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00:02All right, so 50 k's out of Jabiru last night. Mate, the 300 has dropped a load of oil. I
00:09think
00:09it's gone bang. The engine, I think it's done. I pulled over the side of the road. We had to
00:13tow it into Jabiru. We spent the night in Jabiru. It's on a till tray, and we've sent it here.
00:21So
00:21we put it on a till tray. It is now just rocked up, and we're going to go and have
00:24a chat to
00:25the mechanic and see what the hell has gone on. This is the first time I've ever put an
00:30All 4 Adventure vehicle on a tilt tray because we couldn't fix it. That's true, isn't it, mate?
00:38Absolutely, it's true. It's the first time ever. First ever. Hey, mate, how you going? Good, yourself?
00:43Yeah, good. Jase. Max. Max, please meet you, mate. Nice to meet you. Okay, mate, how you going? Okay,
00:49what's your first thoughts? I see you just wheeled it in there. You pushed it in. Obviously,
00:53the guy on the tilt tray didn't fix it already. Yeah, no, he's dropped it off, and it doesn't
00:58sound healthy when I tried to crank it. I tried to crank it once just to see if it was
01:02turning
01:03over. It turns over. No oil in the dipstick, so that's a clear sign. Pop my head under there.
01:08There's no signs of any major catastrophic leaks or anything like that. Small oil residue,
01:12but nothing jumping out. Okay, so just to fill you in, it dumped oil, and then obviously we towed
01:21from that point. Okay. So there would have been probably about a litre, litre and a half of oil
01:26on the ground. Okay, that explains. Yeah, we towed it into Jabiru. Yep. Then this morning,
01:32we took bash plates off to have a look. Wiped a lot of oil off. Yep. Yep. And then we
01:36dropped the
01:37sun plug just to see if any bits came out, so we dropped probably another litre of oil then. Okay,
01:41cool. Yep. And then put the oil back in, and it was clean. There was nothing on the sun plug.
01:46Yep. All right.
01:46And the oil was coming between the gearbox and the engine. Yep.
01:54No answers yet. Anyway, we sort of need to know how long we've been standing around waiting for it.
01:59That's the least of my problems. All right. We'll give you an update as soon as we know more.
02:18We'll give you an update as soon as we get started.
02:19Go, Maxie. Go!
02:3224 hours later, we are back at the workshop.
02:36Hi, mate. How are you going? Good.
02:38Good, gentlemen. How are we? Good, mate.
02:40Oh, I'm looking at some broken bits. Yeah.
02:43That doesn't look too good at all.
02:45So that's the aftermath, but also looks like the blocks are stuffed as well.
02:53So…
02:54Is that the block?
02:55Yeah, bits and pieces of it, yeah.
02:58And the counterweight, and that's the reluctant wheel.
03:01And obviously the flex plate.
03:03And we're not showing the gearbox yet because we've got bits and gearbox in there as well.
03:07So we're… she's done a bit of damage.
03:10What do you mean bits and gearbox?
03:11It looks like some of it might have come out of the pump on the gearbox as well.
03:15She's done since four metres of that.
03:18All right, all right.
03:19So that fell down.
03:20Yep.
03:21And it's basically caught that.
03:23Yep, and the bolt's gone in there with it.
03:26So…
03:26Wow.
03:27So I do have the bolt.
03:28Oh, it's in the box in the back of the car.
03:30Because that's the bolt in the back.
03:32Um, but yeah.
03:33No, only joking, gentlemen.
03:34It's only this stuff here.
03:36What?
03:36Motor's fine.
03:37What?
03:38We're just doing…
03:39No, that is just the aftermath.
03:41What?
03:41Gearbox's good.
03:42Motor's good.
03:43That's just that part there.
03:45That was your cannon man's like.
03:48Oh, gee, thanks, mate.
03:50Hang on, which bit's that?
03:52No, so it's just the counterweight.
03:53This is what we'll get onto now and see if we can chase these parts up.
03:57So that's still a bit of…
03:58Seriously, that's not funny.
04:00It's a bit of aftermath.
04:01Not funny, cameraman.
04:03To fall in and go, I'm going to destroy whatever's in here.
04:08Yep.
04:09Oh, you're kidding me.
04:10It's insane.
04:11So that there, that little thing there with the bolt through it,
04:16which is in the…
04:17You've got the bolt?
04:17Yes, in the car.
04:18In the car, which already fell out earlier.
04:21So that has a bolt.
04:23This holds the manifold on.
04:25Yep.
04:25This is the manifold off the back of the turbo.
04:29That's insane.
04:30And it dropped through a hole above it, basically above it.
04:35So it comes from up in here.
04:36Yep.
04:37So it falls down and there's this perfect hole where it goes into here
04:44and falls out.
04:45It comes back out.
04:46Yep.
04:47Yep.
04:47Bolt come braddle's undone because there's a couple of corrugated roads.
04:50It fits exactly through the hole and just causes chaos and mayhem.
04:5714 days later, the parts arrive.
05:02All right.
05:02We've just had an update.
05:04As you can see, it's off the hoist, which means you beauty.
05:08They basically, it's running.
05:10It's good to go, apparently.
05:12It's running.
05:13They're just doing some data logging now.
05:15Gearbox is all back in.
05:16All the drive shafts are on.
05:17I've seen them come back from a test drive.
05:19Mate, we're out of here.
05:21Go south.
05:22A few more minutes.
05:22We're out of here.
05:23But I'll tell you what we're going to have to do.
05:25Mate, I'm going to have to pay the bill in a minute.
05:29I thought Mitch was going to pay the bill.
05:31No, I tried that.
05:33It didn't work.
05:33I'm going to pay the bill, but we're going to have to go and get some coin.
05:37I'm going to need some gold.
05:39Real money.
05:40Up to the goldfields to pay for your truck.
05:42We're going to have to go south to the goldfields.
05:44So we're going to pack our gear up.
05:46I've got a couple of metal detectors in there, all right, that I've been saving for just this occasion.
05:51When I'm going to have to pay some bills, so you boys are going to be doing a lot of
05:55digging,
05:56and I'm going to do a lot of beeping.
05:58Because we're going south to the goldfields to get some money to pay for the 300.
06:02Let's get out of here.
06:03Hell out of there.
06:04Well, you boys get your car and get mine.
06:12Boys on channel.
06:16I got the big fat bill from fixing this 300.
06:20I bet you would have.
06:22I'm glad it's in your name, mate, not mine.
06:24I'm going to need a hand from you boys today.
06:28Pay the bill?
06:30No, no.
06:31We've got to find some gold so we can pay the bill.
06:35The gold prices are up, mate.
06:36We don't have to find much, unless it costs you an absolute arm and a leg.
06:41Here's the old mate ahead of us.
06:44Apparently, this guy's going to put us on the gold.
06:46We'll see what happens.
06:50Hey, how you going, mate?
06:52How are you?
06:52Nice to meet you.
06:53Nice to meet you.
06:54How are you, mate?
06:55How are you, Mitch?
06:55G'day, Mitch.
06:56How are you?
06:57Mark, isn't it?
06:57Matt.
06:58I was close.
06:59Close.
07:00Very close.
07:01Had an M in it.
07:02So we were just discussing on the radio just before we saw you.
07:08Apparently, we've got to find gold because we've got a bill we've got to pay in town.
07:12And apparently, we're going to lose arms and legs if we don't pay the bill.
07:15So we need actual nuggets.
07:17Well, that's the plan.
07:18Yeah, I don't know about that.
07:20It's a little way up.
07:21It's obviously not right here at the mine.
07:22Yeah, no, it's not right here.
07:23We've got to go about 25k up to one mine.
07:27And then we've got to go about another 25k on bush track up to another spot.
07:32We've got to find at least five ounces.
07:36Five ounces?
07:37Isn't it built that much?
07:38Did you buy a whole new truck?
07:39Just about.
07:41All right, let's go.
07:42We'll follow you.
07:42Yeah, awesome.
07:44It's going to be a pretty good day today too.
07:46I see some nice blue skies.
07:48You know what that means, don't you?
07:50That's not going to rain?
07:53No, it's easier to see the gold.
07:56It shines.
07:57It shines in the light, you know what I mean?
08:01Like the sunlight.
08:02I like the sounds of that.
08:03It sounds like those deer getting.
08:05Yeah, sunbakers.
08:07I hope we get on to some sunbakers, absolutely.
08:10But there's a fair chance we're going to be digging, mate.
08:13Oh, here we go.
08:14We're going off-road.
08:15Good for you guys.
08:16Some of us have got big-ass trailers on the back.
08:18So we've got to be careful with a guy with a shotgun?
08:20Ah, she should be good.
08:21We've got full permission to be out here, mate.
08:23It's all good.
08:27This country stuff looks a little bit like there might be some gold in it.
08:31Yeah, definitely.
08:32You're spot on the mark there.
08:35Notice it changed a little bit.
08:38There's definitely gold at this location, just here.
08:43Yeah, you're talking.
08:47Going down.
08:49Country's getting ridgy.
08:53Rocky, ridgy-looking country.
08:56What?
08:57Wet patch and everything going on.
09:02You'll have to get Simon around that corner, mate.
09:04But straight ahead, we're going bush bashing already.
09:07And there's a tree across the path.
09:16Tree down, clear path.
09:21That way.
09:22Oh, it wouldn't cut there.
09:24So we figure there may be more track clearing coming up ahead.
09:31I'm hoping the fact that the logs cross the track there means no one's been in here,
09:36which means it might be gold payday.
09:40Well done, mate.
09:41Past the tree, the fallen tree.
09:45We'll just keep going through here, Matt.
09:49Yeah, Roger, keep going through there.
09:52Yep, and then it should head up north a little bit there.
09:59It's like we're getting into the ridgy, stony country now.
10:03We want the bony hard stuff where the gold is.
10:09Gold are in all the little cracks, mate.
10:13I've got to say, the ground being here looks bloody hard to dig.
10:17I hope you've got a crowbar as well as a shovel.
10:20Got a hole, mate?
10:23Yes, big hole.
10:25The vehicle might get across, but not about the trailer.
10:29This trailer's hardcore. It goes anywhere I go.
10:36It's more just we've got to turn because of the tree.
10:39It's probably going to fall in it.
10:42I'll see if the dual wheels hold it up.
10:44My back wheel just sort of dropped in it then.
10:48Oh, you just missed it.
10:51Simon, I don't feel like fixing things.
10:54Please don't break it.
10:57How are you looking?
10:58Do you want me to come and have a look, spot you?
11:00Yeah, it's probably better because when I turn now,
11:03I'm not going to be able to see the wheel or the trailer.
11:06Mate, you're just going to have to eat it.
11:08Just steady, just drop it in slowly.
11:10Yeah.
11:12Slowly, slowly, slow, slow, you're good, you're steady.
11:16The second wheel's holding it up, isn't it?
11:18Yeah, at the moment, yes.
11:19And the first wheel, yeah, no, good, good.
11:23Idiot, mate.
11:24You got it.
11:24You got it.
11:28How much further we got down this track, mate?
11:31Yeah, keep going.
11:32It should turn into a big valley.
11:36Big valley, okay.
11:39It should be about 100 metres away.
11:41Oh, yeah, I see you ahead of me now.
11:44This is our home, eh?
11:45Yep, we made it.
11:46Looks like it.
11:48Is this where the gold is?
11:49This is where the gold is, yep.
11:51Up in that hill there?
11:52Up in the hills.
11:54Indar Hills.
11:55Indar Hills.
11:56Old Indar Hills.
11:58So this area was originally found by Chinese prospectors back in the late 1800s.
12:05Is it worth getting the side-by-side off?
12:07Absolutely, yep.
12:08Okay, three seats.
12:10Three seats, you, me.
12:13Panning.
12:15Yeah, it looks like I'll be walking right now.
12:17You're done, mate.
12:18I'll be walking.
12:19Let's get her off.
12:21Steady, steady.
12:26Bit of fancy gear going on here, mate.
12:28What's the go with all this fancy stuff?
12:30Yeah, so prospecting in the territory, obviously we're going to need our trusty pick.
12:35Trusty pick?
12:36Yep, trusty pick.
12:37Looks like it's done a few miles.
12:39Scoop.
12:40Made of plastic.
12:41Plastic scoop, yep.
12:42We don't want to use a metal scoop.
12:43So we can wave it over the wand?
12:45So we can wave it over the coil.
12:48And, of course, the MyLab GPX 6000.
12:52What have you boys brought along?
12:55We brought a bit of gear.
12:56I've got a plastic shovel.
12:57I've got a metal thingy and this thingy.
13:00Oh, I don't know if that's going to cut it.
13:04All right, we'd better go and get our gear sorted, mate.
13:06Let's go.
13:07It looks like Aussie gold hunters may be safe for the moment.
13:11All right, let's go.
13:12Let's get the gold.
13:13There's got to be gold around here somewhere.
13:15Down near the water, right?
13:17Oh, then let's go to the water.
13:18Is that what they say?
13:25Where are you, gold?
13:26Into the water.
13:27Oh, there's a hole there.
13:29I don't know where they're going, but the gold's this way.
13:35Hey, where are you going, boys?
13:38This way.
13:40We're going looking for the gold.
13:42Where are you?
13:42He's over there.
13:45Oh, he's up on top of that.
13:47Yeah.
13:48Are you up on top of that ridge line over there?
13:50See him up there?
13:52Yeah, I'm on the way up there, mate.
13:55Going the wrong way, buddy.
13:56We should follow him.
13:57We're going that way.
13:59Sorry, mate.
14:00We realised we should have been following you.
14:02We'd better follow him.
14:04All right, let's go to the top of the ridge.
14:08There he is.
14:10He's digging for gold already.
14:14Don't tell me he's already found something.
14:16What do you got, gold?
14:18Rusty nail.
14:21Damn it.
14:22I thought he had gold.
14:27Well, something's come up.
14:28It doesn't sound like a bit more metallic than anything.
14:34I'm just going to take the top layer off and see how we go.
14:38All right, so whatever was in the hole is now out.
14:44All right, we're getting somewhere.
14:45Look at this.
14:47All right, the trick now.
14:50I'm going to get that out.
14:55I don't know what that is.
15:01Feels like gold.
15:03I think it might be gold.
15:04It's weird.
15:05It's a weird shape.
15:07Give me a second here.
15:10What have you got over there, mate?
15:12Yeah, it's out already.
15:15Yeah, that's something in that.
15:25There it is there.
15:27There you go.
15:28That's a little bullet.
15:28Yeah, 22.
15:30Bullets.
15:31How crazy is that?
15:33I just found a tiny little 22, middle of nowhere.
15:37It's pretty unreal, eh?
15:38Yeah, it's all with that.
15:40Yeah.
15:40That's incredible.
15:42Have you found anything?
15:44No.
15:44No.
15:45I'll show you.
15:47I don't know what it is.
15:51Oh, a bit of lead.
15:53Yeah, it's all white, but.
15:55Yeah, they seem to do that.
15:56I don't know why.
15:57Yeah, but definitely be lead, I reckon.
15:59Yeah, it looks leadish.
16:00Yeah.
16:02Yeah, I think they just weather out in the sun.
16:05Yeah.
16:06Yeah, it's probably a bit of lead out of a 22 bullet that we dug up before.
16:10Yeah, wow.
16:11It looks a bit bigger than that.
16:15There you go.
16:17The lead.
16:18Same weight.
16:19Yeah.
16:19Same consistency, 99.9%.
16:23Yep.
16:24If it was gold, you'd be very happy.
16:25Yeah, it's literally one periodic table off.
16:30Yeah, right, yeah.
16:31It's one element in the periodic table off lead.
16:36Yeah, right.
16:37Off gold.
16:39So yeah, that's why.
16:40So I'm close.
16:41Yeah.
16:42I'm close.
16:43That's the closest you're going to get to gold is lead.
16:46Close, but no cigar.
16:47That's it.
16:48There you go.
16:49There's something there.
16:50All right, so what I'll do is I'll scrape the layer off.
16:52Yep.
16:52Then you go back over.
16:53I'll make sure I move this out of the way.
16:55So we scrape this off.
16:57So it's in there now.
17:00All right, so we get some out.
17:02Gone.
17:03And it's in there.
17:03So it's not in there.
17:04So it's in my hand.
17:06There it is.
17:07That's a little button here.
17:09It's a copper button.
17:10Stop it.
17:13Page best ring.
17:17And that's an old-style button.
17:19So old-school button.
17:21How's that?
17:21Fix it up, eh?
17:22Yeah, yeah.
17:23That worked really well.
17:24Yeah, what's going on over there?
17:26We got a solid mark here.
17:27Sounds all right.
17:28Don't tell Mitch you want.
17:29You want a third.
17:30Now it's gone from 50-50 to now 30%.
17:36That's a solid hookup.
17:37All right, now what I'll do is I'll pinpoint.
17:39So give me this for a sec so I can tell you where the spot was.
17:43I'm still there.
17:44So it's there, right in the middle, where we were.
17:48You never know your luck in the big city.
17:50Oh, I imagine if that was it.
17:52Imagine if that was a gold nugget.
17:55Wouldn't that be good?
18:01Still there.
18:02Still in the hole, mate.
18:03It's always a good indication if you've dug down a little bit.
18:09Simon thought he saw some gold there.
18:11He went all quiet.
18:13He went all quiet.
18:15Yeah.
18:16It was my one.
18:17He's going to be trying these ones.
18:19Where'd Simon go?
18:21It's out of the hole.
18:25Oh, whoop.
18:28All right.
18:28There you go.
18:29Move all that out of the way.
18:31Huh?
18:32Full on, eh?
18:34It's in my hand.
18:37There it is.
18:39Bullet.
18:40Wow.
18:40Stop it.
18:41Stop it.
18:43There you go.
18:44Lead bullet.
18:46There you go.
18:48That's a big slug too.
18:49What is that slug off of?
18:51That looks like something out of the handgun.
18:53We're just on our way back to camp and I got the boys to drop me off about
18:58200 metres from camp because I wasn't going to give up.
19:02There's something in there.
19:04And I found a target here, a target there, and now I found another target there.
19:11You hear you hooping and hollering from back to camp, mate.
19:14What have you got?
19:15Three targets.
19:16Three targets.
19:18There's someone else up the gully here too.
19:20Is there?
19:20A little car up there or something.
19:22Where?
19:22Up the scully.
19:23What is it?
19:24Yeah, it's there now.
19:25Are they poaching our gold?
19:27What do you got?
19:30Is that a bit of gold?
19:33It's a bit of gold!
19:34No, no.
19:35Oh, come on.
19:36What is it?
19:37It's lead.
19:40So excited.
19:42We're not done yet.
19:43Holding these here hills again, eh?
19:44Well, it's a bit different to the old lead.
19:46Is it?
19:46Make a different noise.
19:47Very different.
19:50Very different.
19:51Yeah.
19:53Come on, mate.
19:53You've got to pay that car off.
19:56It's still in there.
19:57Is it?
19:58Yep.
20:01I reckon it's out.
20:05You reckon it's out?
20:06Yeah, yep, yep.
20:14There it is.
20:15I can see it.
20:17I can see it.
20:18There it is.
20:19It's a chunk of gold, mate.
20:20Look at that.
20:22There it is.
20:22It is too.
20:23We've got gold.
20:26There is gold in these hills.
20:28We're starting to wonder.
20:29That's gold.
20:31I just keep saying that's gold.
20:33Yeah.
20:34So your expert opinion, how much does that worth?
20:37Oh, that's probably 0.8 of a gram.
20:42I'd say probably 140 bucks.
20:46Mate, we've got some prospecting to do, eh?
20:49I thought he was going to say a thousand bucks, eh?
20:53Yeah.
20:54No, we better keep going.
20:55That doesn't even pay for the guy's lunch at the workshop.
21:00There she is.
21:00Look at that.
21:01Our first bit of gold in the NT.
21:04Bloody awesome.
21:06Well done, boys.
21:08You just didn't do anything.
21:09You didn't do much.
21:10Well done, Jase.
21:11Now it's time to set up camp and count our takings around the fire,
21:18which won't take that long.
21:21Sounds good, man.
21:26Boys on channel?
21:28Good to see you, mate.
21:29All right, so I don't know whether you noticed this morning, but Matt has done the runner.
21:36He left this morning early because he had to get back to town.
21:39Yeah, he did say last night, if we don't get out of bed early, we won't see him,
21:42and we didn't do it.
21:43Anyway, he's gone, but before he left, he did give us a couple of GPS coordinates
21:53of an old mine shaft that we should probably go and check out from yesteryear.
21:59I do remember him saying that, but he also said that the track hasn't been graded,
22:04and no one's been there for a while, so I don't know about this.
22:08So far, so good.
22:10Here we go.
22:11Okay, we've got to try and follow something that resembles a track.
22:15Can you even see a track?
22:19Yeah, no, no, I'm driving on a track.
22:22What's up?
22:23Metal.
22:24So apparently this track runs along, looks like it's going to go through a gully,
22:28up over a mountain ridge, and down the other side.
22:33And yeah, we've just ran into our first obstacle.
22:37Oh yeah, we've got a tree, I would imagine.
22:40Yeah, there's a tree on the track.
22:51Watch out to what I've got to be looking for.
22:53Just be real careful.
22:56Old D-Max country in here, mate, nice and tight.
22:59Maximus is loving it so far.
23:02And yours go, Mitch, loving it.
23:03Yeah, mate, it's over to get at it.
23:06Yeah, you boys are like a lot smaller than me.
23:11Hmm, interesting.
23:17You all right up there, buddy?
23:20Oh, the washout to my right and the tree leaning over,
23:23we might have to go to the left.
23:24I need to check what's there so I don't stake a tyre.
23:30It's difficult, it's never easy.
23:35All right.
24:00I don't think I'm going to fit through this gap.
24:03You want to have a look on the left-hand side?
24:05There's a log to the side of me.
24:07I'm not going to get past on this side.
24:08Left-hand side, there's a drop away in a massive big hole.
24:12I don't want to be falling in.
24:18I want to fall in that.
24:23Even undercut.
24:26It's just a really deep hole on the right there.
24:28You don't want to be falling in the deep hole.
24:34This looks interesting.
24:43What I'm going to do is just commit.
24:49A little bit angly there.
24:59Simon's got stuff around.
25:01My venting could be your friend.
25:04Friend will flow sometimes.
25:06That is true.
25:09I did have you going through first to let me know that there was nothing in my way.
25:13That angle's definitely fun, though.
25:18And until you fellas move forward, I'm sitting here on this hill, I guess.
25:24It's going to turn into a goat track, mate.
25:26Yeah, goat track.
25:28Got that goat track feel.
25:30I think I saw a billy goat there above us at one stage on a rock.
25:34He even looked scared.
25:37Yeah, he did.
25:37He looked real scared.
25:39I think he was scared for us.
25:42Alrighty, boys.
25:44I can see it looks like a cut through up the top left there.
25:50Time to go up?
25:51Yeah, I think, well, you can't drive straight ahead,
25:55so it looks like it cuts to the left.
26:01All good.
26:01I can see an exit up this first ridgeline.
26:08What's it look like up there, mate?
26:10Does it look like it's going to be pretty hairy?
26:14Oh, looks like a little bit of a washout, but it looks all right.
26:18That sounds good, then.
26:20Here you go up all the way down here and see what happens.
26:26All good.
26:31Going up.
26:33Here we go.
26:34Not too bad.
26:35Famous last words.
26:38I'm going up.
26:40There's a bit of a rutted out section there.
26:42It looks washed out, but I don't know.
26:45That looks all good.
26:47Oh, it's pretty straight forward.
26:48Just a hill climb, really.
26:50Getting on the gas.
26:52That's a go.
26:53Good old 300 doing its thing.
26:56I don't know what's over the ridgeline.
26:58Let's see if I can get my nose over in the park, mate.
27:03All right.
27:04Going up.
27:07Yeah, I'm up over the top.
27:09I'll move out of the way so you've got somewhere to sit, because I think we need to look at
27:12the
27:12other side, maybe, before we start going down.
27:15That's probably a good idea, mate.
27:18It's been a rutt.
27:20Oh, it's been another rutt.
27:21Good to see.
27:22Hey, lost the track.
27:27All right, so can you tell me when I've got enough room up there?
27:29Can't see over the bonnet.
27:30Yeah, you're good, because when you come over the top, you can't see over the bonnet.
27:33It just sort of goes straight a little bit to the right.
27:36Yeah, mate, sounds good.
27:38Yeah, you'll make it over the top of that.
27:42Yeah, I'm coming out.
27:51Oh, D-Max, you could smash that.
28:01Beauty, we're up.
28:02Do you want to go?
28:03Yeah, that's pretty good.
28:04No worries.
28:05Apparently we have a bit of a scope here.
28:08Yeah.
28:09It looks like a road going up that way, and a road going this way.
28:13You'd almost even go this way.
28:15It looks like there's this big four-way junction point, because ridge lines usually make it easier
28:20for people to travel along.
28:22And what I can gather up there, I think they've cut a line up there as well.
28:26They've cut one through here, and they've gone that way.
28:30It's like the crossroads.
28:31It is.
28:33X marks the spot.
28:35Which is the coffee spot?
28:37So we either go that way, that way, that way, or turn tail and go that way.
28:43What way are we going?
28:44Well, there's four ways, three ways to go.
28:46Well, there's four, actually, if you want to go home.
28:48Well, we've got to get to the mine shaft first.
28:50And which way's the mine shaft?
28:53That way.
28:53Straight ahead.
28:54All good, don't worry.
28:59Coffee time, yeah?
29:00Hell yeah, it is.
29:05Sorry, no more.
29:14That's where I think it might get interesting, Simon.
29:18Give us a look at this gnarly downhill.
29:20I think the down in the gully there might be, I'm not sure what's down there.
29:25You'd have to drive over the top of that one.
29:27Yeah, just straddle that.
29:28Steady, steady.
29:28Look at that.
29:29Yep.
29:30Really washed out.
29:30Yeah.
29:32Yeah, you can't go left or right, can you?
29:34No.
29:35So we've just got to follow the hole.
29:36Yeah, straddle it.
29:37Oh yeah, cool.
29:37Yeah, you'll straddle, eh?
29:39No worries.
29:40We have a look at the bottom just to make sure we don't get down here and then it's like
29:43doom and gloom.
29:44And then you can't get back up.
29:45Yeah.
29:47Oh, man down!
29:49I can't even walk down it, mate.
29:51We've got no chance.
29:52And you've got boots on.
29:53I've got boots on, too.
29:54I think that's what the problem is.
29:56Can we get around that?
29:57Plenty of space?
29:58Yeah, get around that, run over this.
29:59Just got to remember, we see this little green bush?
30:01Yeah.
30:02Run over it, because that's where the hole is, opposite it.
30:04Snap it in half at the top.
30:07As long as we can get a wheel up on here, as long as I can get that wheel, I
30:10reckon my width
30:12is probably here.
30:13Yep.
30:14Yeah, you'll just stay out of that.
30:16And probably up on that.
30:16Yep, you'll stay out of that.
30:18That's our real problem.
30:20So you'll have to put my wheels exactly where they need to be, because I literally
30:24can't see where you're standing.
30:26I can't see there's a hole there.
30:27Yeah, right, there's a big hole there.
30:31Yeah, so you want to go over to your right a little bit.
30:35All good, all good.
30:38How's it?
30:38I wouldn't want to be any wider.
30:40Yeah, keep maybe to the left just a whisker, because I think the left side might be softer
30:44than the right.
30:45Straighten up, straighten up.
30:48Yeah, you're good.
30:49Should be looking pretty good at the moment.
30:51Your arse might cave the bank in, but that's not so good.
30:54Now it gets narrow now.
30:55You can just follow your nose.
30:59Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
31:02You're good.
31:03All right, it's all yours now.
31:06Pass the big hole up.
31:07All right.
31:09The only thing is the D-Max is a little bit of an arrow.
31:13I'll go up and get the truck.
31:15All right, you can actually see my, can you actually see my tracks?
31:18I can.
31:20Well, that's pretty much what you're looking at.
31:23I'll tell you if you're not.
31:25Copy that.
31:26I just want to go there.
31:28What?
31:30Don't listen to him, Simon.
31:32He's putting you off your curry.
31:34Slap him.
31:37I do not want to go in that hole.
31:39I know what happens when we end up in that hole.
31:43All right, the bank's collapsing that way.
31:44Just go that way a touch.
31:47That's a good line.
31:50All right, start to head to your right now.
31:53I see your concentration going on here.
31:54That's a good line.
31:58Oh, it's gone in.
31:59Keep going left, keep going left, keep going left.
32:01Keep going left.
32:02Now you're good.
32:03Down the track.
32:05Hey, I'm down.
32:07You missed it by this much.
32:09Yeah, the rear wheel just dropped in there.
32:11I just felt that.
32:14All right, mate.
32:15That's your line.
32:16You can see where we put our wheels, so that's a start.
32:19Yes, thank you, fellas.
32:21I thought this was going to cave in a bit more than it ended up doing.
32:23This one caved in there.
32:26All right, just go steady there now.
32:28So slow it right down.
32:29Now you want to go to your right.
32:32Steady, steady to your right.
32:34To your right.
32:35Straight ahead.
32:35Straight ahead.
32:36Straight ahead.
32:37Go.
32:38Drive straight.
32:40At that, drive straight.
32:41Don't turn yet.
32:42Drive straight.
32:42Now start the turn.
32:43Away you go.
32:44It's all yours.
32:45Nice, mate.
32:46Good job.
32:48Nice and steady does it, eh?
32:50That was easy, mate.
32:52I'm loving this stuff.
32:53It's gone.
32:55Go left hand down.
32:57That's it.
32:58Keep coming.
32:59Start straightening up.
33:02All right, so one wheel up high on the bank.
33:04Keep coming.
33:06It's a big hole.
33:09You just got a little bit of a shelf there on the left-hand side, so you all right?
33:12There's the hole.
33:13All right, start to go right-hand down a little bit.
33:18You're pretty well through.
33:19If you keep coming straight at that.
33:20What's the rear wheel on the rear wheel on that?
33:23Right on the edge?
33:23Yeah.
33:24Is it not crumbling?
33:25No, not yet.
33:28If it crumbles, I'm just going to hit the gas.
33:30All right, let me get out of your way.
33:32Don't stand in front of me.
33:34Stay to the left there.
33:36It will kick up a little bit, then start straightening up.
33:39Oh, back just went in.
33:42Back just went in.
33:45I just lost traction.
33:48Nah, I'm falling in.
33:49Where am I falling?
33:51Pushing me sideways.
33:52It's just pushing you off that.
33:54Oh, ball straight, ball straight.
33:57Oh, he's throwing well done.
33:59What's in front of me?
34:00There's a big hole.
34:01Hold on, let me get up there.
34:02Wait a minute.
34:03That back wheel's going to fall in that hole in two seconds.
34:06Gotcha.
34:07There you go.
34:09Sweet.
34:12Righto, Somni, you good to go, mate.
34:14All right, mate.
34:15Did he straddle that hole or go around the top side of it?
34:20Nah, he went around it.
34:22Definitely a lot more narrower than the 300 there.
34:25Go right-hand down a little bit.
34:28Right-hand down.
34:31All right, piece of cake for you.
34:35You can go right-hand down here, mate.
34:37Then he's just straddled this and went through there, eh?
34:40Yeah, so he dropped down this little bit here.
34:42Where was the big hole?
34:43Just there.
34:44Was that the rock?
34:44Where's the big rock?
34:45Where's the hole with the big rock?
34:47Down here.
34:47Oh, it's down here further.
34:49Your car's so much more narrow, mate.
34:51Just hold on.
34:52There's a big quartz rock here.
34:53Well, Maximus is loving this stuff.
34:56I'm going to turn around and go back up it in a minute just for the elephants.
34:59This mine shaft can't be too far away, though.
35:04I think this might be it right here.
35:10There's a big pile of dirt and I can see what looks like a hole.
35:15What do you see?
35:16What do we got?
35:17There's a hole.
35:18Look at that.
35:23Watch your head.
35:26Lots of bugs in here.
35:29Wow.
35:30Look at this.
35:31What if you're digging this?
35:34Now, what's my number one rule every time we go underground?
35:38Talk softly.
35:39Talk softly.
35:40Don't make any loud noises.
35:42No.
35:43I know.
35:43I want to take...
35:45Sorry.
35:46I can get bashed.
35:51What's going on?
35:52This is the end of the line, mate.
35:54Is it?
35:54This is it.
35:55I thought it was an air shit no more.
35:57They must have come in here and dug for, like, looking for gold and then gone, yeah.
36:01I didn't find any of that.
36:02How about you digging that boy in?
36:04Jesus, yeah.
36:06I don't like digging a post hole shovel boy.
36:08Look at that.
36:10Oh, it's crumbling.
36:11Yeah, go on.
36:12Pick the walls apart and I'm off.
36:15He's out.
36:16Not around the walls, just to see the ceilings.
36:18Someone's out of here.
36:19He's high-tailed.
36:20He's gone.
36:23What are you looking for, mate?
36:24Gold?
36:24Looking for gold.
36:25Could you imagine digging into the side of the mountain back then?
36:28Yeah, well, they'd see the drill holes.
36:30So they would have had some sort of drill that's used in here.
36:34Oh, yeah.
36:35So it, some of it, and that could have been not necessarily a drill, but a corkscrew, like
36:41a drill-shaped rod that they pounded, boom, boom, pounded into the rock.
36:48Yep, just to get leverage.
36:49Well, to bust it.
36:50Yeah, so it busts it up, basically.
36:52And then they can actually put gelignite in there.
36:55Or look at that.
36:56There's a bolt on the side of the wall.
36:58It's loose.
36:58I wonder what they did with that.
37:00Yeah, it's pretty cool to come and see this sort of stuff.
37:03You know, like think about when someone was digging this thing out by hand some, you know,
37:10what, a hundred, over a hundred years ago.
37:14Yeah, a hundred years ago.
37:16You would have catch many young fellas doing that now.
37:19Mind you, if you were digging holes out in this country, somewhere in the rock like this,
37:24would it be a lot cooler than, as in cool temperature.
37:28Oh, yeah.
37:28Compared to being outside, down in the bottom of a creek bed.
37:32So this work was probably actually, probably a little bit, um.
37:35Not as bad.
37:36As, you know, not as bad as the stuff down in the creek bed.
37:41Things they did for gold.
37:44Don't mind me.
37:47How'd you go, boys?
37:49Oh, as per usual, mate, I found everything but the gold stuff.
37:53There wasn't much luck in there, mate.
37:55What did you end up finding?
37:56I heard you digging and slapping off.
37:58A little lad or something, mate.
37:59Not gold.
38:00Not gold.
38:01But, get this, they obviously, when they punch this in,
38:05there would have been a main shaft up here somewhere.
38:07Yeah.
38:08So let's go and find the main shaft.
38:09Clamber up, see if we can pull up the top.
38:10Clamber up the top here.
38:13And let's see if we can find where that is.
38:17We start the climb.
38:19But you have to be careful in these areas,
38:21as there are mine shafts everywhere.
38:25Top of a hole up here somewhere.
38:30Like the, uh, somewhere.
38:33Somewhere.
38:34Just don't find it by falling in it.
38:38There's a hole in the ground.
38:41There you go.
38:42Can you see down again?
38:43Look at the shaft.
38:44Ooh, it's the shaft, all right.
38:46Yeah, no, you don't want to fall down that one.
38:49Oh!
38:50It's going to sting.
38:53Holy snap it.
38:54Oh, it's down there.
38:56Like, holy.
38:58See?
38:59That's the shaft.
39:00That goes.
39:01That's where they are.
39:03Hey, look, there's a...
39:04If we can get in down the other end there somewhere,
39:06look, there's a hole.
39:08You can see there's a hole down there.
39:12Mate, this is a big hole.
39:14There's even, like, another hole.
39:15Another hole on the side there.
39:18There's some water down there too.
39:20What about this one?
39:21What's in here?
39:22Mate, there are holes everywhere around here.
39:24Yeah, a bit terrible.
39:24Oh, this one's...
39:26No, maybe not.
39:28Geez, they were keen to follow the scenes, weren't they?
39:32I wonder if that one goes through or not.
39:35That one's stopped.
39:38I ain't good around here.
39:39Yeah, not wrong.
39:40There's the bottom there.
39:41I can see the bottom there.
39:45It splashes the bottom of the hole.
39:47Bit of water in there, all right?
39:50Oh, you've had to jump in.
39:51Jesus.
39:53Wow, look at that.
39:57Gone down on that angle too.
39:59Yeah.
40:00It punched down into it.
40:01I wonder how we find out, like, if they actually found decent quantities of gold out of here or not.
40:05I wonder who knows that bit of info.
40:08I did, actually.
40:09Did?
40:10Just one mine here produced three and a quarter million ounces.
40:14And at today's prices, that is only a mere $4.8 billion.
40:20Have you got gold fever yet?
40:22Next time.
40:23Where in the middle of nowhere can you get a view like that?
40:25Right here.
40:26We have spectacular scenery.
40:28Tough tracks.
40:29Oh, watch the trees!
40:33Mudflat moonscapes.
40:34Look at that!
40:34How specky is that?
40:36And one crazy fishing story.
40:38I did not hand it in the night.
40:39Every dull moment round here, eh?
40:41Join us for the adventure.
40:45What are you doing here?
40:46Mate, I've got no idea.
40:49What's going on?
40:50I hear you guys are giving away my D-Max.
40:52Mate, you left the thing parked in my shed.
40:54You can't give away, Maximus.
40:56It's better all day trying to get the scratches out of it.
40:57You've done a good job.
40:58I don't know.
40:59It looks like yours.
41:00But it's actually not.
41:01It's a brand new D-Max and I'm gonna give it away.
41:04Mate, it's got a brand new canopy on the back, mate.
41:06We've got rooftop tent, awning.
41:08What's swinging off the back?
41:09Oh, check this out.
41:11428 Avenger, 50 horsepower tiller on the back.
41:14Oi, $5,000 gift card.
41:17And you know what?
41:17While you're here, let's give that away as well.
41:19Why not?
41:20How do we win it?
41:21No, no, no.
41:22You guys can't.
41:23But you can enter.
41:24Head to all4adventure.com.
41:26Mate, use the keyword.
41:28Grab your free entry.
41:29Now, if you're an Unleashed subscriber, I'm gonna double their chances to win.
41:32All right, get a Keys to Adventure package for great discounts and even more chances to win.
41:42All right, I'll tell you what, mate, we've given Pine Creek the once over.
41:49I don't know about you guys, but they're miners.
41:51They did it tough.
41:52They were hard-caught, but let's face it, they came here for a reason and there was truckloads
41:57of gold and they found it.
41:59You saw the fever we had.
42:01They were definitely doing the hard yards.
42:03Yeah, I was sweating, I was shaking.
42:05No, they weren't.
42:06Oh.
42:06We had these things.
42:08We didn't dig holes like that.
42:10I still had the fever.
42:12Jeez.
42:13All right, well, we're not done here.
42:14We've got to get ourselves heading in that direction because we're heading towards the coast.
42:19We're still in the Northern Territory and we're still checking this place out.
42:23Off the sea.
42:24Let's go, but not down.
42:25Not down that way.
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