[Bird]
Come here! Lick! Lick, yeah.
See? Who needs water when you've got kitties to bathe you?
[narrator] On this episode of Alaskan Bush People...
[Gabe] I think that's good, right?
[Noah] Just as long as you can get in the door.
[Gabe groans]
The house site that I picked out
just seems to be going up really fast.
Thank you for helping me and realize, you know, the dream.
It's very exciting to be selling our first two longhorns.
What we have to do is
[Bear] Stop! Oh, no!
Gotta turn it on 'cause it has to be running before Rain gets back
and she's close.
If the equipment never runs, the dream of mining on the mountain
would be dead, I think, along with Rain's little heart.
Noah, it's moving! Noah, look!
Oh, it popped out! Dang it!
[Bird] Come on, baby. You got it.
Nope! Keep going. Keep driving.
-[Noah] Don't lose momentum. -Keep an eye on the thing.
What am I supposed to do if something happens?
You might be slow. We're a lot alike in that way, little truck.
We're both slow, but we're powerful!
Come on! Now you've got it!
[in deep voice] You got this! Go!
Okay, now we can slow down.
Not my first time driving, believe it or not.
I mean, that's a little hilarious. It is no longer attached.
Was it ever attached?
[narrator] It's late summer on the Brown family's
400-acre Washington homestead...
[Gabe] Hey, there.
[narrator] ...and with colder months just weeks awa
the wolfpack pushes to get North Star fully operational...
for the first time since the fire.
[Gabe] All right, come on.
There's so much to do on the ranch to get it more sustainable.
I think, with their determination,
I think we'll be successful.
-[Bird] We want to go ahead and attach it? -[Noah] Yeah.
[narrator] And after haulin a shaker table up mountain..
the Browns hope to begin the golden era on the ranch
[Bird] This thing is here in one piece...
and it's not connected to the car anymore!
This is really our first attempt
to actually do the hardrock mining and get some gold.
It's just kind of been in the backburner
with us going to Alaska and doing other things
and now I'm gonna bring it back to life.
[Noah] Decades before we owned the land,
I mean, decades, they actually mined up here.
So there's a lot of mining in the territory.
[Bird] People have been mini on this mountain for a long, long time
and Rain knows more of the history.
Can you imagine running around with gold nuggets on our neck...
Oh, my God.
...from our own ranch?
Rain has the strongest gold fever in the whole family.
It's something that she's worked really hard on.
That's what I'm talking about!
[narrator] But after an emotional voyage through Alaska,
the youngest sibling decide to take some time away from the mountain.
[Bird] Rain isn't here at the moment to actually help us with the equipment.
She's getting the help that she needs
and she's taking the time that she needs.
So I'm really trying to lead the project
so Rain can be super excited when she gets home.
[narrator] The Browns must first get the main conveyor belt working,
which feeds rocks into a crusher to break them down.
Once the pieces are small enough,
the rock will travel along a secondary belt to the shaker table...
which separates pieces of gold from the sediment.
Right now, we just need to put it somewhere that's out of the way.
-What about just over here? -That could work.
-[Bird] Should I flatten this a little? -Yeah, might as well.
Bird, you don't need an excuse for a chinchilla bath. Come on!
-What are you talking about? I'm flattening this. -Come on.
-Does it need to be? -I think so, doesn't it?
[Noah] It's only a temporary spot for it.
Really?
In the last couple of weeks, Bird has taken four chinchilla baths
in front of me.
Four in front of me and two that she has talked about.
There's an excavator!
I mean, granted, there's an excavator.
-Okay, let's do this. -Let's do this.
[Bird] Forward! Lower, lower.
I don't think that Bird and I are exactly experienced miners
in the form of mining that we're doing,
but we have a little bit of stuff under our belt.
Okay!
-Nice and easy! -Yeah.
We're off!
Oh, I don't like the way it's tipping!
[Noah] Bird and I are just gonna do the best job we can.
As long as the mining equipment is in working condition,
that's all that really matters and it can be.
We can do it.
Noah, if I turn it like this manually, I think we'll be good.
Okay! Do what you need to.
It's gonna be hard work and effort with our limited resources,
but it will definitely make all of our efforts better and well worth it
if, because of what we're doing, we're able to find real gold.
Okay! We're good.
I think now, you ready for a test run?
[Noah] Yeah, I think we're close.
[Gabe] One of the old dead trees fell over.
So it's, like, a complete roadblock.
[narrator] The following morning, brother Gabe prepar his rugged parcel of land..
for the erection of a 16-by-16 dream cabin for him and his family.
And with the foundation dug the next step is pouring concrete.
Two parts to concrete. One is the rock and then the other is the water.
So, today I'm getting the water set up.
So I need to get all of this moved out of the way
so I can get the water truck up the hill to the landsite.
[narrator] And as Gabe attempts to clear a drivable path
to the property,
one of the siblings works on securing the vital water.
[Bear groans]
[Bear] The water tank is pretty heavy when it's empty
but mainly just awkwardly shaped.
It's one thing the wolfpack always does is
it steps up to help others when they need help.
And I'm definitely confident that Gabe will be helping me with my house a little bit.
I'm hoping he will, at least.
And so I'm definitely more than happy
to be helping him out with a favor.
I've been using this to hold wooden stuff,
so I just have to put the water tank back on it.
I'm flying solo today, though, so I'm gonna have to make it work.
[groans]
Loading the gigantic water tank onto the back of the truck...
can be a bit of a challenge,
but I was taught that one person doing something
that would be a daunting task
can still be done if it's done right.
I'm gonna use this to roll the water tank up
'cause it's a little bit awkwardly shaped to just pick straight up.
Have to work like an Egyptian...
...not walk like one.
Strike one.
It's too heavy for me to pick up by myself and sit there.
Gabe might could do that with his big gorilla arms.
I'm that much less strong than Gabe, though.
So I'd use a little bit of ingenuity
and get that thing pushed u the old-fashioned way.
Homerun!
It's like the Egyptians used to do.
They'd make it a railroad.
They'd use what they had. They'd use wood, they'd use rocks
to make a task easier.
So as long as I, you know, keep my head about me,
there's not much I can't do by myself.
I think I got everything.
Now we wait.
45 minutes or longer.
[Bam] After the fire, there's basically none of the fencing left.
-Like, at all. -[Ami] Some of the posts made it, though.
Well, we need to stop bringing in new animals
until we can take care of the ones we already have.
Well, speaking of that...
You know the sales we talked about earlier this spring?
-Mmm-hmm? -It's a done deal.
[Ami] The longhorns, as much as I would like to keep them all,
they have to be sold to help sustain the ranch...
and there are some local markets
that have inquired about our beef.
How many?
-Two. -All right.
It's very exciting to be selling our first two longhorns,
born and bred on the ranch and raised here.
[narrator] Five days ago, Ami brokered a deal
to sell the herd's two youngest calves on the hoof
and tomorrow, she has arranged for a local ranche
to pick up the baby livestock for transport off-mountain.
I sold the little heifer and I sold the sweet thing, the bull, firstborn,
to a small ranch across the ways here.
[Bam] Selling the longhorns on the hoof, as they say,
one of my main concerns is, like, creating competition in the area
because no one else is doing longhorns here.
It really is more of a Texas thing...
which is one reason it was my dad's dream
to have the Texas Longhorn on the ranch.
You're selling a breeding pair.
That's just asking somebody to be your competition.
Well, okay. Wait! They're to two different people.
Okay. In that case, give me your money.
The next step, obviously, is transporting them,
getting them loaded up and off the mountain.
So, what we have to do is catch them and get them in the trailer...
which...
They're not quite weaned yet.
As the family and the ranch grows,
I definitely feel that the years to come will bring great change.
Moving forward, there are dreams and desires for the ranch as a whole
and then each person has their each individual desire
And I'm thinking about, what do I want to achieve next?
I've had plans for quite a while.
We'll see.
[Gabe] Come on! Come on. Come on.
[narrator] With a full load of water supplied by brother Bear...
Gabe navigates the rough pathway
leading to his future homesite.
[Gabe] I'm just hoping she has enough power
to take a heavy load of wate up there.
The house site that I picked out is
a pretty good ways from the well.
Come on, girl. You got this! You got this.
I need to haul a significan amount of water up to my pla for the cement...
and definitely glad to have the farmtruck to help me out.
To the hole.
Let me pull up a little bit more.
The problem is the house site is really close,
so there's, like, a four-foot hole right next to me
and I'm just trying not to fall in it
'cause if I put this thing in that hole,
I don't know that I'm ever gonna get it out.
Noah said that I should leave a little room for a driveway,
but I love that tree.
So, I just hope it doesn't come back to bite me in the ankles.
Oh.
That was something.
[groans] Bam's gonna kill me.
Mom's gonna kill me. Noah's gonna kill me.
[sighs] Y'all didn't see that, okay?
That's a tree.
Let's see how bad I messed up the truck.
I can't see anything.
There's only one mirror that's on the starboard side.
Well, the truck can take a beating, that's for sure.
I'm thinking this is a really good spot to put a water tank.
Why be picky? It's up here.
[groans]
I tell you, these water tanks used to be so much lighter.
[groans]
But I think it's just 'cause there was, like, three of us lifting them.
[groans]
Wait. I have to get the water truck to it to fill it up.
[groans]
[scoffs] You ever wish you were smarter?
Now to get her full.
Rats!
[groans in frustration]
Now that I have the water up top by my house site,
you know, I'm just one step closer to getting the foundation poured.
Now it's just a matter of cement,
mix the two, and foundation.
Oh, yeah!
[sighs]
I'm definitely looking forward to spending the rest of my life here
with my family.
Like, I think this is gonna be a great place to raise the kids...
give them that sense of home
some place that they can really be free to be themselves,
somewhere comfortable in the bush.
After this fills up, I can go down and start hauling up some concrete
and then we're getting so close to me having a foundation.
[Noah] So, each of these are individual breakers.
Technically, if you lick that, nothing will happen.
I don't trust you that much.
You had Bear in Browntown touch a fence
that was to keep grizzly bears away.
I'm surprised he's alive.
[narrator] North Star Ranch forges towards winter...
and as the pack prepares for the transport of two baby calves,
recently sold to local farms
Noah and Bird push to get gold back on the mountain.
Here you go.
And then we get gold necklaces for everybody.
Out of all the siblings, Noah's the one helping me
get all of the goldmine equipment working and running.
[Noah] Okay.
[Bird] He's really good with electronics
and getting things to run that haven't run, I think, ever.
And so I definitely am glad I have Noah on this project
-Does it matter if it's like that? -No, it's fine.
Ready to turn it on? 'Cause it has to be running before Rain gets back
and she's close.
-When? -You didn't know she was close?
-No! -Yeah!
So, at the moment, I'm actually the only one in touch with Rain
and everybody else is definitely very curious on how she's doing.
They're, you know, constantly asking how she's doing...
and, you know, I give them the updates,
but just for right now...
it's just best that it's just me.
Well, I just don't know the exact date,
but she's close to coming back.
Okay.
Most of us just kind of do the Da method
of bottling all your emotions down...
but I think Rain's one of the healthiest, emotionally, about it
because she kinds of wears her emotions on her sleeves usually.
But in Alaska, it seemed like she was
just kind of going against that
and just doing the whole Da thing and just bearing down.
I want this to be, "Hey, Rain.
Come check this out. Boom! Bam!"
Gold, rocks. [imitates explosion]
Crush, crush. Gold popping out. You know what I mean?
Rain's not here right now and it's not even just me
that that's, you know, hurting.
It's hurting everybody 'cause the mountain's not the same without her.
So excited for her to see it.
I think everybody sees that the gold mine, this is the time to do it.
It's the time to do it for Rain.
So, all in all, about how long do you think it will take to get this up and running?
I mean, is this the last step or are there more steps after this?
We can definitely fire it up to be able to test
and see what it will have working.
Once we have it...
you flip this to auto.
Things will start turning on.
Okay? Power will be given and that's why
I'll be posted over there at the circuit breaker box...
and once I start flipping those on...
everything will start coming on.
-Then everything will turn on? -Yes.
Oh, yeah.
So, if anything goes wrong, we want to kill all the breakers.
Okay. So...
-Good luck. -Good luck.
Oh, I'm so excited!
-Ready? -Ready!
Okay. Power...
[machine whirring]
-[Bird] Noah, it's moving! -Okay!
[Bird] Noah, over there is moving too!
[squealing] It's working!
It's spinning, it's moving. I'm so excited
because that's gold, basically.
I'm basically looking at what's gonna create gold.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm so much more excited than I thought I would be!
[Noah] As things start turning on,
it's just one more step closer to actually getting some gold.
But it's not quite at the point
for the celebration that she's throwing.
Here we go.
[Bird] Oh, it popped out! Dang it!
[Noah] Oh, darn.
You can learn a lot from an initial test run.
It let's you know the things that you have hooked up are hooked up properly.
I will admit, one of the conveyor belts is actually coming off.
I need to fix that.
Right now, I'm just running through the list of things
I need to do to make things better.
I need to tension this thing up 'cause it's too loose.
I need to bolt down that 'cause that is too wobbly.
[Bear] Which ones are we taking?
-Just Brutus and the black one? -[Gabe] Yeah.
Just the oldest two males.
Today Bear and I are separating the bulls from the cows.
Mom wants to sell a couple of the little ones.
and it's really hard to wrangle them
when everybody's in the same pen, especially the bulls,
'cause they get a little bit more temperamental.
Brutus is a really big bull
Little Bull's still young.
You know, he's feeling his juvenile fire.
We don't want to push him too hard,
don't want to, you know, push him too fast.
I have a thing of hay down at the other corral.
Do you want a thing of hay here to give him incentive?
Yeah. Toss it in right here, if you would.
Brutus! Brutus!
Come here!
-[groans] Wow. -Let's go!
Try to lure him with this hay.
Come on, Brutus. Go ahead. Good boy.
Go. [clicks tongue]
[Gabe] Hey! Hey! Bruno! Right here!
Big and juicy.
-Bruno! -[cow moos]
-[Gabe] Go get her. -Throw it!
[cow moos]
[Bear] Okay, got one of them.
One longhorn down and one to go.
[Gabe] So, I had my reservations about getting Brutus
into his own pen, but I look over
and Bear's feeding him a handful of hay.
Bear is very at one with nature.
[Bear] The original form of camouflage, actually, is mud.
[Gabe] I think it's 'cause he's basically an animal.
Like, he really taps in to his animalistic nature.
[howls]
So he understands animals really well.
[Bear] Come on, guys.
[Gabe] He was great with goats and chickens and, you know, bears.
Pretty much any kind of animal, he just knows how to handle them.
[Bear] I'll leave you be now, ostriches.
Go ahead and lay some eggs.
Go ahead and throw them some hay.
[Gabe] I like it.
His plan is working. Bear is a born cattle leader.
He understands the way of the longhorn.
[Bear exhales] Job well done.
-[Gabe] Cow whisperer. -[Bear chuckles]
Now that we have the longhorn bulls separated from the cows
and the babies, we'll be able to bring the loading trailer in
and we'll be able to get the two that are sold out of here.
I expect a little trouble getting the babies away from the mammas,
but we'll see how it goes.
All for one and one for all.
[Gabe] We got them.
[Bird] Bam, am I gonna kill you if I do this?
-[Bam] Yeah, do not do that. -I'll kill you?
-[Bam] Don't do it. -There's no one under there.
-Don't do it. -Why not?
Lower it down slowly and let it down.
[narrator] With the longhor pick up the following day,
Bam and Bird salvage lumber to fortify the cattle corral
ensuring the ranch's biggest commodities are secure.
We really need to build some actual fending to get it secured
and just trying to stop anything from getting out.
I want to get all these thin up and rolling.
I want to get, you know, the massive gardens and greenhouses
and everything else and orchards planted
-and all this stuff. -Oh, one thing I wanna do
is to get the garden goin'.
I was outta commission for so long this year.
I feel bad, 'cause I feel like a lotta of it's my fault that I didn't getta help.
-It is-- -And do a lot, because it was, like, a long, long time
that I wasn't able to do anything.
Focus on the things you can change,
-don't fill your mind with the things you cannot. -Nah.
I can't alter the weather.
Well, some of us can... Yeah.
Coming back from Alaska, there's definitely been a lot on my mind.
But especially with Rain not bein' here right now,
and there bein' so much we need to do on the ranch.
I haven't had time to think about the trip.
I'm excited not to get a hysterectomy.
You know, that does mean there are, you know, a lotta choices,
and a lotta things I have to think about,
'cause there's a lot of different options moving forward.
So, I have, you know,
another doctor's appointment coming up that's fairly important.
Uh, and I... I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous.
You can't time travel. Plan for the future, learn from the past.
[breath trembling] We don't think about the future, and it might not happen.
No, plan for the future, learn from the past, be in the now.
You know, now that I've, you know, I've made one choice,
the next steps are just... I have to figure out exactly what I wanna do.
But the appointment, I just don't wanna have to think about it right now
and so, I have just put it off as much as possible.
There's something about bein' a mother that it's a very scary thought.
[Bam Bam] This is either gon go really well or not doable
[Snowbird] I see a purple pickup truck.
[narrator] It's the morning of North Star Ranch's first major cattle sale,
and a local rancher has arrived to pick up the two longhorn calves.
All right.
Kenny's a local, and he's helping us out
with a, uh, trailer to transport the longhorns.
There! Good enough.
I have limited experience with the longhorns,
but I have a feelin' it's gonna be a little tricky
gettin' those longhorn calves into the trailer.
-Where's the one we want? -Those two little brown ones.
[Snowbird] North Star Ranch making its first sell,
it means our ranch is a real ranch.
We have made a profit on something.
Come on, baby!
[Bam Bam] In a small community, word travels pretty fast.
Uh, it's a big step. You start buildin' up your reputation.
So, really this job of loading the calves into the trailer
is more of a test showin' we know what we're doin',
but there's only one way to find out.
One issue is that if they were a little older it would be easier
'cause they'd be self-assure and they wouldn't wanna run to mommy.
[Ami Brown laughing]
[Snowbird speaking]
[Ami] Aw!
You can look at Bird and se she has a mother's heart.
She already possesses what she needs. She just has to realize it.
You can bottle feed, and then, that way you get to work with 'em.
you can even milk 'em later down the line.
Baby talk does take me back to when I was a mom to be.
I miss it. I... I miss it, a lot.
I would still be having them if I could.
But it does make me sad, it makes me miss when we were expecting ours.
You're growin' so big, look at you.
[Bam Bam] We're gettin' off track, guys.
The mission's simple, just separate 'em, and get the two little ones in.
Come through, to this baby.
[Bam Bam] Let's go!
We don't wanna tick the mom off.
Come on!
-[Snowbird] Hey! No! No! -[Bam Bam] No, no, no.
-[Snowbird] No! Rosie! Go! -[Bam Bam] He's posturin', Birdie, now.
[Snowbird] Hey! Nope! Nope! Go back!
[Bam Bam] He's gettin' frisky.
What we need are the... Two more a those pieces of hog panel,
and then a couple more people.
You know, the longhorns can move faster than you... Than you would think.
Uh, and when they're cornered, they can definitely bolt pretty good.
-[Ami] Don't rush it! -[Snowbird] Nope, no, we lost it. We lost it.
Also, you don't wanna agitate 'em too much,
and they're way stronger than they think that they are.
[mooing]
[Bam Bam] See, that's not good.
[mooing]
I know.
[Snowbird speaking]
[Bam Bam] They're way too spooked now.
They're way too spooked.
Just too fast. Too fast.
All right, Mom, let's regroup on this.
I think right now, we're kinda just wastin' time, and agitating the cows.
If we don't pull it together and actually start knockin' this job out
we're gonna end up losing the gig.
No, it's definitely time to stop,
and come up with an actual plan and rethink this.
All right, we gotta let Kenny get goin',
-we'll regroup and hit this tomorrow. -[Snowbird] Okay, um...
Yes! Come here. Up you get.
Oh, you just wanna pick which one he picks next?
[Elijah Brown] Yeah.
[narrator] With a full tank of water at his homesite,
Gabe enlists Noah's family to unload pieces of footing
A vital structural support needed before concrete can be poured.
Oh, my goodness! Show off!
[Gabe] In olden days, we would do pilings, I...
...And four and a footing is a lot more secure than that,
and it is a lot more up to code here.
The footing is basically everything that the house rests on.
It is the foot! It's the foot. The footing is the foot.
You know, the house is a person, I'm like, if my head were the roof,
the footing is my foot.
I get a little one, thank you.
The foundation is the most important part a the house,
so these footers have to be... [clicking]
Where did we get all a these? They look used.
Well, these are actually the same ones that we used
for the foundation on mom and dad's house.
Okay, 'cause some are... And then we have eight foot sections.
We'll be piecin' it together most likely.
We always built houses as a Wolfpack, ever since I can remember.
But as far as, like, each stage, like, I know what's involved,
and this kinda foundation is the same thing we used on the main house.
Uh, and so, it's kinda just rinse and repeat.
-Next one! Whoa! Careful! -[Elijah] I'm okay!
[Rhain Alisha chuckling] Yeah, I want that one. I need this one.
Careful, Noah, it's not a race.
There's like a certain formula you follow to build a house
and as long as you follow that formula, like, you're... We're gonna get it done.
-Oh, oh! Uh-oh! -[giggling]
-It's shakin'! It's shakin'! Look out! It's gonna fall. -[giggling]
[straining] Oh, my goodness!
[Snowbird speaking]
Okay, stop. Well, you put some grease up on the chain.
You know the easiest way to do it?
No, don't!
[Snowbird speaking]
[Noah] You grease monkey.
[narrator] Later that day, Bird and Noah continue repai to their gold mining rig.
In hopes of making the 30 ton crusher operational.
Try it, ready?
[Snowbird] Ah! It's moving!
-I'm about turnin' it on! -[Noah] Go ahead!
Not. Kill!
-Kill it? -[Noah] Ki... Yes! That's what kill it means.
-Well, I can't hear, man. -Kill it!
That thing is not movin'.
Well, do they move simultaneously?
Like, if we try and get it moving a little bit before it's on,
or does the motor have to be on for it to even budge?
No, they should move simultaneously.
[Snowbird] Well, that's why I'm thinking.
Maybe we just need to loosen this baby up before we turn it on.
-[Noah] Ready? Two, three! -One, two, three.
[straining] Hold on. Oh, hold on.
[straining]
-Um, I'm about to say, keep it going. -I'm keep it going...
-I'm gonna run. -...while you go.
Go!
-Noah, I'll just get into place? -[screaming] Go!
[breathlessly] Let me know.
[narrator] While Noah keeps the wheel spinning,
Bird must turn on the power sources to jumpstart the crusher.
Oh! Don't back...
-[shouting] Noah, do I turn it on? -Generator? Yes!
Then, make it to the breaker and scream.
-[Bird] Power on! -Get to the breaker!
I'm gettin' there. Hold on!
-Okay, Noah I'm gonna turn it on. -Kay!
Okay! It's turning on now!
It's on! Is it working?
[screaming] Yeah!
[Noah] Now, we know exactly what we need in order to be able to see it in action.
Next time, we... We should be able to get it and start puttin' rocks down it.
They should knuckle bust and then they crumble like rocks.
We are really close.
[Noah] Do you think these will fit on the truck?
Let's put 'em half on the... The bed, and the other half sticking over here.
[Noah] I think that's good, right?
-[Gabe] Just as long as you can get in the door. -Oh, okay.
[Gabe] In there! Not exactly how I woulda done it.
[narrator] The Brown's haul building materials to brother Gabe's house site
As they prepare to pour concrete for his future bush abode.
[Noah] All right, let's get this stuff up there.
They're tryin' to get a bunch a building material up to my place.
The main thing we're fighting now is just the path.
If... If we can just get it done, it'll be worth it.
You know, I kinda like being off the beaten path.
You know, I don't mind if my cabin's harder to get to, you know?
The way I grew up was just, you know, you... You have a foot trail in.
You know, maybe a snow machine, or a four wheeler or somethin' like that.
[Noah] Should I start pullin' the material out?
[Gabe] Yeah, where do you wanna put it?
[narrator] With the foundati squared up,
the Brown's must build a wooden frame along the inner wall of the hole,
which will support the footing of the house.
Well, it looks a little bit different than the last time I was here.
[narrator] And Gabe has called in backup.
Hi!
Glad you could make it.
Aw! I like your cute little baby hole here, for a little baby foundation.
-[Gabe laughing] -Maybe if you feed it right and proper,
it'll grow up to be a big strong foundation.
Well, I'm just thinkin' anything right now, anything before the snow flies.
Are we measurin' the board? You don't know how long your boards are?
Correct.
So, Bam's here to help... ish.
Uh, Bam is Bam. He just is.
[Bam Bam] They all have to be 16.
Well, first I just wanna measure how fit... If this is gonna fit.
You can't keep cuttin' the board to fit the hole.
You have to have the hole big enough to fit the boards.
Otherwise, one, you're gon... Have nowhere near a square house,
and two, it's gonna end up bein', like 6x6.
[Gabe] There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Well yeah, but there's only one right way to do it.
Gabe and Bam are kind of opposites when it comes to work.
Bam's first thing when he gets on a project is to tell everyone what they did wrong.
And Gabe looks at the hole and is, like, "Well, we've done more than we had before."
[Bam Bam] You don't even have a second pointed shovel, do 'ya?
-[Noah] No. -You don't have a shovel, you don't have a pick.
[Noah] I wasn't set up to dig.
But what are we doin' Gabby?
-What's the... What's the job here? -[Gabe] Diggin' it more.
Dig a hole.
[Bam Bam] Right, and what implements do you use to dig a hole?
My hands.
[Bam Bam] Gabey's a... A great soldier.
But when workin' on projects, he gets a little ahead of himself.
Watch out. Move the board over.
Well, there's not enough shovels for all of us to be digging,
and the guys are helpin' me,
so I guess they feel more responsible to be, like, doin' the work.
But you can be useful even if you're not workin'.
I will entertain.
Tryin' to keep you all entertained.
Can you sing a nice aria?
Is that like opera?
Yes.
[singing] Ruh-uh-dah- luf-en-la!
Ruh-pap-a-la-fa-her!
La-ta-da-ta-ooh!
Oh-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
-[laughing] -[singing] Oh-ah- ah- ah-ah-ah!
Oh-oh-ah-ah!
-All right, any other requests? -Dude, stop.
Thank you for comin' up and helpin' me,
and helpin' me realize, you know, the drain.
Somebody's gotta make sure you're, at least, sorta, remotely doin' it correctly.
[Gabe] I really see a lotta work being done, you know, Bam and Noah,
have really helped me along the way,
and it just seems to be goin' up real fast.
[Bam Bam] All right, that looks good.
[Gabe] And I can just envisi bringing Raquell and the gir up here into a cabin.
And like, it's... We're that much closer to realizing the dream.
Ta-da!
[Noah] We just need three more a those.
[Bird] We're gonna get the plan together.
-So, Gabe, right here-- -Hang on! I can't see with my butt.
[narrator] After failing to load
the first two longhorns sold from the Brown's herd,
Bam has arranged for local, Kenny, to return with his trailer
for one last attempt.
So, here is my plan. [laughing maniacally]
I mean, really, we're lucky that Kenny's willing to come back and, uh, make it work.
We really need this. We can't afford to lose it.
So, we gotta give it our best shot.
So, what I'm thinking is we try to herd into here.
A bunch of room, we don't need them.
What went wrong the first time we tried is definitely a lack of people.
So, now we have, you know, gained forces, and we have Gabe and Bear's on the way.
Thought you might need some help.
This time, we all have to work as a group,
and the more people will, I think, be the lifesaver.
[Gabe] We can try to get the small ones into just this area.
-[Snowbird] That was the plan. -They're used to going in there.
[horn honking]
Hang on, y'all.
Loading the calves into the trailer,
it's very important for North Star Ranch.
If we can't make that work, then we can't make the ranch work.
And us, being the Browns, being the Wolfpack,
being the way that we are, of course, we gotta do it the hard way.
[Snowbird] Guys, go back that way. Go!
-[Bam Bam] Don't spear it. -[Snowbird] Mmm.
-[Bam Bam] St... Stop him! -[Snowbird] No. Nope!
[Bam Bam] Go Bear!
-[Bear] I got him. I got it! -[Snowbird] Hold on.
This is a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be.
They are just not wanting to cooperate.
They just bolt for, you know, every which way but loose.
[Bam Bam] See, if we had that
-to stop 'em. -[Gabe] Get the baby! Let the mama go...
and close in!
Got that one. Close it!
Close it!
Hang on, we are the close.
-Now, slowly guys, don't spook her. -[Snowbird] Hold on!
-[Bam Bam] Stop! Let 'em mellow. Stop! -[Snowbird] Hold on.
-[Bam Bam] Oh, no! -[Snowbird] Ah! Didn't see that coming.
There's quite a bit of math and physics involved into throwing a knife.
Once you know the weight of your knife and how many rotations
it takes per foot, you can calculate the distance.
As long as it sticks, it sticks.
Growin' up, I was given preparedness. What to do in case of emergencies.
All emergencies. Uh, heck, I'm prepared for right now if ninjas burst in this room.
[Gabe] I need you to keep this sealed. We don't want them running back out.
[Noah] No. Yeah.
[Bam Bam] But it's gonna probably take all of us to get the other one.
[narrator] Local rancher, Kenny,
has brought his trailer to pick up two longhorn calv from North Star Ranch.
But one has escaped into a neighboring pen.
[Bam Bam speaking]
That little longhorn got through the fence like that
just because she had the gumption to try.
The smaller longhorns are more powerful than they think they are.
String some hay down through there,
you'll bring them cows right in there, then we'll get that one.
Birdie, if you get some hay, you can probably coax her back in here.
[Bear] This is something the Wolfpack is not a hundred percent used to,
but we have to remember, we all have to work together.
[Bam Bam] Let's just walk 'em slowly...
-[Snowbird] We can get him to walk along the fence. -...so they're not at. Slowly.
[Bam Bam] They won't bolt if we're slow.
[Gabe] Don't put too much pressure on 'em.
-[Snowbird] Hold on, she's goin' in. She's goin' in. -Keep walkin'.
Just walk her. There, close up.
[Gabe] Got that one! Come sit on the other ones.
[Snowbird] Well, this is our first sale.
It's the first thing that really makes North Star Ranch a ranch is we're selling cows.
So, we have to get this last one in, it just has to happen.
[Bam Bam] Go! Go! Turn up a little bit. Up a little bit.
Edge it! Go! Go!
Slow guys, slowly. Bear, give 'em a yeah.
Yeah! Yeah!
Shhh... Come on. Yeah.
[Snowbird] She's gonna check back the bull...
-[Bam Bam] Let's see how she's doin', guys. -...she's about the bulls.
Well, we finally got the calves and they're ready to go down the mountain.
This is a huge step for North Star Ranch.
[Kenny] You gotta get 'em both together.
-Hold on, baby, hold on. -All right, she'll follow the other one.
-Go. -Go.
-[mooing] -She'll follow the other one.
[Snowbird] Yeah!
Good job, everybody.
[Bam Bam] We're actually selling longhorns.
We actually bred 'em, we actually raised them,
we actually sold them from North Star Ranch.
-Thanks for your help, Kenny. -[Snowbird] For sure!
[Bam Bam] This shows us it is possible, we have that hope,
that we can actually make the dream come true, and that we will.
[Snowbird] Aw! I told mysel I wasn't gonna cry when we got rid of babies.
-It's okay. We're good... -[Bear] It's a good thing, Birdie.
-Makes us a workin' ranch. -...yep!
[Noah] Okay, still rocking.
[Snowbird] I can hardly wai and do it... 'Til we do a complete test run
with everything on and everyone here and Rain gets to see it.
[Noah] Definitely!
There's, you know, been a couple things that have definitely been a hiccup.
Uh, and anytime that we come across something that's like,
"Oh, I don't know if we can do it," I just think of Rain.
And, I'm like, I don't care how hard it is, or how long I have to stay out here,
I'm doin' it for Rain.
This is the longest that Rai and I have ever been apart.
Some people, you know, live miles away from their sisters,
and that's understandable, but it's... It's hard bein' away from mine.
You know, 'cause I've, you know, I was eight when she was born,
and I've been there every second since.
She's not just my world, she's my entire universe.
I miss her so much.
-[Noah] Okay, ready? -[Snowbird] Ready.
-This is one a many. -[Noah] Kay.
Set. Go!
Watch that break it.
[chuckling] Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh. It's almost there!
-[Noah] And right now is when it stops. -Why would you say that?
-Wave bye. -Bye, rock!
-[Noah] Listen! Listen! It's chewing. It's chewing! -Oh, my gosh!
-[Noah] And the rocks come out. -Whoo!
There's rock. It's crushed!
Oh, my gosh, that rock was huge! Oh!
We broke the belt, Noah.
Rocks... More rocks are goin'. Just remove that rock, quickly!
Be very careful.
Oh, there's rocks under it, too, Noah.
-Maybe kill the machine probably, right? -Yep!
You know, we... We thought we had everything up and running, and it was gonna work perfect,
but the conveyor belt stops.
It was... Just ate that one up!
[Noah] Bein' that we're dealing with rocks,
more than likely, it's a jam that's preventing it from turning.
-Noah, what's up? -Yeah, that needs to be fixed.
The main reason that Bird and I are doin' all this work on the gold mining stuff,
uh, it's... It's for Rainy, it's for when she gets back.
If the equipment never runs, the dream of... Of minin' on the mountain would be dead.
I think along with Rain's little heart.
[narrator] On the season finale of Alaskan Bush Peop.
Let's see this thing in action.
We're getting close on fixin' the mining equipment and finding gold on the ranch.
-[Snowbird] That one fell off! -[Noah] Definitely have to make some adjustments.
[Snowbird] Can't get Noah!
She's ready to come home.
And she's really ready, right?
Definitely worried about Rain.
Hopin' it's not too soon to bring her back.
Here she comes.
-How do we get these nuggets? Let's do this. -Okay.
[Snowbird] We have a hard ro mining expert coming up.
Any hints you can give us?
[Rain] I would be in shock if it weren't gold.
If it's gonna be crushin' my dreams like that. Crushers is crushin' a lot.
So, what do you think, we got gold?