 00:11:16,456 --> 00:11:17,870 I'm headed out to the one man I know... 234 00:11:18,698 --> 00:11:20,077 We gotta start stripping. 235 00:11:20,111 --> 00:11:21,939 That's the key. If we can't strip, we can't mine. 236 00:11:32,422 --> 00:11:33,939 There's always so much going on here. 237 00:11:33,974 --> 00:11:36,387 Fred Lewis's mining season 238 00:11:36,422 --> 00:11:38,560 depends on finding someone 239 00:11:38,594 --> 00:11:43,180 to transport his dozer 150 miles to his claim. 240 00:11:43,215 --> 00:11:45,180 All right. Do or die. 241 00:11:51,180 --> 00:11:52,801 Tony! 242 00:11:55,422 --> 00:11:57,043 All clean this year. 243 00:11:57,077 --> 00:11:58,491 How you doing? 244 00:11:59,629 --> 00:12:00,767 Great, actually. 245 00:12:00,801 --> 00:12:02,318 Yeah. 246 00:12:04,801 --> 00:12:08,008 Well, we haven't really gotten started yet, Tony. Um... 247 00:12:08,043 --> 00:12:10,318 That river's not letting go any time soon. 248 00:12:10,353 --> 00:12:12,525 It's basically the beginning of the season for us. 249 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:13,836 So the biggest thing for me this season 250 00:12:13,870 --> 00:12:15,008 was finding a dozer. 251 00:12:15,043 --> 00:12:17,870 I found one, but in order to get up there on the claim 252 00:12:17,905 --> 00:12:19,870 and start stripping, I gotta get it out there. 253 00:12:19,905 --> 00:12:22,767 Then shopping around for someone to transport it, 254 00:12:22,801 --> 00:12:25,560 road vans, everyone's super busy, 255 00:12:25,594 --> 00:12:27,008 I'm striking out. 256 00:12:27,836 --> 00:12:29,318 To be honest, outside of you, 257 00:12:29,353 --> 00:12:32,008 I don't really have a lot of connections in the area. 258 00:12:32,043 --> 00:12:34,767 So that's what's landed me here. 259 00:12:34,801 --> 00:12:36,663 So do you think there's something we can make for a deal? 260 00:12:43,594 --> 00:12:44,905 Yeah, it's 50. 261 00:12:58,594 --> 00:13:00,284 Okay. 262 00:13:03,732 --> 00:13:05,318 Okay. 263 00:13:05,353 --> 00:13:06,353 Awesome, I really appreciate it. 264 00:13:09,422 --> 00:13:11,043 Awesome. 265 00:13:14,353 --> 00:13:15,525 Okay. 266 00:13:20,767 --> 00:13:21,767 Okay. 267 00:13:22,836 --> 00:13:23,836 Okay. 268 00:13:28,215 --> 00:13:30,422 All right, awesome. So I'll talk to Troy. 269 00:13:32,663 --> 00:13:33,939 All right. I appreciate it. 270 00:13:35,663 --> 00:13:37,560 All right. Thank you, Tony. 271 00:13:40,870 --> 00:13:42,318 I'm on cloud nine right now. 272 00:13:42,353 --> 00:13:44,249 This was probably the biggest fear we had, 273 00:13:44,284 --> 00:13:46,284 was not being able to get our dozer out to our claim. 274 00:13:46,318 --> 00:13:48,146 We couldn't find anybody. 275 00:13:48,180 --> 00:13:49,939 But once again, the king of the Klondike, 276 00:13:49,974 --> 00:13:53,215 Tony Beets, hooks us up. 277 00:13:53,249 --> 00:13:54,870 You know, what Tony's just done for us 278 00:13:54,905 --> 00:13:56,836 has basically solved the biggest problem we have. 279 00:14:18,939 --> 00:14:20,629 Klondike legend Tony Beets 280 00:14:20,663 --> 00:14:24,387 is planning to mine more gold than ever before. 281 00:14:37,284 --> 00:14:39,180 Tony's already mined 282 00:14:39,215 --> 00:14:41,525 all the easy pay dirt on Paradise Hill. 283 00:14:42,249 --> 00:14:43,525 Now he's digging out 284 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,525 the deepest cuts of his career, 285 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,560 the Cold Cut and the Blue Cut. 286 00:14:48,594 --> 00:14:53,525 With only 650 ounces of gold mined so far, 287 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,560 Ruby Mahoney loads 300 yards of pay dirt an hour 288 00:14:57,594 --> 00:15:00,008 into the trommel from both cuts. 289 00:15:00,043 --> 00:15:02,077 You know, we're working really hard. 290 00:15:02,111 --> 00:15:04,387 Mother Nature doesn't wanna give up that gold very easily, 291 00:15:04,422 --> 00:15:06,767 and there's things that you have to juggle all of the time 292 00:15:06,801 --> 00:15:08,353 but luckily we got the manpower 293 00:15:08,387 --> 00:15:09,525 and we got the iron. 294 00:15:32,594 --> 00:15:34,146 In six weeks, 295 00:15:34,180 --> 00:15:36,422 Tony's son Mike has removed 296 00:15:36,456 --> 00:15:38,974 two-thirds of the overburden from the cuts. 297 00:15:39,008 --> 00:15:42,077 Now he must strip the last third 298 00:15:42,111 --> 00:15:43,422 in just one week. 299 00:15:44,422 --> 00:15:46,732 While one crew strips in the Blue Cut, 300 00:15:46,767 --> 00:15:49,836 Mike leads another crew in the Cold Cut, 301 00:15:49,870 --> 00:15:53,870 ripping overburden, which is loaded into rock trucks, 302 00:15:53,905 --> 00:15:56,905 then hauled to the nearest dump site. 303 00:15:56,939 --> 00:15:58,905 But temperatures are rising, 304 00:15:58,939 --> 00:16:01,974 and the ground is thawing so fast, 305 00:16:02,008 --> 00:16:04,560 the trucks are in danger of getting stuck. 306 00:16:05,939 --> 00:16:10,180 It's a dangerous game trying to drive when it's this muddy. 307 00:16:10,215 --> 00:16:12,663 With the mess they make, we have to make sure we have 308 00:16:12,698 --> 00:16:14,043 something there to push the dirt. 309 00:16:32,939 --> 00:16:34,767 At the Cold Cut dump site, 310 00:16:34,801 --> 00:16:37,215 Yukon rookie Peter Akama 311 00:16:37,249 --> 00:16:41,043 is using a D6 dozer to move the thawed mud 312 00:16:41,077 --> 00:16:43,801 and keep the route clear for the rock trucks. 313 00:17:27,905 --> 00:17:29,008 Yeah. 314 00:17:46,284 --> 00:17:49,491 Until they can get the track back on the D6, 315 00:17:49,525 --> 00:17:52,008 the rock trucks will have to use a dump site 316 00:17:52,043 --> 00:17:53,629 on the other side of the claim, 317 00:17:53,663 --> 00:17:55,732 half a mile away. 318 00:17:57,318 --> 00:17:59,422 So now that the dump site has moved, 319 00:17:59,456 --> 00:18:02,318 the guys are ripping through the overburden 320 00:18:02,353 --> 00:18:04,215 faster than we can truck it out, 321 00:18:04,249 --> 00:18:06,905 because now we have a longer haul. 322 00:18:06,939 --> 00:18:09,836 So now it can just [bleep] up the whole progress 323 00:18:09,870 --> 00:18:11,939 of everyone's situation right now. 324 00:18:19,387 --> 00:18:23,008 Tony needs to get the D6 out of the mud 325 00:18:23,043 --> 00:18:25,318 before he can do the track repair. 326 00:19:26,111 --> 00:19:30,629 The 63-ton D10 is stuck in the mud. 327 00:19:30,663 --> 00:19:32,767 Tony's problems keep getting bigger, 328 00:19:32,801 --> 00:19:35,043 with both dozers now stranded. 329 00:19:38,801 --> 00:19:41,180 To get the dozers out, 330 00:19:41,215 --> 00:19:45,180 Tony throws even more iron at the problem. 331 00:20:39,215 --> 00:20:41,767 If Tony is going to have both cuts 332 00:20:41,801 --> 00:20:44,043 completely cleared of overburden 333 00:20:44,077 --> 00:20:45,456 by the end of the week, 334 00:20:45,491 --> 00:20:49,008 they'll need to fix the D6 dozer in record time. 335 00:20:50,284 --> 00:20:52,215 Some small problems turn into big ones. 336 00:20:52,249 --> 00:20:53,387 It's a pain in the ass. 337 00:20:53,422 --> 00:20:55,629 Everything like that puts a knot in your schedule, 338 00:20:55,663 --> 00:20:57,249 makes things take longer. 339 00:20:57,284 --> 00:21:00,560 I can't pull miracles out of my ass. 340 00:21:12,111 --> 00:21:13,422 Looks like a highway down here 341 00:21:13,456 --> 00:21:14,974 with all the trucks in and out. 342 00:21:15,008 --> 00:21:16,905 This is gonna be a massive cut. 343 00:21:16,939 --> 00:21:18,905 Really looking forward to getting to the bottom of it here 344 00:21:18,939 --> 00:21:20,491 and seeing what kind of gold's in it. 345 00:21:22,249 --> 00:21:23,905 At Indian River, 346 00:21:23,939 --> 00:21:25,939 foreman Mitch Blaschke's crew 347 00:21:25,974 --> 00:21:29,318 are trying to get down to pay at the Bear Cut 348 00:21:29,353 --> 00:21:33,767 before Big Red chews through all the Easy Street pay dirt. 349 00:21:33,801 --> 00:21:37,318 We're definitely using all the tools in the tool box 350 00:21:37,353 --> 00:21:38,732 to get this project done. 351 00:21:38,767 --> 00:21:41,801 We got the dozers out here pushing this material up. 352 00:21:41,836 --> 00:21:43,870 Now the excavator's sitting here on the piles, 353 00:21:43,905 --> 00:21:47,043 and the truck's taking this waste up to the dump site. 354 00:21:47,939 --> 00:21:50,043 Hey Tyson, how's it going over there? 355 00:21:50,077 --> 00:21:53,008 Lot of it's down to pay, but there's still some frost 356 00:21:53,043 --> 00:21:54,905 we're gonna have to go over again here. 357 00:21:54,939 --> 00:21:57,491 Yeah, well just keep sending that stuff as fast as you can. 358 00:22:00,111 --> 00:22:01,491 Oh [bleep]. 359 00:22:05,663 --> 00:22:07,905 Hey Ty, you got a copy, man? 360 00:22:07,939 --> 00:22:09,008 Hey, buddy. 361 00:22:09,043 --> 00:22:11,525 Hey, I just blew the track off the 480 362 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,008 No good. 363 00:22:13,043 --> 00:22:14,560 Yeah, I'll try and get it in a good spot, man. 364 00:22:14,594 --> 00:22:16,043 It's no good where it's sitting here. 365 00:22:16,077 --> 00:22:17,870 All right, I'll see you down here. Thanks. 366 00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:24,594 This is the last thing we need right now. 367 00:22:36,939 --> 00:22:38,594 It's not normal for you guys 368 00:22:38,629 --> 00:22:40,905 to be able to drive to where this happens. 369 00:22:40,939 --> 00:22:42,491 No, it's beautiful, man. 370 00:22:42,525 --> 00:22:45,111 I was expecting it to be on a hillside somewhere. 371 00:22:45,146 --> 00:22:46,560 So we're laughing. 372 00:22:46,594 --> 00:22:48,318 - Use at two max. - Yeah. 373 00:22:48,353 --> 00:22:50,767 - We'll be here most of the day, so... - Yeah. 374 00:22:53,422 --> 00:22:54,905 That's no good. 375 00:22:54,939 --> 00:22:57,491 - Ty. Come here. - Yo. 376 00:22:57,525 --> 00:23:00,422 - Have a look there. - Oh, yeah. 377 00:23:00,456 --> 00:23:02,422 Our tensioner's broken. 378 00:23:02,456 --> 00:23:03,767 Oh [bleep]. 379 00:23:04,594 --> 00:23:06,008 Yeah. No good. 380 00:23:06,043 --> 00:23:08,525 Let's rip this thing out and see what it looks like. 381 00:23:19,043 --> 00:23:21,422 So, here's our tensioner assembly. 382 00:23:21,456 --> 00:23:25,146 The nut and rod have been sheared right off the end there. 383 00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:27,560 They should be caged together 384 00:23:27,594 --> 00:23:29,284 with that piece and this piece. 385 00:23:29,318 --> 00:23:32,284 And we have no end of our shaft. 386 00:23:32,318 --> 00:23:34,008 We don't have parts for that. 387 00:23:34,043 --> 00:23:37,008 Lead time on tensioners, I mean, 388 00:23:37,043 --> 00:23:39,111 it could be weeks or longer. 389 00:23:40,939 --> 00:23:43,663 I think we should put this back together. 390 00:23:43,698 --> 00:23:46,767 Once we put some tension on the track tensioner, 391 00:23:46,801 --> 00:23:49,043 the piston should hold the tracks snug enough 392 00:23:49,077 --> 00:23:51,939 that this thing can walk around. 393 00:23:51,974 --> 00:23:54,560 Facing a delay of weeks for the part, 394 00:23:54,594 --> 00:23:56,836 Taylor has come up with a bush fix. 395 00:23:56,870 --> 00:24:00,767 His plan - place the broken tensioner assembly 396 00:24:00,801 --> 00:24:02,698 back in the track frame. 397 00:24:02,732 --> 00:24:07,525 Then weld two steel pads on either side of the idler wheel 398 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,491 to lock it into position. 399 00:24:09,525 --> 00:24:13,353 Next, pull the track back around the rollers, 400 00:24:13,387 --> 00:24:17,111 and finally add hydraulic fluid to the piston 401 00:24:17,146 --> 00:24:19,043 to push the idler back out. 402 00:24:19,077 --> 00:24:22,767 If successful, this will both tighten the track enough 403 00:24:22,801 --> 00:24:24,594 to stop it from falling off 404 00:24:24,629 --> 00:24:29,629 and keep the broken tensioner in place. 405 00:24:29,663 --> 00:24:32,732 All right, well, we'll hand-bomb this thing into the spring. 406 00:24:32,767 --> 00:24:34,284 Then we'll sling her in there. 407 00:24:35,870 --> 00:24:37,077 Lift with your back. 408 00:24:38,594 --> 00:24:39,905 There we go. 409 00:24:45,732 --> 00:24:48,146 There you go. Perfecto. 410 00:24:49,387 --> 00:24:51,939 All right, so, we're just putting the idler back in. 411 00:24:51,974 --> 00:24:54,146 And we just wanna line it up with the recoil spring 412 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:56,525 so everything sits nice and even 413 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,008 in the track frame. 414 00:24:59,180 --> 00:25:01,180 We're in. Beauty. 415 00:25:02,525 --> 00:25:04,594 Ty's just welding in some pieces of plate 416 00:25:04,629 --> 00:25:07,836 just to try and keep our idler from moving side-to-side. 417 00:25:12,525 --> 00:25:14,905 I'm just craning these tracks back. 418 00:25:14,939 --> 00:25:17,353 Hopefully it's gonna fold 'em open 419 00:25:17,387 --> 00:25:19,560 and then we'll walk the machine 420 00:25:19,594 --> 00:25:20,905 right up on top of the tracks, 421 00:25:20,939 --> 00:25:22,387 flip them back over, 422 00:25:22,422 --> 00:25:24,387 and then link them back together. 423 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:36,111 Ah. Good enough. 424 00:25:41,008 --> 00:25:43,249 Nice and easy now. 425 00:25:43,284 --> 00:25:45,043 Just keep some tension on it. 426 00:25:45,077 --> 00:25:47,215 And Ty, you're gonna walk forward with both tracks. 427 00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:58,284 Well, she's pinned together. 428 00:25:58,318 --> 00:26:00,111 I'm gonna start putting grease in these tracks 429 00:26:00,146 --> 00:26:01,767 and see if we can get them 430 00:26:01,801 --> 00:26:03,387 snugged up to where they need to be. 431 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:12,111 Okay, go ahead. 432 00:26:18,836 --> 00:26:21,043 It's looking all right. 433 00:26:21,077 --> 00:26:24,387 Yeah, just walk it around a bit, back and forth. 434 00:26:26,905 --> 00:26:29,008 It's looking good. You can cruise. 435 00:26:32,456 --> 00:26:34,939 Like, this thing can walk around no problem. 436 00:26:34,974 --> 00:26:37,767 It can dig pay, like, actually better than I thought. 437 00:26:37,801 --> 00:26:40,180 But, yeah, don't billy-goat it around. 438 00:26:40,215 --> 00:26:43,146 Yeah. Hey Mitch, you got a copy? 439 00:26:43,180 --> 00:26:44,663 Yeah, go. 440 00:26:44,698 --> 00:26:46,836 Hey, you wanna come pick up this 480? 441 00:26:46,870 --> 00:26:49,146 Is she ready to go? 442 00:26:49,180 --> 00:26:50,594 She's ready to go for you. 443 00:26:51,353 --> 00:26:52,905 You gotta make [bleep] work. 444 00:26:52,939 --> 00:26:54,180 We got a tensioner in there 445 00:26:54,215 --> 00:26:56,077 that's blasted in three pieces. 446 00:26:56,111 --> 00:26:58,249 But it's holding the tracks tight, 447 00:26:58,284 --> 00:27:01,422 and it'll probably do its job until the new parts arrive. 448 00:27:11,525 --> 00:27:14,560 Ty did an awesome job getting the 480 fixed up here. 449 00:27:14,594 --> 00:27:17,043 I know it wasn't an easy fix, but she's back rolling. 450 00:27:17,077 --> 00:27:19,491 After just six hours, 451 00:27:19,525 --> 00:27:22,732 Taylor's bush fix has the 480 back at work 452 00:27:22,767 --> 00:27:25,663 and stripping the Bear Cut down to pay. 453 00:27:27,077 --> 00:27:29,318 Time to move some dirt and get down to some gold. 454 00:27:56,422 --> 00:27:59,836 Tony Beets needs both his massive cuts 455 00:27:59,870 --> 00:28:02,629 fully stripped and down to gold-rich pay 456 00:28:02,663 --> 00:28:03,974 by the end of the week. 457 00:28:05,008 --> 00:28:07,008 But the closest overburden dump site 458 00:28:07,043 --> 00:28:09,422 is a muddy mess, 459 00:28:09,456 --> 00:28:11,939 and the D6 used to clear the way 460 00:28:11,974 --> 00:28:15,249 is down with a thrown track. 461 00:28:15,284 --> 00:28:16,974 Tony has ordered the rock trucks 462 00:28:17,008 --> 00:28:18,801 to divert to another dump 463 00:28:18,836 --> 00:28:21,456 on the far side of the claim. 464 00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:24,215 The D6 is a handy thing for certain small jobs, 465 00:28:24,249 --> 00:28:26,180 so it being down is a shame, sure. 466 00:28:26,215 --> 00:28:28,801 I'll do as much as I can with what I got. 467 00:28:28,836 --> 00:28:31,043 You can't expect much more than that. 468 00:28:32,111 --> 00:28:33,870 The D6 is all down. 469 00:28:33,905 --> 00:28:35,836 We still got a lot of work to do, 470 00:28:35,870 --> 00:28:38,249 so guess we just gotta try and be efficient at either end 471 00:28:38,284 --> 00:28:40,870 and hope it makes up some time. 472 00:28:41,767 --> 00:28:43,422 Down in the yard, 473 00:28:43,456 --> 00:28:45,698 Tony removes the broken track. 474 00:29:02,870 --> 00:29:04,905 The truck is so worn out, 475 00:29:04,939 --> 00:29:07,284 Tony will need to replace the whole thing. 476 00:29:07,318 --> 00:29:10,525 His chances of having the cut stripped of pay 477 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,318 by the end of the week are slipping away. 478 00:29:30,284 --> 00:29:34,318 At Paradise Hill, Tony wants his two massive cuts 479 00:29:34,353 --> 00:29:36,836 fully stripped by the end of the week. 480 00:29:36,870 --> 00:29:39,974 But a key dozer's track is broken 481 00:29:40,008 --> 00:29:42,560 and he needs to replace it ASAP. 482 00:29:45,801 --> 00:29:47,560 I think it's cool to walk around here. 483 00:29:47,594 --> 00:29:50,008 Yeah, there's just so much space. 484 00:29:50,043 --> 00:29:52,594 Especially when you want to make something. 485 00:29:52,629 --> 00:29:57,870 Worldwide supply chain issues mean tracks take weeks to arrive. 486 00:29:57,905 --> 00:30:01,077 goodies in here. 487 00:30:01,111 --> 00:30:06,077 Son Kevin and nephew Mike hope to find an old but usable replacement 488 00:30:06,111 --> 00:30:08,422 in Tony's 5-acre bone yard. 489 00:30:09,732 --> 00:30:11,870 And do you think we're gonna find something here? 490 00:30:12,387 --> 00:30:13,560 We should. 491 00:30:13,594 --> 00:30:17,422 You may have to go... to the next goodie pile. 492 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:21,525 Ooh! 493 00:30:22,456 --> 00:30:23,456 Yep, we got it. 494 00:30:25,077 --> 00:30:27,422 Only in his second year mining... 495 00:30:29,284 --> 00:30:33,629 ...cousin Mike is charged with putting the track back on the D6. 496 00:30:35,284 --> 00:30:38,560 Right now, this will be the only D6 running out here. 497 00:30:38,594 --> 00:30:39,974 We're gonna need it pretty bad 498 00:30:40,008 --> 00:30:43,422 so, uh, yeah, we wanna get this done and get this done right. 499 00:30:44,629 --> 00:30:49,008 It's also my first time, so we'll see how it goes. 500 00:30:49,043 --> 00:30:50,905 We're using a chain on this end. 501 00:30:50,939 --> 00:30:54,836 And then we put the chain over the track frame to the back. 502 00:30:54,870 --> 00:30:58,008 And then that's how we're gonna pull the whole track over 503 00:30:58,043 --> 00:31:00,353 to the track frame towards the sprocket. 504 00:31:04,594 --> 00:31:06,284 Yeah, well, for us, it's all new. 505 00:31:07,077 --> 00:31:08,043 We're still learning a lot. 506 00:31:20,525 --> 00:31:23,491 I'm thinking of using the come-a-long to pull the tracks. 507 00:31:24,663 --> 00:31:27,801 It's a little safer and you won't damage anything. 508 00:31:41,249 --> 00:31:42,663 It's not tight. 509 00:31:42,698 --> 00:31:45,767 The novice mechanic has come up short. 510 00:31:45,801 --> 00:31:48,387 The track coupling should overlap, 511 00:31:48,422 --> 00:31:50,456 but there is a gap of 8 inches. 512 00:31:54,422 --> 00:31:56,008 He can't connect to where it is. 513 00:31:56,043 --> 00:31:59,905 There's no way you're gonna use the come-a-long to pull that track from here 514 00:31:59,939 --> 00:32:02,525 underneath all that way, it's just not gonna happen. 515 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,284 So, disconnect this, drop it down. 516 00:32:05,318 --> 00:32:08,043 Gonna fire up the catch, then we're gonna go in reverse. 517 00:32:08,077 --> 00:32:09,974 - Yep. - But we're not gonna run that track. 518 00:32:10,008 --> 00:32:15,146 It'll cause this to spin back. Till we get it to, ah, I'd say right about here. 519 00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:17,594 And then we'll slap together. 520 00:32:27,456 --> 00:32:29,560 - Okay. You ready? - Yeah. 521 00:32:29,594 --> 00:32:30,767 Open up the throttle. 522 00:32:45,387 --> 00:32:46,387 Okay. 523 00:33:02,732 --> 00:33:04,008 Piece of cake. 524 00:33:06,353 --> 00:33:08,146 Okay, so track is on. It's all tightened up. 525 00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:10,284 The D6 is ready to head back out to the dump. 526 00:33:10,318 --> 00:33:14,043 We need it out there a little bad, so [bleep] perfect. 527 00:33:17,767 --> 00:33:22,008 The D6 goes back to work at the dump site closest to the cuts. 528 00:33:22,043 --> 00:33:26,043 Reopening the road for rock trucks to tip their overburden. 529 00:33:27,525 --> 00:33:31,456 We're throwing everything we can to get all this dirt moved. 530 00:33:32,939 --> 00:33:35,215 This section's almost pretty much done. 531 00:33:36,525 --> 00:33:40,560 The D6 is fixed. Shoulder dump is now open again. 532 00:33:40,594 --> 00:33:43,111 Now we can haul more dirt out a lot faster. 533 00:33:44,698 --> 00:33:48,008 Had a bit of a hiccup but, uh, we got it here in the end. 534 00:33:48,043 --> 00:33:50,387 All in all, everything going quite nicely here. 535 00:33:57,767 --> 00:33:58,663 Oh, yeah. 536 00:34:06,767 --> 00:34:08,043 There are little bits here and there, 537 00:34:08,077 --> 00:34:10,560 but for the most part, we're starting to hit pay all around. 538 00:34:16,008 --> 00:34:16,801 Yep. 539 00:34:24,698 --> 00:34:26,836 Stripping duties complete, 540 00:34:26,870 --> 00:34:30,456 Mike heads to Keno to make good on Tony's promise 541 00:34:30,491 --> 00:34:33,525 to help Fred Lewis transport his dozer. 542 00:34:48,525 --> 00:34:49,974 - Howdy, Troy. - Hey. 543 00:34:50,008 --> 00:34:51,594 - Good. 544 00:34:51,629 --> 00:34:53,008 - Good to see you guys. - Good to see you again. 545 00:34:53,043 --> 00:34:55,008 - Welcome back. - All right, well, we don't waste any of your time. 546 00:34:55,043 --> 00:34:56,111 Let's get to work. 547 00:34:56,146 --> 00:34:57,146 - Okay. - Heck yeah. 548 00:34:59,180 --> 00:35:04,387 A hundred and ten miles east of Paradise Hill, Fred is up against it. 549 00:35:04,422 --> 00:35:07,111 Together with his mechanic, JB, 550 00:35:07,146 --> 00:35:10,146 and Troy Taylor who sold Fred the dozer, 551 00:35:10,180 --> 00:35:12,318 he's racing to remove the blade 552 00:35:12,353 --> 00:35:17,077 and make it legal to transport before Mike arrives with the low boy. 553 00:35:17,111 --> 00:35:19,111 So does this whole thing come off or... 554 00:35:19,146 --> 00:35:21,594 All we have to do is take the trunnion caps off, 555 00:35:21,629 --> 00:35:23,801 put some blocks under here, 556 00:35:23,836 --> 00:35:26,663 take the four bolts off, that comes off. 557 00:35:26,698 --> 00:35:28,422 - Cool. 558 00:35:28,456 --> 00:35:29,767 All right. I'm on it. 559 00:35:37,974 --> 00:35:39,387 - Hey, Fred! - Yo! 560 00:35:39,422 --> 00:35:43,215 - Hey, we got an issue over here, man. - Already? 561 00:35:43,249 --> 00:35:47,491 I tried with the breaker bar and I frickin' 562 00:35:47,525 --> 00:35:49,629 - snapped. - Well, you broke the breaker bar. 563 00:35:51,456 --> 00:35:54,111 - It's like rusted in place. - Yeah, yeah. 564 00:35:54,146 --> 00:35:57,353 Got these trunnion caps that need to come off and all these are super tight 565 00:35:57,387 --> 00:35:59,215 and probably rusted in place, 566 00:35:59,249 --> 00:36:02,077 so we could be up creek without a paddle at this point. 567 00:36:02,111 --> 00:36:05,594 Uh, we've got the trailer coming to pick this up today. 568 00:36:05,629 --> 00:36:07,387 And, uh, we're on borrowed time, 569 00:36:07,422 --> 00:36:09,594 so we're just trying to solve these problems 570 00:36:09,629 --> 00:36:11,594 as quick as we can and hope we don't [bleep] ourselves. 571 00:36:15,698 --> 00:36:17,284 We got a lot more leverage pushing down. 572 00:36:19,353 --> 00:36:21,456 - Ready? - All right, one, two, three. 573 00:36:25,939 --> 00:36:27,663 Did it break or did it slip? 574 00:36:27,698 --> 00:36:29,077 I think it slipped. 575 00:36:34,284 --> 00:36:35,801 kidding. 576 00:36:35,836 --> 00:36:37,560 We're running out of time. 577 00:36:37,594 --> 00:36:40,456 When they show up here and we haven't even gotten the blade off, 578 00:36:40,491 --> 00:36:41,836 they're probably gonna turn around and leave. 579 00:36:43,215 --> 00:36:45,905 I mean, what we got to this point is not working. 580 00:36:45,939 --> 00:36:48,387 If Fred can't remove the blade, 581 00:36:48,422 --> 00:36:51,491 Mike won't be able to transport the dozer. 582 00:36:51,525 --> 00:36:57,180 Stopping the Lewis crew from building their Freedom cut road and getting any gold. 583 00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:59,939 So you said you got something with you that might help us out? 584 00:36:59,974 --> 00:37:01,732 - All right. 585 00:37:05,836 --> 00:37:10,491 - Ah. - This guy is a 4:1 multiplier. 586 00:37:10,525 --> 00:37:12,698 It might be exactly what we need 587 00:37:12,732 --> 00:37:14,870 - because it's gonna multiply our torque. - Times four, yes. 588 00:37:14,905 --> 00:37:16,491 Whatever works, let's try 'em. 589 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,491 The 4:1 torque wrench 590 00:37:19,525 --> 00:37:22,422 uses pinion gears to increase leverage. 591 00:37:23,594 --> 00:37:25,146 We're bringing out the heavy guns now. 592 00:37:25,180 --> 00:37:28,008 If this doesn't work, we got a few other options, 593 00:37:28,043 --> 00:37:32,284 but they all involve quite a bit of time to go get the tools we need, so... 594 00:37:32,318 --> 00:37:33,836 Our fingers are crossed right now. 595 00:37:35,111 --> 00:37:36,077 Ready? 596 00:37:46,249 --> 00:37:50,594 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We got one loose. 597 00:37:50,629 --> 00:37:52,387 - Get it from up there? Too much angle? - [Fred] Yeah. 598 00:37:52,422 --> 00:37:54,146 Come on. Ready? 599 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:56,491 Like, pull on it. Like, go up and then come down again. 600 00:37:56,525 --> 00:37:57,663 - Like that we were doing. - Like that. 601 00:37:58,491 --> 00:37:59,939 Loose, but... 602 00:37:59,974 --> 00:38:03,353 There we go. Now she's loose loose. 603 00:38:03,387 --> 00:38:05,318 - All right, see if I can get that last one. - Three out of eight. 604 00:38:08,801 --> 00:38:10,043 - I'm glad the other one's... - Good job, bro. 605 00:38:10,077 --> 00:38:14,387 Yeah, that's one side. We got it. 606 00:38:14,422 --> 00:38:15,870 So we've gotta do the other side. 607 00:38:15,905 --> 00:38:17,801 We still gotta do everything in the front. 608 00:38:17,836 --> 00:38:19,905 But hopefully this is the hardest part. 609 00:38:26,077 --> 00:38:27,422 All right, I'm gonna start her up. 610 00:38:27,456 --> 00:38:29,318 All right, you clear, JB? 611 00:38:29,353 --> 00:38:31,767 - Clear. - All right, buddy. Moment of truth. 612 00:38:37,491 --> 00:38:40,629 Bolts removed, Fred reverses the dozer 613 00:38:40,663 --> 00:38:42,629 to separate it from the blade. 614 00:38:49,215 --> 00:38:50,353 Dude. 615 00:38:50,387 --> 00:38:52,387 We got some work left to do, but he's not here yet. 616 00:38:52,422 --> 00:38:54,077 - And we just need to freaking move. - All right. 617 00:38:54,111 --> 00:38:55,456 Let's do it. 618 00:38:55,491 --> 00:38:57,008 At this point, we're on borrowed time. 619 00:38:57,043 --> 00:38:59,594 We've got quite a bit of work left to do. 620 00:38:59,629 --> 00:39:03,318 If I can get this thing ready to haul 'cause, uh, we could miss our window. 621 00:39:03,353 --> 00:39:06,594 And, uh, at this point, finding another driver is nearly impossible. 622 00:39:06,629 --> 00:39:08,008 So we gotta get moving. 623 00:39:17,077 --> 00:39:19,111 Uh, so I'm gonna grab my yoga mat. 624 00:39:19,146 --> 00:39:21,836 And then head outside and do a little workout. 625 00:39:23,905 --> 00:39:26,698 So we're gonna go to the grass patch. 626 00:39:26,732 --> 00:39:29,456 Which is my favorite place on this mine site. 627 00:39:29,491 --> 00:39:32,249 It's meant to be peaceful except I kind of am always stressing 628 00:39:32,284 --> 00:39:34,284 about [bleep] bears that are everywhere, 629 00:39:34,318 --> 00:39:36,870 but I try and block them out for the 15 minutes I'm down there. 630 00:39:40,456 --> 00:39:41,870 - Hello. 631 00:39:41,905 --> 00:39:44,905 We've got nine dogs running around, so it's always a bit chaotic. 632 00:39:44,939 --> 00:39:46,318 This is Cheeker and Isla. 633 00:39:46,353 --> 00:39:48,594 I really do have to start my day with a workout. 634 00:39:48,629 --> 00:39:50,767 Just because I'm in machinery all day 635 00:39:50,801 --> 00:39:53,008 and being in a machine is like being in a washing machine. 636 00:39:53,043 --> 00:39:55,663 You just get thrown around, it's just a lot on the body. 637 00:39:55,698 --> 00:39:57,387 That's why this is so important. 638 00:39:59,249 --> 00:40:03,284 It's funny, I've asked Parker to come and do, um, Pilates or a morning workout with me 639 00:40:03,318 --> 00:40:07,387 and, um, the answer is, "Absolutely, no." He just laughs in my face. 640 00:40:07,422 --> 00:40:09,077 But it'll happen one day. 641 00:40:17,974 --> 00:40:20,422 Ah, right now, we're probably any minute for Mikey Beets 642 00:40:20,456 --> 00:40:24,146 getting here with the truck to move the blade and the dozer. 643 00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:26,525 We're trying to get the last pieces unattached. 644 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,180 Just these two pins here 645 00:40:28,215 --> 00:40:29,870 have to come out and it's ready to go. 646 00:40:29,905 --> 00:40:32,629 But we wanna get all that stuff done and ready before they get here, 647 00:40:32,663 --> 00:40:35,491 so they're not waiting around. They can load it and go. 648 00:40:35,525 --> 00:40:37,318 Mike Beets and Len Hoekstra 649 00:40:37,353 --> 00:40:43,146 arrive to transport Fred's dozer and blade to Dawson City. 650 00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:47,387 The first leg of its journey before going on to California Creek. 651 00:40:48,456 --> 00:40:49,836 How's it going, guys? 652 00:40:49,870 --> 00:40:51,284 Oh, good. Yourself? 653 00:40:51,318 --> 00:40:53,284 - How you doing? 654 00:40:53,318 --> 00:40:55,801 So what you think the game plan's gonna be? 655 00:40:55,836 --> 00:40:59,146 Well, I got the low boy and that's gonna be the easiest thing to load 656 00:40:59,180 --> 00:41:01,767 'cause all I have to do is drop the neck and we can drive the thing on... 657 00:41:01,801 --> 00:41:03,767 Uh, your blade's gonna be a pain in the ass 658 00:41:03,801 --> 00:41:06,180 because all we got is a loader. 659 00:41:06,215 --> 00:41:08,318 But everything else we can get easy peasy. 660 00:41:08,353 --> 00:41:10,974 - Okay. - So if, uh... 661 00:41:11,008 --> 00:41:13,836 You do the neck. You drive the dozer on for me. 662 00:41:13,870 --> 00:41:15,387 You want me to drive the dozer on? 663 00:41:15,422 --> 00:41:16,767 Well, yeah. It's your dozer. 664 00:41:16,801 --> 00:41:17,905 All right, it's your trailer. 665 00:41:17,939 --> 00:41:19,422 Uh, it's not hard. 666 00:41:19,456 --> 00:41:21,318 If you can drive in a straight line, you can do it. 667 00:41:21,353 --> 00:41:22,456 All right. We'll find out. 668 00:41:23,215 --> 00:41:24,111 All right. Let's do it. 669 00:41:24,146 --> 00:41:25,146 - All right. Let's go. 670 00:41:47,870 --> 00:41:48,836 You ready? 671 00:41:50,008 --> 00:41:52,008 Blade successfully loaded... 672 00:41:52,043 --> 00:41:53,249 I'm in! 673 00:41:53,284 --> 00:41:54,974 Make sure everybody's back. 674 00:41:55,008 --> 00:41:59,008 ...it's time for Fred to show Mike and Len his driving skills. 675 00:42:04,008 --> 00:42:05,456 I'm a little bit nervous about it. 676 00:42:05,491 --> 00:42:08,043 Uh, I've never really driven a dozer more than a couple of feet. 677 00:42:29,318 --> 00:42:31,077 Beautiful. 678 00:42:31,111 --> 00:42:33,663 You'll leave it exactly how it is. 679 00:42:33,698 --> 00:42:35,836 Next step is to, uh, put some chains on it 680 00:42:35,870 --> 00:42:36,836 and get it the hell out of here. 681 00:42:41,594 --> 00:42:42,836 Think that's it though, right? 682 00:42:42,870 --> 00:42:44,767 We're all battened down, ready to roll. You guys can bounce. 683 00:42:44,801 --> 00:42:47,008 And next time we see this thing, it's gonna be on our claim. 684 00:42:47,043 --> 00:42:48,318 - Yeah, right. - Appreciate it. 685 00:42:48,353 --> 00:42:49,732 See you, guys. 686 00:42:49,767 --> 00:42:53,111 The dozer is on its way to Tony's yard in Dawson. 687 00:42:53,146 --> 00:42:55,801 Where it will be held until the road ban 688 00:42:55,836 --> 00:42:58,215 close to Fred's claim is lifted. 689 00:42:58,249 --> 00:43:02,801 But the Lewis crew are one step closer to mining for gold. 690 00:43:02,836 --> 00:43:04,111 Well, that was a hell of a day. 691 00:43:04,146 --> 00:43:06,284 Definitely a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be. 692 00:43:06,318 --> 00:43:09,111 We had to do some quick thinking, but we got it going. 693 00:43:09,146 --> 00:43:11,353 Right now, it's on its way. Time to get to gold. 694 00:43:21,180 --> 00:43:23,387 - What's happening, man? 695 00:43:23,422 --> 00:43:25,043 - Cleaning gold, buddy. - Yeah? 696 00:43:25,077 --> 00:43:27,284 - Hopefully, lots of it. - Lots of it, I wish. 697 00:43:27,318 --> 00:43:28,767 - Hey, T. - Hey, Doumitt. 698 00:43:28,801 --> 00:43:30,387 - How you doing, buddy? - Good, how are you? 699 00:43:30,422 --> 00:43:31,732 - Good. - That's good. 700 00:43:31,767 --> 00:43:33,939 And you guys are stripping the Bear cut now? 701 00:43:33,974 --> 00:43:35,836 - How's it going down there? 702 00:43:35,870 --> 00:43:39,870 Had a busy week. We saw a bear down there, it kept cruising around. 703 00:43:40,525 --> 00:43:42,043 Hey, young man. 704 00:43:42,077 --> 00:43:43,077 So... 705 00:43:45,318 --> 00:43:47,974 Well, this is our first full week 706 00:43:48,008 --> 00:43:51,422 on the old Easy Street, we'll see if it lives up to its name. 707 00:43:51,456 --> 00:43:53,767 What do you think about the Bear cut there, Tyson? 708 00:43:53,801 --> 00:43:56,525 Lots of, uh, stuck trucks on that ramp. 709 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,732 Yeah, definitely. 710 00:43:57,767 --> 00:44:00,767 We had Tatiana... Had that tire let go. 711 00:44:00,801 --> 00:44:03,387 - Yeah. - Man, if she's having trouble getting around out there... 712 00:44:03,422 --> 00:44:05,111 She's got a lot of experience on those rock trucks. 713 00:44:05,146 --> 00:44:06,698 She knows how to get 'em through stuff. 714 00:44:06,732 --> 00:44:09,732 And then, 480 blew the track off it 715 00:44:09,767 --> 00:44:11,698 and we had to put all that back together, so... 716 00:44:11,732 --> 00:44:13,387 Bad things come in threes. 717 00:44:15,077 --> 00:44:16,767 Well, hopefully, that's all of it, right? 718 00:44:16,801 --> 00:44:18,008 Yeah. 719 00:44:18,043 --> 00:44:20,318 Big Red had a good week. I mean, it plugged right along. 720 00:44:20,353 --> 00:44:23,008 - Well, Doumitt will tell us if it had a good week or not. - Yeah. 721 00:44:23,043 --> 00:44:25,836 It did its job anyway. I mean, hopefully, there's some gold in it. 722 00:44:25,870 --> 00:44:28,629 - So, all in all... - Are you ready, Mitchell? All in all, Mitchell. 723 00:44:28,663 --> 00:44:30,387 - We sluiced all week. - Sluiced all week. 724 00:44:30,422 --> 00:44:32,422 We moved a bunch of mud. 725 00:44:32,456 --> 00:44:33,801 We definitely had some problems. 726 00:44:34,491 --> 00:44:35,801 We worked our way through 'em. 727 00:44:35,836 --> 00:44:38,318 - Do we have any gold to show for it? - Well, here. You tell me. 728 00:44:38,353 --> 00:44:42,077 It's the first full week's run for Easy Street 729 00:44:42,111 --> 00:44:45,663 and the crew's hoping for at least 200 ounces. 730 00:44:45,698 --> 00:44:47,491 Come here. 731 00:44:47,525 --> 00:44:49,525 - Ready? - All right. Let's see. What do you got? 732 00:44:51,767 --> 00:44:55,318 Twenty, 30, 50, 70, 80, 733 00:44:56,180 --> 00:44:58,111 100, 120, 734 00:44:58,146 --> 00:45:01,387 130... Oh, is that it? 735 00:45:01,422 --> 00:45:02,387 That's it. 736 00:45:02,422 --> 00:45:05,698 139.30. 737 00:45:05,732 --> 00:45:10,629 Worth just over $250,000. 738 00:45:10,663 --> 00:45:13,422 One thirty-nine, not quite 140. 739 00:45:13,456 --> 00:45:15,905 Yeah, first run's are usually crappy. 740 00:45:17,077 --> 00:45:19,387 Probably hardly covers the fuel bill for a week. 741 00:45:21,767 --> 00:45:23,387 Where's that put us? 742 00:45:23,422 --> 00:45:26,594 Last week it was 230 ounces. 743 00:45:26,629 --> 00:45:27,594 Yeah. 744 00:45:27,629 --> 00:45:30,870 This week it's 140, so about half. 745 00:45:30,905 --> 00:45:32,732 But for the season total, 746 00:45:32,767 --> 00:45:36,215 it's 1,343.75. 747 00:45:37,491 --> 00:45:39,146 It's still early. We're still in good shape. 748 00:45:39,180 --> 00:45:40,801 Where were we last year? 749 00:45:40,836 --> 00:45:44,732 We're around 860 ounces. 750 00:45:44,767 --> 00:45:46,767 - Yeah. 751 00:45:46,801 --> 00:45:47,767 But yeah, we're getting there. 752 00:45:47,801 --> 00:45:49,422 Once we have two plants running, 753 00:45:49,456 --> 00:45:50,870 the rate at which we're doing, 754 00:45:50,905 --> 00:45:53,180 getting through ground is gonna, like, more than double. 755 00:45:53,215 --> 00:45:57,077 Another couple of weeks, man. Can't stop now. 756 00:45:57,111 --> 00:45:59,353 - Later. 757 00:45:59,387 --> 00:46:00,939 Okay, we'll catch you guys later. 758 00:46:14,111 --> 00:46:16,215 - Hi, guys. - Hi, everybody. 759 00:46:24,284 --> 00:46:25,663 How was everybody's week? 760 00:46:25,698 --> 00:46:27,043 Some ups and downs. 761 00:46:27,077 --> 00:46:28,870 Mostly a D6 that went down. 762 00:46:28,905 --> 00:46:32,318 - What happened? - Uh, a track came off and all that goo. 763 00:46:32,353 --> 00:46:33,767 So, that was fun. 764 00:46:33,801 --> 00:46:36,146 - Yeah. 765 00:46:36,180 --> 00:46:39,249 Regardless of what else happens, that plant keeps on turning. 766 00:46:49,698 --> 00:46:50,698 - Yep. 767 00:46:51,318 --> 00:46:52,387 Cool. 768 00:46:52,422 --> 00:46:54,111 - Ready? 769 00:46:54,146 --> 00:46:56,008 Three, two, one. Let's go. 770 00:46:56,043 --> 00:47:00,629 To stay on target, Tony needs at least 215 ounces. 771 00:47:01,111 --> 00:47:03,456 Forty, 60, 772 00:47:03,491 --> 00:47:08,043 80, 120, 773 00:47:08,077 --> 00:47:14,422 140, 150, 160, 176.92. 774 00:47:14,456 --> 00:47:20,905 Thirty-eight ounces short, but still worth $318,000. 775 00:47:26,353 --> 00:47:28,629 It is what it is. You're not going to change it. 776 00:47:33,180 --> 00:47:34,767 That's what I said earlier. 777 00:47:34,801 --> 00:47:36,560 So what's our total? 778 00:47:36,594 --> 00:47:40,146 - Ah, we have roughly 828 ounces right now. - Okay. 779 00:47:40,180 --> 00:47:42,146 I mean, hell, we're still in 12 hour days, 780 00:47:42,180 --> 00:47:44,629 I mean, it doesn't take much to double up. 781 00:47:44,663 --> 00:47:47,594 There's still lots of room to play, guys, aye? 782 00:47:47,629 --> 00:47:48,767 - Oh, yes. - Oh, yeah. 783 00:47:48,801 --> 00:47:50,077 Sandbox is still pretty full. 784 00:47:50,111 --> 00:47:53,629 Speaking of which, this probably means we gotta vamoose. 785 00:47:53,663 --> 00:47:55,560 Yeah, probably should get back out. 786 00:47:55,594 --> 00:47:58,077 - Let's go. - Okay, let's do it. 787 00:47:59,767 --> 00:48:01,663 Let's go, Mike. We got [bleep] to do. 788 00:48:01,698 --> 00:48:03,043 Oh, yeah. 788 00:48:04,305 --> 00:49:04,266 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org