"Gold Rush" Freedom for the Bold

1 00:00:10,376 --> 00:00:11,810 Did you bring a gold pan? 2 00:00:11,810 --> 00:00:13,476 I got mine, where's yours? 3 00:00:13,476 --> 00:00:14,777 Can I use that one? 4 00:00:14,777 --> 00:00:16,109 - Nope. - Okay. 5 00:00:17,410 --> 00:00:20,410 So, this is the road that we never mined. 6 00:00:20,410 --> 00:00:22,109 - Yeah. - Like, it starts back there. 7 00:00:23,476 --> 00:00:27,243 It's built on top of tailings from like, the 90s. 8 00:00:27,243 --> 00:00:29,076 It's virgin underneath. 9 00:00:29,076 --> 00:00:32,076 - Do you wanna pan the road? - Yeah, why not? 10 00:00:32,076 --> 00:00:35,076 My water license in the Yukon's expiring. 11 00:00:35,076 --> 00:00:38,443 So, if we don't start working on it now, then we never will. 12 00:00:38,443 --> 00:00:41,309 In the Yukon, with the clock ticking, 13 00:00:41,309 --> 00:00:45,977 Parker Schnabel is determined to get every ounce of gold he can, 14 00:00:45,977 --> 00:00:48,043 before the end of the season. 15 00:00:48,043 --> 00:00:50,343 Rule number one with panning, Tyler. 16 00:00:50,343 --> 00:00:51,610 - Yeah? - What is it? 17 00:00:51,610 --> 00:00:54,610 Um... clean water? 18 00:00:54,610 --> 00:00:57,176 No. Make sure there's nothing in the pan already. 19 00:00:57,176 --> 00:00:59,476 Oh, okay. Yep. Didn't know that. 20 00:01:00,643 --> 00:01:02,176 You've panned before? 21 00:01:02,176 --> 00:01:04,510 Everyone I've learned off has a different like, method of doing it. 22 00:01:04,510 --> 00:01:06,443 There's no right or wrong. 23 00:01:06,443 --> 00:01:09,343 I mean, there is. 24 00:01:09,343 --> 00:01:11,810 I'm not comfortable. 25 00:01:11,810 --> 00:01:14,343 - Maybe I'll walk into the water. - Yeah, go ahead. 26 00:01:14,343 --> 00:01:16,510 - That's how the real miners used to do it. - Okay. 27 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:19,877 - Are you [bleep] with me? - No! 28 00:01:19,877 --> 00:01:21,309 Oh, that's actually much better. 29 00:01:23,677 --> 00:01:25,143 You just gotta get aggressive with it. 30 00:01:26,076 --> 00:01:27,877 - Like this? - Yeah. 31 00:01:27,877 --> 00:01:29,043 How do I get all of them out? 32 00:01:30,743 --> 00:01:32,476 When you want material to go out of the pan, 33 00:01:32,476 --> 00:01:34,677 you like, angle it like this and wash it out. 34 00:01:34,677 --> 00:01:36,843 You don't wanna really throw it out. You know what I mean? 35 00:01:36,843 --> 00:01:41,109 - Oh! - And any gold starts to show up down at the bottom. 36 00:01:41,109 --> 00:01:42,710 - Oh, is that a bit of gold? - Yeah. 37 00:01:42,710 --> 00:01:45,343 Oh, cool! There's color. 38 00:01:46,376 --> 00:01:48,576 - Okay. - That's good enough for me. 39 00:01:48,576 --> 00:01:50,576 What are you doing, man? I saw your truck on the road. 40 00:01:50,576 --> 00:01:52,276 I didn't know if you were broke down or something. 41 00:01:52,276 --> 00:01:55,010 There's always a fair chance of that. 42 00:01:55,010 --> 00:01:57,043 What are you finding? 43 00:01:57,043 --> 00:02:00,476 We're just panning this road. Every year I've driven by it, I've been like, 44 00:02:00,476 --> 00:02:02,710 "Should we mine that? No." 45 00:02:02,710 --> 00:02:05,143 But now it's the last year that we can't say no anymore. 46 00:02:05,143 --> 00:02:07,443 If we say no this year, then it's never gonna get mined. 47 00:02:12,677 --> 00:02:14,810 This has been left because, well, it's the only section of road. 48 00:02:14,810 --> 00:02:16,643 There's no other way around it right through here. 49 00:02:18,243 --> 00:02:20,176 We got so many other things going on. 50 00:02:20,176 --> 00:02:23,410 But the stripping crew has a little opening, don't it? 51 00:02:25,843 --> 00:02:29,309 - I mean... - Let's just send them in here and see what happens. 52 00:02:32,343 --> 00:02:36,910 This is not just mining the road, it's building a new road, 53 00:02:36,910 --> 00:02:40,376 then, it's coming down here, stripping this. 54 00:02:40,376 --> 00:02:42,243 I'm just looking at what we got going on down there. 55 00:02:42,243 --> 00:02:43,743 Everything's froze up. 56 00:02:43,743 --> 00:02:46,910 I feel like, everyday we are a little bit further behind. 57 00:02:46,910 --> 00:02:48,543 I think it's gonna be thawed. 58 00:02:48,543 --> 00:02:50,376 Like, the sides have been exposed. 59 00:02:50,376 --> 00:02:53,410 Like, I don't even think that the pay's gonna be frozen. 60 00:02:53,410 --> 00:02:55,010 If it's thawed, that's gonna be huge. 61 00:02:55,010 --> 00:02:58,309 If it's not, then I'm gonna eat a big dose of crow, Mitch. 62 00:03:00,777 --> 00:03:02,943 I'm not trying to mess up your schedule. 63 00:03:03,309 --> 00:03:04,143 But I am. 64 00:03:06,276 --> 00:03:10,910 Parker just added a huge amount of work to our already overloaded schedule. 65 00:03:10,910 --> 00:03:13,109 There's already not enough hours in the day, 66 00:03:13,109 --> 00:03:14,943 and days left in this season, 67 00:03:14,943 --> 00:03:16,610 to get through what we've got going on. 68 00:03:16,610 --> 00:03:18,343 And for Parker to wanna come down here 69 00:03:18,343 --> 00:03:21,243 and pull out the only road, the only access we have 70 00:03:21,243 --> 00:03:22,810 down to where we're currently working, 71 00:03:22,810 --> 00:03:24,977 to start another cut, I think is crazy. 72 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 73 00:03:43,243 --> 00:03:46,243 Big thing for me is, I really like to push ourselves 74 00:03:46,243 --> 00:03:47,777 and find more gold each year. 75 00:03:47,777 --> 00:03:50,710 And we know this is our last season to mine this stuff. 76 00:03:50,710 --> 00:03:53,343 Nine weeks into this season, 77 00:03:53,343 --> 00:03:57,309 27-year old Parker Schnabel's master plan 78 00:03:57,309 --> 00:03:59,209 is starting to come together. 79 00:03:59,209 --> 00:04:01,610 We're stretched really thin right now. 80 00:04:01,610 --> 00:04:04,176 It's a good thing we've got a good group of people this year because 81 00:04:04,176 --> 00:04:07,677 it's a lot going on, especially with Alaska firing up. 82 00:04:07,677 --> 00:04:13,143 In three weeks, Parker will open a new operation in Alaska. 83 00:04:13,143 --> 00:04:17,343 In the Yukon, his two wash plants are running side by side 84 00:04:17,343 --> 00:04:18,510 in the Bear cut, 85 00:04:18,510 --> 00:04:22,309 and have delivered more than 1,800 ounces of gold. 86 00:04:22,309 --> 00:04:24,276 We're more than halfway through the ground. 87 00:04:24,276 --> 00:04:26,610 Nearly four million square feet. 88 00:04:26,610 --> 00:04:31,610 Now, our whole season depends on keeping two plants running as long as possible. 89 00:04:31,610 --> 00:04:35,076 His crew have already stripped 48 acres, 90 00:04:35,076 --> 00:04:39,710 36 football fields, of the massive 90-acre airstrip. 91 00:04:40,877 --> 00:04:44,443 Now, Parker has tasked foreman, Mitch Blaschke 92 00:04:44,443 --> 00:04:47,443 with opening even more ground. 93 00:04:47,443 --> 00:04:50,143 There's a whole bunch of little pieces of ground here and there 94 00:04:50,143 --> 00:04:52,443 that could probably make us a quick buck. 95 00:04:52,443 --> 00:04:53,910 If we don't do it now, we'll never get to it. 96 00:04:55,710 --> 00:04:58,677 Parker's decided that he wants us to strip a new road, 97 00:04:58,677 --> 00:05:01,410 which we're calling the Panama Canal cut. 98 00:05:01,410 --> 00:05:05,043 Well, we've gotta move the mud and get down to some pay gravels. 99 00:05:07,843 --> 00:05:11,610 Over a thousand yards downstream from the Bear cut, 100 00:05:11,610 --> 00:05:12,843 and his wash plants, 101 00:05:14,076 --> 00:05:17,476 Mitch must open up a new ten acre cut, 102 00:05:17,476 --> 00:05:19,810 taking Parker's total to a hundred. 103 00:05:20,710 --> 00:05:22,476 But to get to the pay, 104 00:05:22,476 --> 00:05:26,410 Mitch must dig up the only road connecting the camp to the cuts. 105 00:05:27,576 --> 00:05:29,343 To solve this problem, 106 00:05:29,343 --> 00:05:33,243 Mitch must also build a new road at the same time, 107 00:05:33,243 --> 00:05:36,543 keeping vital access to the mine site open. 108 00:05:40,010 --> 00:05:43,543 I got half the crew working on our new road. 109 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:46,810 Really important here to have good roads. We're constantly moving around. 110 00:05:48,276 --> 00:05:50,443 At the same time we're building the new road, 111 00:05:50,443 --> 00:05:52,476 we're also stripping this new cut, 112 00:05:52,476 --> 00:05:53,743 the Panama Canal. 113 00:05:58,777 --> 00:06:00,810 I get why Parker wants to mine this ground. 114 00:06:00,810 --> 00:06:02,543 But it's just insane. 115 00:06:02,543 --> 00:06:05,276 We need to get this done super quickly. 116 00:06:05,276 --> 00:06:06,576 It's a huge project. 117 00:06:06,576 --> 00:06:09,076 I think everyone's a little bit on edge at the moment. 118 00:06:11,810 --> 00:06:14,043 Parker seems to think that this chunk of ground here 119 00:06:14,043 --> 00:06:15,677 is gonna be some easy pickings. 120 00:06:15,677 --> 00:06:17,743 We'll find out when we get to the bottom of it. 121 00:06:20,043 --> 00:06:21,510 It's feeling pretty hard here. 122 00:06:21,510 --> 00:06:23,209 Put the ripper in and see what we got. 123 00:06:23,209 --> 00:06:26,143 Hopefully, it's just compact from everybody driving on it. 124 00:06:33,343 --> 00:06:34,376 I know what that is. 125 00:06:42,943 --> 00:06:45,010 Well, so much for it being thawed. 126 00:06:45,576 --> 00:06:47,209 It's big, frozen chunks. 127 00:06:48,476 --> 00:06:50,143 Lots of ice in it. 128 00:06:50,143 --> 00:06:53,309 All this rock is glued together, pretty much. 129 00:06:53,309 --> 00:06:57,076 Parker thought with there being cuts on both sides of this, 130 00:06:57,076 --> 00:07:00,510 that this section of the road would be all thawed out here. 131 00:07:00,510 --> 00:07:02,143 But you see all this water, 132 00:07:02,977 --> 00:07:04,843 you see all this ice here? 133 00:07:04,843 --> 00:07:07,843 You know, if this was all thawed, all this would've just drained off 134 00:07:07,843 --> 00:07:09,276 down on both sides here. 135 00:07:10,877 --> 00:07:13,610 We've chopped off our access to the wash plants. 136 00:07:13,610 --> 00:07:17,043 And we got paydirt and it looks like it's all gonna be frozen. 137 00:07:27,176 --> 00:07:29,043 Dirt Devil's fired up. 138 00:07:29,043 --> 00:07:31,276 We're currently mining the Aspen. 139 00:07:31,276 --> 00:07:35,109 Squeaking every little ounce out of it we can. 140 00:07:35,109 --> 00:07:39,276 The Claytons are chasing gold hotspots along the creek 141 00:07:39,276 --> 00:07:41,710 on their way to Golden Acres. 142 00:07:41,710 --> 00:07:44,343 We got a long ways to go and a lot of dirt to move. 143 00:07:44,343 --> 00:07:47,777 The gold's getting better, the plan is going great. 144 00:07:47,777 --> 00:07:50,510 We're one step closer to Golden Acres. 145 00:07:50,510 --> 00:07:51,843 That's where we wanna be. 146 00:07:51,843 --> 00:07:54,143 That's the best shot on getting 500 ounces. 147 00:07:54,143 --> 00:07:55,843 We're just hoping for the best. 148 00:07:55,843 --> 00:07:59,176 The "best" is definitely kicking Fred's ass. 149 00:07:59,176 --> 00:08:03,176 Across the creek, veteran Green Beret, Fred Lewis, 150 00:08:03,176 --> 00:08:06,543 is also chasing 500 ounces. 151 00:08:06,543 --> 00:08:10,677 He's finally sluicing pay from last season's cut 152 00:08:10,677 --> 00:08:14,977 and looking to deliver his first gold weigh at the end of the week. 153 00:08:14,977 --> 00:08:16,376 It's been a hell of a season so far. 154 00:08:16,376 --> 00:08:17,943 You know, we've been fighting and fighting. 155 00:08:17,943 --> 00:08:19,376 We haven't got any gold yet. 156 00:08:19,376 --> 00:08:21,010 But I know we're almost there. 157 00:08:21,010 --> 00:08:23,376 I heard form Tony that the road ban was lifted. 158 00:08:23,376 --> 00:08:24,910 Finally gonna get that dozer in here. 159 00:08:25,943 --> 00:08:27,610 Eight weeks ago, 160 00:08:27,610 --> 00:08:31,143 Fred bought a dozer to dig his way to a gold bonanza 161 00:08:31,143 --> 00:08:33,343 at the Freedom cut. 162 00:08:33,343 --> 00:08:38,977 But winter road bans have made delivery of the 53 ton machine impossible. 163 00:08:39,610 --> 00:08:40,677 Until today. 164 00:08:41,910 --> 00:08:43,677 With that dozer, we're gonna be able to lift, 165 00:08:43,677 --> 00:08:46,143 move, push a hell of a lot more paydirt. 166 00:08:46,143 --> 00:08:49,109 And that 500 ounce goal wouldn't be possible without it. 167 00:08:53,209 --> 00:08:55,309 Holy [bleep]. 168 00:08:55,309 --> 00:08:56,843 That is impressive. 169 00:08:56,843 --> 00:08:58,276 You made it! 170 00:08:58,276 --> 00:09:01,543 So, Mikey, I was hoping, since you got a lot more experience than we do, 171 00:09:01,543 --> 00:09:03,309 you could pull this off the trailer for us 172 00:09:03,309 --> 00:09:04,743 so we don't break it, pulling it off. 173 00:09:04,743 --> 00:09:07,143 You just rub our bellies and tell us we're good boys and we'll... 174 00:09:12,576 --> 00:09:15,910 It's awesome. It's just anything is better than what we got going right now. So... 175 00:09:15,910 --> 00:09:17,510 You mean nothing? 176 00:09:17,510 --> 00:09:20,143 Everybody clear? He's driving ahead. 177 00:09:26,710 --> 00:09:27,777 Oh, [bleep]. 178 00:09:33,010 --> 00:09:34,010 Come on, baby. 179 00:09:34,910 --> 00:09:36,643 I got the big haul. I'll take it off. 180 00:09:39,877 --> 00:09:42,643 It's alive! 181 00:09:44,109 --> 00:09:45,243 What do you think now? 182 00:09:45,243 --> 00:09:47,910 I think it's [bleep] sweet. 183 00:09:47,910 --> 00:09:51,677 This is 1984's best made freaking dozer. 184 00:09:51,677 --> 00:09:52,510 Damn! 185 00:09:54,010 --> 00:09:56,610 Not gonna lie, she looks a lot better with the blade on. 186 00:09:56,610 --> 00:09:57,443 Yeah, I bet. 187 00:10:01,010 --> 00:10:04,777 To lift the ten ton dozer blade off his trailer... 188 00:10:04,777 --> 00:10:07,677 somebody's chart. 189 00:10:07,677 --> 00:10:10,109 ...Mike has to use the 250 excavator 190 00:10:11,243 --> 00:10:14,910 rated to lift around 10 tons. 191 00:10:14,910 --> 00:10:16,276 All right, let's get the blade off. 192 00:10:17,643 --> 00:10:20,076 Fingers crossed that the 250 can lift this. 193 00:10:20,076 --> 00:10:21,076 I think it can. 194 00:10:27,977 --> 00:10:29,476 It barely lifts it. 195 00:10:29,476 --> 00:10:32,043 So, I'm gonna have to be a little bit ignorant to get the [bleep] thing off. 196 00:10:37,410 --> 00:10:38,877 - Mike? - I got it. 197 00:10:44,309 --> 00:10:45,643 Watch out, watch out, watch out. 198 00:10:45,643 --> 00:10:49,076 Just gotta be very carful where I go. 199 00:10:49,076 --> 00:10:51,010 Barely lifting it. 200 00:10:51,010 --> 00:10:53,010 You know what that blade's about to be doing. 201 00:10:53,010 --> 00:10:54,710 - Pushing up the gold. - Pushing up some gold. 202 00:10:58,877 --> 00:11:01,410 Yeah, that's it. Got everything off the trailer. 203 00:11:01,410 --> 00:11:04,443 Mining starts the day this dozer's running. 204 00:11:04,443 --> 00:11:07,043 - Safe trip! - Was nice meeting you all. 205 00:11:09,243 --> 00:11:10,410 Stop for a second, Fred. 206 00:11:11,076 --> 00:11:12,576 Stu, out just a little more. 207 00:11:14,576 --> 00:11:17,843 We've got the beast all put back together in the front, plates attached, 208 00:11:17,843 --> 00:11:19,710 hydraulics are going well. 209 00:11:19,710 --> 00:11:22,576 Now, the last thing we gotta do is put this pin 210 00:11:22,576 --> 00:11:23,977 into our ripper blade. 211 00:11:23,977 --> 00:11:25,176 - Ready? - Yeah! 212 00:11:27,243 --> 00:11:30,710 - Ready to go to work? - Let's get this beast working! 213 00:11:30,710 --> 00:11:33,743 Bim, bam, boom, we're ready to roll. 214 00:11:33,743 --> 00:11:36,710 Fred and his crew head straight to the claim, 215 00:11:36,710 --> 00:11:39,109 eager to tear open the Freedom cut. 216 00:11:41,410 --> 00:11:43,943 I can't believe we're actually gonna start working 217 00:11:43,943 --> 00:11:44,977 on the Freedom cut, 218 00:11:44,977 --> 00:11:46,743 which really is where we're gonna get our gold. 219 00:11:48,043 --> 00:11:50,143 The past few seasons, we've kind of had to make do. 220 00:11:50,143 --> 00:11:54,943 This is the first season that we have the right equipment. 221 00:11:54,943 --> 00:11:58,376 This is what's gonna make us hit our freaking season goal. 222 00:11:58,376 --> 00:12:00,843 Think how far we've grown as a team, 223 00:12:00,843 --> 00:12:05,176 coming together and getting over PTSD and all sort of the problems that come 224 00:12:05,176 --> 00:12:06,943 with going to war. 225 00:12:06,943 --> 00:12:10,376 And since I've been here, I don't think about any of that [bleep], dude. 226 00:12:10,376 --> 00:12:13,010 Just don't have time for it. I need to look forward. 227 00:12:13,010 --> 00:12:15,043 We have to realize the opportunity we have. 228 00:12:15,043 --> 00:12:18,443 I mean, we're freaking mining for gold in Yukon. 229 00:12:18,443 --> 00:12:21,243 The adventure is something for the rest of our lives. 230 00:12:21,243 --> 00:12:24,043 I mean, the story will be a hell of a lot better if we succeed. 231 00:12:24,043 --> 00:12:26,576 - Right? - Oh, yeah. Yeah. 232 00:12:26,576 --> 00:12:30,510 Fred and Stu get back to keeping the plant fed. 233 00:12:30,510 --> 00:12:33,843 While Buzz rips into the three acre Freedom cut. 234 00:12:37,476 --> 00:12:39,643 We are firing on all cylinders. 235 00:12:39,643 --> 00:12:42,510 Everything couldn't be going any better. 236 00:12:42,510 --> 00:12:45,610 Buzz is up in the Freedom cut, getting that stripped and ready. 237 00:12:46,443 --> 00:12:48,510 This dozer is mammoth. 238 00:12:48,510 --> 00:12:51,143 We've named this "the Tank", and I think you can see why. 239 00:12:54,243 --> 00:12:57,677 It's old but it definitely does the job. 240 00:12:57,677 --> 00:13:01,276 Really nice stripping with this machine. 241 00:13:01,276 --> 00:13:05,276 I don't care if it's got rust on it, I don't care if it needs a paint job, 242 00:13:05,276 --> 00:13:07,476 its heart is there, and its soul is there 243 00:13:07,476 --> 00:13:09,143 and this thing is gonna move a lot of dirt for us. 244 00:13:09,977 --> 00:13:11,376 As long as that dozer's running, 245 00:13:11,376 --> 00:13:14,410 we really do have a chance of hitting that 500 ounce goal. 246 00:13:14,410 --> 00:13:16,443 You gotta love it when a plan comes together. 247 00:13:24,576 --> 00:13:27,276 We are right where we need to be. 248 00:13:27,276 --> 00:13:29,576 This dozer is an absolute game changer. 249 00:13:30,777 --> 00:13:34,476 At California creek, Fred Lewis finally 250 00:13:34,476 --> 00:13:37,209 has the dozer stripping the Freedom cut. 251 00:13:38,243 --> 00:13:40,576 This dozer can definitely push dirt. 252 00:13:49,576 --> 00:13:51,343 Fred, you have a copy on me? 253 00:13:51,343 --> 00:13:54,243 I'm gonna need you to come down here. Dozer broke. 254 00:13:55,910 --> 00:13:57,777 I just heard that the dozer's down. 255 00:13:57,777 --> 00:13:59,877 We could be seriously here. 256 00:13:59,877 --> 00:14:01,309 Got a lot riding on this. 257 00:14:01,309 --> 00:14:04,376 I've got my house on this. I've got all of our financials into it. 258 00:14:04,376 --> 00:14:07,043 At this point, if the dozer's down, we're down. 259 00:14:07,843 --> 00:14:08,743 Plain and simple. 260 00:14:10,143 --> 00:14:10,977 All right. 261 00:14:15,877 --> 00:14:18,710 Holy [bleep]. 262 00:14:18,710 --> 00:14:20,176 Come up here and look at this. 263 00:14:20,176 --> 00:14:21,677 I backed up, I stopped, 264 00:14:21,677 --> 00:14:23,977 set the blades down, that goes chunk. 265 00:14:26,710 --> 00:14:30,109 The little bracket that holds the round that lifts the blade up and down 266 00:14:30,109 --> 00:14:33,610 has been cracked for a long time and finally decided to let go. 267 00:14:33,610 --> 00:14:36,376 So, this has been happening for a long time. 268 00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:39,543 There was only about an inch of this piece holding them together. 269 00:14:39,543 --> 00:14:41,076 [bleep], dude. 270 00:14:42,643 --> 00:14:46,109 The 53-ton dozer's hydraulic lift cylinder 271 00:14:46,109 --> 00:14:49,743 is held in place by a bracket, called a yoke. 272 00:14:49,743 --> 00:14:53,743 It pivots, allowing the ten ton blade to rise and fall. 273 00:14:55,510 --> 00:14:56,977 But it's cracked. 274 00:14:56,977 --> 00:15:01,209 Fred needs to swap out the old broken part for a new one 275 00:15:01,209 --> 00:15:04,209 before he can get back to stripping the Freedom cut. 276 00:15:09,343 --> 00:15:10,877 This is really gonna cost us. 277 00:15:10,877 --> 00:15:12,610 I honestly don't know what the hell I'm going to do. 278 00:15:12,610 --> 00:15:15,176 Meanwhile, this is gonna turn into more and more slop. 279 00:15:16,043 --> 00:15:17,943 Not good. Not good at all. 280 00:15:20,576 --> 00:15:23,076 Parts for a 1984 Komatsu 281 00:15:23,076 --> 00:15:25,043 are not easy to come by out here. 282 00:15:25,043 --> 00:15:27,476 There reaches a point where you can't bleed anymore. 283 00:15:27,476 --> 00:15:29,043 Kind of reaching that point with the company. 284 00:15:52,010 --> 00:15:54,043 Two months into his season, 285 00:15:54,043 --> 00:15:56,543 King of the Klondike, Tony Beets, 286 00:15:56,543 --> 00:16:00,243 has opened up two of the deepest cuts he's ever mined. 287 00:16:02,276 --> 00:16:06,610 So far, they've delivered just over 900 ounces. 288 00:16:06,610 --> 00:16:10,476 280 ounces less than this time last season. 289 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:21,610 To get more gold, Tony's got another trick up his sleeve. 290 00:16:41,977 --> 00:16:46,643 First mined three seasons ago by daughter, Monica, 291 00:16:46,643 --> 00:16:50,076 Tony's cut down on Hunker creek has been plagued... 292 00:16:50,076 --> 00:16:52,109 What just happened? 293 00:16:53,877 --> 00:16:55,209 ...by breakdowns... 294 00:16:56,076 --> 00:16:57,510 ...frozen pay... 295 00:16:57,510 --> 00:16:59,910 I seem to have hit some frost. 296 00:16:59,910 --> 00:17:01,376 ...and floods... 297 00:17:01,376 --> 00:17:03,677 Should've named it the Cursed Cut, not the Hunker Cut. 298 00:17:03,677 --> 00:17:06,977 ...leading Monica to abandon the Cursed Cut. 299 00:17:09,010 --> 00:17:11,910 Tony is leasing it to the Winchester boys. 300 00:17:11,910 --> 00:17:15,910 Three new miners hoping to strike it rich in the Yukon. 301 00:17:18,276 --> 00:17:20,977 We're gold miners, so we like to have, you know, 302 00:17:20,977 --> 00:17:23,443 buckets of gold if we can get it in our hands. 303 00:17:23,443 --> 00:17:29,143 Leading the crew is mine boss and construction worker, Jason Fraser. 304 00:17:29,143 --> 00:17:31,810 My buddy John there built the plant. 305 00:17:31,810 --> 00:17:34,109 And said, "Well, we'll come up and give it a try." 306 00:17:34,109 --> 00:17:38,643 Figured it might be a chance to at least get your boots wet here in Klondike. 307 00:17:38,643 --> 00:17:40,743 We'll catch some gold here. 308 00:17:40,743 --> 00:17:43,910 Retired business owner, John Van Thuyl 309 00:17:43,910 --> 00:17:45,710 is the crew's mechanic. 310 00:17:45,710 --> 00:17:48,209 I've never mined in the Yukon before. 311 00:17:48,209 --> 00:17:49,543 I'm semi-retired. 312 00:17:49,543 --> 00:17:52,743 I built the wash plant in my driveway up at home. 313 00:17:52,743 --> 00:17:55,610 Five years from now, I hope to have a five gallon bucket of gold, 314 00:17:55,610 --> 00:17:57,243 and I'm gonna totally retire. 315 00:17:57,243 --> 00:18:00,643 I got lots of friends that say that they would love to do mining 316 00:18:00,643 --> 00:18:02,176 but I'm here doing it. 317 00:18:03,977 --> 00:18:08,710 Running the heavy equipment is ex-logger, Patrick "Butch" Bouchard. 318 00:18:32,276 --> 00:18:36,443 It's an extremely expensive operation to be involved in. 319 00:18:36,443 --> 00:18:38,443 It's definitely high risk, high reward. 320 00:18:39,043 --> 00:18:40,410 If this doesn't work out, 321 00:18:40,410 --> 00:18:43,443 I'm sure Butch will be processing logs again all next winter, 322 00:18:43,443 --> 00:18:46,510 and John likely will be plowing snow from Ontario. 323 00:18:46,510 --> 00:18:50,376 And myself, I'll be most likely digging basements in Vancouver Island. 324 00:18:58,376 --> 00:18:59,476 Better than the Three Stooges. 325 00:19:00,643 --> 00:19:01,843 - How've you been? - Fine. 326 00:19:01,843 --> 00:19:03,243 - Nice to meet you. - I'm John. 327 00:19:06,643 --> 00:19:07,877 The Hunker Cut it is. 328 00:19:07,877 --> 00:19:09,843 - Is it cursed for you guys? - Don't say it! 329 00:19:09,843 --> 00:19:11,843 Don't say it. Yeah. 330 00:19:11,843 --> 00:19:14,510 For us, everything that could go wrong, went wrong. 331 00:19:14,510 --> 00:19:15,977 I don't believe in curses. 332 00:19:26,543 --> 00:19:27,810 Yeah. I hope so. 333 00:19:27,810 --> 00:19:30,877 Think we can get somewheres around our goal of 200, 250. 334 00:19:39,877 --> 00:19:41,476 Gotta walk your Kiwi plant out of the way. 335 00:19:41,476 --> 00:19:43,143 If you can get that out, we'll get set up. 336 00:19:47,176 --> 00:19:48,043 That sounds good. 337 00:19:55,710 --> 00:20:00,943 Once Tony's old Kiwi wash plant is moved from the middle of the cut, 338 00:20:00,943 --> 00:20:05,810 the new crew will haul in their homemade 60-yard an hour wash plant, 339 00:20:05,810 --> 00:20:07,610 the Winchester. 340 00:20:07,610 --> 00:20:10,209 980 hours to build the wash plant. 341 00:20:10,877 --> 00:20:12,543 I was only gonna do one drum, 342 00:20:12,543 --> 00:20:14,877 and then my wife says, "Well, why don't you do two?" 343 00:20:14,877 --> 00:20:16,877 That's why we called it "Winchester". 344 00:20:16,877 --> 00:20:19,443 It's a double barrel shotgun. 345 00:20:19,443 --> 00:20:23,309 They plan to run ground already stripped by Tony, 346 00:20:23,309 --> 00:20:27,543 chasing gold left behind by the old timer's dredges. 347 00:20:27,543 --> 00:20:29,576 John to Jason, you got a copy? 348 00:20:29,576 --> 00:20:31,743 Mike Beets is coming down the hill. 349 00:20:39,743 --> 00:20:41,176 How you gentlemen this morning? 350 00:20:41,176 --> 00:20:42,010 We good, buddy. You? 351 00:20:42,643 --> 00:20:44,376 I hate rain. 352 00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:47,543 Well, once we get the eyes exposed, then we can attach it to the D10, 353 00:20:47,543 --> 00:20:49,076 so that we can pull the thing. 354 00:20:49,076 --> 00:20:50,877 So, your eye will be around over here. 355 00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:53,743 Scrape it clean until we can see the eyes. 356 00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:03,343 It's really sticking out quite decently. 357 00:21:03,343 --> 00:21:04,910 So now I'm trying to wonder where the [bleep] it is, 358 00:21:04,910 --> 00:21:07,010 just might be lower and sitting more further back. 359 00:21:08,209 --> 00:21:09,643 Could you get it a little deeper? 360 00:21:11,543 --> 00:21:13,810 If they can't find the eye hooks, 361 00:21:13,810 --> 00:21:17,877 the stranded Kiwi plant will block the Winchester's access, 362 00:21:17,877 --> 00:21:20,443 stopping them from mining gold. 363 00:21:20,443 --> 00:21:22,043 - Do we have a shovel? - Eh? 364 00:21:25,877 --> 00:21:26,710 That's so weird. 365 00:21:28,710 --> 00:21:30,843 - Well, there's an eye. - Kind of looks like a rock. 366 00:21:30,843 --> 00:21:32,076 No, that is the eye. 367 00:21:33,376 --> 00:21:35,543 So the other one will be right here. 368 00:21:37,410 --> 00:21:38,777 - Ouch. - Oh, there you go. 369 00:21:40,777 --> 00:21:42,777 - If you can start hooking those up. - Yeah. 370 00:21:42,777 --> 00:21:45,777 I'll hop in the dozer and we can back her up, and we should be all good. 371 00:21:54,810 --> 00:21:55,877 Timber. 372 00:21:56,843 --> 00:21:57,977 Whatever it takes to move it. 373 00:21:59,643 --> 00:22:01,343 It's good to go now. 374 00:22:01,343 --> 00:22:03,576 Kiwi plant out of the way... 375 00:22:03,576 --> 00:22:05,643 Good luck, gentlemen. 376 00:22:05,643 --> 00:22:10,076 ...the Winchester boys are one step closer to catching gold 377 00:22:10,076 --> 00:22:12,510 and delivering Tony's royalties. 378 00:22:13,910 --> 00:22:14,943 One more piece, boys. 379 00:22:15,977 --> 00:22:18,343 We can get back to work and make some real gold. 380 00:22:31,043 --> 00:22:33,476 We've invested a ton of money, a ton of time 381 00:22:33,476 --> 00:22:35,109 into the Panama Canal cut. 382 00:22:35,109 --> 00:22:38,777 If we can't get a sluice this year, it's gonna be nothing but a loss. 383 00:22:40,343 --> 00:22:41,943 At Indian River... 384 00:22:41,943 --> 00:22:43,443 What's happening, man? 385 00:22:43,443 --> 00:22:46,943 ...Parker has tasked Mitch with using all their resources 386 00:22:46,943 --> 00:22:49,476 to open up and mine an access road. 387 00:22:50,309 --> 00:22:52,143 The Panama Canal cut. 388 00:22:52,143 --> 00:22:55,543 As well as building a new access road 389 00:22:55,543 --> 00:22:59,243 and keeping the rest of the operation on track. 390 00:22:59,243 --> 00:23:02,677 Well, we got all the mud off, but all the gravel's frozen. 391 00:23:06,543 --> 00:23:09,043 It gets tons of sun and... 392 00:23:09,043 --> 00:23:12,243 - Yeah. - ...high and dry, it makes no sense to me. 393 00:23:12,243 --> 00:23:14,977 Well, and the one we needed to be thawed more than any of them is this one. 394 00:23:14,977 --> 00:23:15,810 Right? 395 00:23:16,810 --> 00:23:18,810 What do you think we should do? 396 00:23:18,810 --> 00:23:21,977 Well, man I hate walking away from something after we've poured a bunch of money in it, 397 00:23:21,977 --> 00:23:26,543 but it's a matter of what has more gold, I guess. 398 00:23:26,543 --> 00:23:28,543 If we have to walk away from something, it should be this one, 399 00:23:28,543 --> 00:23:29,877 not the ones downstream. 400 00:23:29,877 --> 00:23:30,710 Don't you think? 401 00:23:33,209 --> 00:23:34,443 We have to get out of here. 402 00:23:35,476 --> 00:23:37,476 I think that's the only thing we can do. 403 00:23:37,476 --> 00:23:39,410 Yeah, I think it's gonna be this way all year. 404 00:23:40,443 --> 00:23:42,643 - All right. Thanks, Mitch. - Yep. 405 00:23:45,143 --> 00:23:47,743 This isn't an ideal scenario but... 406 00:23:47,743 --> 00:23:50,910 we've gotta go get all the mud off the areas that have mud, 407 00:23:50,910 --> 00:23:53,510 and then figure out what we're gonna do with frozen gravel. 408 00:23:53,510 --> 00:23:55,977 Ripping frozen mud is not too expensive. 409 00:23:55,977 --> 00:23:58,610 Ripping frozen gravel is intense. 410 00:23:58,610 --> 00:24:01,410 And we're gonna have to rip a whole pile of frozen gravel this fall, 411 00:24:01,410 --> 00:24:03,309 because of how much we've taken on. 412 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:06,877 Panama Canal, 413 00:24:06,877 --> 00:24:09,043 is a project we really didn't have the time to start, 414 00:24:09,043 --> 00:24:11,076 but now, Parker doesn't want us to finish it. 415 00:24:11,076 --> 00:24:13,877 And that's just a huge waste of time and a huge waste of money. 416 00:24:15,943 --> 00:24:18,977 Right now, we really need to get this new road done. 417 00:24:18,977 --> 00:24:22,777 Before Mitch's crew can go back to work in the airstrip, 418 00:24:22,777 --> 00:24:28,010 they need to finish the new road to restore access across the claim. 419 00:24:28,010 --> 00:24:31,209 We're working on this end here which is through one of our tailings pile, 420 00:24:31,209 --> 00:24:34,209 so this is pretty good material off the other side. 421 00:24:34,209 --> 00:24:36,109 It's real nasty stuff. 422 00:24:36,109 --> 00:24:38,977 And the trucks are having a hard time getting through there. 423 00:24:38,977 --> 00:24:42,877 I've got no access for anybody to get back and forth here. 424 00:24:42,877 --> 00:24:45,010 So, it's really put a time crunch on this. 425 00:24:46,943 --> 00:24:50,143 Mitch has got me running tailings to finish this road. 426 00:24:50,143 --> 00:24:52,076 Just so much mud. 427 00:24:53,276 --> 00:24:55,843 It makes driving these things hard as well. 428 00:24:55,843 --> 00:24:59,343 I can feel my truck going to get bogged every time nearly. 429 00:25:01,243 --> 00:25:03,743 I don't feel very confident in the mud. 430 00:25:03,743 --> 00:25:06,209 Parker definitely likes to throw you in the deep end 431 00:25:06,209 --> 00:25:08,209 and you just have to hope that you swim. 432 00:25:12,610 --> 00:25:15,176 Hey, Mitch. You got a copy, Mitch? 433 00:25:15,176 --> 00:25:17,643 - Go ahead. - Yeah, hey man, there's not enough pay up 434 00:25:17,643 --> 00:25:19,843 at Big Red or Sluicifer for them to run tonight. 435 00:25:20,977 --> 00:25:23,510 Right now I'm looking at 3000-4000 yards of material 436 00:25:23,510 --> 00:25:24,977 and we need double that. 437 00:25:24,977 --> 00:25:29,043 So, we need to steal some resources and move some iron up here. 438 00:25:29,043 --> 00:25:31,376 Ah, man, This road's gonna take a little bit here. 439 00:25:31,376 --> 00:25:33,543 It's got a pretty good section that's real snotty. 440 00:25:33,543 --> 00:25:35,877 But as soon as we get this road done, 441 00:25:35,877 --> 00:25:38,043 I'll be sending everybody back to you, bud. 442 00:25:38,043 --> 00:25:39,777 Just gonna have to make do for right now, buddy. 443 00:25:39,777 --> 00:25:41,309 I don't know about you but I don't wanna see 444 00:25:41,309 --> 00:25:42,777 either of these plants go down tonight. 445 00:25:45,910 --> 00:25:47,977 Until the road is finished, 446 00:25:47,977 --> 00:25:51,810 the crew can't get back to stockpiling paydirt at the plant, 447 00:25:52,476 --> 00:25:55,610 risking a double shutdown. 448 00:25:55,610 --> 00:25:57,276 Tyson just hit me up 'cause it doesn't look like 449 00:25:57,276 --> 00:25:59,109 we've got enough dirt for nightshift. 450 00:25:59,109 --> 00:26:01,143 That's what happens when we got so many projects. 451 00:26:01,143 --> 00:26:03,243 You don't do anything well. 452 00:26:03,243 --> 00:26:07,176 This road is something you'd normally like to have well ahead of time done. 453 00:26:07,176 --> 00:26:10,743 But Parker sprung this on us. 454 00:26:10,743 --> 00:26:13,743 He's bouncing back and forth between lots of ideas. 455 00:26:13,743 --> 00:26:17,243 As a mine boss, you need to make a decision and stick with it. 456 00:26:18,543 --> 00:26:20,977 Mitch has his whole crew finishing up 457 00:26:20,977 --> 00:26:24,510 the last 350 feet of the new road. 458 00:26:24,510 --> 00:26:27,343 You wanna try and get me a spot here where I can get 459 00:26:27,343 --> 00:26:29,309 this new road connected. 460 00:26:29,309 --> 00:26:32,076 Let the trucks know we'll have them start dumping there. 461 00:26:32,076 --> 00:26:34,143 It ain't gonna be pretty but it'll work. 462 00:26:34,143 --> 00:26:37,810 - Pretty? It never pretty. - As long as it works. 463 00:26:37,810 --> 00:26:42,010 We're lucky that we got everybody on deck and working 464 00:26:42,010 --> 00:26:46,143 to build this road right here, right now. 465 00:26:46,143 --> 00:26:50,010 Parker's lucky he's got guys that are good at more than one thing. 466 00:26:51,877 --> 00:26:53,376 Hey, Mitch. You got a copy? 467 00:26:56,176 --> 00:26:59,410 When are you hoping to finish off with your crew over there? 468 00:26:59,410 --> 00:27:01,143 Hurrying to try and get this done. 469 00:27:01,143 --> 00:27:02,977 [bleep] We just don't have enough pay. 470 00:27:02,977 --> 00:27:04,576 So, we don't have much time to do this. 471 00:27:05,510 --> 00:27:07,510 Time is not on our side. 472 00:27:09,877 --> 00:27:11,643 Truck's hauling coarse tailings. 473 00:27:11,643 --> 00:27:13,276 This is where I want you to drop it. 474 00:27:13,276 --> 00:27:15,576 We're gonna tie it back into that other material you've been putting down. 475 00:27:15,576 --> 00:27:17,643 Okay, thank you. 476 00:27:17,643 --> 00:27:22,176 Just machinery going everywhere, it's so intense. 477 00:27:22,176 --> 00:27:25,677 Parker just has such a all or nothing personality. 478 00:27:25,677 --> 00:27:27,810 If he's gonna do something, he's does it a 100 percent. 479 00:27:27,810 --> 00:27:31,276 If this was my mine site, I'd probably make the same decision as Parker did. 480 00:27:31,276 --> 00:27:34,343 I know it sounds risky and it's full on and there's lots going on. 481 00:27:34,343 --> 00:27:36,243 But as a gold miner, 482 00:27:36,243 --> 00:27:37,810 you just can't leave gold in the ground. 483 00:27:40,309 --> 00:27:41,877 Yeah, keep coming back. Keep coming back. 484 00:27:41,877 --> 00:27:43,576 We're gonna go right off the edge here. 485 00:27:43,576 --> 00:27:44,710 There you go, right there. 486 00:27:51,410 --> 00:27:53,143 This will be our road. 487 00:27:53,143 --> 00:27:57,209 We got little bit of mud on top of the gravel. 488 00:27:57,209 --> 00:28:00,010 So, truck that are sinking could get moving. 489 00:28:01,710 --> 00:28:05,309 And we got this road done. 490 00:28:05,309 --> 00:28:08,309 12 hours since they began the build, 491 00:28:08,309 --> 00:28:11,543 Mitch and crew have finished the new access road. 492 00:28:14,743 --> 00:28:16,410 We got ourselves a road here. 493 00:28:16,410 --> 00:28:17,977 It's come along real good. 494 00:28:17,977 --> 00:28:21,043 It's been a lot of work. It should definitely do the job. 495 00:28:22,476 --> 00:28:24,476 Mitch is sending me back to the wash plant. 496 00:28:25,476 --> 00:28:27,843 Moving the old road and building a new one, 497 00:28:27,843 --> 00:28:30,010 that's just, like, insane. 498 00:28:30,010 --> 00:28:33,309 I'm actually stoked I actually helped such a huge project. 499 00:28:34,343 --> 00:28:36,176 Hey, Tyson, you got a copy? 500 00:28:36,176 --> 00:28:40,510 The road is finished and the trucks are heading back over to you right now. 501 00:28:40,510 --> 00:28:43,143 Yeah, sounds good. I'll meet you at the wash plants. 502 00:28:43,143 --> 00:28:44,510 Just in time, buddy. 503 00:28:45,877 --> 00:28:47,977 You know, pretty happy with how this road turned out. 504 00:28:47,977 --> 00:28:49,877 We just had to do it quick and fast. 505 00:28:49,877 --> 00:28:52,476 But we've got good access back down to the wash plants. 506 00:28:52,476 --> 00:28:55,543 One more thing that Parker's added to our already busy schedule, 507 00:28:55,543 --> 00:28:58,010 but somehow we were able to make it all happen. 508 00:28:58,010 --> 00:28:59,343 It's been a hell of a day. 509 00:28:59,343 --> 00:29:01,943 But, you know, I'm really happy with how things turned out here. 510 00:29:12,376 --> 00:29:15,476 Had this freaking dozer for two days and now it's stuck in the slop. 511 00:29:16,443 --> 00:29:18,343 At California Creek, 512 00:29:18,343 --> 00:29:21,743 Fred Lewis's crew are busy sluicing pay. 513 00:29:21,743 --> 00:29:25,576 But his new dozer has a broken yoke bracket. 514 00:29:25,576 --> 00:29:29,943 It's a 1984 dozer. Honestly, I don't know where the I'm gonna find a part for it. 515 00:29:29,943 --> 00:29:32,443 I think Troy did mention he had some spare parts. 516 00:29:32,443 --> 00:29:33,777 So, I'm gonna call him. 517 00:29:33,777 --> 00:29:35,677 Hail Mary. Hopefully, he's got what I'm looking for. 518 00:29:35,677 --> 00:29:38,843 But if we can't get this dozer going, we are [bleep]. 519 00:29:44,877 --> 00:29:46,343 Hey, Troy. How's it going? 520 00:29:48,276 --> 00:29:50,309 Um, we're having a little bit of a problem. 521 00:29:50,309 --> 00:29:51,343 It's the lift cylinder. 522 00:29:53,143 --> 00:29:56,176 I was hoping to see if maybe you might have 523 00:29:56,176 --> 00:29:59,176 parts laying around that we could come and scavenge from? 524 00:30:09,543 --> 00:30:14,043 Okay, so would you mind me sending Buzz out there to come and check it out? 525 00:30:16,476 --> 00:30:18,343 I appreciate it. I'll let you get back to work. 526 00:30:19,309 --> 00:30:20,443 yeah. 527 00:30:20,443 --> 00:30:23,610 We got the part. So I can send Buzz out right now. 528 00:30:23,610 --> 00:30:26,243 Without it, we'd be probably down two or three weeks. 529 00:30:26,243 --> 00:30:28,476 Now, we can get that dozer back up and running. 530 00:30:40,677 --> 00:30:42,710 At Fred Lewis's claim, 531 00:30:42,710 --> 00:30:47,276 Buzz returns from his 300 mile round trip to Keno 532 00:30:47,276 --> 00:30:49,643 with the part to fix the broken dozer. 533 00:30:49,643 --> 00:30:53,109 It took me about 13 hours. 534 00:30:53,109 --> 00:30:54,243 Had to be done. 535 00:30:54,243 --> 00:30:56,043 Cut my sleep time rather short, 536 00:30:56,043 --> 00:30:59,877 but sacrifices a guy has gotta make to be a successful miner. 537 00:31:01,743 --> 00:31:04,209 Starting to get pretty damn sloppy out here. 538 00:31:05,943 --> 00:31:07,243 Broken going out. 539 00:31:10,376 --> 00:31:11,576 Get the new one in. 540 00:31:13,977 --> 00:31:15,276 Pretty heavy. 541 00:31:32,777 --> 00:31:36,076 It's kind of [bleep] to do this by yourself. 542 00:31:36,076 --> 00:31:37,743 She's ready to rock and roll again. 543 00:31:40,943 --> 00:31:42,343 Talk about timing. 544 00:31:43,743 --> 00:31:46,810 - How's it going? - Whoo! Holy [bleep], Buzz. 545 00:31:46,810 --> 00:31:48,443 Can't believe you did this by yourself. 546 00:31:48,443 --> 00:31:51,543 - What a pain in the ass. Great work, dude. - Yeah. 547 00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:54,176 While you're here, just put those parts in the back. 548 00:31:54,176 --> 00:31:56,943 - Yes. - I'll let you carry the big piece. 549 00:31:56,943 --> 00:31:58,209 Oh, jeez, what is that? 550 00:31:58,943 --> 00:32:00,843 Oh my [bleep]. 551 00:32:00,843 --> 00:32:02,877 I see why you wanted me to carry this one. 552 00:32:04,109 --> 00:32:06,343 Oh, my [bleep]. 553 00:32:10,376 --> 00:32:13,076 Fire this puppy up. Let's push some muck. 554 00:32:14,476 --> 00:32:18,376 Just 24 hours after the dozer went down... 555 00:32:18,376 --> 00:32:20,710 Everything seems right and tight. 556 00:32:21,877 --> 00:32:23,576 Ready to rip and strip. 557 00:32:23,576 --> 00:32:27,576 ...Buzz has it back stripping in the Freedom cut. 558 00:32:27,576 --> 00:32:31,877 Buzz is busting his balls to get that dozer back up and running. 559 00:32:31,877 --> 00:32:33,877 We'll fix every single problem and eventually, 560 00:32:33,877 --> 00:32:35,343 we're gonna pull the gold out of this ground. 561 00:32:35,343 --> 00:32:36,376 We're gonna keep fighting. 562 00:33:08,476 --> 00:33:10,943 So, today, we're gonna get her hooked up. 563 00:33:10,943 --> 00:33:13,209 We back Winchester down into the corner. 564 00:33:13,209 --> 00:33:17,777 The Winchester boys are racing to get their wash plant up and running 565 00:33:17,777 --> 00:33:20,777 to prove to Tony that they can catch gold 566 00:33:20,777 --> 00:33:23,276 and deliver his 30 percent royalties. 567 00:33:41,309 --> 00:33:43,510 I'm not using a chain on Winchester. 568 00:33:43,510 --> 00:33:45,010 I don't wanna mark the paint up. 569 00:33:45,010 --> 00:33:47,143 Try to keep her as nice as we can for now. 570 00:33:49,209 --> 00:33:50,076 Okay, Butch. 571 00:34:04,276 --> 00:34:06,643 I want it another foot and a half this way. 572 00:34:07,143 --> 00:34:07,943 Okay. 573 00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:13,943 Butch, tighten the strap. Oh, no. 574 00:34:13,943 --> 00:34:14,777 Butch! 575 00:34:15,910 --> 00:34:17,076 Holy [bleep]. 576 00:34:23,610 --> 00:34:25,510 He caught it before it went over. 577 00:34:27,076 --> 00:34:30,376 We're good. Little stressful. But we're good. 578 00:34:30,376 --> 00:34:33,410 Now that the plant is placed safely on the pad, 579 00:34:33,410 --> 00:34:36,843 all they need to do is connect the sluice boxes. 580 00:34:36,843 --> 00:34:38,643 And they're ready to run pay. 581 00:34:42,109 --> 00:34:43,677 Is that gonna go under there? 582 00:34:44,943 --> 00:34:45,843 I hope so. 583 00:34:48,743 --> 00:34:49,576 Um... 584 00:34:52,510 --> 00:34:53,810 Hm. 585 00:34:53,810 --> 00:34:56,109 - Leg is in the way 'cause of the angle. - I see. 586 00:34:59,543 --> 00:35:02,810 In my driveway, I set everything to fit on the other side. 587 00:35:02,810 --> 00:35:04,243 I thought it was the same. 588 00:35:06,010 --> 00:35:07,710 Okay, well that's not gonna work. 589 00:35:09,209 --> 00:35:12,243 Ah, [bleep]. It's always something. 590 00:35:14,777 --> 00:35:19,677 John's homemade plant is a unique dual-barrel trommel. 591 00:35:19,677 --> 00:35:24,543 Pay from the feed conveyer is split evenly between both. 592 00:35:24,543 --> 00:35:29,710 High pressure jets clean the rocks as they spin in the trommels. 593 00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:35,343 Gold-rich slurry then runs out the two chutes into the sluice boxes. 594 00:35:35,343 --> 00:35:38,209 When it was built, the sluice boxes were attached 595 00:35:38,209 --> 00:35:39,977 to the right side of the plant. 596 00:35:40,843 --> 00:35:43,743 Now, the tailings conveyer setup 597 00:35:43,743 --> 00:35:45,977 means they need to be on the left. 598 00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:49,276 But a supporting leg makes that impossible. 599 00:35:49,276 --> 00:35:54,010 To fix, John needs to build an extension to the diversion chute, 600 00:35:54,010 --> 00:35:56,209 allowing it to get around the leg, 601 00:35:56,209 --> 00:35:58,643 and direct paydirt to the sluice boxes. 602 00:36:13,643 --> 00:36:15,410 You know, we're a tiny crew. We're three people. 603 00:36:15,410 --> 00:36:17,076 Time is money, like everybody. 604 00:36:17,076 --> 00:36:19,209 But maybe more so when you're small. 605 00:36:19,209 --> 00:36:20,476 You look at the Beets' operation, 606 00:36:20,476 --> 00:36:22,910 they can call in a service truck or a mechanic. 607 00:36:22,910 --> 00:36:25,076 And for us, it stops until we fix it. 608 00:36:41,643 --> 00:36:43,209 Hook that little eyelet on. 609 00:36:45,576 --> 00:36:47,309 Looks like it's gonna work okay. 610 00:36:56,343 --> 00:36:59,910 Well, now we gotta get dirt into the plant and get gold out of the sluice box. 611 00:37:01,176 --> 00:37:03,410 After a 12-hour delay, 612 00:37:03,410 --> 00:37:06,943 the Winchesters are finally ready to run pay. 613 00:37:11,343 --> 00:37:12,443 That's Winchester. 614 00:37:33,143 --> 00:37:34,176 Power her up. 615 00:38:03,143 --> 00:38:04,843 They call this the Cursed Cut. 616 00:38:04,843 --> 00:38:07,977 But if you believe in curses, then you're beat already. 617 00:38:15,043 --> 00:38:18,410 Looks like all of the calculations kind of worked out. 618 00:38:18,410 --> 00:38:21,710 The water's flowing, beautiful, the boxes are behaving properly. 619 00:38:42,309 --> 00:38:43,777 Today is a good day. I'm going to pick up Khara. 620 00:38:43,777 --> 00:38:45,777 And I haven't seen her in probably about two and a half months. 621 00:38:51,309 --> 00:38:53,410 Oh, baby! 622 00:38:53,410 --> 00:38:54,977 Well, that's her plane. 623 00:38:56,943 --> 00:39:00,677 - Hi! - Hey, baby! Mm. 624 00:39:00,677 --> 00:39:03,176 I'm gonna crush you. 625 00:39:04,443 --> 00:39:07,109 Are you ready to see the mine? You gotta meet The Tank. 626 00:39:07,109 --> 00:39:08,777 I knew you were gonna jump right into that. 627 00:39:12,977 --> 00:39:14,510 We should probably talk about finances. 628 00:39:14,510 --> 00:39:16,076 - You can't have any more money. - With the finances... 629 00:39:16,076 --> 00:39:17,576 - No more money. - Yeah, for three months. 630 00:39:17,576 --> 00:39:20,276 Maybe you don't look at the finances and just kind of trust me on it? 631 00:39:20,276 --> 00:39:21,743 'Cause it's getting kind of scary. 632 00:39:21,743 --> 00:39:23,443 But I got it. 633 00:39:23,443 --> 00:39:26,443 - Just trust me. - You say this every year. 634 00:39:26,443 --> 00:39:28,376 -"Just trust me." We barely squeak by. - Shouldn't have trusted me 635 00:39:28,376 --> 00:39:29,410 in Oregon, by the way. 636 00:39:29,410 --> 00:39:31,610 I didn't trust you in Oregon. 637 00:39:31,610 --> 00:39:33,410 - Tough love. Tough love. - I need it. 638 00:39:33,410 --> 00:39:34,410 - Ow. - Sorry. 639 00:40:00,743 --> 00:40:03,143 Two days after firing up, 640 00:40:03,143 --> 00:40:07,010 it's time to see if the Winchester boys have broken the curse, 641 00:40:07,010 --> 00:40:08,410 and delivered gold. 642 00:40:09,977 --> 00:40:11,276 - Hello, guys. - Ha ha! 643 00:40:12,710 --> 00:40:13,877 I got the loot. 644 00:40:18,643 --> 00:40:20,643 We ran for 25 hours straight and... 645 00:40:22,977 --> 00:40:24,109 Yeah. 646 00:40:24,109 --> 00:40:25,510 - Gives you some faith in the box. - Yeah. 647 00:40:26,109 --> 00:40:27,276 Yeah. Yeah. 648 00:40:30,376 --> 00:40:31,977 Oh, yeah. 649 00:40:31,977 --> 00:40:36,276 Tony's hoping the 25 hour run will deliver seven ounces of gold. 650 00:40:37,543 --> 00:40:39,443 So, somebody wanna do some counting? 651 00:40:42,543 --> 00:40:43,810 - Tear away. - Tear it off. 652 00:40:44,677 --> 00:40:45,743 That's zero. 653 00:40:48,076 --> 00:40:50,610 One ounce, two ounce, 654 00:40:51,476 --> 00:40:53,410 two and a half, three, 655 00:40:54,276 --> 00:40:55,977 three and a half, four, 656 00:40:56,643 --> 00:40:58,076 four and a half, five, 657 00:40:58,877 --> 00:41:02,143 five and a half, 6.125 ounces. 658 00:41:13,243 --> 00:41:16,543 Worth more than $11,000, 659 00:41:16,543 --> 00:41:20,710 a strong start to the Winchesters' first season in the Yukon. 660 00:41:29,643 --> 00:41:31,877 Portioned just about half an ounce an hour. 661 00:41:34,376 --> 00:41:35,276 Really? 662 00:41:35,276 --> 00:41:37,143 Those top gravels would've been lean anyway 663 00:41:37,143 --> 00:41:39,176 because they've been washed out for the last few years. 664 00:41:39,176 --> 00:41:41,943 We can do a little better on the yardage recovery then 665 00:41:41,943 --> 00:41:43,343 we're definitely in the game. 666 00:41:47,343 --> 00:41:48,143 Well, you did. 667 00:41:49,543 --> 00:41:51,777 "Hm". He says, "Hm." 668 00:41:51,777 --> 00:41:53,543 Now he perks up. 669 00:41:55,677 --> 00:41:56,777 Nice to see you again. 670 00:42:10,710 --> 00:42:12,743 Each cut that we take should progress to 671 00:42:12,743 --> 00:42:15,610 more and more gold, the deeper we go. 672 00:42:15,610 --> 00:42:18,043 And hopefully, Winchester's up for the task. 673 00:42:18,610 --> 00:42:19,710 We are. 674 00:42:19,710 --> 00:42:21,777 That's just the tip of the iceberg for us. 675 00:42:21,777 --> 00:42:24,010 We still have a full 100 days ahead of us. 676 00:42:24,010 --> 00:42:26,176 We're not gonna really discuss the curse bit. 677 00:42:26,176 --> 00:42:27,543 But I think we beat it. 678 00:42:27,543 --> 00:42:28,677 I'd like to think we beat it. 679 00:42:47,710 --> 00:42:49,710 All right, guys. First gold weigh. 680 00:42:49,710 --> 00:42:50,910 - You guys excited? - Yeah. 681 00:42:50,910 --> 00:42:51,777 [bleep] Yeah. 682 00:42:51,777 --> 00:42:54,176 We need a fire going here. 683 00:42:54,176 --> 00:42:57,910 It's a momentous day for Fred Lewis and his crew. 684 00:42:57,910 --> 00:43:01,510 After battling for ten weeks to get on the gold, 685 00:43:01,510 --> 00:43:05,276 it's time for their first gold weigh of the season. 686 00:43:05,276 --> 00:43:07,076 It's really awesome to have Khara here. 687 00:43:07,076 --> 00:43:09,843 Mama's in town, it just completes the mine site. 688 00:43:09,843 --> 00:43:12,109 Well, I'm excited. We're gonna make it happen this season. 689 00:43:12,109 --> 00:43:13,476 Yeah. 690 00:43:13,476 --> 00:43:15,743 Buzz, you saved us this week 691 00:43:15,743 --> 00:43:17,677 and we really appreciate that. 692 00:43:17,677 --> 00:43:18,977 Look at Buzz go, man. 693 00:43:18,977 --> 00:43:21,309 We're just getting started. 694 00:43:21,309 --> 00:43:23,143 Well, seeing getting started... 695 00:43:23,143 --> 00:43:24,743 - You wanna see gold. - I'm ready. I'm ready. 696 00:43:24,743 --> 00:43:26,643 - I know. - I wanna see what we've got. 697 00:43:26,643 --> 00:43:29,109 - Last season... - Okay, here we go. 698 00:43:29,109 --> 00:43:32,877 ...Fred's first gold weigh delivered 8.4 ounces. 699 00:43:33,777 --> 00:43:36,710 One, two... 700 00:43:37,476 --> 00:43:41,643 - three, four... - Oh? 701 00:43:41,643 --> 00:43:44,276 - ...five. - Come on, come on, come on, come on. 702 00:43:44,276 --> 00:43:46,343 Uh, six. 703 00:43:46,343 --> 00:43:47,677 - Six point oh. - Six point oh. 704 00:43:47,677 --> 00:43:49,743 Six point oh, on the dot. 705 00:43:49,743 --> 00:43:54,309 Six ounces falls far short of where the crew need to be 706 00:43:54,309 --> 00:43:57,643 in order to hit their 500 ounce season goal. 707 00:44:01,176 --> 00:44:05,243 You know, this is still more than we mined the entire first [bleep] season we mined. 708 00:44:05,243 --> 00:44:07,376 Even though it's been miserable hard work 709 00:44:07,376 --> 00:44:09,710 and we haven't got a lot of gold to show for it, 710 00:44:09,710 --> 00:44:10,843 we're paying the bills. 711 00:44:10,843 --> 00:44:13,510 - We need to get better at it to get rich. - Yeah. 712 00:44:15,276 --> 00:44:17,943 This is the worst run we're gonna have all season. 713 00:44:17,943 --> 00:44:19,076 We've now got a dozer. 714 00:44:19,076 --> 00:44:21,443 Like, we're in the position we wanted to be. 715 00:44:21,443 --> 00:44:24,743 So, now we need to put serios yardage to the plant, and keep it going. 716 00:44:26,043 --> 00:44:27,143 Now, get back to work. 717 00:44:29,010 --> 00:44:31,143 Six ounces in a week. 718 00:44:31,143 --> 00:44:33,743 Not even close to cutting it. We need that everyday. 719 00:44:33,743 --> 00:44:35,843 'Cause I feel like that was a bunch of [bleep]. 720 00:44:35,843 --> 00:44:37,576 But I just gotta figure out a way to keep the guys' hope up. 721 00:44:37,576 --> 00:44:40,043 That we're still... 722 00:44:41,309 --> 00:44:43,443 We're still here mining, we're still pulling in gold. 723 00:44:43,443 --> 00:44:45,877 But to put all the work that we put in 724 00:44:45,877 --> 00:44:50,010 to this point of the season, and to walk out with six freaking ounces, 725 00:44:50,010 --> 00:44:52,343 it's not where I wanna be, but we gotta get better. 726 00:45:01,076 --> 00:45:02,643 - What's shaking, buddy? - How's it going, man? 727 00:45:02,643 --> 00:45:03,877 Good. Good. 728 00:45:03,877 --> 00:45:05,743 - How's it going, Doumitt? - Good, how're you doing, buddy? 729 00:45:05,743 --> 00:45:07,410 Good, thanks. How are you feeling? 730 00:45:07,410 --> 00:45:10,977 Yeah, it's been a fight, man, keeping both wash plants going side by side. 731 00:45:10,977 --> 00:45:13,376 - They make you work. - Oh, the two together, 732 00:45:13,376 --> 00:45:15,076 they do, they grind through the pay. 733 00:45:15,076 --> 00:45:17,410 I was a little worried about that for a while. It's getting pretty skinny down there. 734 00:45:17,410 --> 00:45:19,410 But yeah, not long after we had that road built, 735 00:45:19,410 --> 00:45:20,710 started pushing the overburden 736 00:45:20,710 --> 00:45:22,943 and everything was frozen. 737 00:45:23,510 --> 00:45:24,777 I was wrong. 738 00:45:24,777 --> 00:45:26,677 I freely admit that. 739 00:45:26,677 --> 00:45:28,910 - And... - I totally thought that would be thawed. 740 00:45:29,576 --> 00:45:30,677 It's very frozen. 741 00:45:32,510 --> 00:45:34,209 Now, what do we do with Panama Canal? 742 00:45:34,209 --> 00:45:37,143 Yeah, we'll have to just let it thaw and see 743 00:45:37,143 --> 00:45:39,143 if it's ready by the end of the year, 744 00:45:39,143 --> 00:45:40,810 and if we have time to sluice it. 745 00:45:40,810 --> 00:45:44,677 It's gonna be tough to get that worked into everything else we got going on, man. 746 00:45:44,677 --> 00:45:48,576 Yeah, at the beginning of the season when we started, it was little overwhelming 747 00:45:48,576 --> 00:45:50,243 in the amount we have to do. 748 00:45:50,243 --> 00:45:52,243 Yeah. It's one of those things I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better. 749 00:45:52,243 --> 00:45:54,610 - It's all mind game. It's all head game. - Is that what it is? 750 00:45:54,610 --> 00:45:56,910 - Yeah. - We're a third way through the season already. 751 00:45:56,910 --> 00:45:58,710 Yeah, well, how much gold do we got there? 752 00:45:58,710 --> 00:46:00,543 We a third of weight of where we want to be? 753 00:46:00,543 --> 00:46:01,643 Let's take a look see. 754 00:46:01,643 --> 00:46:03,576 - We'll do Big Red first, yeah? - All right. 755 00:46:03,576 --> 00:46:04,510 Get in there! 756 00:46:04,510 --> 00:46:05,743 Last week, 757 00:46:05,743 --> 00:46:11,143 Big Red delivered a 124.3 ounces of bare cut gold. 758 00:46:11,143 --> 00:46:13,243 Let's see what she did this week, buddy. 759 00:46:14,010 --> 00:46:18,043 All right. 20, 40, 60, 760 00:46:18,510 --> 00:46:21,543 100, 120, 140, 761 00:46:22,243 --> 00:46:24,743 160, 180, 190... 762 00:46:24,743 --> 00:46:27,109 Oh! 200. 220. 763 00:46:27,777 --> 00:46:31,276 230, 240, 250... 764 00:46:32,677 --> 00:46:35,977 257.9. [bleep] yeah. 765 00:46:35,977 --> 00:46:39,276 It's about time we started having some big numbers. 766 00:46:39,276 --> 00:46:40,877 What's the other one? 767 00:46:40,877 --> 00:46:44,010 Sluicifer's haul from the Bear cut last week 768 00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:46,777 was a 174.9 ounces. 769 00:46:48,276 --> 00:46:50,843 80, 110, 770 00:46:51,476 --> 00:46:54,076 140, 170, 771 00:46:55,109 --> 00:46:56,677 - over 200. - Yeah. 772 00:46:57,677 --> 00:46:59,877 - Come on. Come on. - 230, 240, 773 00:46:59,877 --> 00:47:03,043 250, 260, 270... 774 00:47:03,043 --> 00:47:06,176 - Yeah! - 289.05. 775 00:47:06,176 --> 00:47:07,543 - There we go! - Yeah! 776 00:47:07,543 --> 00:47:09,076 - Whoo! - Chest bump. 777 00:47:09,076 --> 00:47:10,843 No. 778 00:47:11,576 --> 00:47:13,743 Oh! 779 00:47:14,877 --> 00:47:16,643 Not a bad week, fellas. 780 00:47:18,576 --> 00:47:21,076 Parker's crew have pulled in mor than 781 00:47:21,076 --> 00:47:25,443 $980,000 worth of gold this week, 782 00:47:25,443 --> 00:47:30,376 bringing their season total to over 2,300 ounces. 783 00:47:30,376 --> 00:47:33,510 Man, that's pretty cool to see, even after everything, 784 00:47:33,510 --> 00:47:34,843 fighting with that road... 785 00:47:34,843 --> 00:47:37,276 It's encouragement when you put in that much work and effort 786 00:47:37,276 --> 00:47:39,376 - that you get good numbers. - Yeah. 787 00:47:39,376 --> 00:47:42,643 - Doesn't always go that way. - No, but it did this time. 788 00:47:42,643 --> 00:47:44,376 - And hopefully will next time. - That's cool, man. 789 00:47:44,376 --> 00:47:47,476 - I'll bag this stuff up. We'll get out of here. - All right, man. Thanks! 790 00:47:47,476 --> 00:47:49,343 You betcha. Thank you, you guys. 791 00:47:49,343 --> 00:47:50,843 - Thanks, Chris. - Thanks, guys. 792 00:47:53,010 --> 00:47:56,376 You know, I really feel like we wasted a lot of time this week building that new road 793 00:47:56,376 --> 00:47:57,943 and stripping the Panama Canal. 794 00:47:57,943 --> 00:48:00,843 Pretty tough, but when you see that much gold at the end of it all, 795 00:48:01,710 --> 00:48:02,743 definitely worth it. 795 00:48:03,305 --> 00:49:03,696 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm