1 00:00:01,413 --> 00:00:03,413 [narrator] On this Gold Rush... 2 00:00:05,310 --> 00:00:08,170 -...late in the season... -[explosion] 3 00:00:08,206 --> 00:00:11,336 ...Tony Beets faces an expensive decision. 4 00:00:12,275 --> 00:00:13,995 [Monica] Oh, yeah. That'll do it. 5 00:00:15,034 --> 00:00:16,664 [Tony speaking] 6 00:00:16,689 --> 00:00:18,589 We're losing 40 bucks a minute. 7 00:00:18,620 --> 00:00:21,170 We're at the end of the season. Every second counts. 8 00:00:21,206 --> 00:00:25,896 [narrator] Rick Ness' crew faces devastating news. 9 00:00:25,931 --> 00:00:28,411 I have a tumor inside me on my lung. I got one on my spine. 10 00:00:28,448 --> 00:00:31,138 Talked to my doctor, he wants me to go under the knife. 11 00:00:33,275 --> 00:00:35,715 Everyone's on edge. Break one of the pieces of equipment here, 12 00:00:35,758 --> 00:00:37,208 we are [bleep]. 13 00:00:38,379 --> 00:00:40,339 We're all in on this right now. 14 00:00:40,379 --> 00:00:43,339 [narrator] And Fred Lewis and his band of brothers... 15 00:00:43,379 --> 00:00:46,309 This Mayor's Cut could be the last chance to hit good ground. 16 00:00:46,344 --> 00:00:48,664 -Holy crap. -[narrator] ...go dark... 17 00:00:48,689 --> 00:00:51,029 Looks like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 18 00:00:51,068 --> 00:00:53,408 -[narrator] ...to save their season. -Whoa! Whoa! 19 00:00:53,448 --> 00:00:55,928 -[rumbling] -Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Oh! 20 00:01:23,344 --> 00:01:24,974 [narrator] King of the Klondike, 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,170 Tony Beets is fighting 22 00:01:27,206 --> 00:01:29,856 through the shortest mining season ever. 23 00:01:29,896 --> 00:01:32,136 In the next couple of weeks, 24 00:01:32,172 --> 00:01:34,902 the temperatures will plunge below freezing 25 00:01:34,931 --> 00:01:38,791 and his chance of cashing in on record-high gold prices 26 00:01:38,827 --> 00:01:40,237 will be over. 27 00:01:53,896 --> 00:01:55,686 [narrator] To stay on track, 28 00:01:55,724 --> 00:01:58,724 Tony has daughter Monica running the wash plant 29 00:01:58,758 --> 00:02:02,338 at the mega cut, along with childhood friend, 30 00:02:02,379 --> 00:02:06,239 an honorary Beets family member, Ruby Mahoney. 31 00:02:06,275 --> 00:02:09,205 Great as this material is, it's been some of the most 32 00:02:09,241 --> 00:02:11,381 difficult material that I've had to run. 33 00:02:11,413 --> 00:02:15,243 And all of these big rocks are beating up our plant really hard. 34 00:02:21,206 --> 00:02:23,406 Oh, [bleep] me. 35 00:02:25,965 --> 00:02:29,065 Hey, can I get somebody on the water? We're shutting down. 36 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,620 [plant stops] 37 00:02:36,655 --> 00:02:39,375 - Kevin, do you copy? Kevin. -[Kevin on radio] Go for Kevin. Go for Kevin. 38 00:02:39,413 --> 00:02:41,173 [Monica] I'm gonna need your assistance. 39 00:02:41,206 --> 00:02:42,786 [Kevin] Okay. 40 00:02:45,862 --> 00:02:48,522 Went to get in my truck, I looked over, 41 00:02:48,551 --> 00:02:51,211 water flowing out of this one. Water flowing out of this one. 42 00:02:51,241 --> 00:02:53,171 And there was so much back pressure 43 00:02:53,206 --> 00:02:54,276 that these lids... 44 00:02:55,655 --> 00:03:00,475 ...that you see right here and sit like so, blew up. 45 00:03:01,793 --> 00:03:05,553 [narrator] The mega cut trommel sifts out large rocks 46 00:03:05,586 --> 00:03:08,716 and sends fine material into a distributor. 47 00:03:08,758 --> 00:03:13,338 From there, six chutes evenly feed the sluice runs. 48 00:03:13,379 --> 00:03:16,029 But large rocks have blocked the chutes, 49 00:03:16,068 --> 00:03:20,168 and the built-up pressure has blown up the inspection lids. 50 00:03:22,827 --> 00:03:26,447 You're literally blowing material and putting it right there. 51 00:03:26,482 --> 00:03:28,002 There is not in the sluice box, 52 00:03:28,034 --> 00:03:29,724 which means that does me no [bleep] good. 53 00:03:30,793 --> 00:03:32,553 [narrator] Monica calls on brother 54 00:03:32,586 --> 00:03:34,616 -and master mechanic Kevin... -[Monica] Oh. 55 00:03:34,655 --> 00:03:37,025 ...to get them back up and running. 56 00:03:37,068 --> 00:03:38,448 [Kevin] What chute have clogged? 57 00:03:38,482 --> 00:03:39,932 -This one? -[Monica] These two. 58 00:03:39,965 --> 00:03:41,095 Lids blew right off. 59 00:03:41,137 --> 00:03:43,687 [bleep] like this does not belong in here. 60 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:45,074 [Kevin grunts] 61 00:03:45,103 --> 00:03:46,763 [Monica] What, Kevin? 62 00:03:46,793 --> 00:03:48,073 [Kevin] Yeah. 63 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:50,143 I wanna see inside the distributor box. 64 00:03:50,172 --> 00:03:52,002 [Monica] Does it look clogged from the top? 65 00:03:53,172 --> 00:03:55,622 [Kevin] No. Looks all right. 66 00:03:55,655 --> 00:03:57,825 [Monica] So either a hole in the punch plate, or 67 00:03:57,862 --> 00:04:00,382 the tailings are piling over. 68 00:04:00,413 --> 00:04:01,833 [Kevin] Yeah. One of those two. 69 00:04:01,862 --> 00:04:03,412 [Monica] Take a look. See, huh? 70 00:04:03,448 --> 00:04:04,928 [Kevin] Oh. Let's have a better look. Yeah. 71 00:04:10,586 --> 00:04:12,546 Oh, yeah, that'll do it. 72 00:04:12,586 --> 00:04:13,996 [Kevin] Huh? Yeah. 73 00:04:14,034 --> 00:04:16,414 [narrator] A foot-long hole in the punch plate 74 00:04:16,448 --> 00:04:20,068 is letting big rocks through and blocking the chutes. 75 00:04:20,103 --> 00:04:22,173 [Kevin] Hey, Tony. Hey, Tony. Can you come meet us 76 00:04:22,206 --> 00:04:25,446 by the, uh, punch plate on the trommel? 77 00:04:25,482 --> 00:04:27,382 [Tony on radio] 78 00:04:30,517 --> 00:04:31,787 Hey, Tony. 79 00:04:31,827 --> 00:04:33,587 I think I found where the rocks are coming from. 80 00:04:33,620 --> 00:04:34,860 Well, Monica found it. 81 00:04:38,103 --> 00:04:39,033 No. 82 00:04:40,551 --> 00:04:41,521 [Kevin] Yeah. 83 00:04:46,275 --> 00:04:47,895 It might be about time, you think? 84 00:04:47,931 --> 00:04:49,761 [Monica] I think spend a couple days, 85 00:04:49,793 --> 00:04:52,033 redo all the [bleep] punch plate. 86 00:04:52,068 --> 00:04:54,378 But then it's done, we don't have to worry about it for another 20 years. 87 00:04:54,413 --> 00:04:56,973 [Kevin] If we don't do this, we're just gonna have progressively 88 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,590 more and more downtime. 89 00:04:58,620 --> 00:04:59,720 More and more problems. 90 00:05:04,896 --> 00:05:06,096 [Kevin] Yeah. 91 00:05:08,896 --> 00:05:11,066 Sounds like a plan. Okay. 92 00:05:15,620 --> 00:05:18,280 [narrator] First, they'll remove the worn out punch plate 93 00:05:19,827 --> 00:05:22,587 and replace it with six 8-feet sections, 94 00:05:23,931 --> 00:05:26,311 then, weld the steel sections together 95 00:05:27,758 --> 00:05:29,448 and fix them to the trommel. 96 00:05:32,448 --> 00:05:33,998 Welder Cody Hunter 97 00:05:34,034 --> 00:05:37,484 cuts out the old punch plate with an acetylene torch. 98 00:05:45,517 --> 00:05:46,517 Heh. 99 00:06:22,689 --> 00:06:25,619 [narrator] A hundred miles east of Paradise Hill... 100 00:06:25,655 --> 00:06:28,135 [Rick] Ruby. Come here, babe. 101 00:06:28,172 --> 00:06:30,622 ...Rick Ness and his crew are gearing up 102 00:06:30,655 --> 00:06:32,715 for the final push of the season. 103 00:06:32,758 --> 00:06:33,898 [Carl] She definitely likes bacon. 104 00:06:33,931 --> 00:06:35,211 [Rick] Oh, yeah. She loves the bacon. 105 00:06:35,241 --> 00:06:37,451 Bacon's her thing. 106 00:06:37,482 --> 00:06:38,832 [bleep] 107 00:06:38,862 --> 00:06:40,522 [laughs] 108 00:06:40,551 --> 00:06:42,411 [Rick] You look like you're about to fall right to sleep anyway, Carl. 109 00:06:42,448 --> 00:06:44,518 I don't think coffee would keep you up. 110 00:06:44,551 --> 00:06:45,831 [Chris] Yo. [woman] Here you go. 111 00:06:45,862 --> 00:06:47,102 What am I supposed to do with that? 112 00:06:47,137 --> 00:06:49,207 [woman] I thought you needed some fruit in your life. 113 00:06:49,241 --> 00:06:50,791 [Rick] No, he ate an orange last year. 114 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:52,207 That's right. [laughs] 115 00:06:52,241 --> 00:06:54,761 Well, should we get up to work and continue on? 116 00:06:54,793 --> 00:06:57,723 Yeah, continue ripping on each other while we're working? 117 00:06:57,758 --> 00:07:00,168 Best time of the day. 118 00:07:00,206 --> 00:07:03,656 [narrator] With just weeks before winter shuts them down, 119 00:07:03,689 --> 00:07:07,829 Rick still needs 300 ounces to hit his season goal. 120 00:07:07,862 --> 00:07:09,342 To get him there, 121 00:07:09,379 --> 00:07:12,169 he's banking on the creek cut. 122 00:07:12,206 --> 00:07:15,306 The gold's been nice and steady unlike last year, 123 00:07:15,344 --> 00:07:17,694 which was a giant bust. Now this year just feels different. 124 00:07:17,724 --> 00:07:20,104 You know, it's, with even everything we're up against this year 125 00:07:20,137 --> 00:07:21,237 it's got a better vibe, 126 00:07:21,275 --> 00:07:22,825 and it's just going much better. 127 00:07:22,862 --> 00:07:24,902 But I still need to hit my 1,000-ounce target. 128 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,690 As long as we don't hit any major snags 129 00:07:28,724 --> 00:07:30,694 or we don't get frozen out too early, 130 00:07:30,724 --> 00:07:33,004 I think, uh, I think we're right on track. 131 00:07:39,551 --> 00:07:42,171 [narrator] Rock truck driver Chris Kruse 132 00:07:42,206 --> 00:07:45,336 hauls overburden from the cut. 133 00:07:45,379 --> 00:07:47,859 [Chris] Every bit of gold that we get out of this new cut 134 00:07:47,896 --> 00:07:50,686 is, uh, is gonna get us that much closer to our goal. 135 00:07:50,724 --> 00:07:52,694 That's, that's the objective right now. 136 00:07:52,724 --> 00:07:54,384 Get to our goal, 137 00:07:54,413 --> 00:07:57,833 um, maybe even go beyond our goal 138 00:07:57,862 --> 00:08:00,692 and, uh, get us back home to Milwaukee, man. 139 00:08:00,724 --> 00:08:02,974 Lots of good food. 140 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,830 We're getting close enough to the end here 141 00:08:04,862 --> 00:08:08,522 that I can, uh, I can more or less taste it. 142 00:08:08,551 --> 00:08:11,451 I'm really missing pizza from back home.[laughs] 143 00:08:11,482 --> 00:08:16,142 I have not found any decent pizza whatsoever. 144 00:08:16,172 --> 00:08:17,522 Chicken sandwich, 145 00:08:17,551 --> 00:08:19,791 tacos, crispy chicken tacos. 146 00:08:19,827 --> 00:08:21,237 Oh,[bleep]. 147 00:08:28,758 --> 00:08:32,758 We are kind of crushing the numbers here with a small amount of people. 148 00:08:34,862 --> 00:08:36,792 [narrator] Operator Mark Doverspike 149 00:08:36,827 --> 00:08:39,307 feeds the wash plant with gold-rich pay. 150 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:41,034 It's been work, 151 00:08:41,068 --> 00:08:43,828 and we've had some long days and things have been good. 152 00:08:43,862 --> 00:08:45,032 Like, we've been getting along. 153 00:08:45,068 --> 00:08:47,098 We've all been kind of[bleep]. 154 00:08:47,137 --> 00:08:49,237 Chatting on the radio and harassing each other. 155 00:08:49,275 --> 00:08:50,685 It's, uh, it's been good. 156 00:08:51,896 --> 00:08:55,406 I absolutely am here to 157 00:08:55,448 --> 00:08:56,968 get a gold bonus. 158 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,100 Basically, it's in everyone's best interest 159 00:08:59,137 --> 00:09:02,657 to be on task, on time, getting this job done. 160 00:09:09,793 --> 00:09:11,033 Oh, my back. 161 00:09:11,068 --> 00:09:12,518 [groans] 162 00:09:12,551 --> 00:09:14,281 [narrator] Mechanic Carl Rosk 163 00:09:14,310 --> 00:09:18,140 needs to get the second rock truck running to keep the plant fed. 164 00:09:18,172 --> 00:09:20,622 Oh... Oh, yeah. 165 00:09:20,655 --> 00:09:22,235 Yeah, it's, It's been busy, man. 166 00:09:22,275 --> 00:09:24,895 Like, holy smokes, it's been busy. 167 00:09:24,931 --> 00:09:27,661 Finishing off a rock truck here that's been 168 00:09:27,689 --> 00:09:31,139 broken down for a while. So we finally got parts for it. So... 169 00:09:31,172 --> 00:09:33,552 You gotta fix the leak up on the valve cover, so... 170 00:09:33,586 --> 00:09:35,096 Just trying to get it all done. 171 00:09:36,931 --> 00:09:38,381 Mechanical stuff fails. 172 00:09:38,413 --> 00:09:40,903 It just happens, really. That's why I have a job. 173 00:09:40,931 --> 00:09:42,931 So, gotta keep the boys happy there, 174 00:09:42,965 --> 00:09:44,715 and we're getting there just slowly, right? 175 00:09:45,758 --> 00:09:46,968 -[cell phone chimes] -Yeah. 176 00:09:56,241 --> 00:09:57,691 I just got a message here from my doctor 177 00:09:57,724 --> 00:09:59,974 that he wants me to call him asap, so. 178 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,760 it could be something to do with my back. 179 00:10:03,206 --> 00:10:04,616 [man] You doing okay? 180 00:10:04,655 --> 00:10:05,925 [narrator] Two years ago, 181 00:10:05,965 --> 00:10:09,445 Carl revealed he had a tumor growing on his spine. 182 00:10:10,931 --> 00:10:12,901 [Carl] I've got a lot of stuff on my plate right now, man. 183 00:10:12,931 --> 00:10:14,661 I have a tumor inside me on my lung. 184 00:10:14,689 --> 00:10:16,339 -I got one on my spine. - [bleep] 185 00:10:16,379 --> 00:10:17,589 And I got to get it looked at. 186 00:10:17,620 --> 00:10:19,690 -[bleep] man. - Yeah. 187 00:10:19,724 --> 00:10:21,344 Tumor? Like, do you have cancer? 188 00:10:21,379 --> 00:10:23,139 No. Well, that's, we got to check it out, right? 189 00:10:25,586 --> 00:10:28,406 [narrator] While the tumor turned out to be benign, 190 00:10:28,448 --> 00:10:31,308 it's left Carl in constant pain. 191 00:10:36,275 --> 00:10:38,755 [Rick on radio] Has anybody seen Carl? 192 00:10:38,793 --> 00:10:40,413 [Chris] I just saw him peel out of here. 193 00:10:40,448 --> 00:10:41,998 And he's heading out towards camp. 194 00:10:50,482 --> 00:10:52,072 What's up, man? 195 00:10:53,310 --> 00:10:56,240 Yeah, I have a little bad news here, dude. So... 196 00:10:56,275 --> 00:10:59,515 Um, I talked to my doctor, and he wants me 197 00:10:59,551 --> 00:11:02,241 to go under the knife, like, right now. 198 00:11:02,275 --> 00:11:03,825 -Holy [bleep]. - Yeah. 199 00:11:03,862 --> 00:11:05,792 It's, like, non-negotiable, right? Like, it's... 200 00:11:05,827 --> 00:11:08,967 -Special surgeon, -So you got to go right away. 201 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 [narrator] Carl's surgeon has a slot for him to remove the tumor. 202 00:11:13,034 --> 00:11:16,794 If he can get to the hospital in Kelowna, BC, 203 00:11:16,827 --> 00:11:20,137 a thousand miles away in just three days. 204 00:11:21,379 --> 00:11:23,409 And then it's, like, uh, they haven't really been 205 00:11:23,448 --> 00:11:25,308 telling me what kind of recovery I'm gonna be, right? 206 00:11:25,344 --> 00:11:27,454 Like, am I gonna be able to come back to get everything, right? 207 00:11:27,482 --> 00:11:29,522 Because I got to leave in such short notice, right? So... 208 00:11:29,551 --> 00:11:32,831 Yeah. Well, I, uh, none of that should matter. 209 00:11:32,862 --> 00:11:34,482 I mean, it's... I've been watching you 210 00:11:34,517 --> 00:11:36,717 [bleep] limp around for last couple years, right? 211 00:11:36,758 --> 00:11:38,338 -Yeah. - It's about time. 212 00:11:38,379 --> 00:11:40,659 It's gonna hurt us, like, you're my[bleep] guy here, right? 213 00:11:40,689 --> 00:11:42,589 - Like, this place doesn't go without you. -Yeah. 214 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:44,450 -But... - I feel like I'm letting everybody down. 215 00:11:44,482 --> 00:11:45,762 No, no, you shouldn't. 216 00:11:45,793 --> 00:11:47,343 I mean, I was shocked at first, Carl, 217 00:11:47,379 --> 00:11:48,589 but honestly, I'm happy for you. 218 00:11:48,620 --> 00:11:50,720 - And I hate seeing you like that. So... -Yeah. 219 00:11:50,758 --> 00:11:53,068 You think about it, Carl. You won't have to do that all the time. 220 00:11:53,103 --> 00:11:54,903 I know. I can't wait. 221 00:11:54,931 --> 00:11:58,281 [bleep], man. You'll be back to backflips on your dirt bike in a month. 222 00:11:58,310 --> 00:11:59,720 [laughs] I appreciate it, dude. 223 00:11:59,758 --> 00:12:01,788 - I really appreciate it, man. Thanks, Rick. -Yeah. 224 00:12:01,827 --> 00:12:03,827 -And actually... -Yeah. 225 00:12:03,862 --> 00:12:06,972 -I love you, buddy. -I love you, man. 226 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,100 You're gonna be a new man, Carl. 227 00:12:08,137 --> 00:12:09,717 You're gonna be a new man. 228 00:12:09,758 --> 00:12:11,658 You know, losing my mom a couple years ago, 229 00:12:11,689 --> 00:12:14,099 it helped me realize, you know, that health is really important. 230 00:12:14,137 --> 00:12:18,067 And, you know, it's, uh, it's about time he gets that surgery 231 00:12:18,103 --> 00:12:20,693 and it's gonna hurt us really bad not having him here. 232 00:12:20,724 --> 00:12:23,454 Um, but, honestly, it's what's best for him, 233 00:12:23,482 --> 00:12:24,622 and I'm happy for him. 234 00:12:28,344 --> 00:12:30,724 [Carl] We're, uh, heading to Whitehorse, 235 00:12:30,758 --> 00:12:32,588 I'm gonna get on a plane and head to Kelowna. 236 00:12:34,172 --> 00:12:35,902 And we're gonna get this done finally, so... 237 00:12:35,931 --> 00:12:38,931 A little, uh, anxious, I guess. But, uh, 238 00:12:39,896 --> 00:12:43,136 be nice to be pain-free. Leaving the crew 239 00:12:43,172 --> 00:12:46,592 at the worst possible time, but, uh, you know, 240 00:12:46,620 --> 00:12:48,970 finally gonna get her done. So, I am ready. 241 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,830 I will be back. So I'm leaving my stuff all here. 242 00:12:50,862 --> 00:12:53,972 I'm leaving my dog. So, yeah, I got to come back, so... 243 00:12:56,551 --> 00:12:58,691 Oh, yeah, I know. 244 00:12:58,724 --> 00:13:00,484 He thinks he's coming with me but he's not. 245 00:13:00,517 --> 00:13:01,757 I'm sorry, you can't come. 246 00:13:02,862 --> 00:13:04,972 Yeah. Thinks he's coming. 247 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,480 I'm sorry, buddy. You can't come with me, you know? 248 00:13:07,517 --> 00:13:10,377 I know, I know, I know. 249 00:13:10,413 --> 00:13:12,033 [engine starts] 250 00:13:34,103 --> 00:13:36,073 Last week, Tony had to leave. 251 00:13:36,103 --> 00:13:37,793 I've got Stuart running water. 252 00:13:37,827 --> 00:13:40,547 I got Stefan down here digging dirt. 253 00:13:40,586 --> 00:13:42,476 I got Alex up on the hill, 254 00:13:42,517 --> 00:13:45,687 feeding the Colonel, both loaders moving dirt. 255 00:13:45,724 --> 00:13:47,344 Everything's going great. 256 00:13:47,379 --> 00:13:48,859 We're back to business. 257 00:13:48,896 --> 00:13:51,206 [narrator] In Oregon's Elkhorn Mountains, 258 00:13:51,241 --> 00:13:54,141 ex-Special Forces medic Fred Lewis 259 00:13:54,172 --> 00:13:56,412 is fighting to keep his dream alive. 260 00:13:57,241 --> 00:13:59,901 Last week, Fred opened up a new cut 261 00:13:59,931 --> 00:14:02,281 on the site of the old Mayor's house 262 00:14:02,310 --> 00:14:05,720 in the hope of finding virgin ground. 263 00:14:05,758 --> 00:14:08,478 [Fred] This Mayor's Cut could be 264 00:14:08,517 --> 00:14:11,307 our last chance to hit good ground. 265 00:14:11,344 --> 00:14:13,624 [narrator] If Fred's hunch proves right, 266 00:14:13,655 --> 00:14:17,585 the new cut could turn his season around. 267 00:14:17,620 --> 00:14:19,590 We're all in on this right now. 268 00:14:23,758 --> 00:14:26,138 [Kyle] Got a nice system set up. 269 00:14:26,172 --> 00:14:29,002 Well, we're able to keep up with the two excavators. 270 00:14:31,241 --> 00:14:34,521 [narrator] Kyle Pletzke uses the 988 loader 271 00:14:34,551 --> 00:14:36,621 to run paydirt through the grizzly bars 272 00:14:36,655 --> 00:14:38,445 to filter out heavy rocks. 273 00:14:40,689 --> 00:14:42,719 [Kyle] I've got this big old dinosaur, 274 00:14:42,758 --> 00:14:44,688 and she can really move the pay. 275 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:49,900 Seems to be going really well. 276 00:14:49,931 --> 00:14:51,691 [narrator] In the smaller L60, 277 00:14:53,931 --> 00:14:55,591 foreman Kendell Madden 278 00:14:55,620 --> 00:14:58,520 transports the pay to the wash plant. 279 00:14:58,551 --> 00:14:59,901 [Kendell] Moving a lot of dirt. 280 00:15:01,586 --> 00:15:04,966 Operating nice and smooth. That's what we like to see. 281 00:15:12,517 --> 00:15:14,757 [narrator] Former Sergeant Stuart McKenzie 282 00:15:14,793 --> 00:15:16,483 is on water duty. 283 00:15:16,517 --> 00:15:18,307 [Stuart] Kind of inherited the pump. 284 00:15:18,344 --> 00:15:19,414 It's a pain in the ass. 285 00:15:19,448 --> 00:15:21,478 But I've kind of become a jack of all trades, 286 00:15:21,517 --> 00:15:23,137 master of none. 287 00:15:23,172 --> 00:15:26,102 To whatever comes to mind. So I have done a little bit of everything, so... 288 00:15:26,137 --> 00:15:28,377 Kind of sucks, though, because, uh, 289 00:15:28,413 --> 00:15:31,033 we really don't have that much gold at this moment in time. 290 00:15:32,103 --> 00:15:35,213 4-0 P.S.I. Fred, 4-0 P.S.I. 291 00:15:35,241 --> 00:15:36,381 Copy. 292 00:15:36,413 --> 00:15:38,523 Yo, what the [bleep]? 293 00:15:43,551 --> 00:15:46,381 [bleep] This thing's overheatin' bad. 294 00:15:52,379 --> 00:15:54,549 Fred, yo, we've got an issue, dude. 295 00:15:54,586 --> 00:15:56,926 This thing is overheating. It's bad. 296 00:16:00,482 --> 00:16:06,102 Well, that is going to [bleep] up things, if that's not a quick fix. 297 00:16:06,137 --> 00:16:08,307 Holy crap. Listen to it. 298 00:16:08,827 --> 00:16:10,277 -Whoo! -That sucks. 299 00:16:11,034 --> 00:16:13,074 Yeah, it could be a water pump, 300 00:16:13,103 --> 00:16:15,903 but we could be losing it to, uh, bad head gasket. 301 00:16:15,931 --> 00:16:17,241 That's a cheap part. 302 00:16:17,275 --> 00:16:20,025 However, timewise, it could be weeks 303 00:16:20,068 --> 00:16:22,308 to get that thing torn apart and get everything here that we need. 304 00:16:22,344 --> 00:16:24,974 -That's if they have the part anywhere near here. - Yeah. 305 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,210 [narrator] Without a licensed mechanic 306 00:16:27,241 --> 00:16:31,241 Fred and his crew must battle through on their own. 307 00:16:31,275 --> 00:16:32,785 Let's not cry over it. 308 00:16:32,827 --> 00:16:36,027 Uh, reality is we're gonna have to use the Volvo for everything now. 309 00:16:36,068 --> 00:16:38,068 We'll just have to keep it moving. 310 00:16:38,103 --> 00:16:39,793 Just look at our bucket standing here, man. 311 00:16:39,827 --> 00:16:42,027 I mean, I've got less than half the amount of yardage 312 00:16:42,068 --> 00:16:43,998 that I can move at one time. 313 00:16:44,034 --> 00:16:46,244 [narrator] With its three-yard bucket, 314 00:16:46,275 --> 00:16:50,715 the L60 is less than half the size of the 988. 315 00:16:50,758 --> 00:16:52,658 Okay, well, I'll put my head around this. 316 00:16:52,689 --> 00:16:55,139 In the meantime, do what we gotta do 317 00:16:55,172 --> 00:16:56,762 to keep this one moving all the time. 318 00:16:56,793 --> 00:16:58,453 I'll give it my all. I'm not saying I won't, 319 00:16:58,482 --> 00:16:59,862 but I just want you to know ahead of time 320 00:16:59,896 --> 00:17:01,206 that I don't want this to fall on me 321 00:17:01,241 --> 00:17:02,411 if we start falling behind. 322 00:17:02,448 --> 00:17:03,788 No, it's not going to fall on you. 323 00:17:03,827 --> 00:17:05,997 It's going to fall on the fact that that has a 10-yard bucket 324 00:17:06,034 --> 00:17:07,724 and that has a 3-yard bucket. 325 00:17:12,344 --> 00:17:13,524 [engine starts] 326 00:17:13,551 --> 00:17:15,141 I've got more pay than I could put through the plant. 327 00:17:15,172 --> 00:17:17,282 That's probably the worst thing that could happen. 328 00:17:17,310 --> 00:17:19,590 If I can't put pay through the Colonel, 329 00:17:19,620 --> 00:17:22,070 I'm not going to get any gold, and the season's over. 330 00:17:23,275 --> 00:17:26,895 [narrator] Kyle now faces a Herculean task. 331 00:17:26,931 --> 00:17:30,971 [Kyle] I'm just gonna have to fly around here as fast as I can and try to keep up. 332 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,930 We've got to come all the way around top road... 333 00:17:38,344 --> 00:17:41,074 It's basically locked in. Got overburden on one side, 334 00:17:41,103 --> 00:17:42,033 pay on the other. 335 00:17:42,068 --> 00:17:44,238 It doesn't leave any room for me to hop in. 336 00:17:47,034 --> 00:17:50,484 [narrator] He has to collect pay at the Mayor's Cut, 337 00:17:50,517 --> 00:17:56,097 take it 100 yards along the upper road to the grizzly bars 338 00:17:56,137 --> 00:18:00,137 to filter out heavy rock, then run it to the plant. 339 00:18:02,241 --> 00:18:06,341 For every five trips, he must take away one load of tailings, 340 00:18:07,241 --> 00:18:09,831 return along the upper road, 341 00:18:09,862 --> 00:18:14,032 and dump in the old Swamp Cut before starting over again. 342 00:18:18,206 --> 00:18:19,756 Thank you. 343 00:18:19,793 --> 00:18:23,073 Just kind of constantly on me to keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. 344 00:18:23,103 --> 00:18:26,453 I got to go all the way back to the opposite side of the mine... 345 00:18:27,689 --> 00:18:30,279 get this pay over to the grizzly... 346 00:18:30,310 --> 00:18:34,000 Right now this motor won't run fast enough for me. 347 00:18:34,931 --> 00:18:36,101 I still have to be safe. 348 00:18:42,793 --> 00:18:45,723 Gonna run it through the grizzly. Pull it out of the grizzlies. 349 00:18:58,931 --> 00:19:00,411 From the grizzly's to the pay pile. 350 00:19:09,068 --> 00:19:11,138 Now for the tailings. 351 00:19:12,862 --> 00:19:14,452 It's probably a 10-minute round trip. 352 00:19:16,586 --> 00:19:20,376 Kyle was really having to work like a madman trying to keep up. 353 00:19:20,413 --> 00:19:21,593 I kind of feel bad... 354 00:19:21,620 --> 00:19:23,690 The faster I load, the more tailings I make... 355 00:19:23,724 --> 00:19:26,524 And, uh, well, the more he's got to work. 356 00:19:31,275 --> 00:19:33,375 Three buckets left, Fred. 357 00:19:33,413 --> 00:19:34,663 We're out of dirt! 358 00:19:34,689 --> 00:19:37,899 All our pay's been already processed through the Colonel. 359 00:19:37,931 --> 00:19:40,311 We gotta shut her down early. 360 00:19:40,344 --> 00:19:43,104 It's soul-crushing 'cause everything's working right now, 361 00:19:43,137 --> 00:19:45,827 but we just don't have pay 'cause we don't have the machines. 362 00:19:48,655 --> 00:19:50,965 Stuart, shut the water down, buddy! 363 00:19:53,896 --> 00:19:55,376 [Stuart] What the[bleep] now? 364 00:19:56,517 --> 00:19:58,237 We're out of pay, man. 365 00:19:58,275 --> 00:19:59,785 [Stuart] Already? 366 00:19:59,827 --> 00:20:02,447 - It's not possible, is it? -Sucks, you know? 367 00:20:02,482 --> 00:20:03,482 [bleep] Damn it. 368 00:20:04,517 --> 00:20:06,477 We're going to have to do something else. 369 00:20:06,517 --> 00:20:08,617 Keep that Volvo running full-time. 370 00:20:10,034 --> 00:20:11,694 We're gonna have to do night shifts, I think. 371 00:20:11,724 --> 00:20:13,344 That's the only way to do it. 372 00:20:13,379 --> 00:20:14,929 Yeah. 373 00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:17,785 Stockpiling day and night, keep the plant up and running. 374 00:20:18,931 --> 00:20:21,621 So I'm going to put you, Kendall, and Alex. 375 00:20:21,655 --> 00:20:23,275 'Cause you guys all have the most experience. 376 00:20:23,310 --> 00:20:24,790 Give it a good week. 377 00:20:24,827 --> 00:20:27,097 Let's just do a whole week of night shifts and see how that helps. 378 00:20:27,137 --> 00:20:28,757 - Gotta do something, man. -All right, man, 379 00:20:28,793 --> 00:20:29,973 All right. 380 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,310 Decided it was the best thing to do. 381 00:20:31,344 --> 00:20:33,174 Pretty much going to try and keep things moving constantly. 382 00:20:33,206 --> 00:20:34,786 If we can stockpile enough pay 383 00:20:34,827 --> 00:20:37,277 and we get everything set so the night crew could run... 384 00:20:37,310 --> 00:20:39,620 pull every bit of dirt out of here we can. 385 00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:44,205 [narrator] To get the plant back up and running, Fred orders a split shift. 386 00:20:44,241 --> 00:20:48,281 The day crew uses the loader to stockpile pay. 387 00:20:48,310 --> 00:20:51,480 Then, the late shift will use the same loader 388 00:20:51,517 --> 00:20:54,067 to feed the wash plant and remove tailings. 389 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,830 [Fred] How's it going? It's Fred. 390 00:21:02,862 --> 00:21:07,482 [narrator] Fred calls the claim owner who leased him the 988. 391 00:21:07,517 --> 00:21:09,997 Well, good and not good. 392 00:21:10,034 --> 00:21:11,384 Everything is going good, 393 00:21:11,413 --> 00:21:14,973 except... I think the 988 is done. 394 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,690 Um, Kyle, being the one that operates it the most, 395 00:21:18,724 --> 00:21:21,004 seems to think it's the head gasket. 396 00:21:21,034 --> 00:21:22,904 [owner over phone] Well, I don't know what to tell you, Fred. 397 00:21:22,931 --> 00:21:24,721 It's gonna take three weeks. 398 00:21:24,758 --> 00:21:26,168 So what do you want to do? 399 00:21:28,896 --> 00:21:30,476 All right. Well, let me get back to you, 400 00:21:30,517 --> 00:21:31,757 and we'll talk about it in a little bit. 401 00:21:31,793 --> 00:21:32,833 [owner] All right. 402 00:21:32,862 --> 00:21:35,142 [bleep] that. I'm just gonna use the money 403 00:21:35,172 --> 00:21:36,972 that I would have used in that [bleep] loader 404 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,590 to get another one. He's not getting it done. 405 00:21:45,517 --> 00:21:49,097 [narrator] With enough pay stockpiled to run for at least five hours, 406 00:21:50,724 --> 00:21:53,104 it's time for the first night shift. 407 00:21:54,103 --> 00:21:56,103 All right, everything's looking good, gents. 408 00:21:58,172 --> 00:22:00,692 Pretty sunset on the mine, but you know what? 409 00:22:00,724 --> 00:22:02,414 I don't have enough time to look up and enjoy it. 410 00:22:02,448 --> 00:22:05,138 Got to keep my nose down on the ground and... 411 00:22:05,172 --> 00:22:06,212 keep on working hard. 412 00:22:09,448 --> 00:22:11,138 Down here at the Mayor's Cut now, 413 00:22:11,172 --> 00:22:15,212 the longer we can run, better chances we have 414 00:22:15,241 --> 00:22:17,001 to find as much gold as possible. 415 00:22:37,034 --> 00:22:39,384 You know, running this without Carl, is just, uh... 416 00:22:39,413 --> 00:22:42,903 it's so beyond not ideal that it's not even funny. 417 00:22:42,931 --> 00:22:44,761 You know, it's flat-out scary. 418 00:22:45,931 --> 00:22:47,791 [narrator] At Lower Duncan Creek, 419 00:22:47,827 --> 00:22:51,447 mechanic Carl Rosk has left the claim for urgent surgery. 420 00:22:52,827 --> 00:22:55,167 Carl, you know, my buddy, my mechanic, 421 00:22:55,206 --> 00:22:57,996 and he's, uh... he's gonna be sorely missed. 422 00:22:58,034 --> 00:23:00,554 Man, it's just, uh... I'm not going to let my guard down. 423 00:23:00,586 --> 00:23:04,406 I'm very, very aware what time of year it is, and how every second counts. 424 00:23:06,793 --> 00:23:09,663 I miss the guy. It's not easy not having a friend here 425 00:23:09,689 --> 00:23:11,139 and not having a buddy to work with. 426 00:23:12,482 --> 00:23:13,662 And so is not having a mechanic. 427 00:23:13,689 --> 00:23:16,069 It's really, really not fun either. 428 00:23:16,103 --> 00:23:17,623 We're gonna have two down rock trucks, 429 00:23:17,655 --> 00:23:19,235 so everyone's on edge... 430 00:23:19,724 --> 00:23:21,314 not to break anything. 431 00:23:21,344 --> 00:23:24,314 'Cause you break one of the pieces of equipment here, we are [bleep]. 432 00:23:24,344 --> 00:23:25,524 I'm not a full-time mechanic, 433 00:23:25,551 --> 00:23:27,211 I can't run the computers. 434 00:23:27,241 --> 00:23:30,101 I can do small fixes, a little bit of welding, a little bit of wrenching... 435 00:23:30,137 --> 00:23:32,337 To bring up another mechanic here is... 436 00:23:32,379 --> 00:23:33,759 It's a... it's a long call, 437 00:23:33,793 --> 00:23:36,283 especially at the tail end of this season right now. 438 00:23:36,310 --> 00:23:39,790 We lost a day's... we're losing thousands and thousands of dollars. 439 00:23:47,758 --> 00:23:52,168 We lost Carl, which is, uh, super unfortunate. 440 00:23:52,206 --> 00:23:56,206 You know, if he's not busy pulling wrenches, he'll jump a machine. 441 00:23:56,241 --> 00:23:58,411 You know, he'll do whatever needs to be done. 442 00:23:58,448 --> 00:23:59,858 And that's what we're gonna lose. 443 00:24:03,896 --> 00:24:05,376 What in the[bleep] is going on here? 444 00:24:05,413 --> 00:24:06,483 Why will you not dig? 445 00:24:08,689 --> 00:24:09,759 [bleep] 446 00:24:11,034 --> 00:24:12,414 [bleep] Gotta be kidding me. 447 00:24:13,965 --> 00:24:17,025 Something's going on with the bucket on this thing. Damn it! 448 00:24:26,896 --> 00:24:29,236 [Rick] I'm in the 700, yeah. Something's going on with it now, 449 00:24:29,275 --> 00:24:31,065 I'm going to need you to come out here and take a look at this thing. 450 00:24:32,758 --> 00:24:35,658 [Ben on phone] On my way, boss. Heading there now. 451 00:24:35,689 --> 00:24:37,829 [narrator] At Lower Duncan Creek, 452 00:24:37,862 --> 00:24:40,862 Rick Ness is without a mechanic 453 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:45,826 and his 700 excavator is down with a broken bucket. 454 00:24:45,862 --> 00:24:49,592 Former pipefitter Ben Bellai is the only crew member 455 00:24:49,620 --> 00:24:53,410 with enough welding experience to attempt the fix. 456 00:24:53,448 --> 00:24:55,968 This is the spot where I had Carl fix it last time. 457 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,210 Yep. 458 00:24:57,241 --> 00:24:59,761 He did not want to do it 'cause it's not right. 459 00:24:59,793 --> 00:25:03,143 So unfortunately, we're throwing one more [bleep] Band-Aid at it 460 00:25:03,172 --> 00:25:04,172 before we fix it right. 461 00:25:06,896 --> 00:25:10,276 [narrator] Two months ago, Carl welded the collar back on 462 00:25:10,310 --> 00:25:12,590 when it failed the first time. 463 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:14,830 How do we get this to work? 464 00:25:14,862 --> 00:25:16,932 Weld, weld, weld to make it tighter, right. 465 00:25:16,965 --> 00:25:19,615 Just trying to build this up more... ugly. 466 00:25:21,655 --> 00:25:23,965 I'll send this bucket out for you to fix properly this winter, 467 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,240 but we just need to get this [bleep] bucket off, 468 00:25:26,275 --> 00:25:27,585 re-weld this collar back on, 469 00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:29,170 just like Carl did, 470 00:25:29,206 --> 00:25:30,716 and slam it back in service. 471 00:25:30,758 --> 00:25:32,478 -[Ben] Sounds good. Get ready. -All right. 472 00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:36,550 [narrator] The bucket on the 700 excavator 473 00:25:36,586 --> 00:25:38,996 is connected to the arm by two pins 474 00:25:39,034 --> 00:25:41,214 and secured by welded columns. 475 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,660 Carl's weld has failed, causing the pin to loosen, making a bucket unusable. 476 00:25:50,758 --> 00:25:54,588 Now Rick and Ben must attempt to re-weld the collar. 477 00:26:03,758 --> 00:26:06,208 Harder. 478 00:26:06,241 --> 00:26:08,071 [Rick] We should be out in the field, moving dirt, you know. 479 00:26:08,103 --> 00:26:10,243 It's a big push here at the end of season. 480 00:26:10,275 --> 00:26:12,065 You know, Carl's off to get better, 481 00:26:12,103 --> 00:26:13,933 and it's up to us to keep things going. 482 00:26:13,965 --> 00:26:17,375 I mean, uh, we have to finish this strong for him, you know? 483 00:26:17,413 --> 00:26:18,863 How are you, buddy? 484 00:26:18,896 --> 00:26:20,586 Missin' his Dad. Look at that sad face. 485 00:26:21,965 --> 00:26:23,995 Oh, the tow hauler just pulled in. 486 00:26:24,034 --> 00:26:24,934 Good. 487 00:26:30,482 --> 00:26:31,482 Perfect. 488 00:26:32,275 --> 00:26:33,405 Yep. 489 00:26:33,448 --> 00:26:35,858 There we go. [bleep] yeah, buddy! 490 00:26:38,862 --> 00:26:39,832 [Rick] Bingo. 491 00:26:39,862 --> 00:26:40,792 [bleep] yeah! 492 00:26:48,172 --> 00:26:51,762 The collar, boss, is gonna go back onto this side right here, 493 00:26:51,793 --> 00:26:53,073 and it's gonna be all lined up. 494 00:26:53,103 --> 00:26:55,723 This is gonna be flush to kind of look like this. 495 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,340 -Let's make it happen. - You got some work. 496 00:27:06,827 --> 00:27:08,307 Every minute that this machine's down, 497 00:27:08,344 --> 00:27:09,934 we're falling behind out on the cut, right? 498 00:27:09,965 --> 00:27:12,685 And at the end of the season like this, it's not where you want to be, 499 00:27:12,724 --> 00:27:14,554 like, we had so much [bleep] happen, 500 00:27:14,586 --> 00:27:16,586 we had to scramble, like, to get this creek cut going, 501 00:27:16,620 --> 00:27:19,100 like, we're barely... barely staying ahead. 502 00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:21,657 And something like this could, uh, you know, derail everything. 503 00:27:21,689 --> 00:27:24,099 So we need to get this thing hammered back together quick 504 00:27:24,137 --> 00:27:25,927 and get it back out in the field, digging. 505 00:27:27,586 --> 00:27:28,756 I can smell my hair burning! 506 00:27:30,689 --> 00:27:31,859 Let's start doing some grinding. 507 00:27:39,965 --> 00:27:41,785 Sent a little video of Champ to Carl 508 00:27:41,827 --> 00:27:43,407 while he's waiting for surgery, 509 00:27:43,448 --> 00:27:48,448 -His dog being a... absolute maniac... -[barking] 510 00:27:48,482 --> 00:27:49,862 ...like normal. 511 00:27:51,655 --> 00:27:53,855 So, this is all cleaned up now, 512 00:27:53,896 --> 00:27:56,336 all the welds are gone, it's level and all we have to do 513 00:27:56,379 --> 00:27:58,279 is put the pin in through here 514 00:27:58,310 --> 00:28:02,380 and line everything up, tack all around it and weld her up. 515 00:28:02,413 --> 00:28:03,973 -All right. Ready? -Yeah. 516 00:28:10,655 --> 00:28:11,475 Nice. 517 00:28:12,689 --> 00:28:13,619 [soft grunt] 518 00:28:14,793 --> 00:28:15,723 [chuckles] 519 00:28:17,275 --> 00:28:18,995 It's looking pretty good. Not that much play. 520 00:28:20,896 --> 00:28:23,656 Okay. [chuckles] Okay, I got to go work. 521 00:28:23,689 --> 00:28:24,759 Stop it. 522 00:28:24,793 --> 00:28:25,723 Yeah. 523 00:28:28,793 --> 00:28:30,933 Looks fine. Should go back together. 524 00:28:30,965 --> 00:28:32,785 Just gonna take a hell of a lot of heating and welding, 525 00:28:32,827 --> 00:28:34,967 and it should do the job. 526 00:28:38,344 --> 00:28:39,664 Holy [bleep]. 527 00:28:39,689 --> 00:28:40,829 Your dad is not gonna be happy. 528 00:28:41,758 --> 00:28:42,998 [welding continues] 529 00:28:45,586 --> 00:28:46,996 A lot of uh... 530 00:28:48,206 --> 00:28:50,236 A lot of a lot of work to get that thing done. 531 00:28:50,275 --> 00:28:52,445 I think Carl would be happy about it. 532 00:28:52,482 --> 00:28:54,072 [bleep] yeah. 533 00:28:54,103 --> 00:28:55,933 He'd be even happier that he didn't have to do it. 534 00:28:56,862 --> 00:28:57,722 [grunting] 535 00:28:57,758 --> 00:28:59,828 [bleep] yeah. We got it, buddy. 536 00:28:59,862 --> 00:29:01,342 -[bleep] Nice job. -Yeah. 537 00:29:01,379 --> 00:29:03,139 Nice work. 538 00:29:03,172 --> 00:29:05,032 Why the [bleep] do I even have Carl here? 539 00:29:05,068 --> 00:29:07,378 [laughing] 540 00:29:07,413 --> 00:29:10,033 [narrator] Thanks to Ben's welding skills, 541 00:29:10,068 --> 00:29:14,788 the 700 is back in the game, and Rick is back on the gold. 542 00:29:26,862 --> 00:29:29,382 Oh, yeah, This turned into quite a [bleep] project, eh? 543 00:29:29,413 --> 00:29:31,343 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, 544 00:29:31,379 --> 00:29:34,069 with the mining season slipping away, 545 00:29:34,103 --> 00:29:37,723 Tony Beets' operation has been down for five days 546 00:29:37,758 --> 00:29:39,788 as Cody and Brendan race 547 00:29:39,827 --> 00:29:42,967 to finish welding the new punch plate into place. 548 00:29:49,517 --> 00:29:51,447 Do you want to weld these, Tony? 549 00:29:51,482 --> 00:29:52,902 [Tony speaking] 550 00:29:55,758 --> 00:29:59,408 [narrator] They've only completed two-thirds of the project. 551 00:30:54,103 --> 00:30:57,723 [Kevin] So, I did the math. It works out to about 40 bucks a minute. 552 00:30:57,758 --> 00:31:00,998 That's more than most folks bring home in an hour. 553 00:31:01,034 --> 00:31:03,284 We're losing that every minute the plant's not running. 554 00:31:03,310 --> 00:31:06,790 Assuming only getting a single ounce per hour. 555 00:31:06,827 --> 00:31:10,857 If we're getting two ounces, it's double. Three ounces, triple. 556 00:31:10,896 --> 00:31:13,826 So hope you all can understand why we're a bit keen 557 00:31:13,862 --> 00:31:18,032 to keep the plant going as much as possible in the limited time we have. 558 00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:21,519 Oh! 559 00:31:34,241 --> 00:31:36,591 -The old fellow is not real [bleep] happy about it. -No. 560 00:31:36,620 --> 00:31:38,070 Sucks being down. 561 00:31:38,103 --> 00:31:40,173 Yeah, all right. Let's hit her. 562 00:31:51,448 --> 00:31:55,588 [narrator] Day six, and still no gold to show for the week. 563 00:32:08,586 --> 00:32:10,166 [Kevin] Yeah. 564 00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:13,901 What do you wanna do with these end pieces here? 565 00:32:13,931 --> 00:32:15,861 Nothing? 566 00:32:18,551 --> 00:32:19,661 Okay. 567 00:32:22,896 --> 00:32:23,896 All right. 568 00:32:25,551 --> 00:32:29,241 [narrator] Already down $300,000 in lost gold, 569 00:32:29,275 --> 00:32:33,615 Tony wastes no time getting the trommel back up and running. 570 00:32:47,448 --> 00:32:49,408 [engine starts] 571 00:32:53,206 --> 00:32:56,656 [Monica] Super-excited to get back to sluicing. 572 00:32:58,862 --> 00:33:00,662 [Kevin] All right, copy. Firing up. 573 00:33:00,689 --> 00:33:02,449 Let me know when the water shows up. 574 00:33:04,862 --> 00:33:06,662 [explosion] 575 00:33:14,517 --> 00:33:17,477 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, Tony Beets is ready 576 00:33:17,517 --> 00:33:22,137 to fire up his trommel after six days of repairs. 577 00:33:22,172 --> 00:33:23,552 [explosion] 578 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,590 [Tony laughing] 579 00:33:34,034 --> 00:33:36,074 [Monica] Yeah, real refreshing. 580 00:33:40,068 --> 00:33:43,208 So we've always had a little bit of a leak where this 581 00:33:43,241 --> 00:33:47,861 hose and valve connect to the 12-inch pipe there. 582 00:33:47,896 --> 00:33:51,406 But, uh, I guess it decided when everything was shut off 583 00:33:51,448 --> 00:33:54,068 that it was gonna be [clicks tongue] extra loose. 584 00:34:19,448 --> 00:34:20,658 Okay. 585 00:34:39,241 --> 00:34:40,931 [Monica] Super-cool. 586 00:35:04,896 --> 00:35:06,716 I see a huge pile of pay in front of us, 587 00:35:06,758 --> 00:35:09,618 so that's movement in the right direction. 588 00:35:09,655 --> 00:35:13,135 [narrator] At the Elkhorn claim with just one loader, 589 00:35:13,172 --> 00:35:16,312 Fred Lewis' crew is working split shifts 590 00:35:16,344 --> 00:35:19,144 in the hope of a big payout from the Mayor's cut. 591 00:35:19,172 --> 00:35:21,212 I know this next few weeks, 592 00:35:21,241 --> 00:35:23,551 it's actually pretty crucial. I'm a little bit nervous about it. 593 00:35:23,586 --> 00:35:26,026 If we don't get anything, we're screwed. 594 00:35:27,758 --> 00:35:30,308 Oh, I see they put some more boulders in here. 595 00:35:32,793 --> 00:35:34,593 [narrator] Using the two excavators, 596 00:35:34,620 --> 00:35:37,100 Khara, Stuart and Stefan 597 00:35:37,137 --> 00:35:40,517 stockpile pay during the day shift. 598 00:35:40,551 --> 00:35:43,311 We've got high expectations for what we need to get done here. 599 00:35:43,344 --> 00:35:46,724 [narrator] Back at camp, Kyle, Kendall and Alex 600 00:35:46,758 --> 00:35:50,098 are ready for another night of feeding pay to the wash plant. 601 00:35:50,137 --> 00:35:52,307 -We'll get up there. -We got some work to do. 602 00:35:52,344 --> 00:35:54,454 Let's go do it. Can you throw me my jacket there? 603 00:35:54,482 --> 00:35:56,212 -Freaking cold. -Yeah, it's a little nippy. 604 00:36:01,793 --> 00:36:05,173 Got to give it up to Alex and Kyle, they're busting their asses. 605 00:36:05,206 --> 00:36:06,756 Love it. 606 00:36:06,793 --> 00:36:09,283 [Alex on radio] Bucket number 100 in the hopper. 607 00:36:09,310 --> 00:36:12,480 [Fred] Woo! Yee-haw! 608 00:36:12,517 --> 00:36:16,547 To be keeping things moving along smoothly... 609 00:36:19,206 --> 00:36:21,856 ...sometimes we even impress ourselves. 610 00:36:21,896 --> 00:36:25,136 Looks like Close Encounters of the Third Kindor something. 611 00:36:26,448 --> 00:36:28,548 Seems like we're doing well. We're doing things right. 612 00:36:28,586 --> 00:36:31,136 And we're working well together as a team. 613 00:36:31,172 --> 00:36:32,792 So far, so good. 614 00:36:38,965 --> 00:36:41,205 We've got a lot going against us right now, 615 00:36:41,241 --> 00:36:43,521 but for the most part we're running. 616 00:36:43,551 --> 00:36:44,831 That's all that matters. 617 00:36:44,862 --> 00:36:46,142 Whoa! Whoa! 618 00:36:47,758 --> 00:36:49,408 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 619 00:36:49,448 --> 00:36:51,068 Oh! 620 00:36:51,103 --> 00:36:54,243 -Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! -Stop, stop, stop, stop. 621 00:36:54,275 --> 00:36:55,405 Dude. 622 00:36:56,655 --> 00:36:59,165 I don't know if a rock slipped out under there or what. 623 00:36:59,206 --> 00:37:01,446 Their shift is getting a little tired or something. 624 00:37:01,482 --> 00:37:03,242 Dude, my fricking heart is racing. 625 00:37:03,275 --> 00:37:04,825 All of a sudden I'm just look over 626 00:37:04,862 --> 00:37:06,242 and I just see your whole thing 627 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:08,275 just start teetering sideways. 628 00:37:08,310 --> 00:37:10,930 I think you might have to help me back out of this, dude. This is a little sketchy. 629 00:37:10,965 --> 00:37:12,305 All right. Yeah. 630 00:37:14,206 --> 00:37:15,516 We got it. Just straight back. 631 00:37:19,241 --> 00:37:20,971 Let's not do that again, please. 632 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,170 -Yeah. I'll try not to. Man. - Sketchy night. 633 00:37:25,931 --> 00:37:27,031 Stay safe. 634 00:37:27,068 --> 00:37:28,828 Scared the living [bleep] out of me. 635 00:37:28,862 --> 00:37:30,482 Yeah, that makes two of us. 636 00:37:30,517 --> 00:37:34,617 [bleep] Let's, uh, let's keep all the wheels down on the ground, please. 637 00:37:34,655 --> 00:37:36,205 Yeah, sounds good, bro. 638 00:37:46,034 --> 00:37:48,664 Doing the night's been difficult and, you know, 639 00:37:48,689 --> 00:37:50,659 been really wearing on me personally. 640 00:37:54,379 --> 00:37:57,619 Go ahead and fix up the old 988. 641 00:37:57,655 --> 00:37:59,165 Not sure that's an option. 642 00:38:00,586 --> 00:38:03,206 [narrator] With his crew on their last legs, 643 00:38:03,241 --> 00:38:06,171 mine boss Fred has taken action. 644 00:38:06,206 --> 00:38:08,096 When I say all in, I mean all in. 645 00:38:08,137 --> 00:38:09,997 I'm gonna invest every penny I have 646 00:38:10,034 --> 00:38:11,244 to make this season successful. 647 00:38:11,275 --> 00:38:13,445 If this doesn't work, I'm gonna go down fighting. 648 00:38:15,448 --> 00:38:17,338 [narrator] Instead of taking three weeks 649 00:38:17,379 --> 00:38:21,069 to fix the 988, he's leased a replacement. 650 00:38:23,482 --> 00:38:25,452 [horns honking] 651 00:38:25,482 --> 00:38:27,522 Look at what we got. 652 00:38:27,551 --> 00:38:29,381 [laughing] 653 00:38:29,413 --> 00:38:32,143 Wow! Look at the bucket on that bad boy. 654 00:38:32,172 --> 00:38:34,452 -Oh, I know. -That's [bleep] great. 655 00:38:34,482 --> 00:38:37,102 -[horns honking] -Looks like we got a new loader. 656 00:38:37,137 --> 00:38:39,337 [narrator] With a 5-yard bucket, 657 00:38:39,379 --> 00:38:45,029 the 380 can do nearly twice the work of the L60. 658 00:38:45,068 --> 00:38:47,618 We gotta finish out the season strong, and that's the way to do it. 659 00:38:49,068 --> 00:38:50,478 [honking] 660 00:38:50,517 --> 00:38:52,137 Whoo! 661 00:38:55,965 --> 00:38:57,655 -Okay. -[groans] 662 00:38:57,689 --> 00:38:59,929 -Ta-da! -Yeah! 663 00:38:59,965 --> 00:39:01,205 Awesome. 664 00:39:01,241 --> 00:39:03,001 -That bucket's gonna help. -Check her out. 665 00:39:03,034 --> 00:39:04,624 Five versus the three. 666 00:39:04,655 --> 00:39:06,025 So we get almost double. 667 00:39:06,068 --> 00:39:07,758 I didn't even look at it. 668 00:39:07,793 --> 00:39:10,033 I called them and I said, uh, "I need a loader." And they're like, "What kind?" 669 00:39:10,068 --> 00:39:12,688 Like, "I want the biggest bucket you have delivered to this spot." 670 00:39:12,724 --> 00:39:14,764 -All right. -We got her to the end of the season. 671 00:39:14,793 --> 00:39:17,033 -Really? -We can go get it dirty. 672 00:39:17,068 --> 00:39:19,548 How many burnouts can we do in these tires? 673 00:39:19,586 --> 00:39:21,096 At least one real good one. 674 00:39:21,137 --> 00:39:23,307 [all laughing] 675 00:39:23,344 --> 00:39:25,074 [Fred] All right, let's fricking fire it up. 676 00:39:25,103 --> 00:39:27,033 [all] Let's go get us some gold! 677 00:39:27,068 --> 00:39:28,378 -[all whooping] -Fire it up! 678 00:39:28,413 --> 00:39:32,173 [narrator] In the 380, Kyle gets back to stockpiling pay 679 00:39:32,206 --> 00:39:33,996 and clearing tailings. 680 00:39:38,344 --> 00:39:40,034 Oh, yeah. 681 00:39:40,068 --> 00:39:43,098 Feels good to have a little power under my butt again. 682 00:39:46,241 --> 00:39:47,761 Should be able to be pretty easy 683 00:39:47,793 --> 00:39:49,553 to finish out the season in this big thing. 684 00:39:52,275 --> 00:39:54,655 So we need to find a lot more gold. 685 00:39:54,689 --> 00:39:57,519 [narrator] And Kendell uses the second loader 686 00:39:57,551 --> 00:39:59,901 to run the pay to the plant. 687 00:39:59,931 --> 00:40:04,211 The Lewis crew is back to running Mayor's cut pay. 688 00:40:05,896 --> 00:40:08,966 We got this new piece of equipment and I could tell morale is high. 689 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,410 Kyle's super-happy. 690 00:40:10,448 --> 00:40:12,518 We're gonna be moving a lot more efficiently around the plant. 691 00:40:12,551 --> 00:40:14,211 We got a bunch of stockpile pay. 692 00:40:14,241 --> 00:40:16,071 We've got more pay in the hole to come out. 693 00:40:16,103 --> 00:40:17,763 It's ready to rock and roll. 694 00:40:17,793 --> 00:40:19,143 Hey, let's fire it up. 695 00:40:29,275 --> 00:40:30,825 [narrator] At Scribner Creek... 696 00:40:30,862 --> 00:40:32,932 We have a very high bar here 697 00:40:32,965 --> 00:40:35,025 as we're a tight-knit group that get a lot done 698 00:40:35,068 --> 00:40:37,658 and we don't have time for screwing around. 699 00:40:37,689 --> 00:40:39,899 I just don't want anybody around here to get comfortable. 700 00:40:43,965 --> 00:40:45,785 -To not sluicing. -Yeah, man. 701 00:40:45,827 --> 00:40:49,997 [narrator] Tyson and Alec find a new use for an old tailings pond. 702 00:40:56,275 --> 00:40:58,615 Whoa! Pretty nice. 703 00:40:58,655 --> 00:41:01,205 Dreamin' of Mexico. right now, that's for sure. 704 00:41:13,275 --> 00:41:14,755 Hey, hey. 705 00:41:21,827 --> 00:41:23,067 Wow. 706 00:41:23,103 --> 00:41:26,003 [narrator] After six days of repairing their trommel, 707 00:41:26,034 --> 00:41:29,524 the Beets finished their week empty-handed. 708 00:41:29,551 --> 00:41:33,861 We had rocks in the chutes, meaning they were falling through the punch plate. 709 00:41:33,896 --> 00:41:34,996 We did find some holes. 710 00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:37,174 -Yeah, eventually. - Yeah. 711 00:41:37,206 --> 00:41:41,686 But guaranteed every time you stop the trommel and look for holes, they're 712 00:41:41,724 --> 00:41:44,284 - under the few rocks you left. -Every time. 713 00:41:51,896 --> 00:41:52,756 Well... 714 00:41:58,620 --> 00:42:02,070 You know, it's too bad because we're around 2,300 715 00:42:02,103 --> 00:42:04,213 and it would've been nice to do a gold play this week. 716 00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:08,032 You need to fix it. 717 00:42:15,103 --> 00:42:17,103 [narrator] If history repeats itself, 718 00:42:17,137 --> 00:42:21,137 winter will shut down Tony in just two weeks, 719 00:42:21,172 --> 00:42:26,072 but he still needs 700 ounces to hit his season goal. 720 00:42:26,103 --> 00:42:30,033 I mean, we don't have any gold to weigh, so you guys might as well go back at it. 721 00:42:30,068 --> 00:42:31,828 Get me some gold for next week. 722 00:42:31,862 --> 00:42:34,242 Yeah, Mike, get your trommels looked at. 723 00:42:34,275 --> 00:42:35,445 Yeah, Mike. 724 00:42:39,896 --> 00:42:40,826 [Minnie] Bye. 725 00:42:50,827 --> 00:42:52,137 You better have some good news, man. 726 00:42:53,689 --> 00:42:55,099 I always have news. 727 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,380 Well, I mean, gold is good news, right? 728 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,690 You guys want to see? Yeah, it's rather do this 729 00:43:02,724 --> 00:43:05,004 -than talk about all the [bleep] to go through. -[woman] Agreed. 730 00:43:05,034 --> 00:43:10,034 [narrator] Down a loader for the week, Fred's crew ran at half capacity. 731 00:43:10,068 --> 00:43:11,998 That one's shiny. 732 00:43:13,103 --> 00:43:14,763 -Nice -Couple good flakes. 733 00:43:14,793 --> 00:43:18,523 [narrator] The mayor's cut is the third cut for the Lewis crew. 734 00:43:18,551 --> 00:43:20,141 They need it to pay off. 735 00:43:20,172 --> 00:43:23,722 Not as much, guys, but 0.24 736 00:43:25,931 --> 00:43:29,931 Worth just $456. 737 00:43:29,965 --> 00:43:35,025 bringing Fred's season total to 2.98 ounces. 738 00:43:35,068 --> 00:43:38,478 Well, not super-happy about this week, but I think that, uh, 739 00:43:38,517 --> 00:43:40,827 how many more things could go wrong? 740 00:43:40,862 --> 00:43:42,592 -Oh, let's not! Let's... -[woman] Don't even say that. 741 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:46,210 We were kind of expecting a low one this week, but... 742 00:43:46,241 --> 00:43:48,621 Keep on soldiering on anyway. 743 00:43:51,793 --> 00:43:54,283 We don't have a lot of time left here. 744 00:43:54,310 --> 00:43:58,310 [narrator] The Mayor's cut is better than both previous cuts, 745 00:43:58,344 --> 00:44:01,834 but Fred and his crew will need more than ten times 746 00:44:01,862 --> 00:44:04,662 this much gold to save their season. 747 00:44:04,689 --> 00:44:08,309 I think at this point, any waste of time is bad. 748 00:44:08,344 --> 00:44:12,624 We need to use every second we have of every day at this point, 749 00:44:12,655 --> 00:44:15,615 and just try and put as much much through the plant as we can. 750 00:44:17,137 --> 00:44:19,717 -I don't like it, but... -This is why we're here. 751 00:44:19,758 --> 00:44:22,028 -Yeah. -Let's get back to work. 752 00:44:22,068 --> 00:44:23,518 -Back to work. -Let's do it. 753 00:44:25,620 --> 00:44:27,240 if we can keep the plant up and running 754 00:44:27,275 --> 00:44:29,685 and not have as many issues as we had last week, 755 00:44:29,724 --> 00:44:33,934 we'll get more gold, but right now, this total's lower than the last. 756 00:44:33,965 --> 00:44:35,515 Any obstacles to come at this point, 757 00:44:35,551 --> 00:44:38,141 we're just going to punch 'em in the face and keep moving. 758 00:44:38,172 --> 00:44:41,412 Paydirt, plant, gold. That's pretty easy. 759 00:44:54,103 --> 00:44:56,283 [sighs] Oh, you got me a beer? Thanks. 760 00:45:00,689 --> 00:45:04,659 It's just always a bummer of a week when one of your friends goes down, right? 761 00:45:07,034 --> 00:45:09,794 I did speak to him, uh, today, 762 00:45:09,827 --> 00:45:12,407 and it's actually... Didn't go that good. 763 00:45:12,448 --> 00:45:14,238 Supposed to be, like, six to eight hour surgery, 764 00:45:14,275 --> 00:45:18,025 and you go home that night, and it didn't go that way at all. 765 00:45:18,068 --> 00:45:22,208 Um, I don't know what happened, but he was in there for over 12 hours. 766 00:45:22,241 --> 00:45:24,341 -[bleep] -[Karly] Holy[bleep]. 767 00:45:24,379 --> 00:45:28,309 Yeah, and, uh, and he sure as hell didn't go home, like, he's still there. 768 00:45:28,344 --> 00:45:30,384 And they don't know when they're gonna let him out. 769 00:45:30,413 --> 00:45:31,793 [chuckles anxiously] Surprisingly, 770 00:45:31,827 --> 00:45:33,717 or not surprisingly, I mean, he's in good spirits. 771 00:45:33,758 --> 00:45:34,758 Yeah. 772 00:45:34,793 --> 00:45:36,283 Hopefully, after he recovers 773 00:45:36,310 --> 00:45:38,590 he'll be a spry young man again. 774 00:45:38,620 --> 00:45:40,340 Hopefully, you know, 775 00:45:40,379 --> 00:45:42,139 the result of this is a much better Carl. 776 00:45:42,172 --> 00:45:43,902 -He's tough. [chuckles] -Yep. [chuckles] 777 00:45:43,931 --> 00:45:45,381 And you can't put him down that easy. 778 00:45:45,413 --> 00:45:46,763 -No. - You know, 779 00:45:46,793 --> 00:45:49,343 do we have a plan in place? 780 00:45:49,379 --> 00:45:50,549 Like, what are we gonna do? 781 00:45:50,586 --> 00:45:51,966 We're just trying to take care of our stuff. 782 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,860 If something breaks, hopefully it's nothing, major 783 00:45:53,896 --> 00:45:55,236 and we can all get together and fix it 784 00:45:55,275 --> 00:45:56,995 and keep going 'cause we're so close to the end. 785 00:45:58,482 --> 00:46:00,522 On another note, we did still have work to do, 786 00:46:00,551 --> 00:46:01,761 and we still have gold to weigh. 787 00:46:01,793 --> 00:46:03,593 And this pan feels pretty heavy for me... 788 00:46:04,275 --> 00:46:05,065 Whoo! 789 00:46:06,448 --> 00:46:09,378 All right. Well, let's weigh that up. 790 00:46:09,413 --> 00:46:11,763 [narrator] At an average of 63 ounces a week 791 00:46:11,793 --> 00:46:13,003 in the creek cut, 792 00:46:13,034 --> 00:46:16,764 Rick has fallen short for the past two weeks. 793 00:46:16,793 --> 00:46:19,283 He needs 77 ounces this week 794 00:46:19,310 --> 00:46:23,240 to get back on track to his 1,000-ounce season target. 795 00:46:23,275 --> 00:46:28,335 Forty, 50, over 60. 796 00:46:28,379 --> 00:46:30,209 Just over 60. 797 00:46:30,241 --> 00:46:31,341 - Oh, yeah. - Nice! 798 00:46:31,379 --> 00:46:34,339 -[Karly] Sweet. -60.46 ounces. 799 00:46:35,551 --> 00:46:38,971 [narrator] Worth $115,000. 800 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,930 Rick and his crew land short of their goal 801 00:46:41,965 --> 00:46:44,205 for the third week in a row. 802 00:46:44,241 --> 00:46:47,071 In order to hit 1,000 ounces, 803 00:46:47,103 --> 00:46:48,763 they need to pick up the pace 804 00:46:48,793 --> 00:46:51,313 before winter freezes them out. 805 00:46:51,344 --> 00:46:53,144 Well, cheers to Carl's health. 806 00:46:53,172 --> 00:46:54,592 Yep, Carl's health. 807 00:46:54,620 --> 00:46:56,000 - Cheers to that. - Cheers, boys. 808 00:46:59,068 --> 00:47:01,068 [man] Yeah. 809 00:47:01,103 --> 00:47:03,143 I've known Carl 19 years now, 810 00:47:03,172 --> 00:47:05,662 and there's no way this guy's not coming back. 811 00:47:05,689 --> 00:47:08,409 He's got more titanium in him than, like, Terminator. 812 00:47:08,448 --> 00:47:09,308 He'll be back. 813 00:47:11,172 --> 00:47:14,282 Well, on the surface right now I'm scared[bleep]. 814 00:47:14,310 --> 00:47:16,000 trying to be mining without a mechanic. 815 00:47:16,034 --> 00:47:17,834 At this point, 816 00:47:17,862 --> 00:47:19,862 I just want my buddy Carl back in one piece. 817 00:47:24,275 --> 00:47:26,655 [narrator] Next time on Gold Rush... 818 00:47:26,689 --> 00:47:28,409 It's definitely a bit of a tough year. 819 00:47:28,448 --> 00:47:29,588 We're pretty short-staffed. 820 00:47:29,620 --> 00:47:31,380 [narrator] Parker Schnabel's crew 821 00:47:31,413 --> 00:47:33,523 battles late-season troubles. 822 00:47:33,551 --> 00:47:35,661 There's less people here to fix stuff. 823 00:47:35,689 --> 00:47:37,719 So it's kind of all on my plate. 824 00:47:40,896 --> 00:47:43,026 [narrator] Fred Lewis gets vital help. 825 00:47:45,793 --> 00:47:47,283 You know, that's just not acceptable. 826 00:47:47,310 --> 00:47:48,590 If that was happening on our mine site, 827 00:47:48,620 --> 00:47:50,550 Parker would come out and not be happy. 828 00:47:50,586 --> 00:47:52,206 Man, now he knows our struggles. 829 00:47:53,620 --> 00:47:54,760 What happened here, Tony? 830 00:47:54,793 --> 00:47:56,623 [narrator] And the long, harsh season 831 00:47:56,655 --> 00:47:58,375 catches up with Tony Beets. 832 00:47:58,413 --> 00:48:00,173 Check with Kevin, I don't know what happened. 833 00:48:00,206 --> 00:48:01,236 It came apart. 834 00:48:01,275 --> 00:48:02,445 That's honestly what [bleep] happened.