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Gold Rush: Alaska - Season 16 - Episode 08: No Off Days
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00:28So, we're a couple of months in.
00:30We've been sluicing pretty good.
00:33Tony Beetz is on a roll.
00:36Just two months into the season, he's already pocketed $8 million in gold.
00:46I mean, with the way gold prices are, you like the sluice as much as possible.
00:51Because, boy, what an opportunity it is.
00:55So, in the Indian here, we got sluice a lot going.
00:58Right now, that's paying all the bills.
01:00So, they have to keep that running no matter what.
01:03If they got to spend a half a night out there, go spend a half a night out there.
01:09While Tony rides his crew at the Indian River, he's left son Mike in charge of his other claim on
01:17Paradise Hill.
01:21Last week, Mike finally got a plant running, sluicing old-timer tailings through wash plant Harold.
01:29Harold's up and going.
01:32It's nice to finally be sluicing.
01:34Now, I'm actually making a bit of money instead of just spending it.
01:38My dad would be glad I'm making a bit of money.
01:42Mike's also been charged with stripping the super pit to feed the trommel.
01:47But it's been slow going after Tony pilfered his crew.
01:52I would love to do more, but I don't have the people, and that's the problem.
01:57My dad takes, he don't give nothing back.
02:00It ends up being a one-way street.
02:02With his depleted crew now at the super pit, Mike needs to hire new personnel to keep Harold running.
02:11Despite my dad taking my s**t, I'm going to get this done.
02:15I got these two new girls.
02:17I'm going to see how they do.
02:18One says she has a bit of experience with farm equipment, and the other one, I don't know what the
02:23f**k she has experience, but I can always train them.
02:34Whereabouts are you from?
02:36New Brunswick, but I moved to Alberta like four years ago.
02:39So where are you originally from?
02:41I'm originally from British Columbia.
02:43I did a bit of construction, so like road pipe and, um, sorry, road work.
02:48How are you feeling about today?
02:50We have to run a plant by ourselves.
02:53It's our first time running equipment.
02:54Honestly, I'm pretty nervous.
02:56I haven't really stepped in a hole before.
02:59Is it your first time running equipment, or?
03:01No, I grew up farming.
03:03So I ran loader before, but nothing like what we're going to be running it up here.
03:10I'm excited, though.
03:12I'm just going to park right over here.
03:22There you go.
03:23Hop up.
03:23I'm going to hand you the hose.
03:26Before tasking Sienna and Kendra with running the wash plant, Mike talks them through some basic tasks.
03:34You can see the bottom of the tank?
03:37Yeah.
03:38Perfect.
03:43Now, remember, let her flow, no go.
03:48So your valve there is closed.
03:50Open it up.
03:51Perfect.
03:52Now you hold the nozzle.
03:54You just clicked out.
03:55Don't have a holder?
03:56No.
03:56It should.
03:57You've never dealt with any of this, have you?
03:59No.
04:00Yeah, like that.
04:02All right, now I'm going to go turn on the pump.
04:10She's just probably unlucky right now because I haven't eaten anything, so I'm kind of a little hungry.
04:14Hungry.
04:17I'm going to order breakfast this morning.
04:19I'm looking at it like this.
04:20It's the least appetizing thing I've seen in my life.
04:22I asked if scrambled eggs were cheese, so I got an omelet with cheese on top.
04:28Pull it out slightly and open it.
04:30They'll relieve the pressure in the hose.
04:35Next time, you lift it.
04:37You make sure the nozzle's in the tank.
04:39You relieve pressure.
04:40That's how we don't get fuel everywhere.
04:45Next, Mike sends Kendra to check the oil level in the water pump.
04:50I think I'll be fine.
04:52Like, I did pipe fitting and water transfer back in Alberta.
04:55So, I know a little bit about pumps.
05:02The engine oil in the pump was a little low, so I'm going to put some more oil in it.
05:15I would like to have them a bit more time to get trained up because they're both way too nervous
05:20for my liking.
05:21I'm still debating whether I'm actually going to let them loose today.
05:25It is very heavy.
05:29Oh my, why isn't this getting any lighter?
05:42Mike, do you copy, Mike?
05:44Go ahead, go ahead.
05:45I heard the pump started.
05:47I'm full of oil.
05:48Okay, just have to check.
05:50It's good.
05:52That way.
06:04Got these a pair of towel?
06:06It was right there.
06:09So, this thing is insanely over full.
06:12So, yeah.
06:16Rebecca, do you copy Rebecca?
06:18Okay.
06:20Can you call Isaac and ask him to bring a pail or two with lids because you've got to empty
06:24some engine oil out of a pump for me?
06:27All righty, he's on the way.
06:29That's best that I caught it now.
06:31This is why I double check.
06:32This is why you add a little bit, you check your thing.
06:34Because you can easily overfill one of those things.
06:37If it builds up too much pressure, you can basically blow a head and crankshaft.
06:41I'd rather not waste a $100,000 engine.
06:44Okay?
06:48F*** happens.
06:50You've basically been thrust into something you've never done before.
06:53And you're not close enough that I can be consistently here.
06:56So, I think I might just put you guys on rock trucks.
07:02Isaac's going to drain a bit of oil.
07:04Well, had I left it, not double checked it, and not trust my paranoia, that could have cost me an
07:11engine.
07:12It's not her fault.
07:13If you don't know, you don't know.
07:15I can't blame you for that.
07:16I think they'll be fine if we give them another day or two of training, just so they get more
07:20comfortable, more used to it.
07:23And then they'll be fine.
07:30Pump disaster avoided.
07:32Mike checks in on Kendra and Sienna.
07:35Now, on rock truck duties in the super pit.
07:38Two rock trucks are going into the cut.
07:40Is that Kendra and Sienna?
07:42Yeah.
07:43Yeah, do not be so close to each other, because that is asking for an accident.
07:47Stop the one who's now speeding up.
07:48Stop!
07:50I said stop, and you're still moving.
07:52Okay, stop it right now.
07:54Get out of your truck.
07:55You're being written up.
08:00I'm pointing at you.
08:01I don't know who's in that truck.
08:02You get out.
08:03You're coming with me.
08:04Let's go.
08:06In the truck.
08:11Next time I say stop, you stop.
08:14That's dangerous.
08:16Do not ever get that close behind her.
08:18If she hit the brakes and you didn't notice quick enough, also, when I call on the radio,
08:22I demand that you reply.
08:25Now, tell me.
08:26Could you hear me on the radio when I was yelling at you?
08:29I just switched it at 1, so I realized I was on the line.
08:32Okay, then did you hear me after that?
08:34You switched it.
08:35And then, did you still move after that?
08:38No, I stopped.
08:40Okay, then I'll leave this as a verbal warning, and I won't actually write you up.
08:48Make sure your radio's on the channel.
08:50It's perfect.
08:52I didn't know that there was a rule of how far you should be with the trucks.
08:56I was very, like, intimidated in a way.
09:00I was scared because I don't want to go home.
09:04I want to stay here.
09:05I like it here in paradise.
09:07I say I try to be a good boss.
09:09I don't say I am a good boss.
09:11It's up to my employees to say I'm a good boss, not me.
09:15I think Mike had the right to get angry.
09:25Mike's lost a day of sluicing, attempting to train up Sienna and Kendra to run the wash plant.
09:34Sienna and Kendra are not doing the job right.
09:38They're still new to this, they're still new to a lot of this stuff, which is fine.
09:42It's not their fault.
09:44I do not have the time to sit there and watch them.
09:48Rebecca, do you copy?
09:50I'm going to have to find somebody else.
09:53Now, Mike is on the hunt for experienced operators, capable of running the plant on their own.
10:01I need people.
10:02You need people?
10:03Well, I printed some resumes.
10:04Perfect.
10:06Hey, Mother.
10:08Yes, what's up?
10:09Would you like to see some of the people we may be hiring?
10:11Okay, what are you all hiring?
10:13What do you need?
10:16I need a whole loader operator, more specifically, that can do multiple jobs.
10:21What about a rock truck driver?
10:23I can turn anyone and their mother into a rock truck driver at that.
10:26Well, that's questionable too, because you couldn't make me into one.
10:30Yeah.
10:31So, we've got a couple here, going to go through them.
10:33You're going to set up interviews with them?
10:36Yeah.
10:36Put them on the piece of equipment, and then you see what they can do.
10:40Yeah.
10:41Right?
10:41Yep.
10:42A-S-A-P?
10:43Yeah, I know.
10:44Then you should go back to work.
10:46Well, this is actually work.
10:48I know, but you should go to physical work.
10:50I know, I get it, Ma.
10:51You want me gone.
10:52Okay, let's go.
10:54You do whatever you're going to do, and I go whatever I have to do.
10:57I'll make some phone calls.
10:59Sounds good.
11:00I'll have a quick look at this one, because then we'll set up a couple of interviews.
11:05Okay, let me know which ones are suitable.
11:08If we're really going to sluice it, Mike is going to need to hire some more people, and he better
11:12get
11:13Sunday, because otherwise it will never happen.
11:17It's not going to happen, but it's not going to happen, but it's not going to happen.
11:56It's not going to happen, but it's not going to happen, but it's not going to happen.
12:16I'm spending more time down in the cut, helping to direct plans there, and I've got to jump
12:21back into more fixing things.
12:24Trying to find people is kind of a nightmare, to be honest.
12:28We can't just try people out like Tony can.
12:30Tony can have ten people.
12:33No.
12:35That's a Parker.
12:36Hey, buddy.
12:38How's it going?
12:39Oh, not too bad.
12:40I've never been up here.
12:41No.
12:43Good to see you.
12:44Same.
12:44How's your start of season going?
12:46Um, oh, you know.
12:48Spending money.
12:49Not making any.
12:50Yeah.
12:51Well, at least made some.
12:52Yeah.
12:53Yeah.
12:53That's kind of why I'm here.
12:57I kind of figured.
12:58Yeah.
13:03What are you guys up to?
13:04Me and Faith this year have gone out on our own.
13:07Congrats on doing this.
13:08Oh, thank you.
13:09Last season, Kevin and Faith bought equipment from Parker.
13:14You don't need to pay for anything now.
13:16You start a tab.
13:17Appreciate that.
13:18I really do.
13:19A bucket, a ripper, and a rock truck.
13:22110.
13:25Go 105.
13:26I don't haggle.
13:27Buy it or don't buy it, I don't really care.
13:32So you're taking it?
13:33Taking it.
13:34Congratulations.
13:35Running up a total debt close to $130,000.
13:40It's hard to negotiate from the position of, well,
13:43we really need something.
13:47Now, Parker wants his money.
13:50Um, yeah, because the deal was like end of the season, right?
13:54That was six months ago.
13:58See, but you also didn't send us a bill until a couple weeks ago.
14:03And if we don't have an invoice, it's kind of hard to just send money your way.
14:06I hope you agree with that.
14:08Uh, well, it's been like a month, Kevin.
14:11I know, I know.
14:13Which was five months late.
14:22Kevin Beats has a debt close to $130,000 with Parker.
14:22See, but you also didn't send us a bill until a couple weeks ago.
14:26And if we don't have an invoice, it's kind of hard to just send money your way.
14:29I hope you agree with that.
14:32Uh, well, it's been like a month, Kevin.
14:35I know, I know.
14:36Which was five months late.
14:39Kevin Beetz has a debt close to $130,000 with Parker, who wants his money now.
14:48Like, what was the plan in January if I sent you an invoice?
14:51To pay it then.
14:53So how come you didn't pay it last month when I sent it?
14:57Because I figured you made us wait so long, you probably weren't hurting for the money.
15:00I made you wait so long.
15:02Yeah?
15:04Okay.
15:05Good.
15:06Perfect.
15:07All right.
15:07Thursday?
15:08Uh, double check with Faith, but yeah.
15:10I need to double check with Faith?
15:12If you want, we can both go about double check.
15:18Is she in here or is she in the office?
15:20She might be in the kitchen.
15:34Faith's not here.
15:34Are you going to take it yet?
15:35No, no, no, I think she's in the chair.
15:36Okay.
15:38She's not doing terribly good, so she's in the trailer.
15:41Give me two seconds.
15:43Hey, Faith.
15:45Parker just dropped by.
15:47He wanted to get paid for the rock truck and other things we bought from her last year.
15:55It kind of suits his finances, but it kind of f***ed up ours.
16:01The money that I put aside for him, we've already spent it.
16:05Hopefully this week we can sluice enough that we can pay him back.
16:10I don't really give a s***.
16:11I don't really give a s***.
16:11I just want to get paid so I can pay our bills.
16:15Because I have managed to spend like four and a half million dollars so far this spring.
16:22And now I'm tracking down 130 grand.
16:25It's like the equivalent of looking through the seat cushions.
16:34Yeah, Thursday.
16:36Okay.
16:37So we should be able to do for the truck, the bucket, and the ripper.
16:40Okay.
16:41All right.
16:41Is everything correct?
16:42Yeah.
16:43Perfect.
16:44Thanks.
16:48I was hoping to delay paying him a little bit because, well, I assumed he could wait a little bit
16:54more than the smaller guys.
16:56If you're having to chase people for money, it's like Kevin shows up next week and needs something.
17:01I'm like, well, okay, cash up front.
17:04Right?
17:05And that's probably what I should have done with the trucks, but I was like, it's Kevin's first season.
17:08I want to help a guy out.
17:11As long as he pays me, then I'm fine.
17:14Watch him not.
17:17Then the pitchforks come out.
17:22I'm not feeling too bad about not getting his money as quick as possible because, again, he's got more than
17:29I do by a lot.
17:49Things right now are going really good.
17:51You know, we're, like, at a pretty decent point in the season and starting to pick up momentum.
17:56Back at his Dominion claim, Parker is hitting his stride.
18:04The next thing is just, like, how much can we handle with how spread thin we are.
18:11It's going to get real bad with three plants running this early in the season.
18:15There's just a lot going on, so if we can keep the wheels on the bus, you know, we're in
18:22a very good place.
18:23But it's going to take a lot of effort and work on everybody's part in order to make that happen.
18:32Parker's spending $100,000 a day running his wash plants, with Mitch and Brennan pulling in gold from sulfur.
18:44And Tyson, with the extra pressure of running two plants at Dominion.
18:52Tyson, he's doing a really good job, but it's a lot for one guy to take on.
18:58He's got a lot on his plate, so hopefully he can handle it.
19:07So this is the last bit of pay here for the first setup of Bob and the bridge pet of
19:11the season.
19:13And to be moving Bob to its new home.
19:17But there's a lot of work to be done to get the wash plant actually moved, like, in preparation.
19:26We have our super stacker pad we've got to get in place.
19:29We have our feeder pad, we have our wash plant pad.
19:32That's a lot of work to happen by the end of the week here.
19:36Probably have to pull some late nights to get this happening here.
19:40While Tyson gets ready to move wash plant Bob to its second location in the bridge gutter,
19:48in the Golden Mile, the cleanup crew is pulling Slucifer's mats.
19:56I'm just checking to see how much gold we have in the runs,
19:59and I'll make sure that there is no gold at the bottom.
20:07Actually, there's tons of gold down here.
20:10It's not good.
20:12Gold at the bottom of the sluice runs could be a sign that some gold is being washed away into
20:18the fine tailings.
20:21Hey, Tyson, do you have a copy, Tyson?
20:23Go ahead, Tater Tot.
20:25I'm here at the sluice box, and it looks like we have a lot of gold right at the bottom
20:30runs.
20:31And it looks like we might have lost a bit.
20:33So, can you come and have a look for us, please?
20:36Well, that doesn't sound good, Tot.
20:38I'm on my way.
20:45Sounds like we're losing gold up at Slucifer.
20:49You know, this year there is a lot going on.
20:51Normally I'm just in charge of one cut and one wash plant, and this year it's two,
20:55and, you know, who knows what else Parker's going to try and throw at a guy.
21:01Bob move is going to have to be on hold until we can figure this out.
21:08We can do some panning here out of Slucifer's fine tailings.
21:20You know, this is really bad news.
21:22We're washing gold out of the runs.
21:24With gold prices at an all-time high, Parker could be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
21:32Yeah, we've got to do something, that's for sure.
21:45On the way to meet Parker, we're going to chat about Slucifer.
21:48We're losing gold, and we've got to figure out why.
22:00What did you do?
22:01I didn't do it.
22:03This thing's broken.
22:04Watch out.
22:06Nice.
22:07Street piped.
22:09You know, man, I just left Slucifer, and it looks like the gold's running pretty hard down the box.
22:15Just wanted to get your thoughts on things and what you think we should do.
22:20Um...
22:22I think trying to slow the material down might help.
22:27And so I think putting in, like, kickbacks that, like, kick the material back upstream, right?
22:33Yeah.
22:34And it just gives it a chance to kind of slow down and see if that makes a difference.
22:39For sure.
22:40All right.
22:41All righty.
22:41Sounds good, man.
22:42Thanks, Tyson.
22:45Wash plant Slucifer runs 250 yards of paydirt an hour, but its gold-rich slurry is pouring into the sluice
22:54runs too fast,
22:55causing some gold to flow past the riffles and out of the box into the fine tailings.
23:03Parker's plan is to redesign the distribution chutes that sit behind a rubber curtain at the top of the sluices
23:11with eight kickbacks.
23:15If they work, it should take some of the impact energy out of the gold-rich slurry as it falls
23:22and is kicked back, slowing the flow down,
23:25allowing all the gold time to settle and be caught in the sluice boxes.
23:38We've got all day to do it, but it's two days' worth of work.
23:54We're going to cut the back wall out of the distribution here,
23:57and then this plate will go up inside on an angle.
24:01That'll effectively, when the slurry comes down, it'll come towards the back of this loose box.
24:21Do you want to just put one tack on it?
24:23Yeah.
24:24Away we go.
24:29Nice.
24:29Should we tack another one?
24:31Say something like that.
24:38Not bad for eyeballing.
24:40I think they're pretty even.
24:41One more and another and that's it.
24:44Try that.
24:50Nice work.
24:51Is this what we're done?
24:53Yeah.
24:55All right, how's your day going?
24:57Hopefully better now.
24:58You guys tell me.
24:59We're just about to test it.
25:00All righty.
25:00I'll hit the belts.
25:02Yeah, they're clear, Alec.
25:03Clear!
25:12You know, it looks good.
25:14We've got a lot of gold to catch this year,
25:16and we want it in the gold room, not in our tailings.
25:21Got to get down to Bob, continue setting up the next wash plant pad,
25:25because it's going to be done in a couple of days,
25:27and this needs to be set up by the end of the week,
25:29so I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
25:42Right now, I ain't got hope in hell to do anything.
25:45Mike Bede's plan to run wash plant Harold all week has crashed and burned.
25:52He's lost three days sluicing while struggling to find skilled crew to run the plant.
25:59Now, he's trying two new hires who are more seasoned.
26:04So I put these two gentlemen in.
26:06We're going to see how they do, and they have a bit of experience.
26:10You never know.
26:11Some people just pick it up like...
26:21Here's the first bucket.
26:23Let's make some money.
26:29I'm from Saskatchewan.
26:30I came out here to learn heavy equipment.
26:36This is the farthest I've ever gone for work,
26:39and it's beautiful out here.
26:46Before this, I was actually an industrial painter.
26:52I did all the white and yellow lines that you guys see on the road.
26:59It most definitely is a great deal of responsibility for me and Bracen to be down here running the plant
27:07on our own.
27:16Oh, the water pressure is way too low.
27:18I have to get a hole.
27:20Mike, do you copy?
27:22Go ahead.
27:24The wash plant's here.
27:25The water pressure is really low, and things aren't looking so good right now.
27:29We got it right now.
27:30We got it all down.
27:32Copy that.
27:33Copy.
27:34Copy.
27:52By the looks of it, it looks like the banding inside broke, because it looks like this whole thing got
27:56pulled away.
27:58That's not going to last very long before it rips the hose off.
28:01The pump's hose has ruptured, allowing water to escape, reducing pressure to the wash plant.
28:10So, get a new hose, hook it up, and that way, I can get this loosened again.
28:16Ready?
28:17Yeah.
28:25Oh, that's going to be fun to pick up.
28:27We're going to have to get a hole here.
28:38I'm beating it and alive by mosquitoes.
28:41F***.
28:42F***.
28:42Get out of my f***ing ear, you little f***.
28:47Nice.
28:50New pipe.
28:51Now we're going to hook this whole thing up.
28:53We'll be golden.
28:56Zach.
28:56Up.
29:03Oh, we were pulling on the pipe, and it put too much stress on that joint.
29:08It just popped out.
29:10That happens sometimes.
29:11Okay.
29:12Oh.
29:15Ah.
29:17Okay.
29:19Got the new hose on.
29:20All I have to do is start her up, and I should be sluicing here in, like, 20 minutes.
29:28Everything's hooked up.
29:29We should be ready to f***ing get going now.
29:31Finally.
29:33That kind of sucked that it was down, but it's good that now we got it up and running, and
29:37everything's running pretty smooth right now.
29:39Now, the pump breakdown has lost Mike another eight hours of sluicing.
29:45Good thing they contacted me and didn't just leave it running.
29:50Racing to know I'd be doing pretty good.
29:52They want to learn.
29:53No, them boys do good.
29:55F***ing eventually does break.
29:56It happens.
29:59Sucks.
30:00Costs money.
30:01But as long as the end result is I'm getting gold, that's all that matters.
30:29I'm getting gold, that's all that matters.
30:37I'm getting gold, that's all that matters.
30:37Copy, Rick.
30:38The crew wash is all piled up.
30:39Shut the water off, Rick.
30:41Shut the water off.
30:42At Scribner Creek, Kevin Beatt's crew is racing to bank enough gold to pay back Parker.
30:52Copy, Kevin.
30:53Got a problem with the plant.
30:54We're shutting it down.
30:56Someone grab me a shovel.
31:03But now, his wash plant has shut down.
31:07And with mechanic buzz away, it's all on Kevin to fix it.
31:14Let's go see what we're working with.
31:16Awesome.
31:23Oh yeah, I can see that right away.
31:26This skid plate is not lying flat.
31:29It's built up.
31:30And you wouldn't think it going from like this to this will make that much of a difference.
31:34But it is very noticeable when this mat lays flat on the prewash versus when it is like it is
31:41now.
31:43Let's put this out of the way for now.
31:46Before Kevin can realign the angle of the hopper feeder's skid plate, he needs to lift it out, remove the
31:55rubber mat, and clean out the dirt that pushed the plate up.
32:01And like I'm sure I can get somebody in here to shovel, but then I'll be standing watching the shovel,
32:05and few things put me up the wall of standing around.
32:10So by taking out a lot of the stuff underneath the skid plate that's causing everything to rise up, I'm
32:17hoping by making it more angled, all the material that falls in here is just going to go straight into
32:21the plant.
32:23Kevin plans to replace the rubber mat with a more robust steel plate.
32:29to ensure Pater doesn't get trapped and flows directly into the shaker deck.
32:36This is my superficial, highly complicated engineering drawing of what I gotta cut.
32:42The master plan. I can almost still read it.
32:55Piece of cake.
33:01Yeah, that's pretty much it.
33:03The master engineering plan.
33:05Uh-huh. Works.
33:08Fixes are done, so let's turn it on and see what she does.
33:14Invaders on.
33:16I always hate this part.
33:32There we go.
33:35Feels good to be back on track and, uh, getting gold.
33:39There's always painful when we gotta shut down, but...
33:42Nice to get more money in the box, so, yeah.
33:45That allows us to pay off target.
34:07We're about to connect.
34:09Six miles away.
34:12Easy, baby.
34:14Got to get it done.
34:15Parker Schnabel's foreman, Tyson, is about to attempt one of his trickiest plant moves.
34:22We're just about ready to pull our feeder out.
34:25What do you say, Liam?
34:26Let's drag her.
34:27Let's do her.
34:28Wash plant Bob sluice 10 acres of the bridge cut and needs to be moved to its second position of
34:37the season.
34:38First, Tyson and his crew will haul the plant's 40-ton feeder on a low buoy up a 15-degree
34:46ramp.
34:47Then, navigate it around the edge of a narrow section of the pit and down into the new position a
34:55thousand feet away.
34:57Finally, Tyson will drag the 45-ton wash plant with an excavator across a narrow dike to its new path.
35:10If anyone sees anything they don't like, just holler.
35:19Just want to be careful and go slow with it, because we do not have a spare feeder.
35:22We cannot afford anything to go wrong with this feeder.
35:36You know, right now we're trying to pull this feeder up this hill, but it doesn't want to do it.
35:44It just wants to spin fully locked up.
35:48We're just spinning tires.
35:52Hey, Alec, you got a copy, Alec?
35:54Yeah.
35:55I'm going to give this one more try, man, but I think we need that loader over here to pull
35:59this thing up the hill.
36:04Oh, we almost got her that time.
36:07Gotta go grab that loader.
36:10The semi truck's 450 horsepower is not enough.
36:16Tyson's solution?
36:18Bring in extra muscle.
36:21Parker's 390 horsepower, 250 loader.
36:27Okay.
36:28First gear?
36:29Yep.
36:29Good check.
36:33Okay, nice and slow on your lead.
36:42Nice and easy through this section here, Alec.
36:45Okay, we're starting to climb the steep part.
36:47Just keep her going the way we're going.
36:49We don't want to tear anything up here.
36:54Keep going, Alec.
36:55Keep going.
36:57It's starting to slip here.
36:58Hang on.
36:59There's no hanging on.
37:01We're not stopping now.
37:06The kick should be good there, Alec.
37:10Well, we got the feeder out, and now we're going to go drag a wash plant here.
37:15Get down there.
37:22Okay, here we go.
37:30We're starting to enter our narrow dike here.
37:34My biggest concern is this wash plant falling off this dike.
37:39Last thing we want to do is have bop down in the hole.
37:44Whoa, whoa.
37:45We're a little close to the edge there.
37:49You know, there's a lot of tension on those shackles.
37:52You can hear them creaking and cracking.
37:55This bop is one heavy wash plant.
38:01It's terrifying.
38:03Yeah, I mean, this is the highest pads we've ever built our wash plants on.
38:07How am I looking, Liam?
38:08Took another three, four feet.
38:10Easy there.
38:11Whoa.
38:16And stop there.
38:18We got her in place.
38:21Wash plant Bob is now in position on its new 60-foot-high pad.
38:27Hey, Liam, you want to rig up the super stocker?
38:34Looks good.
38:37Keep it coming.
38:40Well, shall we?
38:42Let's do it.
38:43All righty, here we go.
38:44We got power.
38:48Sounds like a jet.
38:50I'll go hit the water.
38:52With Bob in place, Tyson's finally bringing in more bridge-cut gold.
38:59Well, guys, we did our bombs back up and running.
39:02Nice work.
39:02Yeah, nice work on your behalf and your behalf.
39:15I just like the environment. It's... and the Yukon's gorgeous.
39:19At Paradise Hill, Mike Beat's new recruits, Kendra and Sienna, have survived their first week on-site.
39:28San Kendra just need to get more confidence on it.
39:32It's not for a lack of skill, because they do pretty good.
39:34It's just... they seem to get too nervous.
39:37And that's holding them back.
39:40Can't complain much.
39:42I haven't gotten yelled at.
39:44Just got to be careful before you do things, of course.
39:48And so when everything goes smooth and dandy, then it's a good day for sure.
39:53But it's not easy. It's not for everybody.
39:56I think it's wicked.
39:58I'd never seen actual gold until I came up here.
40:01And then I finally seen gold for the first time, and I was pretty excited.
40:06Oh, I love it up here. I don't know if I want to go home.
40:21Hi, guys.
40:22Hello.
40:24Long time no see.
40:26Been positive in the ages.
40:28What have you been up to?
40:29I've been busy cleaning out a cup and the onion.
40:32I think it's coming along just fine.
40:33Yeah.
40:35With that being said, I think we should weigh up the onion.
40:37Cool. Let's do it.
40:39Tony has been running sluice a lot in the early bird cut.
40:44Non-stop this week.
40:4610, 30, 40, 70, 100, 110, 140, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 270, 280, 300, 310, 320, 360, 270, 380,
41:01400, 410.
41:09Worth $1,450,000.
41:14That's an easy million and a half, huh?
41:17Again, eh?
41:17Yeah, huh?
41:19Keep that up.
41:20We might even have a piggy bank yet.
41:22Well, not the way you're spending, so.
41:25But that's pretty good for the week, though.
41:27Yeah.
41:27It's all good.
41:28It's all good.
41:29How's Harold going?
41:30It's just not been going very well.
41:32It's just little things.
41:34We did get some guys that are a little bit more experienced.
41:37Both of them were doing pretty good, throwing through quite what should be a reasonable amount of dirt.
41:42Okay, let's...
41:43I'll count Harold.
41:44Last week, Harold ran for two days, banking 14.28 ounces of gold.
41:51Are you ready?
41:52Yeah, well, let's do it.
41:555, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.92.
42:03Worth $59,000.
42:08How many days did he was?
42:10Three days, give or take.
42:11Well, it's kind of nice to see something coming out.
42:14It's not a lot, but at least something is getting in from there.
42:18Like I said, I've been fighting the whole thing just to get that.
42:21So what are you going to do?
42:22I'm going to see if it gets better, because maybe it's just toothing pains.
42:26But if it keeps having this much trouble just running it, and that's the gold I'm going to get,
42:32we're going to have to make plans for something else, because it's just not working.
42:36Okay, well, let's run it for another week.
42:37See what comes out.
42:38Give it one more try.
42:39Done.
42:40It works fine.
42:41Not .
42:42So what's your grand total?
42:452,739 roughly.
42:47It's all right.
42:48I mean, you know what?
42:49You get a couple, you get over a million bucks in every week.
42:51I don't see wrong with that for now.
42:53Yeah.
42:53I think we should go back to work.
42:56I think so.
42:56I'm going for lunch.
42:57Okay.
43:08I just cleaned up gold, so now I'm going to do picking.
43:12Kevin Beetz needs to clear 36 ounces of gold to pay off his debt to Parker.
43:20How do the pickings look right now?
43:21Anything good?
43:23No, I don't have this much pickings right now.
43:25Let's see what we got.
43:26Let's do it.
43:27Let's do it.
43:311, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7.32.
43:37But I don't think it was going to quite cover Parker's bill.
43:40So I still have a little bit more at goal.
43:43Okay.
43:43Want to add it to the pile?
43:45Let's see what we got.
43:468, 10, 12, 18, 20, 22, 26, 27, 27.57.
44:01Worth $97,000.
44:0431,000 short of what they owe Parker.
44:09So I should probably quickly sell this.
44:11Yeah, probably.
44:12Class whatever is in our bank account.
44:15I got stuff on the go, so I'll be back.
44:17Okay.
44:19See you, moms.
44:19Goodbye.
44:20Bye.
44:22Still a bit annoyed at Parker for showing up and saying that we're six months late paying
44:26this bill when he didn't give us the invoice till the last month, but all that really matters
44:31is we have the gold now to pay him off and we can put the whole thing to bed.
44:35So that's all that matters right now.
44:47How are you doing, Chris?
44:49Nice vest.
44:50Think that?
44:51Yeah.
44:51You can't even do it up in that ponch.
44:53Then I got up here, my pants size was 38.
44:56Now we're on 35s.
44:58It has nothing to do with the fact that you smoke your breakfast and lunch.
45:04Did we find any gold this week, Chris?
45:07Yeah.
45:07Let's do a sluice.
45:09Good thing Tater Tot noticed that Sleucifer was losing gold when she shut it down.
45:13She noticed there was gold running out the runs and you know, Parker came up with a solution
45:17of putting kickbacks to the distribution box.
45:20Yeah.
45:21Last week, Sleucifer delivered 232.1 ounces.
45:25If the kickback has worked, it should get more gold.
45:29Here we go.
45:30We've got 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 150, 180, 220, 250, 272.15.
45:44Worth $953,000.
45:48There we go.
45:49Yeah.
45:50Nice.
45:50That's not bad.
45:52Anyway, Bob took a hike this week.
45:56Yeah.
45:56A lot of pieces to move and never moves fast enough.
46:00It's so busy around here that it's hard to be in every place at once, so.
46:05You want to do Bob?
46:06Bob's total in the bridge cut last week was 188.4 ounces.
46:12Here we go.
46:13Here's Bob.
46:1620, 50, 70, 96.5.
46:25Worth $338,000.
46:27Short week, you've got to expect it, right?
46:30Oh, plant move.
46:31Yeah.
46:32How's our little extension treating us here at Sulphur?
46:35While Tyson's worked Dominion, Mitch has been looking for gold left behind by the old-timers
46:42on Sulphur Creek.
46:43So far, it's been averaging 290 ounces a week.
46:49And we got 60, 120, 200.
46:56Keep her going.
46:57Keep her going.
46:58280.
46:59Oh, we're going to do it.
47:02Did we do it?
47:02302.
47:04Worth just over $1 million.
47:08Holy .
47:10You pulled three again, buddy.
47:11Yeah.
47:13Tyson, you're getting smoked, buddy.
47:17Let's see what the book says.
47:20This week, we have 670.65.
47:24Our season total so far this year is 3,541 ounces.
47:29Close to $12.5 million worth of gold.
47:34Sweet.
47:35If we can keep this going, it'll be great.
47:39What?
47:40Sweet.
47:41Yeah, I mean, what, what, you want me to get a, you want me to do a dance?
47:45Yeah, I want to see you there.
47:46I'm not going to do a dance.
47:49Well, should we go finish her off and get a plant move, buddy?
47:51All right, gentlemen.
47:52Thank you, Chris.
47:52Yep.
47:53See you, man.
47:54Thanks, Larry.
47:54Take care.
47:55See you, Chris.
47:55Good morning, guys.
47:56Yep.
47:56You're welcome, Chris.
47:57For me, Chris.
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