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There's no way in hell We're leaving any of this.

Behind for tony.

It's getting really hard To keep up this pace.

All it's got to do is get rocks From there to there!

This time of year Is hard on everything.

I don't know how much harder I can push.

You probably notice When it rains you always get.

A bit of thaw Out in the cut.

Yeah.

I bet you these will throw Some serious water?

Enough is enough.

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Things are on the up and up.

There's pay mountain there, And that ain't the half of it.

Winter is fast approaching,

And parker schnabel is on track.

To hit a record-breaking 6,000-ounce $7.2 million goal.

Using two wash plants... Big red and sluicifer.

Brennan is doing really Good down at big red,

And I'm just coming up here To check on dean right now.

Parker's crew has Spent the last 14 weeks.

Moving 1.2 million yards Of dirt,

Opening a 40-acre Cut for sluicifer.

By far the biggest cut We've ever opened up,

Finally down to pay,

Finally getting good gold Out of it.

- Howdy. - Hey, parker.

Some good-looking Stuff in here.

- Yep, really nice. - It really is nice-looking pay.

Two feet, three feet of pay Underneath it, too.

Lot of ground To cover?

Yep. I think we opened up too much.

You don't think We'll get it all through?

We could possibly get it All stacked, but I don't...

We'd never sluice it all.

At best, we've got 4, maybe 5 weeks left.

It's just weather-dependent, And at the rate we're running,

We could probably run Another 145,000 yards.

What do you reckon Is still in here?

Probably at least 200,000.

We leave 60,000 yards In the cut?

I mean, That could be up to...

I mean, that could Be over 600 ounces.

Yep.

Parker plans to quit This ground this season.

If he doesn't mine it, He could be handing landlord

Tony beets A $0.75 million windfall.

There's no way in hell We're leaving any of this behind.

For tony, Not if we can help it.

The only way that we can use What we've got to try.

To get this out Is to just crank that plant up.

- Yeah. - And we won't make any friends.

Not only is the plant Pretty maxed out right now,

But people are going Pretty hard to keep up.

Yep. Yeah.

All we can do is try.

We need This cut done.

Like, I don't want an ounce Of gold left in here.

To leave nothing behind For tony beets,

Parker needs to push sluicifer From 250 to 300 yards an hour.

We're definitely not going to Be here next year,

So any pay that We don't get sluiced is pay.

That we're leaving for tony, So we're turning this thing up.

Hopefully, bree can keep up With that.

That's a lot of dirt.

Last week, three Of parker's crew walked out,

And mechanic mitch Is still recovering from injury,

Putting more pressure Than ever on loader operator

Bree harrison to get Through the pay dirt.

I'm barely keeping up As it is, man. Like...

We cannot leave gold In the ground for tony beets.

We'll just... We've got to make it work.

Yeah. What's up?

All 14 of them fell off.

Just as I finish.

They're not exactly light.

With winter weeks away,

Tony is seriously Trailing parker.

And only halfway To his $7.2 million goal.

But right now, tony is focusing All his efforts.

On his second goal... Getting dredge number two up.

And running before The klondike freeze hits.

Look at this guy, man, all Fancy, got his nice on.

Camo, we won't be Able to see him.

Three hours behind schedule,

Mike beets is ready To start the light.

His first job... hoist the Trommel support.

Onto the pontoons, Then align the four legs.

So that they drop Perfectly into their brackets.

While son mike operates The crane...

Daughter monica And oldest son kevin.

Maneuver the trommel support.

That's not going to happen.

The steel has warped During transport,

So it doesn't line up.

We got to pull these beams.

They spread out, so we got to Pull them together.

So we can get it In the pockets.

Why can't we hook the chain Around the other beam?

Then you pull Straight, right?

Tony, beam to beam?

I would like the record to show I said that first.

Tony uses a come-along to winch The legs back into position.

Mike can now make Another attempt.

Let her down. Let her down. Let her down. Let her down.

Let her down. Let her down. Let her down. Let her down. Let her down.

There you go.

Down?

What?!

- That went good. - Dream team.

It's unbelievable how much This dredge has cost,

So I don't even think tony Realizes how big the bill is.

How long is this going to Take you to put it all together?

Hello?

Well, after the amount Of money it cost,

Yeah, it should have some gold Coming out of it.

Get on with it. You're standing there yapping.

Enough is enough.

This time of year Is hard on everything.

It's hard on equipment. It's hard on people.

After weeks of poor Gold weighs, rookie mine boss

Rick ness has abandoned The downstream cut.

That's a slap In the face.

That downstream cut Is dead.

Wash plant Durt reynolds is shut down.

While his crew opens up New ground.

On the upstream side Of the claim.

Number one priority is Get down to pay dirt over here.

And get that pay dirt Up the hill.

Excavator operator Terry franklin.

Attacks the permafrost.

Ryan and ben truck The gravel out of the cut.

It's starting to get awful cold In the morning,

And sunlight is definitely Not as much as it used to be.

That's for sure.

We're all going to have to Just put our nose.

To the grindstone And kick ass.

Terry, I can see you're Struggling back there.

How's the dirt looking?

Not liking it at all.

I'm not getting down To pay dirt fast.

The frost, It's really screwing me.

You got to scrape that gravel Inch by inch.

To get it out of here,

And that's so tedious And so hard on equipment.

There's 2, 3 feet of earth.

That's got to come out of here Yet, and it's not thawing.

To hit their 1,000-ounce, $1.2 million goal,

The new upstream cut Needs to yield $200,000.

I think if you do the math, The area that we got opened up.

Is what we need to get our goal,

But that doesn't Necessarily mean.

We're going to get that pay Dirt out of there in time.

I don't know, man.

I don't know how much harder I can push.

Rick can't sluice a yard Until the upstream cut thaws.

He turns to claim owner Sheamus christie for help.

- Hey, sheamus. - Hey, rick.

So I trying to move into That upstream cut there,

And, I mean, It's just frozen,

And we're not getting Much heat anymore.

No, the heat is gone.

- Yeah. - There's limited amount,

And then it starts Freezing again at night.

Yeah, I just wondering if There's any other little tricks.

Or anything you know of.

You probably notice When it rains.

You always get a bit of thaw Out in the cut.

Yeah. -The rain makes A big difference.

Yeah.

I mean, even when you pour cold Water on an ice cube, it melts.

Exactly.

It's the movement Of the water, right?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, so a few years ago,

I bought this big box Of sprinklers from an auction.

Okay.

Always did have a thought That they might work.

At some point for thawing out The gravel in a cut.

I just never had to Use them for that.

There's a few of them Hanging up over here.

Yeah.

Yeah, so it ain't just, Like, something on a lawn.

Nah.

I bet you these would throw Some serious water?

So what kind of prep do you Know there would be?

They'd be easy to set up.

Take an old truck rim Or something.

I got a bunch Of old rims.

Just use stuff you got Laying around,

Keep it simple?

And I got lots of stuff Laying around.

- Yeah, you do. - Put an elbow on here.

It'll stand straight up.

Weld a plate in the center Here to hold the sprinkler.

And everything is here. It's cheap.

Kind of keen To try it out actually.

- Cool. All right. - I'll see you later today.

- Okay. Sounds good, rick. - Thanks, sheamus.

You bet, man.

Rick will place Four sprinklers in his cut.

He's hoping the water, 20 degrees warmer.

Than the frozen dirt,

Will take the frost Out of the ground.

And deliver a cut Full of thawed pay dirt.

Pretty impressed With rick risking it all,

Going out mining.

There's nothing easy about it. It's tough.

He had a lot of bad stuff Go down in his life,

But I feel bad for him.

He's giving her Want to try and help him out.

Rick has sent zee, A professional sprinkler fitter,

To give sheamus a hand.

Nice job here, sheamus. They look good.

Yeah, not bad, Out of a bunch of junk?

Yeah.

Have you done it before?

No, so it's going to be a whole New thing for all of us.

I like it.

- Hey, sheamus. - Hey, rick.

You ready to try out This new system?

I'm sure this probably Works way better.

In the middle Of summer too?

Yeah, we got the heat And the water.

- Yeah. But... - this time of year,

Anything you can get To gain is a bonus.

Yeah. Okay?

- That's fine. All right. - I'll meet you up there.

This is something new Here... the sprinklers.

I wish that we would've jumped On it a little sooner,

But that just seems, like,

How everything goes out here, You know?

It's just... Everything is last-minute.

Everything is a fight.

We're going to throw Everything we got at it.

Rick uses the excavator To place the 6-inch pump.

That will send water To the sprinklers.

It's an old propane bottle For a screen.

That's cool?

That's why we haven't had Any barbecue chicken lately.

- Come down a little? - Yeah.

This is a intricate Watering system.

I heard if you beat those With a hammer,

It's really good for them.

I'm just hoping we make Enough money off this.

That we can get rims back On our truck to get home.

The milwaukee boys Lay out 500 feet of hose.

This better work, zee.

Yeah, we're ready at this end. Pump is primed and ready to go.

- Give her hell, buddy. - All right. Here we go.

Here we go.

Sheamus' pump sends 1,000 gallons of water.

Per minute To the sprinklers.

If this doesn't thaw the cut, We're.

This is more fun to watch Than I thought it would be.

Yeah.

- Which one is going first? - That one or that one.

Damn it.

- Purging air. - The air is coming out.

We got sprinklers.

Yeah.

It's kind of underwhelming.

Yeah.

How long before The corn comes up?

Yeah.

Rain in the sunshine, dude. It's raining in sunshine.

Who says you can't control Mother nature?

- Right? - You, mother nature.

Now we're He said that.

Good work, zee.

I'll punch the gold out Of the ground if I have to.

Sluicifer is on the best ground That it's ever been on really,

So there's a lot of pressure On sluicifer right now.

Parker is pushing His plant harder than ever.

We just can't afford to leave Any ground here for tony.

It's getting really hard To keep up this pace.

To keep sluicifer fed,

Bree is dropping A bucket of pay dirt.

Into the hopper feeder Every 80 seconds.

I've been doing it for days now.

I'm going around at mach 20 Trying to keep dirt on the belt,

And it's just about impossible.

I don't want to leave anything For tony either but...

What the?

Parker, I need you down here.

Sluicifer just The bed,

And we're Shutting down.

I need help.

Tray has come loose.

It looks like the plates off.

All the bolts are gone, Just shaking herself to death.

Told him It was a bad idea.

Parker has pushed Sluicifer too hard.

- What happened? - The bolts came out of the tray.

In this plate, All the bolts are gone, too.

Yeah, that's all up.

Yeah.

Beneath sluicifer's shaker deck,

The bottom tray Carries large tailings.

From the lower screens To the conveyor.

By running at 300 yards an hour,

Parker has sheared Off the bolts,

Cracked the tray And worn out the base plate.

We're never going to get this cut out.

Shane or ty, could you Come over to the plant?

- Already on our way. - Pretty bad timing for mitch.

To be gone?

Yeah, seems like We're shorthanded everywhere.

It's up to welder-fabricator Ty smith and his dad, shane,

To fix sluicifer.

Let me guess. You turned it up, didn't you?

No.

We're going to spend The whole time.

Fixing this thing If we've got it cranked up.

Well, we've got to try to Get through all this

I got to do it From inside.

I'm not very happy.

We just need this Thing running.

Look what you did.

We still have 6,000 ounces to get to.

No matter what it takes for us To keep this thing running,

Like, we have to Get that cut sluiced.

I have to leave.

Run away from the problem!

Parker's attempt To leave nothing behind for tony.

Has put his season goal at risk.

Yeah, parker wants to run The plant wide open.

And get rid of All this material.

We got to beef it up With this ar plate.

Ty rips out The remains of the steel tray.

Shane fabricates A whole-new tray.

Out of inch-thick Abrasion-resistant steel.

It's going to be a 6-hour Fix maybe, 7 hours.

Three hours and around $9,000.

In lost gold later, Parker is back.

- Can you put that down? - What?

That thing needs to make Less noise somehow.

There you go.

You're digging in there Pretty deep.

Can't you just Throw some.

Bolts in this thing, And we get running?

No, it's not just easy As throwing some bolts in there.

It's just going to keep Shaking itself to pieces.

All it's got to do is get rocks From there to there!

We're going to fix it properly, So if you want this thing.

To run faster And harder every single day,

We got to armor The out of this thing.

I just hate problems Like this.

Like, literally the rocks Need to get 3 feet.

Yeah.

We've been down for probably, I don't know, 6, 7 hours.

The break has cost parker Up to $20,000 in lost run time.

- You all done? - Yep.

Bolts are welded. Tray is welded, parker-proof.

We'll see about that.

Everybody, clear!

All right. We're back sluicing.

We're still running With the plant cranked up,

So hopefully this old girl Can handle it.

Let her rip. That's not coming apart now.

I did turn it up a little.

With klondike Temperatures dropping rapidly,

Tony has just weeks left To rebuild his second dredge.

Spin! Spin!

Before lifting the 28-ton heart Of the superstructure

20 feet up into position...

Tony needs To flip it upright.

This is going to be probably the Most dangerous part of the lift.

Well, the way we're hooking it,

She's going to end up Having to flip,

Which means I'm going To get a jolt,

And if I get jolted too hard, I might go over.

That keep it From swinging down?

Yeah, yeah.

That's a heavy piece, dude.

Kind of hate it When you say...

Mike is on the crane.

Monica is on the pipelayer, So it's a little worrisome.

I'm wondering.

I'm really... actually, I'm A little nervous about this one.

Brother and sister Will have to synchronize.

The maneuver perfectly.

Up?

I don't like this.

You can tell her To bring it away from me.

She's pushing it Into me.

I cannot do Anything here.

Down, down, down, down, Monica, down, down, down, down,

Monica, down, down...

- whoa! - Down, down, monica.

It was good.

My That sounded condescending.

Now let's hope we can keep This trend going.

Now the tricky part is going To be getting it.

On top of these posts.

It's like a ballet, man. It's like a dance.

You got to get it just right, You know?

Mike's job... reunite The 28-ton superstructure.

With the 10-foot-tall legs That were cut off for transport.

The legs have twisted Out of alignment,

And the contact points Are just 8 inches across,

So juan has fabricated steel Guides to help locate them.

Nope. That is too far.

Might want to be ready Because she could.

Tip on me.

Another foot?

- No. - Tony!

No.

Tony!

Tony's 50-ton crane Is struggling to lift.

The heart of the superstructure.

And one crane leg Has come off the ground.

Yeah, I can do that.

Let's get one over there For monica, please.

- We got it. - Whoa!

Never the again.

Yep.

Keep her coming, mike.

Mike scriba's second crane.

Gives them a combined Lifting power of 100 tons.

Michael beets, A little bit more.

Michael beets, A little more.

The two crane operators Have to maneuver.

The 28-ton superstructure With inch-perfect precision.

Hold on.

We got to bend that tap.

Yeah, that's one Word for it.

This is our last shot Right here.

Rick's weekly gold Hauls have been nosediving,

And durt reynolds still hasn't Sluiced a yard of dirt all week.

The sprinklers have been Running for a few days,

So I just want to get in here And see what we got,

See if it's thawing, See if it's working.

If the upstream cut Is still frozen,

Rick's dream of 1,000-ounce First season is on ice.

My worst-case scenario has Always been not hitting my goal.

This season, You know, for me and my guys.

There is no other plan Going that can make up for it.

There is no other gold coming In, you know, so it's scary.

Wow.

Couple feet of thaw In here already.

Yeah, look at that.

I mean, this is a spot where The sprinklers aren't hitting,

And I've only got about Maybe 6 inches,

And down here where The sprinklers are hitting...

Couple of feet, I can sink my bucket right in.

Well.

So far, in the klondike, I do what I want.

You, mother nature.

- Hey, zee, you got a copy? - Yep, I'm here.

Hey, why don't you spin That old rock truck over here?

We're ready to haul Some pay out of here.

Finally get up here And start moving some.

And running through the plant.

It's going to excite all of us. All right, zee.

That's the first truckload Of gold out of the upstream cut.

Just Send it, buddy.

Looks like the sprinklers Actually helped.

And got the ground Thawed pretty quick.

It looks like it's going To work out for us.

We're going to start Moving some gold.

All right, ryan, you ready to Start that plant up?

Yeah, let's do it.

Let's see if this dirt Has any gold in it.

Right on, man. Fire it up.

Hopefully, the upstream cut Is where it's at.

Everyone is clear?

The milwaukee boys Are back in the game.

And on the hunt For the 172 ounce rick needs.

To hit his $1.2 million goal.

All right. First bucket of The upstream cut.

Hope this gamble paid off.

Because there's No going back now.

Yee-haw!

While the beets family has been Building dredge two,

The crew has kept dredge one, Monica's wash plant.

And the pearson box running.

- Hola. - Hi, guys.

- Hola. - Look at that.

There's three of my favorite People there.

Radios are great, but, Boy, do I miss the.

Days when he didn't Have one...

Because he'd stand there, And he'd look at you...

- actually... - And look.

"Lift it up. Down, down, Down, down."

where do you Want me to go, bro?

What are we going To start with?

First up... Give me that.

Monica's wash plant.

I'm not even prepared for that.

With winter banging on the door,

Tony now needs Over 560 ounces a week.

You have 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80,

90, 100, 110, 120,

130, 140,

150, 160, 170,

180, 190, 200, 210, 220,

230, 243.02.

Worth over $290,000 And halfway to his weekly target.

With two plants Still to weigh.

Little bit.

We're actually getting really Close to what we got last year.

There's some in there.

10, 20,

30, 40,

50, 60,

70, 80, 90,

101.14.

$120,000.

Not terribly great, Honestly, but...

Tony needs the dredge To deliver 222 ounces.

12, 15, 18, 20, 30, 40, 50,

65.40.

Worth around $80,000.

Ground still is.

Our weekly total is 409.56.

Almost $0.5 million In a single week.

But a full 150 ounces short Of what tony needs.

Rick's mechanic, Carl ross,

Is wrestling With a sprinkler problem.

That wasn't the Smartest thing I've done.

After 2 days of sluicing,

It's time to see If the untested upstream cut.

Can turn their season around.

Fellas, Pretty impressed actually.

With how Those sprinklers worked.

Like, I... that was, like,

A hail mary But worked pretty good.

- It did. - Yeah.

With that being said...

No way.

We can sit here and stew over What's coming out of the ground,

Or we could place All the blame on karla.

What are you doing? You hiding gold?

- Stop it. - What's in...

Stop it. Steal. You guys can trust me.

I know. I know.

Let's do it, guys.

- All right. - Should we weigh it?

Yeah, Let's get it over with.

For rick to succeed In his first season,

He needs 35 ounces a week.

Five, 10,

17.26.

Worth just $20,000.

Rick still needs over 150 ounces.

Before the yukon winter Ends his rookie season.

We got to remember That we only ran, like,

2 days out of that cut.

- It gives me hope. - Promising.

And like you said, It was only 2 days.

Yeah.

And we could've multiplied That a few more days,

And we would've Had something.

Yeah, exactly.

Going forward, We just got to get into that

upstream cut And just start hammering at it,

Just hammer it out, Hammer it through the plant.

Cheers to hammering.

Cheers to hammering.

Let's hammer.

While parker has been Smashing dirt through sluicifer,

Brennan has been keeping big red Fed with klondike pay dirt.

- Hey, old man. - Hey. How's it going?

- Good. How are you? - Coming down.

- Yeah. - Holy.

Things went flying with you All week, brennan?

- Looks like it was anyways. - Yeah.

Scale will tell us Different but...

- brennan, you want to do it? - You can. I'll read.

That's too heavy for me.

To stay on target, parker needs A combined total of 274 ounces.

Here we go.

20...

- holy cow. Easy there, boys. - 60, 80, 100,

140, 180,

200, 220,

Two...

- big red. - 266.65.

Holy.

Brennan's $320,000 haul.

Takes the crew to within 7 ounces of their weekly goal.

Nice run there, young man. Nice run.

Holy... that's nothing To complain about at all.

It's good. Yeah.

Wow.

Even with the issues That sluicifer had,

That's a nice-looking pan.

Yeah, we had some problems, Self-inflicted.

Yeah.

Why don't you Weigh that one up?

After losing 7 hours of run time,

Parker will find out If cranking the plant paid off.

20, 50, 100,

160, 200,

250, 300...

- yeah. - 330, 340.

350?

350.35.

- Wow. - Boo-yah.

Worth an impressive $420,000.

Great job, buddy.

Holy cow, you guys.

For the week, just for the week,

We've got 617 ounces, Just for the week.

Worth a massive $0.75 million,

Just 1 ounce short of parker's Biggest ever weekly gold weigh.

That gives us a season total Of 5,247.45 ounces.

We have about 750 ounces to go.

That seems quite achievable At this point.

Brennan, just shut your mouth Before you get us in trouble.

Every time we sit here And talk about.

How we're going To get somewhere, we never

get there.

I don't think we're going To make 6,000.

- There you go. - You guys, I just...

750 ounces Totally out of reach.

It's just not going to happen. Yeah.

I don't know what I was thinking.

Hold on to your rectums Because that's the speed.

Sluicifer is going to be running At for the rest of the season.

Wach!

On the next "Gold rush"...

Ice in the cut.

And I think we're caught Up on our port side.

What side is that?

People go insane up here.

We just blew a bunch of gold Through here.

Excited to see What's going on!

Give me some gold, baby!