"Gold Rush" Gremlins

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:00:15,974 --> 00:00:18,284 I've been nervous about not being able to salvage the season 3 00:00:18,284 --> 00:00:20,594 because there's so many things that could go wrong, 4 00:00:20,594 --> 00:00:21,801 that would impact my entire life. 5 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,456 <i>Deep in the Yukon wilderness,</i> 6 00:00:32,456 --> 00:00:35,801 <i>mine boss Fred Lewis has been battling the elements,</i> 7 00:00:35,801 --> 00:00:40,077 <i>equipment failures and wash plant shutdowns all season.</i> 8 00:00:44,801 --> 00:00:47,008 Stefan quit on us, man. 9 00:00:47,008 --> 00:00:50,801 <i>Now, he's a man down after brother-in-arms,</i> 10 00:00:50,801 --> 00:00:53,525 <i>Stefan Generally walked out on the crew.</i> 11 00:00:56,905 --> 00:00:59,698 It's tough for me as a friend, you know, because I really respect the guy, 12 00:00:59,698 --> 00:01:01,939 but it's really hard to take. 13 00:01:03,663 --> 00:01:07,456 <i>I can't win, man. I can't find people that actually understand hard work</i> 14 00:01:07,456 --> 00:01:10,629 <i>and wanna change their lives at the same time, you know.</i> 15 00:01:12,525 --> 00:01:14,663 <i>More than halfway through the season,</i> 16 00:01:14,663 --> 00:01:20,456 <i>Fred's only banked 72 ounces of gold, well short of his 500 ounce goal.</i> 17 00:01:23,008 --> 00:01:26,663 <i>And with winter fast approaching, if he's to survive,</i> 18 00:01:26,663 --> 00:01:30,318 <i>Fred needs to start getting big gold out of the Freedom Cut.</i> 19 00:01:32,043 --> 00:01:36,422 That 500-ounce goal is kind of getting harder and harder. 20 00:01:36,422 --> 00:01:40,353 This has been probably one of the biggest battles of my life, my team's life. 21 00:01:46,284 --> 00:01:47,974 Fred, I've got something you're gonna wanna see. 22 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,491 Some pretty interesting [bleep]. 23 00:01:54,491 --> 00:01:55,732 Hey, Fred, man. 24 00:01:57,215 --> 00:01:59,043 Ooh, what's this? 25 00:01:59,043 --> 00:02:00,215 It's a little freaking course. 26 00:02:03,422 --> 00:02:04,525 <i>11 weeks ago,</i> 27 00:02:05,732 --> 00:02:07,456 Oh, wow. 28 00:02:07,456 --> 00:02:11,905 <i>Fred discovered a gold-rich quartz vein alongside California Creek.</i> 29 00:02:12,939 --> 00:02:15,974 That tells us there's a vein carrying gold 30 00:02:15,974 --> 00:02:18,043 running up the middle of our [bleep] plain. 31 00:02:19,111 --> 00:02:22,077 <i>Buzz's discovery in the Freedom Cut</i> 32 00:02:22,077 --> 00:02:25,180 <i>could be the jolt Fred's been praying for.</i> 33 00:02:25,180 --> 00:02:27,284 Dude, we've been chasing this quartz all [bleep] season, 34 00:02:27,284 --> 00:02:29,732 and I think this is what we were looking for the whole time. 35 00:02:29,732 --> 00:02:31,318 There's gold in this rock, 36 00:02:31,318 --> 00:02:34,077 and if there's gold in the rock, there's gold in the ground. 37 00:02:34,077 --> 00:02:35,146 Let's just load it all up, 38 00:02:36,767 --> 00:02:37,560 and keep chasing it. 39 00:02:40,387 --> 00:02:43,939 Right now, the name of the game is to pull as much pay to the plant as possible, 40 00:02:43,939 --> 00:02:46,732 while chasing that freaking quartz payload. 41 00:02:49,215 --> 00:02:52,629 <i>With some luck and some hard work, we can still do this.</i> 42 00:02:54,318 --> 00:02:57,215 We've got the rock chopper up and running for the first time in a long time. 43 00:02:57,215 --> 00:02:58,801 We're firing on all cylinders. 44 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,939 Hey guys, I've got a load of pay I'm dropping off at the plant, 45 00:03:02,939 --> 00:03:04,077 that should keep you guys running. 46 00:03:04,077 --> 00:03:06,387 Let's keep get that wash plant up, and get that gold. 47 00:03:15,215 --> 00:03:17,560 - Christopher, Christopher. - <i>What?</i> 48 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,629 - All right, you ready to fire the pump up? - <i>Yes, sir.</i> 49 00:03:20,629 --> 00:03:23,215 - All right, so pumps coming on. - <i>Roger that.</i> 50 00:03:46,422 --> 00:03:47,939 Turn it off. It didn't work. 51 00:03:48,629 --> 00:03:49,974 What just happened? 52 00:03:55,387 --> 00:03:57,180 Oh, man, one thing or another, man. 53 00:04:03,146 --> 00:04:05,456 Any time that plant's down, is uh, you know, 54 00:04:05,456 --> 00:04:09,387 time we're not finding gold, so we have to figure it out. 55 00:04:13,077 --> 00:04:15,146 - Another one broke, eh? - Yep. 56 00:04:15,146 --> 00:04:18,801 Yeah. They're getting chewed through. I'm not sure how. 57 00:04:18,801 --> 00:04:21,836 - Is there, like, any way we can, like, bush fix this? - No. 58 00:04:21,836 --> 00:04:26,043 And now what's really bad is we don't have any more. That's the last one. 59 00:04:26,043 --> 00:04:28,353 First thing I've gotta do is find belts. 60 00:04:28,353 --> 00:04:31,318 The auto parts in Dawson were out. 61 00:04:31,318 --> 00:04:35,008 I bought everything they had, you know, so we're not getting them locally. 62 00:04:38,905 --> 00:04:44,491 <i>The only available belts are 350 miles away, in Fairbanks, Alaska.</i> 63 00:04:45,974 --> 00:04:47,905 I have to go to Alaska to get these two belts, 64 00:04:47,905 --> 00:04:50,043 it's something I'm not real happy about. 65 00:04:50,043 --> 00:04:52,215 I mean, it's a long, long trip. 66 00:04:52,215 --> 00:04:54,491 Six hours, one direction. 67 00:04:54,491 --> 00:04:56,353 Just to pick up a couple of belts. 68 00:04:56,353 --> 00:04:58,560 But we've gotta have them if we wanna keep running. 69 00:05:01,043 --> 00:05:04,698 JB's gonna be at least two days, maybe even three, to go get these parts. 70 00:05:04,698 --> 00:05:07,284 And that's two or three days of sluicing that we're gonna lose. 71 00:05:07,284 --> 00:05:10,146 That's two or three day's worth of gold we're not gonna have in our pan. 72 00:05:10,146 --> 00:05:11,284 We gotta get [beep] moving. 73 00:05:25,870 --> 00:05:31,801 This is our last season here, so we're just really trying to get as many ounces as we can. 74 00:05:34,043 --> 00:05:36,422 Every grain of dirt right now counts. 75 00:05:40,836 --> 00:05:42,801 We are out of pay on the Bear Cut. 76 00:05:44,077 --> 00:05:45,353 This is the last scoop. 77 00:05:48,870 --> 00:05:50,077 Another cut done. 78 00:05:56,801 --> 00:05:58,353 How's it going, Chris? 79 00:05:58,353 --> 00:06:01,456 Hey, Mitchell. Just waiting for the thing to run out and we'll shut her down. 80 00:06:01,456 --> 00:06:05,077 Man, the Bear Cut has been a huge cut, but we're to the end of it right here. 81 00:06:05,077 --> 00:06:07,491 Yeah, no kidding. You got through that pretty quick, man. 82 00:06:07,491 --> 00:06:11,111 - Yeah, so now we gotta get that Runway Cut opened up. - How's that coming along? 83 00:06:11,111 --> 00:06:13,491 Ah, we've still got a lot of overburden on the Runway, 84 00:06:13,491 --> 00:06:16,629 so we don't have any pay dirt ready for Big Red right now. 85 00:06:16,629 --> 00:06:19,939 - We're looking at least two weeks downtime, minimum. - Wow. 86 00:06:21,939 --> 00:06:25,146 - That's not good. - No, not by any means. 87 00:06:32,353 --> 00:06:35,870 <i>28-year-old Parker Schnabel is stretched thin,</i> 88 00:06:35,870 --> 00:06:38,629 <i>running two mines in different countries.</i> 89 00:06:39,836 --> 00:06:42,801 The last two weeks I've been in Alaska. 90 00:06:42,801 --> 00:06:44,836 You know, we had a rough ten days start up, 91 00:06:44,836 --> 00:06:46,663 and now it's starting to smooth out. 92 00:06:46,663 --> 00:06:49,698 We've got a plant running over there. There's gold coming in. 93 00:06:51,974 --> 00:06:55,491 <i>In the Yukon, his crew are racing to mine out the massive</i> 94 00:06:55,491 --> 00:07:00,146 <i>air strip claim before the water license expires at the end of the season.</i> 95 00:07:02,491 --> 00:07:04,594 <i>We have to get all of this mined this year.</i> 96 00:07:04,594 --> 00:07:07,836 <i>So it's basically use it or lose it.</i> 97 00:07:07,836 --> 00:07:10,249 <i>And it's important that we get everything</i> 98 00:07:10,249 --> 00:07:14,836 that we have left to mine this year stripped and on pay. 99 00:07:14,836 --> 00:07:19,043 Half a million of square feet of what we have left is not stripped. 100 00:07:19,043 --> 00:07:22,043 And this is pretty late in the year to be stripping. 101 00:07:23,387 --> 00:07:25,732 <i>Parker's crew have already mined out</i> 102 00:07:25,732 --> 00:07:29,318 <i>forty eight of his 90 acres at the airstrip.</i> 103 00:07:29,318 --> 00:07:33,560 <i>The Keyhole, Easy Street, and Bear Cuts.</i> 104 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:38,663 <i>Now they're running paydirt through Sluicifer from the 18 acre Payback Cut,</i> 105 00:07:38,663 --> 00:07:45,422 <i>and continue to strip the last and largest of them all. The 24 acre Runway Cut.</i> 106 00:07:45,422 --> 00:07:49,456 <i>They need to get at least five acres down to pay this week,</i> 107 00:07:49,456 --> 00:07:52,043 <i>before they can fire Big Red back up.</i> 108 00:07:55,456 --> 00:07:58,732 So Big Red will sit until all the stripping's done. 109 00:07:59,939 --> 00:08:03,560 We really can't afford the time, but, um, 110 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,801 it's just gonna mean sluicing later in the year. 111 00:08:07,698 --> 00:08:09,801 <i>Down to just one wash plant,</i> 112 00:08:09,801 --> 00:08:15,215 <i>it's all hands on deck at the Runway Cut, until it's completely stripped.</i> 113 00:08:15,215 --> 00:08:17,939 <i>Except for one crew member.</i> 114 00:08:19,353 --> 00:08:21,284 So right now I'm in the Payback Cut. 115 00:08:21,284 --> 00:08:22,801 You know, there's a lot to do. 116 00:08:22,801 --> 00:08:25,215 And I'm pretty much over here on my own. 117 00:08:25,215 --> 00:08:28,456 So, trying to keep the wash plant going. 118 00:08:28,456 --> 00:08:30,939 <i>While Sluicifer plant boss Tyson Lee</i> 119 00:08:30,939 --> 00:08:35,008 <i>digs out Payback Cut pay dirt in the 750 excavator...</i> 120 00:08:35,008 --> 00:08:37,836 You know, it's just a struggle trying to keep ahead. 121 00:08:37,836 --> 00:08:43,146 <i>Parker in the D-11, and foreman Mitch Blaschke in the 700,</i> 122 00:08:43,146 --> 00:08:45,732 <i>strip overburden in the Runway Cut.</i> 123 00:08:48,905 --> 00:08:51,422 This is probably the most behind we've ever been, 124 00:08:51,422 --> 00:08:55,077 in opening a cut and having things ready. 125 00:08:55,077 --> 00:09:00,318 We've got so much on our plate and you know, here we are just trying to get through it all, 126 00:09:00,318 --> 00:09:02,077 and trying to do it before the snow flies. 127 00:09:04,353 --> 00:09:08,284 And... what the? Holy [bleep]. 128 00:09:10,387 --> 00:09:13,387 Whoa! Whoa! 129 00:09:13,387 --> 00:09:16,387 There's only one thing that smells like that, and that is coolant. 130 00:09:18,836 --> 00:09:20,284 That is not good. 131 00:09:23,180 --> 00:09:25,215 Looks like we just blew our radiator here, 132 00:09:25,215 --> 00:09:27,077 and it's blown right on the exhaust manifold. 133 00:09:28,663 --> 00:09:29,939 Not what we need right now. 134 00:09:33,111 --> 00:09:34,560 Yo, Taylor, you got a copy, man? 135 00:09:36,456 --> 00:09:39,767 Hey buddy, you wanna make your way over to the seven-hundy here? 136 00:09:39,767 --> 00:09:41,663 It looks like it lost the radiator. 137 00:09:41,663 --> 00:09:44,318 We've got a whole bunch of coolant spewing out right on the exhaust. 138 00:09:46,422 --> 00:09:49,077 I mean, the biggest thing here is just the lead time on getting parts. 139 00:09:52,491 --> 00:09:54,939 To lose something like the radiator in this 700, 140 00:09:54,939 --> 00:09:56,525 when we've got all this dirt to move, 141 00:09:56,525 --> 00:09:58,767 I need another big excavator over here. 142 00:09:58,767 --> 00:10:01,215 Um, I'm not sure where I'm gonna get one of those from right now. 143 00:10:16,629 --> 00:10:17,456 Hey! 144 00:10:19,767 --> 00:10:23,629 - How's it going, Mitch? - Oh, we've had better days. 145 00:10:23,629 --> 00:10:26,491 - What's going on? - Oh, the 700 just blew the rad. 146 00:10:26,491 --> 00:10:28,111 - Oh, really? - Yeah, like, bad. 147 00:10:28,111 --> 00:10:31,146 The problem is, we're in the middle of all that mud right now. 148 00:10:31,146 --> 00:10:33,284 - Yeah. - And without a big excavator, 149 00:10:33,284 --> 00:10:35,594 there's no way we've got a fighting chance of getting through it. 150 00:10:35,594 --> 00:10:38,801 I know you're doing everything you can to keep up with Sluicifer, 151 00:10:38,801 --> 00:10:41,146 but, man, we really need the 750. 152 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,698 Well, it sucks, 'cause, you know, we have, like, no payout right now. 153 00:10:48,698 --> 00:10:52,387 So, the 750 is kind of key to this operation right now. 154 00:10:52,387 --> 00:10:54,525 I know, and that's gonna leave you with a 480. 155 00:10:54,525 --> 00:10:56,905 As soon as Taylor gets the 700 back up and going, 156 00:10:56,905 --> 00:10:58,905 - you can have this thing back. - Right. 157 00:10:58,905 --> 00:11:01,146 But, man, for right now, I hate to do it, 158 00:11:01,146 --> 00:11:04,974 but we've really got no other option down there but to repo the old 750 from you. 159 00:11:04,974 --> 00:11:06,077 Right. 160 00:11:09,491 --> 00:11:11,525 I'll get it back to you as soon as I can. 161 00:11:19,698 --> 00:11:24,180 <i>Losing the 750 leaves Tyson with just the 480,</i> 162 00:11:24,180 --> 00:11:27,284 <i>reducing the amount of pay he can send to Sluicifer.</i> 163 00:11:29,905 --> 00:11:32,008 Sadly, I'm gonna have to turn Sluicifer down. 164 00:11:32,008 --> 00:11:34,905 You know, with only the 480 digging pay, 165 00:11:34,905 --> 00:11:36,767 we're gonna get to the point where we're out of pay, 166 00:11:36,767 --> 00:11:38,008 we have nothing to run. 167 00:11:38,008 --> 00:11:41,629 You know, a lower feed rate means less gold coming in, 168 00:11:41,629 --> 00:11:44,629 but it's better than having no gold coming in and having to shut the plant down. 169 00:11:46,180 --> 00:11:49,870 <i>With Sluicifer dialed down and Big Red shut down,</i> 170 00:11:49,870 --> 00:11:54,008 <i>the chances of mining out all 90 acres are slimmer than ever.</i> 171 00:11:56,732 --> 00:11:59,422 You've gotta pick your battles and well, we lost this one. 172 00:12:11,663 --> 00:12:14,594 <i>There's some big changes ahead for this season.</i> 173 00:12:14,594 --> 00:12:19,146 I'm officially retiring from mining and um, I'm gonna try and sell these claims. 174 00:12:20,629 --> 00:12:24,767 <i>At Glacier Creek, Dave Turin is on a mission</i> 175 00:12:24,767 --> 00:12:29,732 <i>to sell his one million dollar turnkey mining operation.</i> 176 00:12:29,732 --> 00:12:33,111 <i>I can't do this forever. I've been doing it a long time.</i> 177 00:12:33,111 --> 00:12:36,732 <i>I want to enjoy my grandkids, my kids, hang out,</i> 178 00:12:36,732 --> 00:12:38,353 <i>do whatever, go camping, and hunting,</i> 179 00:12:38,353 --> 00:12:39,836 <i>and fishing and stuff.</i> 180 00:12:39,836 --> 00:12:42,422 Hopefully it all works out. 181 00:12:42,422 --> 00:12:47,939 <i>Dave hopes to prove to potential buyers Nathan Clarke and Jason Sanchez</i> 182 00:12:47,939 --> 00:12:54,146 <i>there's years of mining and a possible $10 million of gold in the ground.</i> 183 00:12:54,146 --> 00:12:59,215 Nathan and Jason, myself, we did a prospect with The Beatles, found $20 a yard. 184 00:12:59,215 --> 00:13:00,318 That's good ground. 185 00:13:00,318 --> 00:13:02,663 Hopefully it's good enough for those guys to buy it. 186 00:13:02,663 --> 00:13:05,284 We've set a goal of 30 ounces. 187 00:13:05,284 --> 00:13:08,905 If we pull 30 ounces out of here, it will prove there's a lot of gold here. 188 00:13:08,905 --> 00:13:10,870 And everybody's walking out of here 189 00:13:10,870 --> 00:13:12,801 with gold in their pockets, which is a good thing. 190 00:13:13,836 --> 00:13:16,491 So, it's one last hurrah for Team Turin. 191 00:13:19,629 --> 00:13:22,387 I still can't believe we're actually gonna make a run at it. 192 00:13:22,387 --> 00:13:23,801 - I'm excited. - I'm excited too. 193 00:13:25,146 --> 00:13:27,249 <i>Since the early 1900s,</i> 194 00:13:27,249 --> 00:13:30,491 <i>miners have been flocking to the area around Glacier Creek</i> 195 00:13:31,491 --> 00:13:34,663 <i>with the dream of striking it rich.</i> 196 00:13:34,663 --> 00:13:38,318 <i>Over the years, the ground's delivered a fortune...</i> 197 00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:41,732 <i>nearly 150,000 ounces of gold.</i> 198 00:13:42,870 --> 00:13:46,698 <i>Today, worth around 250 million dollars.</i> 199 00:13:49,077 --> 00:13:50,525 - Morning, guys. - Morning! 200 00:13:50,525 --> 00:13:51,974 So here's what I'm thinking. 201 00:13:51,974 --> 00:13:54,801 Because we don't have a rock truck, there's just three of us, 202 00:13:54,801 --> 00:14:00,180 if we, uh, we need to move this plant, this sluice closer to the pay. 203 00:14:00,180 --> 00:14:01,077 Yeah, I agree. 204 00:14:01,905 --> 00:14:03,767 <i>Last week,</i> 205 00:14:03,767 --> 00:14:05,629 I'll pick the spot, landowner. 206 00:14:05,629 --> 00:14:08,456 Okay. Mine boss. 207 00:14:10,732 --> 00:14:14,146 <i>Team Turin punched three test holes downstream</i> 208 00:14:14,146 --> 00:14:16,111 <i>from last season's Sunlight Cut.</i> 209 00:14:17,767 --> 00:14:19,077 Twenty dollars, eighty cents a yard. 210 00:14:20,146 --> 00:14:22,077 I really think we should fire The Eagle up. 211 00:14:24,491 --> 00:14:31,491 <i>Now they plan to move Dave's $500,000 mobile wash plant, The Eagle,</i> 212 00:14:31,491 --> 00:14:37,422 <i>half a mile downstream to the best test hole where they will open up a new cut.</i> 213 00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:42,456 <i>We're calling it The Three Amigos Cut.</i> 214 00:14:42,456 --> 00:14:46,353 So why don't you guys grab the excavator, start lifting this sluice. 215 00:14:46,353 --> 00:14:49,422 I'll start on all the tailings so that we can get this thing up and out of here. 216 00:14:50,318 --> 00:14:51,939 - You good? - Let's get to it. 217 00:14:58,836 --> 00:15:03,284 What I will miss, for real, is missing mining with the guys. 218 00:15:03,284 --> 00:15:04,353 That's the hard part. 219 00:15:05,318 --> 00:15:07,008 See what that'll do. 220 00:15:07,008 --> 00:15:09,801 We all want to be a part of a really good team. 221 00:15:09,801 --> 00:15:10,905 Swinging right. 222 00:15:10,905 --> 00:15:13,663 <i>You know, this is my top team right here.</i> 223 00:15:13,663 --> 00:15:17,353 And when you think about it ending, that's hard. 224 00:15:19,146 --> 00:15:20,905 We all built this together. 225 00:15:21,939 --> 00:15:23,387 Yeah, it's sentimental. 226 00:15:32,180 --> 00:15:34,663 - All right, you're done with me. - I'm ready to walk. 227 00:15:36,870 --> 00:15:39,180 All right. Let's, uh, get this over there. 228 00:15:39,180 --> 00:15:41,974 - I'm gonna start finishing up the pad. - Okay. 229 00:15:41,974 --> 00:15:47,422 <i>The 34-ton Eagle rides on tracks and is driven by remote control,</i> 230 00:15:47,422 --> 00:15:51,594 <i>making it faster and easier to move than most wash plants.</i> 231 00:15:52,456 --> 00:15:53,456 Okay, we ready? 232 00:15:57,698 --> 00:15:59,077 Get her walked out of here. 233 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:02,387 Here we go! 234 00:16:05,353 --> 00:16:08,284 Looking good, Nate. Looking good, buddy. 235 00:16:08,284 --> 00:16:10,215 Man, you act like you've done this before! 236 00:16:12,939 --> 00:16:18,870 So I gotta make sure to get the pad ready for The Eagle, and it's gotta be level. 237 00:16:18,870 --> 00:16:23,525 Hopefully they get that thing over here, 'cause I'm gonna be ready here in a little bit. 238 00:16:27,767 --> 00:16:29,801 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Nate. Whoa. Whoa. 239 00:16:29,801 --> 00:16:33,974 You keep going, that tube's gonna end up smacking the ground. 240 00:16:33,974 --> 00:16:35,594 We're only inches above. 241 00:16:38,180 --> 00:16:41,629 Well, the clear problem is, the blue tube hangs down too low. 242 00:16:41,629 --> 00:16:44,801 We can't raise it up anymore. It's raised up all the way. 243 00:16:44,801 --> 00:16:45,939 It's just how the hill is. 244 00:16:48,491 --> 00:16:52,146 All of our material goes down that pipe, so we can't damage it at all. 245 00:16:52,146 --> 00:16:53,801 It's the only tube we've got, 246 00:16:53,801 --> 00:16:58,215 so we can't bend it, damage it, it might damage the whole Eagle. 247 00:16:58,215 --> 00:17:00,974 <i>The vital 10-foot-long tube</i> 248 00:17:00,974 --> 00:17:06,008 <i>feeds screened pay dirt from the shaker decks into the sluice runs.</i> 249 00:17:06,008 --> 00:17:09,732 You wanna get some material, and just add up to the tracks, so the tracks are going up? 250 00:17:09,732 --> 00:17:13,043 Make it less of a slope, get the tracks on it, get the front end up. 251 00:17:13,043 --> 00:17:14,008 We'll be okay. 252 00:17:14,008 --> 00:17:16,215 Dude, do you just wanna back her up? 253 00:17:16,215 --> 00:17:19,870 I'll get that 980, and grab us some tails. 254 00:17:25,491 --> 00:17:27,215 So what we're trying to do is 255 00:17:27,215 --> 00:17:30,663 build up a pad here, that will elevate the tracks 256 00:17:32,111 --> 00:17:33,939 in a manner that will bring that tube up. 257 00:17:43,353 --> 00:17:45,939 Well, we'll give her a shot and see what she does. 258 00:17:49,629 --> 00:17:51,974 - You ready? - All right. Come on, Nate. 259 00:17:58,870 --> 00:18:00,594 Easy. Easy now. 260 00:18:01,905 --> 00:18:03,249 Go ahead and kick her to the right. 261 00:18:05,043 --> 00:18:07,077 Straight ahead. Let me get up ahead of you again. 262 00:18:13,836 --> 00:18:17,456 Seems to be going actually pretty smooth after we did that material. 263 00:18:20,180 --> 00:18:22,491 Straighten her out. We're smooth sailing, now, my man. 264 00:18:27,353 --> 00:18:34,284 The pad looks pretty level. And I've got a pretty good slope for the sluice box. 265 00:18:34,284 --> 00:18:36,077 So now it's time to move The Eagle in. 266 00:18:38,525 --> 00:18:41,491 - Try that right there. - That looks pretty good. 267 00:18:49,111 --> 00:18:52,629 - Do you love it? - Yeah, I like it. Good. 268 00:18:53,629 --> 00:18:56,629 Eagle's set. Sluice box's set. 269 00:18:56,629 --> 00:18:58,836 All we've got left is to start getting some dirt! 270 00:18:59,629 --> 00:19:01,215 All right, here we go. 271 00:19:03,456 --> 00:19:04,939 He started right back at it. 272 00:19:04,939 --> 00:19:07,870 We're digging, we're throwing dirt. Pullin' gold. 273 00:19:11,905 --> 00:19:14,180 - All right, Dave, I'm gonna turn it on. - Okay, turn it on. 274 00:19:21,146 --> 00:19:23,353 He's alive, Dave. He's alive! 275 00:19:23,353 --> 00:19:25,422 Let's turn some water on and run some dirt. 276 00:19:31,077 --> 00:19:35,939 <i>Team Turin are once again running Alaskan gold-rich pay dirt.</i> 277 00:19:39,318 --> 00:19:43,249 I think those two guys, out of all the guys I've ever mined with, 278 00:19:43,249 --> 00:19:45,525 they get it. And that's why they're here. 279 00:19:46,732 --> 00:19:50,111 <i>I've given them an offer that I don't think they'll get</i> 280 00:19:50,111 --> 00:19:51,939 <i>anywhere else in their lifetime.</i> 281 00:19:51,939 --> 00:19:54,180 <i>Both of them are ready for that challenge.</i> 282 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,456 I think right now, I wanna say we're really, like, paving the way through. 283 00:20:11,456 --> 00:20:16,353 <i>Fred Lewis's wash plant Sergeant Sluice is at a standstill,</i> 284 00:20:16,353 --> 00:20:20,594 <i>waiting on a replacement belt for the shaker deck's motor.</i> 285 00:20:20,594 --> 00:20:25,215 It almost feels like mowing the lawn with a pair of scissors. 286 00:20:26,905 --> 00:20:28,456 I know we've had, kind of, a ton of problems, 287 00:20:28,456 --> 00:20:31,284 but, I mean, every piece of equipment we get, 288 00:20:31,284 --> 00:20:36,043 you know, we have to put massive TLC into it to get it up and running. 289 00:20:38,491 --> 00:20:39,491 Hey Fred, where are you at? 290 00:20:43,111 --> 00:20:43,974 JB, is that you? 291 00:20:45,008 --> 00:20:47,836 Yeah man, I'm back. I'm coming in hot. 292 00:20:47,836 --> 00:20:49,974 That's freaking record time, man. Did you get the belts? 293 00:21:00,284 --> 00:21:03,525 We basically just get a hold of her right there, and I'll spin the wheel. 294 00:21:05,077 --> 00:21:06,560 Here we go. Come on, man. 295 00:21:08,387 --> 00:21:11,077 There we go. Yep, Yep. There it goes. There it goes. 296 00:21:11,077 --> 00:21:14,146 All right, let it go. Oh, yeah, there's one. 297 00:21:14,146 --> 00:21:15,974 Now we've gotta... 298 00:21:15,974 --> 00:21:18,249 You're gonna have to spin it down there again. 299 00:21:18,249 --> 00:21:21,353 There we go, there we go. We got it. 300 00:21:22,974 --> 00:21:27,387 Okay. We're on. Straight. Tight. 301 00:21:29,836 --> 00:21:32,043 - You ready to fire it up and see what it does? - Yeah. 302 00:21:59,249 --> 00:22:01,318 <i>Old Sarge is running smooth.</i> 303 00:22:01,318 --> 00:22:03,974 We've got Buzz up clearing and stripping land. 304 00:22:03,974 --> 00:22:07,905 I'm gonna maintain tailings and pull in more pay to keep the plant feeding. 305 00:22:08,732 --> 00:22:09,594 We're on the gold now. 306 00:22:24,043 --> 00:22:27,560 [beep]! What is going on? 307 00:22:28,767 --> 00:22:30,353 Doggone belt came off again. 308 00:22:31,353 --> 00:22:32,491 Why now? 309 00:22:34,525 --> 00:22:37,560 The amount of breakdowns that we've had, I mean it goes on and on. 310 00:22:39,974 --> 00:22:41,629 Oh man, it's unbelievable. 311 00:22:43,525 --> 00:22:45,284 Something's obviously wrong. 312 00:22:45,284 --> 00:22:48,077 I gotta get up there, and see what's going on with these pulleys 313 00:22:48,077 --> 00:22:51,939 Try to use my detective work and see what's going on. 314 00:22:56,249 --> 00:22:59,215 My best guess is that it's gotta be this pulley system. 315 00:22:59,215 --> 00:23:01,663 The small pulley up here on the electric motor 316 00:23:01,663 --> 00:23:03,732 runs the larger pulley on the bottom. 317 00:23:03,732 --> 00:23:09,663 My guess is they're, uh, either not aligned, or they've got misaligned. 318 00:23:19,422 --> 00:23:21,801 I think I found the culprit. 319 00:23:21,801 --> 00:23:26,629 The, uh, the top pulley has been moving back and forth on this shaft, 320 00:23:27,939 --> 00:23:30,801 causing it to walk out and walk back in slightly. 321 00:23:30,801 --> 00:23:34,387 I can see the marks on the shaft here. 322 00:23:34,387 --> 00:23:39,284 And that would definitely cause our, uh, our belt-breaking issues. 323 00:23:39,284 --> 00:23:42,525 Man, I can't believe it, such an easy fix. 324 00:23:42,525 --> 00:23:48,318 I, I'll put a new, uh, cone in there and a spacer, and, uh, tighten it down and 325 00:23:48,318 --> 00:23:49,836 this, this thing should be fixed. 326 00:23:51,870 --> 00:23:55,525 <i>Sergeant Sluice's shaker deck is powered by an electric motor</i> 327 00:23:55,525 --> 00:23:57,698 <i>that drives a rubber belt.</i> 328 00:23:57,698 --> 00:24:00,939 <i>JB thinks the motor's pulley wheel is misaligned</i> 329 00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:04,732 <i>with the shaker's bigger wheel and is moving in and out,</i> 330 00:24:04,732 --> 00:24:06,801 <i>causing the belt to snap...</i> 331 00:24:06,801 --> 00:24:08,594 <i>...and the deck to stop.</i> 332 00:24:09,043 --> 00:24:10,836 <i>JB's plan?</i> 333 00:24:10,836 --> 00:24:13,456 <i>Add a spacer to the motor's drive shaft</i> 334 00:24:13,456 --> 00:24:16,491 <i>to prevent the lateral movement of the belt.</i> 335 00:24:16,491 --> 00:24:19,629 <i>He hopes this will stop the wear and tear on the belt</i> 336 00:24:19,629 --> 00:24:22,456 <i>and get Sergeant Spruce up and running again.</i> 337 00:24:27,974 --> 00:24:32,491 The true test is going to be, will this belt hold up? 338 00:24:47,215 --> 00:24:48,594 That's what we wanted! 339 00:25:06,422 --> 00:25:10,077 <i>That wash plant's the heartbeat of this operation. If it's not shaking,</i> 340 00:25:10,077 --> 00:25:11,629 we're never gonna reach our goal. 341 00:25:11,629 --> 00:25:13,249 We've got so much on the line right now 342 00:25:13,249 --> 00:25:15,077 and that American Dream is never gonna happen 343 00:25:15,077 --> 00:25:18,387 without a guy like JB to fix this so, now we're up and running. 344 00:25:35,215 --> 00:25:38,491 <i>Um, right now, we're just stripping the runway.</i> 345 00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:41,698 <i>Seems like pretty deep mud.</i> 346 00:25:41,698 --> 00:25:45,146 You know, I think that's probably a good 20 feet of mud in here and, 347 00:25:45,146 --> 00:25:46,939 it's a bit late in the year to be opening up 348 00:25:46,939 --> 00:25:48,939 a ground that has 20 feet of mud. 349 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,629 Smooth loadin' that out, 350 00:25:51,629 --> 00:25:55,180 and we have nowhere to push it to, so it's all getting loaded out. 351 00:25:55,180 --> 00:25:58,043 <i>I won't say going fine but it's going.</i> 352 00:25:58,043 --> 00:25:59,663 <i>Parker Schnabel's crew</i> 353 00:25:59,663 --> 00:26:04,594 <i>is rushing to strip the 24 acre Runway Cut down to pay</i> 354 00:26:04,594 --> 00:26:08,594 <i>so they can start feeding wash plant Big Red.</i> 355 00:26:08,594 --> 00:26:11,560 I've got Big Red sitting on that hillside over there, 356 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:12,836 waiting to wash rocks. 357 00:26:12,836 --> 00:26:16,629 <i>If we had pay dirt right now, it'd be up and running.</i> 358 00:26:16,629 --> 00:26:20,594 I know it's really put Tyson in a tough spot here taking the 750, 359 00:26:20,594 --> 00:26:23,594 but it's so important that we get this ground opened up. 360 00:26:23,594 --> 00:26:26,905 If not, we're gonna leave a lot of gold in the ground. 361 00:26:26,905 --> 00:26:30,663 <i>With Mitch's 700 Excavator still in for repair,</i> 362 00:26:31,525 --> 00:26:34,663 <i>Tyson is stuck in the smaller 480.</i> 363 00:26:34,663 --> 00:26:38,318 <i>Struggling to dig enough pay to feed Sluicifer.</i> 364 00:26:38,318 --> 00:26:41,077 <i>Had to dial down Sluicifer's feed rate a little.</i> 365 00:26:41,077 --> 00:26:42,974 And hopefully I don't have to dial it down any more. 366 00:26:42,974 --> 00:26:45,560 But at the rate things are going, I might have to make that adjustment. 367 00:26:47,146 --> 00:26:49,387 And, you know, sadly, getting Big Red going, 368 00:26:49,387 --> 00:26:52,008 it's taken priority over keeping Sluicifer fed. 369 00:26:54,456 --> 00:26:57,249 Taylor, I hope you got some good news for me, man. 370 00:26:57,249 --> 00:26:58,456 Hey, buddy. 371 00:26:58,456 --> 00:27:01,456 - How's it going? - Oh, well you tell me. 372 00:27:01,456 --> 00:27:04,146 - I see we got some parts here. - Uh... We do indeed. 373 00:27:04,146 --> 00:27:06,180 The rad's dropped in, she's ready to go. 374 00:27:06,180 --> 00:27:08,387 - All right, sounds good, buddy, appreciate it, thanks! - All right, catch you later. 375 00:27:11,939 --> 00:27:14,180 Hey, Tyson, Tyson, you got a copy? 376 00:27:16,767 --> 00:27:20,801 Hey, buddy, I got a present for you if you wanna meet me, uh, over by Sluicifer. 377 00:27:20,801 --> 00:27:23,215 <i>Sound's good, man. I'm on my way.</i> 378 00:27:28,870 --> 00:27:32,525 When you said you had a present for me, I'm glad it's not the EC20. 379 00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:34,870 Nah, man. We treated her good. It moved a lot of mud, 380 00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:37,629 it really helped out. So now we can get some pay up here 381 00:27:37,629 --> 00:27:39,215 and crank this baby back up. 382 00:27:39,215 --> 00:27:42,560 Well, I'll go turn it up and then light the fire under Froggy and my own ass. 383 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,663 All right, buddy. Now you at least got some muscle down here for digging this. 384 00:27:45,663 --> 00:27:47,939 - Sounds good, thanks, Mitch. - Yeah, no worries, man, thanks. 385 00:27:50,284 --> 00:27:53,008 <i>So you know, I just got the 750 back, which is,</i> 386 00:27:53,008 --> 00:27:57,008 the best news I've had all week. That means I can turn this wash plant back up. 387 00:27:57,008 --> 00:27:59,732 And we can get back to running 220 yards an hour. 388 00:27:59,732 --> 00:28:01,560 So it's time I get us back 389 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,905 to getting some serious pay through this plant and getting some serious gold. 390 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,629 <i>Parker's only working wash plant is finally back sluicing</i> 391 00:28:10,629 --> 00:28:12,180 <i>at max capacity.</i> 392 00:28:24,353 --> 00:28:26,353 It looks like the Super Stacker's off. 393 00:28:28,629 --> 00:28:31,146 Last year it was playing these games, 394 00:28:31,146 --> 00:28:32,560 and it seemed to have just stopped. 395 00:28:39,663 --> 00:28:41,043 Oh, "Feeder Fault." 396 00:28:41,387 --> 00:28:42,870 RPM 0. 397 00:28:43,663 --> 00:28:44,456 And now our... 398 00:28:46,663 --> 00:28:48,111 feeder doesn't wanna start. 399 00:28:49,387 --> 00:28:51,008 It's got some gremlins in it. 400 00:28:56,353 --> 00:28:58,767 Oh, here we go, it's fixed. 401 00:28:58,767 --> 00:29:03,698 Didn't do [bleep] at all but it's working now, so we'll roll with it. 402 00:29:03,698 --> 00:29:07,077 It's something we're gonna have to keep an eye on is that Super Stacker. 403 00:29:07,077 --> 00:29:09,111 Yeah, Alec, you got a copy, Alec? 404 00:29:17,525 --> 00:29:22,111 This, uh, conveyor system is playing some pretty intense games right now. 405 00:29:23,249 --> 00:29:25,215 At first it was the Super Stacker 406 00:29:25,215 --> 00:29:27,146 then our belt feeder wouldn't start for us. 407 00:29:28,215 --> 00:29:30,663 And now the end delivery conveyor is shutting down. 408 00:29:33,456 --> 00:29:36,008 We gotta get to the bottom of these electrical demons here. 409 00:29:46,974 --> 00:29:48,698 Uh, just got a radio call that we're having 410 00:29:48,698 --> 00:29:50,491 some issues here with the conveyors. 411 00:29:50,491 --> 00:29:51,974 They're wanting to shut off on their own. 412 00:29:51,974 --> 00:29:54,180 So we gotta take a look at it, see what's going on. 413 00:29:55,456 --> 00:29:57,594 <i>At Parker's Yukon claim,</i> 414 00:29:57,594 --> 00:30:02,353 <i>electrical gremlins are plaguing Sluicifer's Super Stacker.</i> 415 00:30:02,353 --> 00:30:05,456 - What went on at first? Did this stop? Or... - Just this belt 416 00:30:05,456 --> 00:30:07,387 - right here stopped. - But the top kept going? 417 00:30:07,387 --> 00:30:10,525 Oh, yeah. It's had a couple times where you hit "Go," 418 00:30:10,525 --> 00:30:13,353 and then it'll run for four seconds or something and then turn off. 419 00:30:14,215 --> 00:30:16,905 And it's also cutting out randomly. 420 00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:21,525 It's got no noise or anything coming from the gearbox. 421 00:30:21,525 --> 00:30:24,215 You know, looking over all the rollers here, 422 00:30:24,215 --> 00:30:25,456 don't see anything jammed up. 423 00:30:26,629 --> 00:30:27,974 If the problem's consistent, 424 00:30:27,974 --> 00:30:30,767 you could isolate the problem. 425 00:30:30,767 --> 00:30:32,905 But when it quits working and then it starts back up 426 00:30:32,905 --> 00:30:34,905 and everything looks good and checks out good, 427 00:30:34,905 --> 00:30:36,008 it makes it real tough. 428 00:30:37,767 --> 00:30:40,146 <i>Every hour Sluicifer's down...</i> 429 00:30:40,146 --> 00:30:44,146 <i>costs Parker almost $4,000 in lost gold production.</i> 430 00:30:46,422 --> 00:30:49,077 <i>And with Big Red also out of action,</i> 431 00:30:49,077 --> 00:30:52,146 <i>he's making no money.</i> 432 00:30:52,146 --> 00:30:53,560 I'm wonderin' if maybe there's some 433 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,629 tired contactors in the panel there. 434 00:30:58,043 --> 00:31:02,663 It certainly could be that the contactors are getting shot in it. 435 00:31:02,663 --> 00:31:04,836 <i>Contactors are heavy-duty switches</i> 436 00:31:04,836 --> 00:31:07,560 <i>that prevent surges frying the electrics.</i> 437 00:31:10,801 --> 00:31:13,525 So we're looking to see if we've got some of the right goodies here. 438 00:31:14,387 --> 00:31:16,663 It's heavy enough. Feels expensive. 439 00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:20,284 Could be this guy, right here. 440 00:31:25,836 --> 00:31:28,525 Visually, the face plates look a little bit different. 441 00:31:28,525 --> 00:31:31,732 But this is not a direct replacement part 442 00:31:31,732 --> 00:31:34,284 to that old contactor there. 443 00:31:34,284 --> 00:31:37,836 Like, physically it will fit, and we can join up some of the wires 444 00:31:37,836 --> 00:31:40,077 and it might go, but it'd be nice to have 445 00:31:40,077 --> 00:31:42,456 the exact unit that came out of it, 446 00:31:42,456 --> 00:31:44,422 which that new one is not. 447 00:31:44,422 --> 00:31:46,111 It looks like we have part of what we need, 448 00:31:46,111 --> 00:31:47,629 but, unfortunately, not all of it. 449 00:31:48,698 --> 00:31:49,836 So, in the meantime, 450 00:31:50,456 --> 00:31:52,353 let's just, uh, 451 00:31:52,353 --> 00:31:54,560 try and kind of... Maybe we can blow this thing out. 452 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:55,974 I mean, all the dust, all the dirt, 453 00:31:55,974 --> 00:31:57,629 you look at all that sand and everything in there. 454 00:31:57,629 --> 00:31:58,905 Oh, yeah, we've got a bit. 455 00:31:58,905 --> 00:32:01,456 It doesn't take much in there for those contactors 456 00:32:01,456 --> 00:32:05,180 to get some contamination. They're not gonna wanna bite in good. 457 00:32:05,180 --> 00:32:07,663 Oh, yeah, you see that dust coming out of there? 458 00:32:09,491 --> 00:32:12,422 See, Alec, back in my day, when you had, like, a video game that 459 00:32:12,422 --> 00:32:14,180 - didn't wanna work, you just had to go like... - Okay. 460 00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:16,870 ...and then it's good to go, you know. 461 00:32:27,732 --> 00:32:29,905 Well... 462 00:32:29,905 --> 00:32:33,387 - looks a lot better than it did. - Yeah, it's all right. 463 00:32:33,387 --> 00:32:36,870 - Give that a try, buddy. - Fire up the video game again. 464 00:32:36,870 --> 00:32:40,077 Obviously, we're out here in the sand and the dirt and the elements so, 465 00:32:40,077 --> 00:32:41,801 uh, not the best thing for it. 466 00:32:41,801 --> 00:32:44,249 And, you know, all it takes, 467 00:32:44,249 --> 00:32:46,594 little bit of junk here for things to not start working right. 468 00:32:46,594 --> 00:32:49,491 This'll be like taking your laptop outside and, uh, 469 00:32:49,491 --> 00:32:51,594 you know, leaving it out in the weather for a few weeks. 470 00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:54,318 Rain, dirt, crud, everything. 471 00:32:54,318 --> 00:32:58,767 Well, that old piece is reinstalled. We've blown out, uh, 472 00:32:58,767 --> 00:33:01,560 the dust and hopefully the gremlins along with it. 473 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,560 Wanna go fire up the generator and see what she says? 474 00:33:10,008 --> 00:33:11,008 Oh! 475 00:33:11,008 --> 00:33:12,663 Things are workin' again. 476 00:33:20,422 --> 00:33:22,663 Uh, you know, I think there's definitely probably still some gremlins 477 00:33:22,663 --> 00:33:25,801 in this thing but it's, uh, firing up. It's working. 478 00:33:25,801 --> 00:33:27,491 And as long as these belts keep spinning, 479 00:33:27,491 --> 00:33:28,767 that's all we can ask for right now. 480 00:33:46,732 --> 00:33:48,387 <i>We're back in the saddle.</i> 481 00:33:48,387 --> 00:33:49,422 <i>Team Turin all in.</i> 482 00:33:53,801 --> 00:33:55,215 <i>At Glacier Creek,</i> 483 00:33:55,215 --> 00:33:58,284 <i>Dave Turin is running nearly two hundred yards an hour</i> 484 00:33:58,284 --> 00:34:00,111 <i>through his wash plant, the Eagle.</i> 485 00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:03,905 This could be the best run of my life. 486 00:34:05,111 --> 00:34:06,870 Couldn't have done it with a better group of guys. 487 00:34:08,180 --> 00:34:10,043 <i>In the Three Amigos Cut,</i> 488 00:34:10,043 --> 00:34:12,111 <i>Jason stockpiles pay dirt.</i> 489 00:34:13,180 --> 00:34:15,594 I'm very, very happy to be back at it. 490 00:34:16,387 --> 00:34:17,905 Wingin' and singin'! 491 00:34:17,905 --> 00:34:21,043 Gonna be diggin' and washing here in a minute. 492 00:34:21,043 --> 00:34:25,008 <i>Ready for Nathan to haul it to the wash plant in the loader.</i> 493 00:34:26,146 --> 00:34:29,215 Better than nothing. 494 00:34:29,215 --> 00:34:32,043 Come on, baby. Don't fail me now. 495 00:34:40,732 --> 00:34:42,422 She don't, don't wanna turn over. 496 00:34:44,594 --> 00:34:47,318 Hey, Dave, I'll probably need you to come over here in a second, 497 00:34:47,318 --> 00:34:49,318 uh, ol' Betty don't wanna start up. 498 00:34:54,663 --> 00:34:56,008 What's up, Nate? 499 00:34:56,008 --> 00:34:58,422 - She is clicking, that's it. - Oh, no. 500 00:34:58,422 --> 00:35:00,456 - Yeah. - Have you checked the batteries? 501 00:35:00,456 --> 00:35:02,111 No, I haven't checked the batteries yet. 502 00:35:02,111 --> 00:35:04,180 - You want me try to turn it over then? - If you don't mind. 503 00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:05,146 Okay. 504 00:35:05,146 --> 00:35:06,939 - Go ahead. - All, right, clear! 505 00:35:06,939 --> 00:35:07,767 Yeah. 506 00:35:14,180 --> 00:35:15,215 I got just clicking. 507 00:35:16,387 --> 00:35:17,974 But it ain't, ain't driving at all. 508 00:35:21,732 --> 00:35:24,456 No good. No good at all. 509 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:26,870 It's either batteries, or it's the starter. 510 00:35:28,353 --> 00:35:31,525 So we got 26 volts, 25. 511 00:35:31,525 --> 00:35:34,353 - So the batteries are okay. - But that's exactly where it should be. 512 00:35:34,353 --> 00:35:37,146 Yeah. [indistinct] 513 00:35:37,146 --> 00:35:39,387 I mean, I don't mind putting money out for a starter. 514 00:35:39,387 --> 00:35:42,077 We're gonna have to put a starter in it anyway to move it, so... 515 00:35:42,077 --> 00:35:44,180 I don't wanna tell you... I mean, yeah, we could probably 516 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:45,974 get a starter by the time frame. 517 00:35:45,974 --> 00:35:48,180 See how long it's gonna take to get a starter. 518 00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:50,387 And without this machine hauling pay, 519 00:35:50,387 --> 00:35:53,180 we get nothing. We might as well just pack it up and go home. 520 00:35:57,836 --> 00:36:01,387 I'm, uh, looking for a starter for a 980G, uh, CAT. 521 00:36:01,387 --> 00:36:03,905 <i>All right, let me, uh, look that up in our inventory.</i> 522 00:36:03,905 --> 00:36:05,905 Okay. 523 00:36:05,905 --> 00:36:08,043 <i>I got one in Juneau.</i> - Oh, [bleep]. 524 00:36:08,043 --> 00:36:09,905 How long until we get that? 525 00:36:09,905 --> 00:36:12,836 <i>I could probably get you something in a week. Maybe two.</i> 526 00:36:13,422 --> 00:36:15,008 Okay, um... 527 00:36:15,008 --> 00:36:16,732 - Nothing sooner? - No, 528 00:36:16,732 --> 00:36:19,180 <i>I'm afraid. That's the only one around anyway.</i> 529 00:36:19,180 --> 00:36:22,939 Okay. That's fine. Alright, yeah, let's go ahead and get it rolling this way. 530 00:36:22,939 --> 00:36:25,905 Um, we gotta, we gotta get on there one way or another. 531 00:36:25,905 --> 00:36:27,387 All right. - All right, thanks, Chad. 532 00:36:33,146 --> 00:36:34,318 Hi, Dave. 533 00:36:34,318 --> 00:36:35,111 Got bad news. 534 00:36:35,594 --> 00:36:36,456 That starter, 535 00:36:37,422 --> 00:36:38,318 no bueno. 536 00:36:39,077 --> 00:36:40,249 What? 537 00:36:40,249 --> 00:36:42,870 They said it's over a week out. It's in Juneau. 538 00:36:42,870 --> 00:36:45,905 Well, week's way too long. I don't wanna sit around and do nothing for a week. 539 00:36:46,422 --> 00:36:49,698 Um... 540 00:36:49,698 --> 00:36:52,525 If we can't find a starter, I gotta find a loader or somethin'. 541 00:36:52,525 --> 00:36:54,008 Let me talk to Shelly. 542 00:36:54,008 --> 00:36:55,560 - We'll see if she can come up something. - Cool. 543 00:36:59,318 --> 00:37:03,836 And that goes to show you, it doesn't matter if it's three guys, eight guys, 544 00:37:03,836 --> 00:37:05,870 when a piece of equipment goes down... 545 00:37:07,732 --> 00:37:09,732 it shuts an entire operation down. 546 00:37:21,836 --> 00:37:22,939 <i>Shelly to Dave.</i> 547 00:37:24,663 --> 00:37:26,111 <i>Go ahead, Shelly.</i> 548 00:37:26,111 --> 00:37:27,905 <i>Hey, Dave, would you meet me by the bridge?</i> 549 00:37:27,905 --> 00:37:29,318 <i>I have something I wanna show you.</i> 550 00:37:31,043 --> 00:37:32,870 - <i>Okay, I'll be right there.</i> - Okay. 551 00:37:34,801 --> 00:37:36,974 I just wanna get going. I just wanna fire up and go. 552 00:37:36,974 --> 00:37:39,111 We got some of this maintenance crap taken care of. 553 00:37:39,111 --> 00:37:41,387 - Without a loader, Nate, we aint' doin' [bleep]. - Nope. 554 00:37:45,905 --> 00:37:49,456 - Well, well. - Where in the world did he come up with that? 555 00:37:50,249 --> 00:37:52,180 Check it out, boys. 556 00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:54,284 You never cease to amaze me, Dave. 557 00:37:54,284 --> 00:37:55,594 That's awesome. 558 00:37:55,594 --> 00:37:59,008 Shelly found it, you know. There's a guy in town, local guy, 559 00:37:59,008 --> 00:38:02,008 said we could, you know, rent it for a while. 560 00:38:02,008 --> 00:38:05,008 But we gotta get sluicing. That's gonna cost us some money. 561 00:38:05,008 --> 00:38:06,491 It's not free. 562 00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:09,663 So you run that, I'll bring the little excavator up here 563 00:38:09,663 --> 00:38:10,836 and we're off and going. 564 00:38:10,836 --> 00:38:12,215 - That'll work. - All right, let's do it, guys. 565 00:38:28,353 --> 00:38:30,905 So, here we go. We're back in business. 566 00:38:41,043 --> 00:38:42,491 I like it. Here we go. 567 00:38:46,043 --> 00:38:48,663 You know, who knows how this is gonna end. 568 00:38:48,663 --> 00:38:50,594 But as long as we can prove this ground, 569 00:38:50,594 --> 00:38:53,008 then Jason and Nathan, you never know. 570 00:38:53,008 --> 00:38:54,698 They might be the new owners. 571 00:39:05,732 --> 00:39:09,077 - Not bad for first run. - No, sir. 572 00:39:09,077 --> 00:39:11,215 Nice little chunk there. 573 00:39:11,215 --> 00:39:13,939 We got gold in the box. It's always a good thing to see. 574 00:39:14,732 --> 00:39:16,663 <i>At Glacier Creek,</i> 575 00:39:16,663 --> 00:39:18,318 <i>Team Turin pulls the mats...</i> 576 00:39:19,043 --> 00:39:19,905 Getting up. 577 00:39:19,905 --> 00:39:22,111 <i>...after nearly three days running.</i> 578 00:39:29,422 --> 00:39:33,905 The Three Amigos Cut, three days, three guys, and we got gold. 579 00:39:33,905 --> 00:39:35,836 Let's just hope it isn't three ounces. 580 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,594 I'm enjoying myself. This is the most fun I've had mining. 581 00:39:40,594 --> 00:39:42,939 All I gotta do is sit there and run that plant, 582 00:39:42,939 --> 00:39:45,180 you guys are digging pay, hauling it up. 583 00:39:45,180 --> 00:39:49,318 And I think we just found an employee. 584 00:39:49,318 --> 00:39:52,974 - No stress, no responsibility, just run that son [bleeping]. - On it. 585 00:39:55,767 --> 00:39:57,284 I love it. I love it. 586 00:40:06,077 --> 00:40:09,008 - You're ready to retire? All right. - I'm ready to retire. Yes. 587 00:40:09,008 --> 00:40:10,249 Hey, guys, come on in. 588 00:40:11,663 --> 00:40:12,905 Let's weigh it up. 589 00:40:12,905 --> 00:40:15,146 <i>Dave Turin gathers his crew</i> 590 00:40:15,146 --> 00:40:17,146 <i>for the first gold weigh of the season.</i> 591 00:40:18,077 --> 00:40:20,491 Well, Shelly, can you do the honors? 592 00:40:20,491 --> 00:40:23,180 - Okay. - The first gold weigh of the year 593 00:40:23,180 --> 00:40:25,491 and let's see how many ounces we get. 594 00:40:25,491 --> 00:40:28,560 We've set a goal of 30 ounces. 595 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,629 I was hopin' for 10 ounces today. I'll count. 596 00:40:32,215 --> 00:40:33,180 All right, here we go. 597 00:40:35,387 --> 00:40:36,387 There's a half. 598 00:40:37,146 --> 00:40:38,077 There's one. 599 00:40:39,043 --> 00:40:39,836 Two. 600 00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:42,043 There's three. 601 00:40:43,767 --> 00:40:44,525 There's four. 602 00:40:44,939 --> 00:40:45,732 Come on. 603 00:40:47,215 --> 00:40:48,249 We got five. 604 00:40:49,008 --> 00:40:49,801 Come on. 605 00:40:50,905 --> 00:40:53,146 Five point five eight. 606 00:40:53,146 --> 00:40:55,698 <i>Worth nearly $10,000.</i> 607 00:40:59,422 --> 00:41:02,249 We ran about 1,400 yards. That's not the best, 608 00:41:02,249 --> 00:41:05,008 but we know top gravels aren't the best. 609 00:41:05,008 --> 00:41:06,284 - You're right. - We know that. 610 00:41:06,284 --> 00:41:09,180 But we didn't have time to do a lot of strippin' either. 611 00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:10,732 - Right. - So we're just, like, 612 00:41:10,732 --> 00:41:12,422 - we gotta move it and run it. - Run it. 613 00:41:12,422 --> 00:41:14,663 Hey, the good news is... 614 00:41:14,663 --> 00:41:16,318 - we're down to deeper gravels. - Yup. 615 00:41:16,318 --> 00:41:18,111 I mean at the end there, 616 00:41:18,111 --> 00:41:19,905 you were startin' to hit those big rocks. 617 00:41:19,905 --> 00:41:21,629 - That's where the gold's livin'. - Yeah. 618 00:41:21,629 --> 00:41:23,422 So the next one will be better. 619 00:41:23,422 --> 00:41:26,767 Oh, I'm sorry, you guys, that's $10,000 top gravels. 620 00:41:26,767 --> 00:41:28,456 - For two and a half days. - Yeah. 621 00:41:28,456 --> 00:41:29,767 - I'll take it. - Yup. 622 00:41:29,767 --> 00:41:31,008 - Yeah. - Yeah, it works. 623 00:41:31,318 --> 00:41:33,146 It works. 624 00:41:33,146 --> 00:41:37,008 We're just getting down to actually see where the good pay is. 625 00:41:37,008 --> 00:41:38,422 - Let's do it. - Good job, guys. 626 00:41:38,422 --> 00:41:39,594 Let's get some more gold. 627 00:41:39,594 --> 00:41:41,767 <i>You know, Nate's crazy idea to,</i> 628 00:41:41,767 --> 00:41:44,974 "Let's fire her up and run, three guys and a gal..." 629 00:41:46,215 --> 00:41:47,284 it paid off. 630 00:41:47,284 --> 00:41:49,939 It's gonna give us some results to really base our 631 00:41:49,939 --> 00:41:52,215 buying or not buying decision now. 632 00:41:52,215 --> 00:41:53,491 All right, let's do it. All in? 633 00:41:54,353 --> 00:41:56,422 Three amigos, all in. One, two, three. 634 00:41:56,422 --> 00:41:57,249 All in! 635 00:41:59,456 --> 00:42:01,146 <i>And we're having fun with it.</i> 636 00:42:01,146 --> 00:42:02,594 I just love these guys. 637 00:42:02,594 --> 00:42:05,387 I love the opportunity to mine with 'em one last time. 638 00:42:06,629 --> 00:42:08,525 Thirty ounces is the goal 639 00:42:08,525 --> 00:42:10,974 and we're gonna do it in the Three Amigos Cut. 640 00:42:27,836 --> 00:42:28,939 <i>What a week, eh?</i> 641 00:42:28,939 --> 00:42:30,491 - Oh. - All the time. 642 00:42:31,732 --> 00:42:33,525 If it's not one thing, it's the other. 643 00:42:36,767 --> 00:42:38,525 What are you guys guessin'? 644 00:42:38,525 --> 00:42:41,422 I've been disappointed so many times, I'm just gonna go for, 645 00:42:42,146 --> 00:42:43,353 twelve, 11 ounces. 646 00:42:43,974 --> 00:42:44,870 What's up, guys? 647 00:42:46,284 --> 00:42:48,732 Um, I guess it was a tough week. 648 00:42:48,732 --> 00:42:50,767 I mean, we had the trip to Alaska, which was, like, 649 00:42:50,767 --> 00:42:52,249 basically two days we weren't doing anything 650 00:42:52,249 --> 00:42:54,008 'cause we couldn't have our belts. 651 00:42:54,008 --> 00:42:57,180 And, uh, then we had to fix the plant, so it's been hindering us a little bit. 652 00:42:57,180 --> 00:42:59,594 But i feel like the wash plant right now is ready. 653 00:42:59,594 --> 00:43:01,284 We just have to keep that yardage going. 654 00:43:01,284 --> 00:43:02,870 Uh, half-week running? Right? 655 00:43:02,870 --> 00:43:05,215 - Yeah. Pretty much. - Yeah, there's also... We lost some days. 656 00:43:05,215 --> 00:43:06,767 And what do we need to pay the bills? 657 00:43:06,767 --> 00:43:09,008 - We need 11 ounces. - 11 ounces to pay the bills, okay. 658 00:43:09,008 --> 00:43:10,146 11 ounces to pay the bills. 659 00:43:10,146 --> 00:43:11,939 I don't know. I'm not gonna give you guys any clues. 660 00:43:11,939 --> 00:43:13,663 I am gonna tell you the gold is getting chunkier. 661 00:43:13,663 --> 00:43:15,836 And it's starting to get me a little excited. 662 00:43:15,836 --> 00:43:17,249 Who wants to count it? 663 00:43:17,249 --> 00:43:18,974 - I think I am today. - You're doing it? 664 00:43:18,974 --> 00:43:20,077 - Yeah, yeah. - All right, JB. 665 00:43:20,077 --> 00:43:21,836 - I get the honors. - All right. You ready? 666 00:43:21,836 --> 00:43:23,215 Yeah, I'm ready. 667 00:43:23,215 --> 00:43:25,318 All right, JB. Here we go, here we go. 668 00:43:25,318 --> 00:43:27,215 There's one, two 669 00:43:27,215 --> 00:43:29,836 three, four, five, six, 670 00:43:29,836 --> 00:43:32,353 seven, eight, nine, ten, 671 00:43:32,353 --> 00:43:35,905 eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 672 00:43:35,905 --> 00:43:38,767 fifteen, sixteen, seventeen... 673 00:43:38,767 --> 00:43:40,249 ...eighteen, come on, twenty! 674 00:43:40,249 --> 00:43:42,456 No way! Twenty-freaking-one! 675 00:43:42,456 --> 00:43:44,387 Holy [bleep]. 676 00:43:44,387 --> 00:43:46,043 Are you kidding me! 677 00:43:47,146 --> 00:43:48,939 - Finally. - Holy [bleep]! 678 00:43:49,836 --> 00:43:53,284 <i>Worth over $35,000.</i> 679 00:43:53,284 --> 00:43:57,663 <i>This week's weigh in is the most they've ever mined as a solo crew</i> 680 00:43:57,663 --> 00:44:01,387 <i>and proof the Freedom Cut can pay out.</i> 681 00:44:01,387 --> 00:44:04,939 You know, this right here represents the best clean up we've ever had 682 00:44:04,939 --> 00:44:06,767 as a, as a mine team. 683 00:44:06,767 --> 00:44:09,318 So what that tells me is we're on the path. 684 00:44:09,318 --> 00:44:11,560 Can't even imagine. Think about how much gold we would be getting 685 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,594 if we hit that seam and we keep following it 686 00:44:13,594 --> 00:44:15,318 and we can get our yardage. 687 00:44:15,318 --> 00:44:17,732 I, uh, you know I... It was looking like it was gonna be 688 00:44:17,732 --> 00:44:21,180 another bad clean up but, I mean, our hard work, dedication, 689 00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:23,974 it is finally coming to fruition and you can see it. 690 00:44:23,974 --> 00:44:25,353 To me, the gold is in the ground. 691 00:44:25,353 --> 00:44:27,594 We're gonna, we're gonna work as hard as we possibly can. 692 00:44:27,594 --> 00:44:30,249 The rest of the season we're gonna [bleep] push knowing that it's there. 693 00:44:30,905 --> 00:44:32,284 Put the hours in. 694 00:44:32,284 --> 00:44:33,905 - Put that through the plant... - Easily. 695 00:44:33,905 --> 00:44:36,387 - ...and we're gonna go home with actual bonus this year. - It's crazy. 696 00:44:36,387 --> 00:44:38,939 I put a lot of equity into this season. 697 00:44:38,939 --> 00:44:41,077 From my house, from my [bleep] everything. 698 00:44:41,077 --> 00:44:43,939 Before this gold weigh, I was freaking the [bleep] out. 699 00:44:43,939 --> 00:44:46,663 - Yeah. Yeah. - This gives me confidence that we can do that. 700 00:44:46,663 --> 00:44:47,974 We need to hit that 500 ounces. 701 00:44:47,974 --> 00:44:49,801 But I think we can do that now. 702 00:44:49,801 --> 00:44:51,698 I know we can do that, if we get workin'. 703 00:44:51,698 --> 00:44:52,698 Yup. 704 00:44:52,698 --> 00:44:54,215 - So... - So, why are we sitting around? 705 00:44:54,215 --> 00:44:55,974 - Yeah. - It's a good [bleep] question, Buzz. 706 00:44:55,974 --> 00:44:57,284 That's a good question. 707 00:44:57,284 --> 00:44:58,525 - Get back to work. - You guys get back to work. 708 00:45:00,146 --> 00:45:02,629 Love you guys, but, uh, don't wanna see you the rest of the day. 709 00:45:02,629 --> 00:45:04,111 - Yup. - Yes. 710 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:18,939 - Hey, Mitchell. - What's happenin', man? 711 00:45:18,939 --> 00:45:19,974 How you doing, buddy? 712 00:45:19,974 --> 00:45:21,387 Hope you don't mind me not standing up. 713 00:45:21,387 --> 00:45:23,008 But it's nice and warm right here. 714 00:45:23,663 --> 00:45:25,180 <i>At Indian River,</i> 715 00:45:25,180 --> 00:45:30,008 <i>wash plant Big Red barely ran half a day before running out of pay.</i> 716 00:45:30,008 --> 00:45:33,043 <i>So it's down to Sluicifer to keep the Schnabel Crew</i> 717 00:45:33,043 --> 00:45:36,008 <i>in the game and on the gold.</i> 718 00:45:36,008 --> 00:45:37,284 - How's it going, guys? - Hey, chief. 719 00:45:37,284 --> 00:45:39,732 - Oh, she's going, man! - Oh, it's been a week, man. 720 00:45:42,353 --> 00:45:44,560 You know how the coolest thing having turned Sluicifer down, 721 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,353 but definitely we weren't gonna get through that mud with, uh, 480, no way. 722 00:45:48,353 --> 00:45:51,663 - Yeah, no... - I'm glad you guys didn't get in a punchin'... 723 00:45:51,663 --> 00:45:54,870 pushing, fighting, arguing mode over who gets what, it-- 724 00:45:54,870 --> 00:45:57,180 - It just got repossessed. - Yeah. 725 00:45:57,180 --> 00:45:59,698 Temporarily. Well I'm glad it helped you out. 726 00:46:03,836 --> 00:46:05,422 - Hey there, youngster. - Hi. 727 00:46:05,422 --> 00:46:06,939 - How you doin'? - Good. 728 00:46:06,939 --> 00:46:11,249 - How are you guys? - Uh, 700 blew the rod, but we got her back together. 729 00:46:11,249 --> 00:46:14,663 Well, you know when the 750 left, I had to turn the plant down a little bit 730 00:46:14,663 --> 00:46:17,146 just to, kinda, keep up 'cause the 480 isn't able to dig. 731 00:46:17,146 --> 00:46:18,663 Oh, to get enough pay up. 732 00:46:18,663 --> 00:46:22,146 Yeah, it was a struggle. Hopefully we don't notice it too much right now. 733 00:46:22,146 --> 00:46:23,801 We definitely lost some 734 00:46:23,801 --> 00:46:25,905 some, uh, yardage for sure this week. 735 00:46:25,905 --> 00:46:29,077 - Yeah. - You are holding it like it has some weight to it. 736 00:46:29,077 --> 00:46:30,801 - Well, I'm old. - He's tryna trick 'ya! 737 00:46:30,801 --> 00:46:33,560 - I'm old and weak. - Five ounces. 738 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,594 <i>Last week, running two wash plants,</i> 739 00:46:36,594 --> 00:46:41,387 <i>delivered a combined total of 457 ounces.</i> 740 00:46:41,387 --> 00:46:43,077 - You ready, T? - Okay, I see zero. 741 00:46:43,077 --> 00:46:45,456 - That's a good place to start. - Yeah. 742 00:46:45,456 --> 00:46:46,905 Hopefully that's not where it finishes. 743 00:46:47,422 --> 00:46:48,215 Twenty. 744 00:46:48,594 --> 00:46:49,387 Forty. 745 00:46:50,215 --> 00:46:51,318 Sixty. 746 00:46:51,318 --> 00:46:52,870 - We get a lot of tip on that thing. - Eighty. 747 00:46:53,318 --> 00:46:54,629 A hundred. 748 00:46:54,629 --> 00:46:58,974 One twenty, 140, 150, 170, 749 00:46:59,456 --> 00:47:00,767 oh, 200, 750 00:47:01,249 --> 00:47:02,767 209.5. 751 00:47:03,594 --> 00:47:07,284 <i>Worth over $350,000.</i> 752 00:47:07,284 --> 00:47:09,284 - It's not bad. - That's not bad. 753 00:47:09,284 --> 00:47:11,663 If we run comparisons... 754 00:47:11,663 --> 00:47:16,008 last season at this time we had 4,251 ounces. 755 00:47:16,008 --> 00:47:21,491 - This season, we have 4,984 ounces. - That ain't bad. 756 00:47:21,491 --> 00:47:24,284 We're just a hair shy of 5,000. 757 00:47:25,939 --> 00:47:28,905 We'll work all week. Try and, uh, get rid of that overburden. 758 00:47:28,905 --> 00:47:30,560 Maybe we'll have two plants running but 759 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,594 we got a lot of work ahead of us so, 760 00:47:32,594 --> 00:47:35,318 uh, no guarantees there, but we'll do everything we can. 761 00:47:35,318 --> 00:47:37,180 Yeah, I'll try to give you guys some buffer 762 00:47:37,180 --> 00:47:40,077 - but this whole season is working with none, right? - Yeah, for sure. 763 00:47:40,077 --> 00:47:43,387 Like, everyday we don't have two plants running is another, 764 00:47:43,387 --> 00:47:45,456 you know, day that we're staying. 765 00:47:45,456 --> 00:47:47,767 That's what Mitch and I talked about the first day we get here. 766 00:47:47,767 --> 00:47:49,077 Yeah. 767 00:47:49,077 --> 00:47:51,491 - Go, go, go. - Whereas I'm, like, no, no, no. 768 00:47:51,491 --> 00:47:53,077 Don't, don't worry about it. 769 00:47:53,077 --> 00:47:54,008 Cool. 770 00:47:54,008 --> 00:47:54,939 Cheers, folks. 771 00:47:56,215 --> 00:47:57,422 Cheers, guys. 772 00:47:57,422 --> 00:47:58,836 Five thousand next week? 773 00:47:58,836 --> 00:47:59,870 See you guys at dinner. 773 00:48:00,305 --> 00:49:00,596 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm