1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,767 [Todd] Well, for our first fire up, I think it's pretty good. 2 00:00:03,767 --> 00:00:05,867 Can't get any better than that. 3 00:00:05,867 --> 00:00:08,533 [narrator] Just two weeks after setting foot in Alaska, 4 00:00:09,266 --> 00:00:12,000 the Hoffman crew is on the gold. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,166 -Whoo! -[man] I swear. 6 00:00:13,166 --> 00:00:16,500 [Todd] This is the biggest cleanup we've ever had. 7 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:18,600 [narrator] But with both wash plants running pay dirt 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:19,634 from the Lost Cut... 9 00:00:20,867 --> 00:00:22,367 they'll soon pocket every ounce 10 00:00:22,367 --> 00:00:24,133 from their most profitable site. 11 00:00:24,867 --> 00:00:26,600 I'm gonna just do everything I can 12 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,033 to figure out our next move. 13 00:00:30,166 --> 00:00:31,467 [narrator] With time running out, 14 00:00:31,467 --> 00:00:33,867 third generation miner Hunter Hoffman 15 00:00:33,867 --> 00:00:37,100 must combine his own experience with alternative methods 16 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,967 to have a chance at finding their next big hunting hole. 17 00:00:41,367 --> 00:00:43,100 [Hunter] My grandpa, me and him around here 18 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:44,266 in the middle of nowhere, 19 00:00:44,266 --> 00:00:46,066 hunting for treasure. 20 00:00:46,066 --> 00:00:48,066 [narrator] And he's ready to improvise... 21 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:50,767 [Todd] Is it gonna run, Hunter? 22 00:00:50,767 --> 00:00:52,700 We're gonna make it run, yeah. 23 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:54,800 [narrator] ...for a giant pay day. 24 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,233 [Todd] I'm looking for that five pound nugget, buddy. 25 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,367 [man 1] Hey, isn't this a beautiful [bleep]? 26 00:01:12,367 --> 00:01:13,433 [man 2] Yeah, it's amazing. 27 00:01:13,967 --> 00:01:14,734 Yeah. 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,667 [laughing] 29 00:01:16,667 --> 00:01:18,967 This year already feels like a better vibe. 30 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:21,667 Uh, Black Pearl's looking good. 31 00:01:22,767 --> 00:01:24,600 The Holy Roller's runnin' nice. 32 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,100 -Dakota, how's it lookin'? -[Dakota] Looks good. 33 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:30,567 [Hunter] And so far the Lost Cut is looking really good. 34 00:01:30,567 --> 00:01:32,767 This year everybody feels like we're more of a team 35 00:01:32,767 --> 00:01:35,467 and me and my dad haven't started screaming at each other yet. 36 00:01:37,467 --> 00:01:38,433 You doin' really good today. 37 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,767 -[Todd] You're doin' good. -Yeah. 38 00:01:40,767 --> 00:01:42,900 -No, you're doin' good. -[Todd] Let's go. 39 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,166 So this year we gotta stay ahead of the game. 40 00:01:45,166 --> 00:01:47,000 The Lost Cut is awesome. 41 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,567 It looks like it's gonna pay off 42 00:01:48,567 --> 00:01:49,667 like we thought. 43 00:01:49,667 --> 00:01:52,166 But it's only gonna be about half the season. 44 00:01:52,166 --> 00:01:54,767 We need to send Hunter out to... to prospect 45 00:01:54,767 --> 00:01:56,367 and find new pay dirt. 46 00:01:56,367 --> 00:01:58,000 And then we gotta bring in a test plant 47 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,100 to run all the samples that he brings back. 48 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:02,767 We know that there's gold here. 49 00:02:02,767 --> 00:02:04,200 We know it's in that cut. 50 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,767 If we do everything right and nothing goes wrong, 51 00:02:06,767 --> 00:02:07,934 we're good. 52 00:02:07,934 --> 00:02:09,967 We're gonna probably have the best season we've ever had. 53 00:02:11,667 --> 00:02:13,266 [Jack] Yeah, it'll be high out there. 54 00:02:13,266 --> 00:02:14,066 Hey, Grandpa. 55 00:02:14,567 --> 00:02:16,200 I wanna show you somethin'. 56 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,166 -[Jack] Oh, okay. -Out here. 57 00:02:18,166 --> 00:02:19,600 Bein' my grandpa's last season, 58 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:20,600 I want us to get 59 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,767 as much gold as possible so that... 60 00:02:22,767 --> 00:02:23,867 you know, he can head outta here 61 00:02:23,867 --> 00:02:26,266 and feelin' like, uh, we had a win. 62 00:02:26,266 --> 00:02:27,266 [Jack] What do you got? 63 00:02:27,266 --> 00:02:30,467 [Hunter] I got these drill maps. 64 00:02:30,467 --> 00:02:32,300 -Keener's drill maps. -[Jack] Yeah. 65 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:34,166 -[Hunter] From last year. -[Jack] Yeah. 66 00:02:34,166 --> 00:02:36,166 Now that we're runnin' the Lost Cut... 67 00:02:36,166 --> 00:02:36,934 -Yeah. -...it's lookin' like... 68 00:02:37,867 --> 00:02:40,567 Keener's drill maps are actually... 69 00:02:40,567 --> 00:02:42,667 more accurate than we thought. 70 00:02:42,667 --> 00:02:45,567 [narrator] Twenty-five years ago, geologist Jeff Keener 71 00:02:45,567 --> 00:02:46,767 did extensive research 72 00:02:46,767 --> 00:02:48,900 on the land at the Mammoth Valley mine, 73 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:51,567 creating maps and soil analysis reports. 74 00:02:51,567 --> 00:02:53,000 [Jeff] This is my map. 75 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,367 What, 25 years ago just about. 76 00:02:55,367 --> 00:02:57,000 So this map shows 77 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,700 the claim configuration at the time... 78 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,667 and then all the drill holes that I drilled out here. 79 00:03:02,667 --> 00:03:04,266 [narrator] His research was critical 80 00:03:04,266 --> 00:03:06,634 in leading the Hoffmans to the Lost Cut. 81 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,367 You guys might be in for a real treat here. 82 00:03:10,367 --> 00:03:12,100 I hope you are. 83 00:03:12,100 --> 00:03:15,233 -Yeah. -So, basically, what I'm trying to do is... 84 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:18,166 get ahead of the game a little bit. 85 00:03:18,166 --> 00:03:20,300 -Yeah. -And so when we run out of pay... 86 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:21,467 -Yeah. -...in the Lost Cut... 87 00:03:21,467 --> 00:03:23,100 -Yeah. -...we kind know where we wanna go. 88 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:25,100 By the time they have all the pay out of the Lost Cut, 89 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:26,200 I wanna have our second option 90 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,200 kinda ready to go. 91 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,467 Time is of the essence. 92 00:03:28,467 --> 00:03:30,700 And, uh, I'm gonna do a little bit a... 93 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,166 a little bit a mapping and... and run point 94 00:03:33,166 --> 00:03:34,333 out in front of everybody 95 00:03:34,333 --> 00:03:36,867 and see if we can find another area that has crazy gold. 96 00:03:36,867 --> 00:03:39,500 So now that we're getting some gold, 97 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:41,000 I can kind of break away... 98 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,867 -Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. -...and then maybe you even go with me. 99 00:03:43,867 --> 00:03:45,867 We go kinda poke around and see... 100 00:03:45,867 --> 00:03:47,667 Yeah, I'd love to do that. 101 00:03:47,667 --> 00:03:49,266 ...what else we can do. 102 00:03:49,266 --> 00:03:52,867 I'd love to go prospecting with you. Yeah. 103 00:03:52,867 --> 00:03:55,467 We just gotta figure out, you know, where can we go 104 00:03:55,467 --> 00:03:57,100 in the time that we have. 105 00:03:57,100 --> 00:03:59,467 -Yeah. And time is running out. -So... 106 00:03:59,867 --> 00:04:01,266 There is ground here 107 00:04:01,266 --> 00:04:05,467 that goes up to 77 ounces a hundred. 108 00:04:06,767 --> 00:04:08,266 That's unheard of. 109 00:04:08,266 --> 00:04:09,266 I already know 110 00:04:09,266 --> 00:04:11,667 that Hunter will find it this season. 111 00:04:11,667 --> 00:04:15,367 And I'm not gonna miss the opportunity to go with him. 112 00:04:15,367 --> 00:04:17,667 You know, I'm on my way out. 113 00:04:17,667 --> 00:04:21,133 Todd doesn't realize it that he's gettin' closer to that. 114 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:23,233 Hunter is the future. 115 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 [Hunter] Maybe we'll find the mother lode together. 116 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,734 [Jack] I think we're gonna do it. 117 00:04:37,166 --> 00:04:38,300 [Tater] All right. We gotta put some dirt in here. 118 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:39,567 -She's ready. -Perfect. 119 00:04:39,567 --> 00:04:40,667 I'll grab dirt. 120 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:41,667 You guys get out of the way. 121 00:04:41,667 --> 00:04:42,834 You tell me when to load it. 122 00:04:51,367 --> 00:04:52,266 We're good. Let's rip. 123 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:57,567 [Andy] So, so far so good. The Lost Cut. 124 00:04:57,567 --> 00:04:58,934 You know, it's been paying really good. 125 00:04:59,567 --> 00:05:00,767 The ground's good. 126 00:05:07,266 --> 00:05:09,000 We'll just keep running the dirt till we can run, 127 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,567 nice and slow and steady, 128 00:05:10,567 --> 00:05:11,734 and, uh, hope for the best. 129 00:05:31,567 --> 00:05:33,066 [Todd] So we don't know how long 130 00:05:33,066 --> 00:05:35,467 the Lost Cut's gonna actually last, 131 00:05:35,467 --> 00:05:38,367 but when Hunter brings his prospecting pay back, 132 00:05:38,367 --> 00:05:40,700 we can't run it on one of our big plants. 133 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:43,767 It'd probably cost us $2,000 an hour. 134 00:05:43,767 --> 00:05:46,667 So Tater's bringin' in my dad's wash plant 135 00:05:46,667 --> 00:05:50,500 which is this little plant that he's been working on for years. 136 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,166 My dad built it by hand. 137 00:05:52,166 --> 00:05:54,567 It's not only gonna be a great plant for my dad, 138 00:05:54,567 --> 00:05:56,300 but also for Hunter, 139 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,967 when he finds small amounts of dirt, we can test it. 140 00:05:59,967 --> 00:06:02,734 And boom, we can get an accurate count on the gold. 141 00:06:04,967 --> 00:06:06,367 [narrator] Unbeknownst to Jack, 142 00:06:06,367 --> 00:06:09,300 Todd arranged to deconstruct his dad's wash plant 143 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:11,800 and ship it over 2,000 miles 144 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,333 from Jack's front year in Sandy, Oregon. 145 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,800 After two weeks on a barge to Nome, Alaska, 146 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,700 they split it on the two trucks 147 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:23,967 for the final 80 miles to the Mammoth Valley mine site. 148 00:06:26,266 --> 00:06:29,700 Now, if Todd's crew can put the pieces back together, 149 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:32,767 Jack's hand built wash plant from the 1990s 150 00:06:32,767 --> 00:06:34,734 could run pay for the first time ever. 151 00:06:37,166 --> 00:06:38,033 [Todd] Here it comes, guys. 152 00:06:38,767 --> 00:06:40,300 -Hey, slow down! -[man laughs] 153 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:43,166 That's not a hot rod. Come on. 154 00:06:43,166 --> 00:06:45,000 All right, guys. What do you think? 155 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,900 Yes or no? Is it gonna run, Hunter? 156 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:50,567 -We're gonna make it run, yeah. -[Todd chuckles] 157 00:06:50,567 --> 00:06:53,467 Doesn't look like much, but it's gonna actually raise 158 00:06:53,467 --> 00:06:55,467 our odds of finding enough pay dirt 159 00:06:55,467 --> 00:06:57,467 to get out of here with a win. 160 00:06:57,467 --> 00:06:59,567 Tater, Ron, how'd it go? 161 00:06:59,567 --> 00:07:01,100 -[Andy] Good. -[Tater] We made it. 162 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:02,266 [Todd] All right, guys. 163 00:07:02,266 --> 00:07:04,634 That's Jack's first conveyor belt ever. 164 00:07:05,567 --> 00:07:07,066 -Let me call him. -[radio beeps] 165 00:07:07,667 --> 00:07:09,967 Hey, Jack, Jack. This is Todd. 166 00:07:09,967 --> 00:07:12,600 [Jack on radio] Yeah, just, uh, up here. 167 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,266 Hey, you wanna come down to the lay down yard? 168 00:07:14,266 --> 00:07:15,767 I got something down here to show you. 169 00:07:16,667 --> 00:07:18,467 Well, yeah. Yeah, I'll come. 170 00:07:19,266 --> 00:07:20,767 -You wanna go? -Yeah. 171 00:07:20,767 --> 00:07:22,000 [Jack] All right. 172 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,300 So it's a big surprise for Jack. 173 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:26,066 It's gonna be fun to just see how he... how he looks, 174 00:07:26,066 --> 00:07:28,266 'cause he literally never thought 175 00:07:28,266 --> 00:07:30,266 he was gonna get a chance to run this plant. 176 00:07:30,266 --> 00:07:33,667 I don't even know how he built this by himself, to be honest. 177 00:07:33,667 --> 00:07:35,166 He just kept pluggin' away at it. 178 00:07:35,166 --> 00:07:37,467 I, like, left at, like, 6:00 in the morning one time, 179 00:07:37,467 --> 00:07:40,834 and he's just out there in the rain, just grinding. 180 00:07:42,166 --> 00:07:43,967 All right. Here he comes. 181 00:07:43,967 --> 00:07:44,734 [man] Uh-oh. 182 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:48,266 -[Todd] Hey. -Hey. 183 00:07:48,266 --> 00:07:50,066 -[Todd] Hey, Jack. Look what we got. -[Jack] Oh, my God. 184 00:07:50,066 --> 00:07:51,233 -What the heck? -[Todd] Surprise! 185 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,800 How did this get here? 186 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,266 [Todd] We shipped it up, man. 187 00:07:55,266 --> 00:07:57,400 Your wife said, "Get rid of all that junk 188 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,800 -out in the front of the house." -[Jack] Oh, God. 189 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,166 -[Todd] And I said, "All right." -All right she did. 190 00:08:00,166 --> 00:08:02,233 -No, she didn't. -Here it comes. [chuckles] 191 00:08:02,367 --> 00:08:03,367 Wow. 192 00:08:03,367 --> 00:08:05,900 I'm excited to have this plant goin'. 193 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:08,000 It was a pipe dream, you know? 194 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,667 Now it can be a test plant 195 00:08:10,667 --> 00:08:13,467 for Hunter prospecting and, hopefully, 196 00:08:13,467 --> 00:08:15,000 it gets him a lot of gold. 197 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,100 You know, some old guys at your age, 198 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:20,800 -you know what they do? They make bird houses. -Yeah. 199 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,100 -Yeah. It's my birdhouse. -You're out here doin', uh... 200 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:23,867 Yeah. [chuckles] 201 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,567 [laughing] 202 00:08:25,567 --> 00:08:26,900 [Todd] Andy, where are we gonna put it? 203 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:29,567 I think we put it out on the North Fork. 204 00:08:29,567 --> 00:08:32,367 -Huh. -[Andy] We could suck right out of the main pond 205 00:08:32,367 --> 00:08:33,967 and we got a... a pond that we built 206 00:08:33,967 --> 00:08:36,000 -we can discharge right into it. -Heck yeah. 207 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,266 -[Jack] All right. -[Todd] Well, first of all, did you name it? 208 00:08:38,767 --> 00:08:41,100 Well, I call it Shaky Jake. 209 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,166 -[Todd] If there's no job-- -I was also thinkin' the Jackrabbit. 210 00:08:43,166 --> 00:08:44,467 [Jack] Okay. 211 00:08:44,467 --> 00:08:46,700 -[Todd] Let's put everything together. -Well, this is cool. Thanks. 212 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,900 -Thanks, Dad. Yeah. -[Jack] Appreciate it. 213 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:49,700 -Thanks for, uh... -[Jack] Hey. 214 00:08:50,567 --> 00:08:52,367 -Oh, man. Yeah. -[Hunter] This is cool. 215 00:08:52,367 --> 00:08:54,700 All right. Let's look around at this thing 216 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:56,667 and we'll see what we gotta do, huh? 217 00:08:56,667 --> 00:08:57,533 -Okay. -[Jack] All right. 218 00:08:58,767 --> 00:08:59,533 Yeah. 219 00:09:07,867 --> 00:09:09,333 [Hunter speaking] 220 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:13,433 [Todd speaking] 221 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:20,700 I think the sluice needs to be right here, Dad. 222 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:23,266 -Yeah. Yes. -'Cause I gotta dig this down. 223 00:09:23,266 --> 00:09:25,467 Then we're gonna put some steel down there. 224 00:09:25,467 --> 00:09:27,367 -[Jack] Yeah. -[Todd] Where's your conveyor go? 225 00:09:27,367 --> 00:09:29,433 Goes right off this end, right here. 226 00:09:29,767 --> 00:09:30,500 Okay. 227 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:32,200 The neat thing about it is, 228 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,900 I've got multiple generations here. 229 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:38,500 You know, I got my son, I got my grandson. 230 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:40,867 And, uh, that's... that's cool. 231 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:42,900 I just wanna see it work. 232 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:45,166 I wanna see it get goin'. 233 00:09:45,166 --> 00:09:47,000 How do we wanna rig this thing? 234 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,467 -[Jack] Yeah. -[Tater] Looking at it, 235 00:09:48,467 --> 00:09:50,800 it looks like, Jack, are these the pick points? 236 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:51,767 [Jack] Yes, they are. 237 00:09:51,767 --> 00:09:53,767 -Right here? -[Jack] Yes, they are. 238 00:09:53,767 --> 00:09:55,834 -Intended with a hook, or... -[Jack] Listen, 239 00:09:56,367 --> 00:09:58,100 I welded those, so... 240 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:00,200 -So when I pick it, don't be near it. -[Jack speaking indistinctly] 241 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,100 Is that what you're saying? 242 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,300 So don't, like, get underneath it. 243 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:07,367 -We could hook back here to these. -[Jack] Yeah. Yeah, we could. 244 00:10:07,367 --> 00:10:08,233 -[Todd] Yeah. -With those big... 245 00:10:08,233 --> 00:10:10,066 I brought the big chains 'cause they're long. 246 00:10:11,166 --> 00:10:13,166 [narrator] To reconstruct Jack's wash plant... 247 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:15,300 Todd plans to lift the plant 248 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:18,166 on a four chain system attached to the bucket 249 00:10:18,166 --> 00:10:20,400 of the 650 excavator, 250 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,367 a machine capable of lifting 25 tons. 251 00:10:24,367 --> 00:10:26,367 [Todd] This is what's called four part, here's... 252 00:10:26,367 --> 00:10:29,567 You got four separate chains coming off of a main hook. 253 00:10:29,567 --> 00:10:31,567 Kinda spreads the weight around. 254 00:10:31,567 --> 00:10:33,767 Hopefully, we can dangle this thing. 255 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:35,934 Get it set just right. 256 00:10:36,467 --> 00:10:37,500 Hunter, come here. 257 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:38,467 The way it's built, 258 00:10:38,467 --> 00:10:40,767 it's kinda skinny and can tip over, so... 259 00:10:41,166 --> 00:10:42,166 You take that one. 260 00:10:42,166 --> 00:10:44,066 We don't wanna mess it up. 261 00:10:44,066 --> 00:10:46,066 [Tater on radio] What do you guys want me to do? 262 00:10:46,066 --> 00:10:48,567 [Todd] Come far left first, get us around it. 263 00:10:48,567 --> 00:10:50,066 Next thing you know, you drop it... 264 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,767 and then we spend the rest of the week 265 00:10:52,767 --> 00:10:54,767 trying to fix the mess up. 266 00:10:54,767 --> 00:10:56,700 Far left and then far right. 267 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:58,400 We just take our time and do it right. 268 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,066 Hopefully, our chances of bending it are lot less and... 269 00:11:02,767 --> 00:11:04,266 We've been a lot of stuff out here. 270 00:11:04,967 --> 00:11:05,734 [Hunter] I'll do this. 271 00:11:07,567 --> 00:11:09,166 I've watched my grandpa put, 272 00:11:09,166 --> 00:11:12,166 you know, hours and hours and months into this plant, 273 00:11:12,166 --> 00:11:14,967 you know, building it all by himself by hand, so, 274 00:11:14,967 --> 00:11:16,767 I'm hopin' nothing happens 275 00:11:16,767 --> 00:11:18,266 to Jack's plant here, but... 276 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,166 Anytime you're pickin' anything... 277 00:11:21,166 --> 00:11:22,567 you never know what's gonna happen. 278 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:27,667 [Todd] Let's try that, Tater, real slow. 279 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:30,634 [tense music playing] 280 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,600 [Tater] I mean, it's gonna be a little jerky. 281 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,066 [Hunter] It's gonna wanna spin. 282 00:11:47,967 --> 00:11:49,700 [Todd] Oh, my gosh. 283 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:51,767 [Todd] Whoa, whoa. Set it down. 284 00:11:51,767 --> 00:11:53,467 [Andy on radio] Can I move my truck out of the way? 285 00:11:53,467 --> 00:11:56,367 -[man 2] There you go. -[Todd] It hits that truck, it's game over. 286 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:58,433 Put it down. Stop! Let it go. 287 00:11:58,867 --> 00:11:59,734 -Stop. -[Todd] Tater! 288 00:12:02,667 --> 00:12:04,467 [Todd] Oh, my gosh. 289 00:12:04,467 --> 00:12:06,066 -[Hunter] It's gonna wanna spin. -[Todd] Whoa, whoa. 290 00:12:06,367 --> 00:12:07,934 Set it down. 291 00:12:07,934 --> 00:12:09,600 -[Andy on radio] Can I move my truck out of the way? -[Todd] If it hits that truck, 292 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:10,433 it's game over. 293 00:12:10,734 --> 00:12:11,667 Put it down. 294 00:12:11,667 --> 00:12:12,934 [Andy] Tater, down! 295 00:12:12,934 --> 00:12:14,100 [Todd] Come down, Tater. Come down. 296 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:15,767 -[Andy] Down! -[Todd on radio] Down, down, down, down. 297 00:12:15,767 --> 00:12:17,667 [Todd] Down. Right there. Stop. 298 00:12:17,667 --> 00:12:19,667 [Todd] Now, touch... touch and just let... 299 00:12:20,066 --> 00:12:21,266 Do you have a tag? 300 00:12:21,266 --> 00:12:22,867 You got a tag line, Ron? 301 00:12:22,867 --> 00:12:25,600 I wanna move my [bleep] truck. [chuckles] 302 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,233 [all laughing] 303 00:12:27,967 --> 00:12:29,767 [Andy] Here, tie that on there. 304 00:12:29,767 --> 00:12:33,467 So far nobody is injured and the plant's still together, but... 305 00:12:33,467 --> 00:12:37,367 You just gotta be calm and keep an eye on everything. 306 00:12:37,367 --> 00:12:41,066 [narrator] With 32,000 pounds suspended by thin cables, 307 00:12:41,066 --> 00:12:43,367 one wrong move could send Jack's plant 308 00:12:43,367 --> 00:12:44,367 crashing to the ground. 309 00:12:45,967 --> 00:12:47,000 [Tater] We got this, Jack. 310 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,367 -Yeah, I think so. -[Tater] We'll... We'll get it. 311 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,667 Now that he's got a tag line on it, 312 00:12:50,667 --> 00:12:51,467 we're gonna go ahead 313 00:12:51,467 --> 00:12:53,100 and try and swing it into place. 314 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:55,166 Everybody look out. We're coming through here. 315 00:12:55,166 --> 00:12:57,934 [Tater on radio] Go easy. I have to go really slow. 316 00:12:58,567 --> 00:12:59,600 Don't get excited. 317 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,266 I'm trying to go very easy and not hurt anybody. 318 00:13:02,266 --> 00:13:03,333 [Todd on radio] We appreciate that. 319 00:13:05,567 --> 00:13:06,734 Keep it low. 320 00:13:06,734 --> 00:13:08,066 [Todd on radio] Tater, keep it low. 321 00:13:08,066 --> 00:13:08,834 Ten-four. 322 00:13:09,367 --> 00:13:10,900 Here comes the Jackrabbit. 323 00:13:11,467 --> 00:13:12,266 Keep goin'. 324 00:13:13,467 --> 00:13:14,266 Keep goin'. 325 00:13:15,166 --> 00:13:16,934 So far so good. 326 00:13:16,934 --> 00:13:18,333 You haven't dropped it yet. 327 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:20,033 What're you thinkin'? 328 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:23,033 [Todd] Track, pull it a little bit more. 329 00:13:23,967 --> 00:13:25,433 [on radio] I think that's pretty good. 330 00:13:26,166 --> 00:13:27,333 Just touch the wheel. 331 00:13:27,834 --> 00:13:28,634 There you go, pull. 332 00:13:30,266 --> 00:13:31,233 [Hunter] And they're down. 333 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:33,567 Okay, hold right there. 334 00:13:34,667 --> 00:13:35,934 [Todd] Hold up, hold up. 335 00:13:36,467 --> 00:13:37,233 Ten-four. 336 00:13:37,934 --> 00:13:39,200 Does it look all right? 337 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,734 [Jack] Yeah, perfect. 338 00:13:40,734 --> 00:13:42,333 [Todd] Okay, we're gonna unhook. 339 00:13:42,867 --> 00:13:44,166 So far so good. 340 00:13:45,567 --> 00:13:47,767 [narrator] Wash plants have three basic parts. 341 00:13:47,767 --> 00:13:51,100 The hopper, the sluice box and the conveyor. 342 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:54,367 Though Jack's plant has all the necessary components, 343 00:13:54,367 --> 00:13:55,667 because of its size, 344 00:13:55,667 --> 00:13:58,900 it's built to run less pay and act as a test plant. 345 00:14:00,066 --> 00:14:02,333 [Jack] Keep goin'. Keep goin'. 346 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:05,567 [Todd on radio] Hang on, you're good. Hang out. 347 00:14:08,467 --> 00:14:09,967 -[Andy] You like that? -[Jack] Yes. 348 00:14:09,967 --> 00:14:11,266 [Andy] Quite the engineer, Jack. 349 00:14:11,266 --> 00:14:13,266 -I like this thing. -[Jack chuckles] Yeah. 350 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:14,800 It should work. 351 00:14:26,567 --> 00:14:28,266 -[Hunter] Yo. -Hey, man. 352 00:14:28,266 --> 00:14:31,967 -[laughs] We finally get to go exploring. -[chuckles] I know. 353 00:14:31,967 --> 00:14:33,233 Got another map here. 354 00:14:33,233 --> 00:14:35,100 -[Jack] Praise your maps, uh-huh. -[Hunter] So we can kinda get 355 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:37,100 -a better idea, so... -[Jack] Yeah, okay. 356 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:39,266 -That one trench that we were lookin' at... -[Jack] Yeah. 357 00:14:39,266 --> 00:14:41,233 -...that's supposedly 70 ounces a hundred... -[Jack] Yeah. 358 00:14:41,667 --> 00:14:43,867 ...is somewhere in here. 359 00:14:43,867 --> 00:14:46,834 Keener's map shows that west of North Fork 360 00:14:46,834 --> 00:14:49,200 there's a ridge that has really rich gold deposits. 361 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,166 So we're gonna see if we can track it down. 362 00:14:51,867 --> 00:14:53,867 If you could find that trench... 363 00:14:53,867 --> 00:14:56,500 -[Hunter] Yeah. -...we could do a couple samples there. 364 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:58,367 As long as this thing doesn't break down. 365 00:14:58,367 --> 00:15:00,166 Last time I drove it... 366 00:15:00,166 --> 00:15:02,667 -it almost blew up, so... -Oh, ah. Old girl. 367 00:15:02,667 --> 00:15:03,567 [Hunter] Yeah. 368 00:15:03,567 --> 00:15:04,834 -[Jack] Okay. -[Hunter] We'll get out there 369 00:15:04,834 --> 00:15:06,734 -and see what we gonna find. -[Jack] Here, I'll take those. 370 00:15:06,734 --> 00:15:09,166 [Hunter] A lot of the reason why I'm back here this summer 371 00:15:09,166 --> 00:15:13,400 is just to be on this gold adventure with my grandpa and... 372 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,100 You know, he loves this stuff and I love doin' this with him, so... 373 00:15:18,266 --> 00:15:19,033 Me and him are out here 374 00:15:19,033 --> 00:15:21,367 in this crazy old track vehicle 375 00:15:21,367 --> 00:15:22,533 in the middle of nowhere, 376 00:15:23,033 --> 00:15:24,734 huntin' for treasure, so... 377 00:15:25,367 --> 00:15:26,567 That's pretty cool. 378 00:15:26,567 --> 00:15:28,567 It's not the smoothest ride ever. 379 00:15:29,033 --> 00:15:30,033 Oh, my gosh. 380 00:15:30,567 --> 00:15:31,934 That's pretty steep. 381 00:15:33,367 --> 00:15:34,400 [Hunter] Think I'm good? 382 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,634 [Jack] Yeah, I think so. Just take it slow. 383 00:15:37,834 --> 00:15:40,834 -[Hunter] Holy [bleep]. -[Jack] That... No, no, it's okay. 384 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:43,266 Yeah, we're hittin'. 385 00:15:43,266 --> 00:15:45,233 -But we just barely hit. -[chuckles] 386 00:15:45,867 --> 00:15:46,734 [Jack] Yeah, we're good. 387 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:50,033 -[chuckles] -That was close. 388 00:15:50,166 --> 00:15:51,367 Yeah? 389 00:15:51,367 --> 00:15:53,066 [Hunter] Should be somewhere in here. 390 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,367 [groans] It's getting colder. 391 00:15:58,367 --> 00:16:00,166 -Dude, this is treacherous. -[grunts] 392 00:16:00,166 --> 00:16:02,100 -Yeah. -Okay. 393 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,567 Where do you think that trench is? 394 00:16:05,567 --> 00:16:07,867 -[Hunter] This is where we're at. -[Jack] Yeah. 395 00:16:07,867 --> 00:16:10,066 [Hunter] So I think it's just a little bit further that way, 396 00:16:10,066 --> 00:16:11,300 along the edge. 397 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:12,533 -[Jack] Let's try to get there. -Okay. 398 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:14,467 We're close. 399 00:16:14,467 --> 00:16:16,567 We're tryna put the pieces together 400 00:16:16,567 --> 00:16:20,266 and figure out off a map from 25 years ago 401 00:16:20,266 --> 00:16:21,934 where exactly they were diggin', so... 402 00:16:21,934 --> 00:16:25,166 Treasure maps aren't always the easiest to read. 403 00:16:25,166 --> 00:16:27,500 Might need to go this way a little bit. 404 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,300 [Jack] Yeah, I'll come over that way 405 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:31,266 after I get through here. 406 00:16:31,266 --> 00:16:33,200 Just hard to pinpoint... 407 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,500 if we're in the right spot or not 408 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:36,667 and it's just so overgrown. 409 00:16:36,667 --> 00:16:38,934 [Jack] But I think the trench is right here. 410 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,467 -Hunter. -[Hunter] Yeah. 411 00:16:41,467 --> 00:16:44,100 Right here is where he was digging. 412 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:46,166 There's definitely been digging. 413 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:48,233 [Hunter] You think this is the hole? 414 00:16:48,667 --> 00:16:50,400 This is the trench. 415 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:51,767 [Hunter] Where do you think we should pull from? 416 00:16:51,767 --> 00:16:52,667 You think right here? 417 00:16:52,667 --> 00:16:53,867 [Jack] I would go... Yeah. 418 00:16:53,867 --> 00:16:57,100 -Down at the bottom, not at the top. -[Hunter] Yeah. 419 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,166 [Jack] Just throw all the big rocks out. 420 00:17:01,567 --> 00:17:02,867 Yeah. 421 00:17:02,867 --> 00:17:04,033 [Hunter] It's hard to tell for sure... 422 00:17:05,266 --> 00:17:06,734 if we're in the right spot or not. 423 00:17:07,567 --> 00:17:08,867 Right now it's really frustrating 424 00:17:08,867 --> 00:17:11,000 to be out here with buckets and shovels. 425 00:17:11,934 --> 00:17:14,166 Mining's evolved a lot over the last 25 years 426 00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:16,967 and, so, there's a lot of tools that we could use 427 00:17:16,967 --> 00:17:18,667 that I wanna bring in. 428 00:17:18,667 --> 00:17:20,734 But we got a couple buckets of dirt. 429 00:17:22,066 --> 00:17:24,166 We won't really know until we get it back to the cleanup room 430 00:17:24,166 --> 00:17:26,834 and... and run it, if it's the hotspot or not. 431 00:17:26,834 --> 00:17:28,200 [Jack] We made it out. 432 00:17:50,867 --> 00:17:53,367 [Andy] Just keep comin' back straight and straight and straight. 433 00:17:53,367 --> 00:17:55,166 Keep comin', keep comin', keep comin'. 434 00:17:55,166 --> 00:17:56,266 [Andy on radio] Now turn to your right. 435 00:17:59,367 --> 00:18:01,867 [Andy] Beautiful sunny day and we're sluicing, so... 436 00:18:01,867 --> 00:18:03,667 what else can we ask for? 437 00:18:03,667 --> 00:18:05,500 Hopefully, Hunter said he's up trying to prospect, 438 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:06,867 find some new ground. 439 00:18:06,867 --> 00:18:08,767 Um, something that's thawed out. 440 00:18:08,767 --> 00:18:11,467 That, uh, hopefully we can get access to 441 00:18:11,467 --> 00:18:14,467 and that's got gold in it to get us through to the end. 442 00:18:14,467 --> 00:18:16,166 You're always solvin' problems when you're mining, 443 00:18:16,166 --> 00:18:18,867 but today we're digging pay dirt and sluicing dirt. 444 00:18:18,867 --> 00:18:21,600 That's what we came here to do. This is how we make money. 445 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,900 Time to get to that 3,000 plus goal. 446 00:18:30,734 --> 00:18:33,333 [narrator] While work at the main plants continues... 447 00:18:35,767 --> 00:18:37,233 -[Todd] Morning. -[Jack] Yup. 448 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,033 [narrator] ...the Jackrabbit 449 00:18:39,033 --> 00:18:41,767 needs one final component to make it operational, 450 00:18:41,767 --> 00:18:42,567 a water pump. 451 00:18:43,367 --> 00:18:44,467 [Todd] Let's get the pump. 452 00:18:44,467 --> 00:18:45,233 [narrator] Todd and his crew 453 00:18:45,233 --> 00:18:47,200 would draw water from the main pond 454 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,266 at the North Fork 455 00:18:48,266 --> 00:18:51,066 near the Black Pearl and Holy Roller plants. 456 00:18:51,066 --> 00:18:53,033 We got the plant all set up. 457 00:18:53,033 --> 00:18:55,166 Now we're just gonna throw some water at it. 458 00:18:55,166 --> 00:18:56,767 It's really exciting to, uh, 459 00:18:56,767 --> 00:18:58,567 help jack get this thing up and running. 460 00:18:58,567 --> 00:19:00,667 I think it's really cool. You know, he... 461 00:19:00,667 --> 00:19:03,166 built this thing all by himself and we're gonna... 462 00:19:03,166 --> 00:19:04,934 help him live out his dream of runnin' 463 00:19:04,934 --> 00:19:06,467 his own wash plant. 464 00:19:06,467 --> 00:19:08,400 [Todd] Here it comes. The other half 465 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,634 of this equation, water. 466 00:19:10,266 --> 00:19:11,367 Can't sluice without water 467 00:19:11,367 --> 00:19:12,667 and that's what we're about ready to do. 468 00:19:12,667 --> 00:19:14,367 We're gonna try to put the pump in 469 00:19:14,367 --> 00:19:15,634 and then we'll see what happens. 470 00:19:16,066 --> 00:19:17,333 Framer! 471 00:19:17,333 --> 00:19:19,500 -Where do you want it? By the water. -[Jack] Yeah. By the water. 472 00:19:19,500 --> 00:19:21,567 -Okay. [chuckles] -[Todd] Wow. That's... That's, uh, different. 473 00:19:21,567 --> 00:19:22,934 [Jack] That's a good idea. 474 00:19:22,934 --> 00:19:23,734 [Hunter] Right there. 475 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:25,000 [Jack] What do you think? 476 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,634 -[Hunter] Nailed it. -[Todd] Nailed it. 477 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:28,834 Pump's in place. 478 00:19:28,834 --> 00:19:30,934 We got one more fitting to put on. 479 00:19:32,166 --> 00:19:34,500 You know what? You can work on this plant probably forever. 480 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:36,867 Jack probably would love... love doing that, but, 481 00:19:36,867 --> 00:19:39,767 whether it runs or not, uh, we're gonna find out. 482 00:19:39,767 --> 00:19:41,867 [Andy] Can he walk out on that [bleep] or is it too soft? 483 00:19:41,867 --> 00:19:44,567 [Todd] I don't know. It's... pretty soft. 484 00:19:44,567 --> 00:19:46,367 [man] We can't get down to that water's edge. 485 00:19:46,934 --> 00:19:48,333 Yeah! [bleep] 486 00:19:49,166 --> 00:19:50,233 It's slippery down there. 487 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:52,567 [Todd] Careful. 488 00:19:52,567 --> 00:19:54,467 Hey, everybody be careful down there. 489 00:19:56,367 --> 00:19:58,634 [man] I can take this end, bring it around, 490 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:00,467 and load it up and let her... 491 00:20:00,467 --> 00:20:02,567 -let her flip... -[Todd] Whoa, whoa! 492 00:20:02,567 --> 00:20:05,934 -Ah, [bleep]! -[Todd] Help him. 493 00:20:05,934 --> 00:20:08,066 -[Andy] Tater's in the water. -[Todd] Ah, dang it, Rob. 494 00:20:08,066 --> 00:20:09,467 [man] Here, grab hold the hose. 495 00:20:09,467 --> 00:20:10,467 -You get 'em? -[man 1] Hang on. 496 00:20:10,467 --> 00:20:11,266 [Tater] I can't get my leg out. 497 00:20:11,567 --> 00:20:12,367 Oh! 498 00:20:12,767 --> 00:20:14,100 Yeah... [groans] 499 00:20:14,567 --> 00:20:15,367 Give me a strap, Ron. 500 00:20:15,367 --> 00:20:17,033 [Andy] You're gonna tear your knee up. 501 00:20:17,033 --> 00:20:18,467 [Tater] Son of a biscuit. 502 00:20:20,367 --> 00:20:21,533 -[Andy] Tater's in the water. -Help him, help him. 503 00:20:21,533 --> 00:20:22,533 [man] Here, grab hold the hose. 504 00:20:22,533 --> 00:20:24,767 -I can't get my leg out. -Yeah, give me a strap, Ron. 505 00:20:24,767 --> 00:20:26,166 [Andy] You're gonna tear your knee up. 506 00:20:26,166 --> 00:20:27,433 [Tater] Son of a biscuit! 507 00:20:27,433 --> 00:20:30,166 -Here, here. Bring him up! -[man] Yeah, don't tear your knee up. 508 00:20:30,166 --> 00:20:32,367 -[Todd] Here, give him this. -[man] Oh, Hunter's got a strap. 509 00:20:32,367 --> 00:20:34,166 [Hunter] Huh? Oh, I'm just trying to fix the hose. 510 00:20:34,166 --> 00:20:36,033 Oh, hang on, Tater. We're gonna pull you out. 511 00:20:36,033 --> 00:20:38,233 We gotta get this hose out there real quick. 512 00:20:38,233 --> 00:20:39,934 Since you're already there... 513 00:20:39,934 --> 00:20:42,967 Whoa! Whoa, hang on. 514 00:20:42,967 --> 00:20:44,767 -It looks like you're sinking. -[Micah] There you go. 515 00:20:44,767 --> 00:20:46,433 -You're sinking. -[Todd] Are you going deeper? 516 00:20:46,433 --> 00:20:49,266 Give me your helmet, I gotta send something back to your wife. 517 00:20:49,266 --> 00:20:51,567 Hang on, Rob, we'll get you out in a minute. 518 00:20:51,567 --> 00:20:53,000 [Todd] But can you get it out there, Hunter? 519 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:53,967 Throw it out there? 520 00:20:53,967 --> 00:20:55,900 -[Micah] Yeah. -[Hunter] Try not to destroy it. 521 00:20:57,367 --> 00:20:59,567 [Todd] All right, Tater. Fish it out there, Tater, 522 00:20:59,567 --> 00:21:01,433 and let's get you the hell outta here. 523 00:21:01,433 --> 00:21:03,767 Keep going. Keep going. 524 00:21:03,767 --> 00:21:05,467 Everybody over here on this rope. 525 00:21:05,467 --> 00:21:07,734 One, two, three. Go! 526 00:21:07,734 --> 00:21:09,133 Oh, [bleep]. Pull. 527 00:21:09,133 --> 00:21:11,000 [all grunting] 528 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,100 Keep pulling. 529 00:21:12,867 --> 00:21:14,634 -Pull him. -[Tater grunts] 530 00:21:14,634 --> 00:21:15,934 Hey, got my boot back. 531 00:21:15,934 --> 00:21:17,433 -[Todd] You did? -[panting] 532 00:21:17,433 --> 00:21:18,867 Okay, hold on, one sec. 533 00:21:18,867 --> 00:21:20,567 [panting] Okay. 534 00:21:20,567 --> 00:21:21,834 [bleep] 535 00:21:22,367 --> 00:21:23,533 [grunts] 536 00:21:23,533 --> 00:21:25,066 -Got it? -Yeah. 537 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:26,467 That wasn't muddy. 538 00:21:26,467 --> 00:21:27,934 [Micah] You're not riding in my truck. 539 00:21:27,934 --> 00:21:29,367 -[all laughing] -Mine either. 540 00:21:29,367 --> 00:21:31,767 Thanks. Thanks for not taking a dinner break. 541 00:21:31,767 --> 00:21:34,367 Anything for Jack's plant. 542 00:21:34,367 --> 00:21:35,867 [Tater] I might need to change my pants. 543 00:21:35,867 --> 00:21:37,734 -[bleep] -[all laughing] 544 00:21:47,133 --> 00:21:48,266 Got it. 545 00:21:48,266 --> 00:21:49,867 We got the dirt back to the cleanup room 546 00:21:49,867 --> 00:21:51,834 and now we just gotta run it, pan it 547 00:21:51,834 --> 00:21:53,767 and if it is the right spot, 548 00:21:53,767 --> 00:21:55,166 we're gonna know right off the bat. 549 00:21:55,166 --> 00:21:58,100 This just might be the thing that keeps us in the game. 550 00:21:58,867 --> 00:22:00,834 We're gonna take bucket number one here. 551 00:22:01,734 --> 00:22:03,667 Just screen off all the big rock 552 00:22:03,667 --> 00:22:07,000 and then we'll start panning it and see... 553 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,467 see if it's got gold or not. 554 00:22:08,467 --> 00:22:10,767 You know, I'm always looking for a nugget. 555 00:22:10,767 --> 00:22:14,333 You know, chances of there being a nugget is... 556 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:17,767 probably pretty slim, 557 00:22:17,767 --> 00:22:20,934 but all this ground has some gold on it. 558 00:22:21,767 --> 00:22:23,233 Here's a scoop. 559 00:22:27,667 --> 00:22:29,033 All right. 560 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:34,133 I'm doing a little bit of a faster pan just to see what we've got. 561 00:22:34,634 --> 00:22:36,233 Wash off the lighter stuff. 562 00:22:38,433 --> 00:22:40,467 And if the gold's the heaviest thing in here, 563 00:22:40,467 --> 00:22:41,767 when you're doing this, 564 00:22:41,767 --> 00:22:43,367 it should be going to the bottom. 565 00:22:43,367 --> 00:22:44,867 There's definitely gold in here. 566 00:22:44,867 --> 00:22:46,567 You seein' it? Okay. 567 00:22:46,567 --> 00:22:49,066 If we've got 77 ounces, 568 00:22:49,066 --> 00:22:52,667 you're gonna see some pretty positive gold in here. 569 00:22:52,667 --> 00:22:54,367 -And... -You see those colors... 570 00:22:54,367 --> 00:22:57,033 -Oh, yeah. I see it. I see quite a few. -[Hunter] ...on the top? 571 00:22:57,033 --> 00:22:58,533 [Jack] Look at that. 572 00:22:58,533 --> 00:23:00,734 That's not 70 ounces a hundred though. 573 00:23:01,533 --> 00:23:03,233 [Jack] No. It's not. 574 00:23:03,233 --> 00:23:06,000 -It's good minable dirt. -[Hunter] Mmm-hmm. 575 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,667 -But it's not your crazy load. -It's not good enough to 576 00:23:10,667 --> 00:23:14,333 -jump ship and try to go all the way out there. -No. 577 00:23:14,333 --> 00:23:16,634 [Hunter] So unfortunately, the ridge was a bust. 578 00:23:16,634 --> 00:23:19,433 Right now it feels like we're wasting time that we don't have 579 00:23:19,433 --> 00:23:22,767 using these old school methods to try to track down the gold. 580 00:23:22,767 --> 00:23:25,767 When we were out there, I wasn't even sure if we were on the right spot or not. 581 00:23:25,767 --> 00:23:27,033 So, it's frustrating. 582 00:23:27,033 --> 00:23:30,266 If we ran all this, it's gonna take you for freaking ever. 583 00:23:30,266 --> 00:23:33,166 You know, running this stuff with a gold pan. 584 00:23:33,166 --> 00:23:35,567 -Yeah. -You just gotta get out there 585 00:23:35,567 --> 00:23:39,000 run a... a bulk sample of 100 yards. 586 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,100 -You'll do it. You'll do it bud. -Love you. 587 00:23:41,867 --> 00:23:43,400 -Let's get out of here. -Okay. 588 00:24:04,266 --> 00:24:05,700 [geese honking] 589 00:24:08,333 --> 00:24:11,367 Okay. How's prospecting going out there? 590 00:24:11,367 --> 00:24:14,767 It's going okay, but it just takes forever. 591 00:24:14,767 --> 00:24:18,166 I think that we should invest a little bit more into, 592 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:19,867 you know, finding new ground. 593 00:24:19,867 --> 00:24:22,967 -Yeah. -I have a couple ideas I wanna try. 594 00:24:22,967 --> 00:24:25,066 One of them is LiDAR, 595 00:24:25,066 --> 00:24:28,066 -like ground penetrating drone... -Okay. 596 00:24:28,066 --> 00:24:31,233 ...that uses radar. And apparently that can tell 597 00:24:31,233 --> 00:24:33,867 the depth of bedrock, if ground's virgin or not, 598 00:24:33,867 --> 00:24:36,867 everything else. Kinda give us a picture that way. 599 00:24:36,867 --> 00:24:39,967 And then just getting around takes forever. 600 00:24:39,967 --> 00:24:43,467 So, I think it'd be a good idea to bring in a SHERP. 601 00:24:43,467 --> 00:24:46,567 -You know, those off road, amphibious vehicles. -Oh, I know what they are. 602 00:24:46,567 --> 00:24:49,000 'Cause then we can cruise around out here 603 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:49,800 and not get stuck. 604 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,000 You actually think there's one around? 605 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,734 Yeah. I got a lead on one that we could get up here 606 00:24:54,734 --> 00:24:57,367 and at least have it for the rest of the summer. 607 00:24:57,367 --> 00:24:58,867 It's gonna cost a little bit of money, 608 00:24:58,867 --> 00:25:01,066 but as of right now, it's a lot of pressure 609 00:25:01,066 --> 00:25:04,667 to figure out how we're gonna even run dirt the rest of the season. 610 00:25:04,667 --> 00:25:07,033 -I know. I know-- -That's got what, two or three weeks? 611 00:25:07,033 --> 00:25:08,467 There is pressure on you, 612 00:25:08,467 --> 00:25:11,133 use technology, use whatever you can. 613 00:25:11,133 --> 00:25:13,467 Try to keep it under 50 grand, 614 00:25:13,467 --> 00:25:16,233 but if you... Hopefully, you can find us some pay dirt 615 00:25:16,233 --> 00:25:18,166 otherwise we're gonna be going home 616 00:25:18,166 --> 00:25:19,667 and we're not gonna hit our goal. 617 00:25:19,667 --> 00:25:20,967 [Hunter] Okay. 618 00:25:20,967 --> 00:25:23,266 You know, Hunter is feeling the pressure. 619 00:25:23,266 --> 00:25:25,333 He's trying to find some pay dirt. 620 00:25:25,333 --> 00:25:27,266 It's not an easy thing to do. 621 00:25:27,266 --> 00:25:29,266 But if he wants to bring in some new technology, 622 00:25:29,266 --> 00:25:31,867 he wants to bring in some new ways to get around, 623 00:25:31,867 --> 00:25:33,634 hey, more power to him. 624 00:25:33,634 --> 00:25:35,467 Any money that I spend towards that 625 00:25:35,467 --> 00:25:38,166 is investing into the future of this mine. 626 00:25:38,166 --> 00:25:39,233 [Todd] I like it. 627 00:25:39,233 --> 00:25:40,767 Let me know what you need from me. 628 00:25:40,767 --> 00:25:41,734 [Hunter] Okay. I will. 629 00:25:41,734 --> 00:25:43,100 All right, bud. Good job. 630 00:25:47,934 --> 00:25:49,200 [quacking] 631 00:26:03,567 --> 00:26:04,767 [narrator] Back at the Jackrabbit, 632 00:26:04,767 --> 00:26:07,033 with mechanical parts belted in place 633 00:26:07,033 --> 00:26:09,467 and the electrical components powered up, 634 00:26:09,467 --> 00:26:12,233 Jack prepares to test his make-shift wash plant 635 00:26:12,233 --> 00:26:13,300 with water. 636 00:26:13,834 --> 00:26:15,266 [Todd] I think you're good. 637 00:26:15,266 --> 00:26:16,767 [narrator] Something he's never attempted 638 00:26:16,767 --> 00:26:19,734 in the 30 years since he built it by hand 639 00:26:19,734 --> 00:26:21,233 in his own backyard. 640 00:26:21,233 --> 00:26:22,066 You guys good? 641 00:26:22,066 --> 00:26:24,033 -[Jack] Fire it up! -You ready, Grandpa? 642 00:26:24,033 --> 00:26:25,467 Yeah. Go ahead. 643 00:26:25,467 --> 00:26:27,100 Pump coming on. 644 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:28,533 [on radio] Jackrabbit. 645 00:26:28,533 --> 00:26:29,767 [Todd] To be honest with you, 646 00:26:29,767 --> 00:26:31,367 I don't know if this thing will even run. 647 00:26:31,367 --> 00:26:34,433 And we just wasted time, money and hope. 648 00:26:34,433 --> 00:26:38,200 We're gonna find out. If it's ever gonna work, it's gonna work right now. 649 00:26:39,166 --> 00:26:40,200 [engine starts] 650 00:26:42,567 --> 00:26:44,100 [both] Here it comes. 651 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:45,467 [Micah] Heads up. 652 00:26:45,467 --> 00:26:47,834 We're pushing water. There it goes. 653 00:26:56,767 --> 00:26:58,266 Oh. [bleep] 654 00:26:58,266 --> 00:26:59,934 Good. 655 00:26:59,934 --> 00:27:01,533 [Todd] There you go. Now you're in the hopper. 656 00:27:02,333 --> 00:27:03,600 [Hunter] We got water. 657 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:05,233 We got leaks. 658 00:27:07,066 --> 00:27:08,867 [Todd] Dad, look at your hopper. 659 00:27:08,867 --> 00:27:11,367 You have any adjustments anywhere? 660 00:27:11,367 --> 00:27:14,233 Yeah. There's a couple valves back here. 661 00:27:15,266 --> 00:27:16,567 Hey, Dad, you're getting a lot over here. 662 00:27:16,567 --> 00:27:18,266 Hunter, grab the shovel. 663 00:27:18,266 --> 00:27:20,433 [Jack] Got a big leak here. 664 00:27:21,233 --> 00:27:22,500 [Todd] Leaking everywhere. 665 00:27:22,834 --> 00:27:25,467 This is very wet. 666 00:27:25,467 --> 00:27:27,266 We gotta get this water out, dude. 667 00:27:27,266 --> 00:27:28,734 We're sitting in water. 668 00:27:29,166 --> 00:27:32,000 There. Cut a ditch. 669 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,634 [Hunter] You gotta level the sluice. 670 00:27:33,634 --> 00:27:35,266 Don't worry about that. 671 00:27:35,266 --> 00:27:36,734 We've got other issues. 672 00:27:49,333 --> 00:27:51,867 What is pouring out right there? 673 00:27:51,867 --> 00:27:53,367 -Water... -It just tries... 674 00:27:53,367 --> 00:27:55,767 -From where? -[Jack] The rubber is... 675 00:27:55,767 --> 00:27:58,967 The rubber needs to be redone. Not that big a deal. 676 00:27:58,967 --> 00:28:01,533 So, we finally got Jack's plant up and running. 677 00:28:01,533 --> 00:28:03,667 He's never ran water in it before. 678 00:28:03,667 --> 00:28:04,767 We've got a couple leaks, 679 00:28:04,767 --> 00:28:06,166 a couple little things to address. 680 00:28:06,166 --> 00:28:07,233 Nothing major. 681 00:28:07,233 --> 00:28:08,233 Maybe in a day or two 682 00:28:08,233 --> 00:28:10,100 we might have some gold in Jackrabbit. 683 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:12,033 Dad, you know where you gotta fix it? 684 00:28:12,033 --> 00:28:12,834 [Jack] Yeah. 685 00:28:12,834 --> 00:28:16,567 Actually, this side of the sluice box, 686 00:28:16,567 --> 00:28:19,133 I need a little splitter there. 687 00:28:19,133 --> 00:28:20,233 You know what I mean? 688 00:28:20,233 --> 00:28:21,166 A diverter. 689 00:28:21,166 --> 00:28:22,834 Yeah. Just run one side, you're saying? 690 00:28:22,834 --> 00:28:24,367 -Yeah. -I think that'd be smarter. 691 00:28:24,367 --> 00:28:25,734 [Jack] Well, you could do that. 692 00:28:26,767 --> 00:28:28,734 [Jack] So, it works. 693 00:28:28,734 --> 00:28:32,033 The only thing I have is a few little leaks, 694 00:28:32,033 --> 00:28:33,667 down underneath here. 695 00:28:33,667 --> 00:28:35,567 That's all very easily 696 00:28:35,567 --> 00:28:37,567 taken care of with a piece of rubber. 697 00:28:37,567 --> 00:28:40,266 [Todd] Okay. Well, let's get these leaks fixed. 698 00:28:40,266 --> 00:28:41,667 Good job, everybody. 699 00:28:41,667 --> 00:28:43,333 -Good job. -Yeah. 700 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:44,834 [Todd] You know what? There's some leaks, 701 00:28:44,834 --> 00:28:46,433 there's some things that need to be fixed 702 00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:47,834 but let me tell you, 703 00:28:47,834 --> 00:28:49,367 everybody stayed late 704 00:28:49,367 --> 00:28:51,567 and we almost lost Tater in the drink. 705 00:28:51,567 --> 00:28:53,133 All my guys pitched in. 706 00:28:53,133 --> 00:28:55,634 Nobody was, like, grumbling about it. 707 00:28:55,634 --> 00:28:56,934 Means a lot to me. 708 00:28:56,934 --> 00:28:59,467 Means a really, a bunch to my dad. 709 00:28:59,467 --> 00:29:01,967 And here he is, man. 710 00:29:01,967 --> 00:29:03,834 He's already planning, scheming. 711 00:29:04,567 --> 00:29:07,467 He's up there trying to fix this thing. 712 00:29:07,467 --> 00:29:09,367 These are the moments that mean a lot. 713 00:29:09,367 --> 00:29:10,734 -I think it looks good. -[Jack] Anything pull up? 714 00:29:10,734 --> 00:29:12,233 [all] Yep. Yeah. 715 00:29:12,233 --> 00:29:14,000 Good job, Rob. Thank you, guys. 716 00:29:32,634 --> 00:29:33,767 [Hunter] I just got a radio call. 717 00:29:33,767 --> 00:29:35,934 Our all-terrain-amphibious, 718 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,066 crazy off-road tank vehicle showed up. 719 00:29:40,066 --> 00:29:41,967 I followed some leads on some cool stuff 720 00:29:41,967 --> 00:29:44,367 and I really need this SHERP to show up. 721 00:29:44,367 --> 00:29:45,767 I can't believe it did, 722 00:29:45,767 --> 00:29:47,066 considering where we're at. 723 00:29:47,066 --> 00:29:49,000 -[door beeping] -We're gonna see what they're all about. 724 00:29:50,433 --> 00:29:51,333 How's it going? 725 00:29:51,333 --> 00:29:53,567 Hello, Hunter. My name is Gen. 726 00:29:53,567 --> 00:29:55,533 -Gen, nice to meet you, brother. -Yeah. 727 00:29:55,533 --> 00:29:57,567 -Nice to meet you too. -This is crazy. 728 00:29:57,567 --> 00:29:59,233 -This is a SHERP. -There it is. 729 00:29:59,934 --> 00:30:01,567 I've never really seen one in person. 730 00:30:01,567 --> 00:30:03,767 Yeah. You have a chance to try it. 731 00:30:03,767 --> 00:30:05,634 [Hunter] It's getting colder, the wind's blowing 732 00:30:05,634 --> 00:30:07,834 and we're running out of time to find new ground. 733 00:30:07,834 --> 00:30:10,467 So, my dad, he gave me the green light 734 00:30:10,467 --> 00:30:11,800 to make some moves. 735 00:30:12,634 --> 00:30:14,433 [narrator] Hunter's all new terrain vehicle, 736 00:30:14,433 --> 00:30:16,567 the SHERP, is an ATV, 737 00:30:16,567 --> 00:30:18,467 a snowmobile, a boat 738 00:30:18,467 --> 00:30:20,700 and a hover craft, all in one. 739 00:30:22,233 --> 00:30:24,734 [Gen] So it inflate the tires themself. 740 00:30:24,734 --> 00:30:28,166 -The exhaust inflates the tires? -Yeah! Yeah. 741 00:30:28,166 --> 00:30:31,467 [narrator] It's able to overcome obstacles over three feet in height 742 00:30:31,467 --> 00:30:34,266 and can handle any terrain or weather. 743 00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:37,867 Perfect for the treacherous, undeveloped Alaskan tundra. 744 00:30:37,867 --> 00:30:39,667 [Hunter] Whoa. Okay, let's do it. 745 00:30:39,667 --> 00:30:40,600 [Gen] All right. 746 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,934 [Hunter] I'm excited to get the SHERP out here, 747 00:30:42,934 --> 00:30:45,667 the LiDAR drone and then I have the tools, 748 00:30:45,667 --> 00:30:49,100 you know, that I need to go out and pinpoint, you know, 749 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,667 where the next pay should be coming from. 750 00:30:51,667 --> 00:30:53,934 So, it's easy to inflate the tires. 751 00:30:53,934 --> 00:30:56,867 You just need to switch on this switch. 752 00:30:56,867 --> 00:30:59,066 And it'll just go to auto pressure. 753 00:30:59,066 --> 00:31:02,367 Yeah. And you can see on the monitor how it works. 754 00:31:02,367 --> 00:31:06,266 For swamp or snow or sand or dirt road or asphalt, 755 00:31:06,266 --> 00:31:09,367 -or water. So you can-- -That's the pressure, tire pressure. 756 00:31:09,367 --> 00:31:10,767 Yeah. Yeah. 757 00:31:10,767 --> 00:31:12,767 -[Hunter] Okay, brake. -[Gen] Yup. 758 00:31:12,767 --> 00:31:14,233 -[Hunter] Clutch. -[Gen] Yeah. 759 00:31:14,233 --> 00:31:15,634 -Okay. Here we go. -Let's go. 760 00:31:21,367 --> 00:31:23,166 You just cruising in the tundra. 761 00:31:23,166 --> 00:31:24,634 [laughs] 762 00:31:24,634 --> 00:31:26,433 -[Hunter] It's, like, relaxing. -[Gen] Yeah. 763 00:31:26,433 --> 00:31:28,367 -Go all the way... -Oh, yeah. 764 00:31:28,367 --> 00:31:30,467 -...out in there. -[Gen] Oh, yeah. 765 00:31:30,467 --> 00:31:32,767 Find the new gold places. 766 00:31:32,767 --> 00:31:34,200 Dude. That's what I'm talking about. 767 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,266 This is sweet. 768 00:31:36,266 --> 00:31:37,567 -I like it. -[Gen] So it's simple, 769 00:31:37,567 --> 00:31:39,767 and robust and reliable. 770 00:31:39,767 --> 00:31:42,867 And will take you any remotest places. 771 00:31:42,867 --> 00:31:44,634 This is exactly what I needed. 772 00:31:45,734 --> 00:31:46,533 I love it. 773 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:50,033 We did it. 774 00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:51,333 Good. You done well. 775 00:31:51,767 --> 00:31:52,734 You done well. 776 00:31:52,734 --> 00:31:53,567 -Here we go. -Thank you. 777 00:31:53,567 --> 00:31:54,734 Thank you. 778 00:31:54,734 --> 00:31:55,834 Gotta grab some gold. 779 00:31:58,567 --> 00:31:59,600 [narrator] Back at North Fork, 780 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,934 work continues to get Jack's plant operational. 781 00:32:02,934 --> 00:32:07,467 Using a rubber diverter, the team has blocked off one side of the sluice, 782 00:32:07,467 --> 00:32:09,533 creating a more efficient water flow. 783 00:32:17,066 --> 00:32:19,767 [Micah] Okay. Put a washer on it so it supports it better. 784 00:32:19,767 --> 00:32:22,867 -All right? -[Jack] Yeah. Perfect. 785 00:32:22,867 --> 00:32:24,233 [Todd] I don't know where it would leak. 786 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,533 [Jack] In theory, it's ready to go. 787 00:32:28,767 --> 00:32:31,467 In actuality, I don't know. 788 00:32:31,467 --> 00:32:35,266 I've never ran material on it at all. 789 00:32:35,266 --> 00:32:37,133 I just wanna know if it works. 790 00:32:37,934 --> 00:32:40,634 If it works, it's a great test plant. 791 00:32:58,533 --> 00:32:59,734 [Todd] What the heck? 792 00:33:02,033 --> 00:33:03,400 [Todd chuckles] 793 00:33:04,767 --> 00:33:09,066 -Dude, I hope you rented that and didn't buy it. -[all laughing] 794 00:33:09,066 --> 00:33:10,700 [Todd] Dude, no way! 795 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:12,166 Look at this thing. 796 00:33:12,166 --> 00:33:13,867 -Dude, this is sick. -Isn't this thing crazy? 797 00:33:13,867 --> 00:33:15,634 It's a lot better than the... 798 00:33:15,634 --> 00:33:17,567 It's quicker, it's faster, you can go through the water, 799 00:33:17,567 --> 00:33:18,667 it doesn't tear anything up. 800 00:33:18,667 --> 00:33:20,233 [Todd] It's manual, little stick shift? 801 00:33:20,467 --> 00:33:21,433 Yeah. 802 00:33:22,634 --> 00:33:23,634 Yeah. Flip this down. 803 00:33:25,367 --> 00:33:28,634 But yeah. Six, six speed manual, diesel. 804 00:33:28,634 --> 00:33:31,166 It's nice to have around, I think. 805 00:33:31,166 --> 00:33:32,834 Well, go find us some gold. 806 00:33:32,834 --> 00:33:34,266 Okay. I'm gonna try. 807 00:33:34,266 --> 00:33:36,867 As always, the time is tickin', you know? 808 00:33:36,867 --> 00:33:39,166 I'm just tryin' to work a little bit smarter 809 00:33:39,166 --> 00:33:40,166 instead of harder and so... 810 00:33:40,166 --> 00:33:41,934 um, hopefully, in a couple of weeks, 811 00:33:41,934 --> 00:33:43,867 I have our next place to pull pay out of 812 00:33:43,867 --> 00:33:45,634 and hopefully save this season. 813 00:33:47,066 --> 00:33:47,900 Okay. 814 00:33:49,467 --> 00:33:51,533 [Todd] Dude, this is so wild. 815 00:33:51,533 --> 00:33:52,867 This is like Star Wars. 816 00:33:52,867 --> 00:33:54,834 [Hunter] Yeah. This is some Star Wars [bleep] right here. 817 00:33:54,834 --> 00:33:55,934 [Todd laughs] 818 00:34:03,033 --> 00:34:06,100 -We good, Jack? -[Jack] Yes, sir. 819 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:07,667 [narrator] After some fine tuning, 820 00:34:07,667 --> 00:34:10,367 Jack's plant is ready for its final test. 821 00:34:10,367 --> 00:34:12,967 Hunter will be running local rock instead of 822 00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:15,667 the limited gold rich pay from the Lost Cut 823 00:34:15,667 --> 00:34:19,834 to ensure the plant can clean and run rock efficiently. 824 00:34:19,834 --> 00:34:20,900 [Jack] First bucket. 825 00:34:23,367 --> 00:34:25,133 There she goes. 826 00:34:25,133 --> 00:34:26,567 [Todd] Come on up, Jack. What do you think? 827 00:34:26,567 --> 00:34:28,867 -[Jack] Looks like it's going down. Yeah. -It's moving. 828 00:34:28,867 --> 00:34:30,033 [Jack] Yeah, it's movin'. 829 00:34:30,667 --> 00:34:32,634 [Todd] Throwing rocks. 830 00:34:32,634 --> 00:34:34,667 [Hunter] You know, I know my grandpa's excited 831 00:34:34,667 --> 00:34:37,266 to see his plant running and... 832 00:34:37,266 --> 00:34:40,834 He's just always excited to be gold mining in general. 833 00:34:40,834 --> 00:34:43,333 You know, I'm feeding it just like any other plant. 834 00:34:43,333 --> 00:34:45,066 It's washing, Jack! 835 00:34:45,066 --> 00:34:47,367 Just watch your fingers over here. 836 00:34:47,367 --> 00:34:50,266 [Hunter] So far it's actually doing pretty good. 837 00:34:50,266 --> 00:34:51,467 So, I'm impressed. 838 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,667 [Todd] Well, for our first fire-up, I think it's pretty good. 839 00:34:55,667 --> 00:34:57,734 It's working pretty dang good. 840 00:34:57,734 --> 00:35:00,567 For a test plant, and something that 841 00:35:00,567 --> 00:35:03,066 I just built in my driveway, 842 00:35:03,066 --> 00:35:05,634 it's really washing the rock good. 843 00:35:05,634 --> 00:35:07,767 The rock's going off the tail end 844 00:35:07,767 --> 00:35:10,233 and you can just watch it pile up. 845 00:35:10,233 --> 00:35:13,433 You want to call it a success, it's a success. 846 00:35:13,433 --> 00:35:17,133 But can we find the next hot spot? 847 00:35:17,133 --> 00:35:19,367 That's a big question. 848 00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:21,967 [Todd] I'm looking for that five-pound nugget, buddy. 849 00:35:21,967 --> 00:35:22,934 [Jack] Well, yeah. 850 00:35:23,634 --> 00:35:25,133 [Todd] The five-pound nugget! 851 00:35:25,533 --> 00:35:26,433 [Todd chuckles] 852 00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:37,133 [man] What you... what you got here? 853 00:35:37,133 --> 00:35:38,133 [Sterling speaking] 854 00:35:38,133 --> 00:35:39,834 [man] Nobody else has one of those, I don't think. 855 00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:49,467 I'm Sterling Anderson. 856 00:35:49,467 --> 00:35:51,433 I ended up here because Todd is my uncle. 857 00:35:58,934 --> 00:36:00,567 It is a marathon here. 858 00:36:00,567 --> 00:36:02,834 If you... You'll burn out so fast if you just, 859 00:36:02,834 --> 00:36:04,467 like, pedal to the metal 860 00:36:04,467 --> 00:36:07,166 all 18 hours a day, six days a week. 861 00:36:07,166 --> 00:36:08,467 I just get into flow 862 00:36:08,467 --> 00:36:10,333 and the next thing you know it's, like, 6:00 p.m., 863 00:36:10,333 --> 00:36:11,934 next thing you know, it's midnight 864 00:36:12,433 --> 00:36:14,300 and start over. 865 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:15,934 I obviously do my thing. I don't know. 866 00:36:15,934 --> 00:36:17,734 Little core, some push-ups. 867 00:36:19,133 --> 00:36:20,634 I'm gonna get Cub working out too. 868 00:36:33,667 --> 00:36:36,467 Well, Jack, your plant's running 869 00:36:37,233 --> 00:36:39,333 and it's running in Nome, Alaska. 870 00:36:39,333 --> 00:36:40,300 -[Jack] Yeah. -[all laughing] 871 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:43,967 When I built this plant, I built it in my driveway 872 00:36:43,967 --> 00:36:47,834 and I didn't know if it was gonna get used or what. 873 00:36:47,834 --> 00:36:50,367 I've said it over and over, you know? 874 00:36:50,367 --> 00:36:51,734 No guts, no glory 875 00:36:51,734 --> 00:36:55,100 and if you don't have the guts to run this thing, 876 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:56,400 you know, you're not gonna get 877 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,500 any glory about the whole thing. 878 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:00,367 So, it's here. 879 00:37:00,367 --> 00:37:02,700 Hopefully, it can help 880 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:04,867 and maybe we'll hit our goal. 881 00:37:05,734 --> 00:37:08,600 [Jack] Well, it's here, it's working. 882 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,333 Can't get any better than that. 883 00:37:11,367 --> 00:37:12,567 Yeah. It's pretty cool. 884 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,100 [narrator] With both the Holy Roller and the Black Pearl 885 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,200 running Lost Cut pay all week, 886 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,967 the miners are hopeful they will meet or exceed 887 00:37:27,967 --> 00:37:29,533 last week's weigh in. 888 00:37:29,533 --> 00:37:32,133 [Hunter] You know, this is a place where you can make a lot of money. 889 00:37:32,133 --> 00:37:33,700 If we can play our cards right, 890 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:35,433 if we can plan ahead, 891 00:37:35,433 --> 00:37:37,667 we have a lot higher chance of getting our goal. 892 00:37:37,667 --> 00:37:42,967 3,033 ounces, it's ambitious but I think it's better that we shoot higher than lower. 893 00:37:42,967 --> 00:37:44,433 I wanna see everybody win. 894 00:37:44,433 --> 00:37:46,066 I wanna see my grandpa happy 895 00:37:46,066 --> 00:37:48,300 and I wanna see my dad get a lot of gold. 896 00:37:51,066 --> 00:37:53,367 [Thurber] How much am I taking home? 897 00:37:53,367 --> 00:37:55,100 [Sterling] Don't drop that one. 898 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:57,000 Make into a little burrito. 899 00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,166 It looks good. 900 00:37:59,166 --> 00:38:02,133 I'd like to see two ounces per hundred this time. 901 00:38:02,133 --> 00:38:03,467 And considering the material that 902 00:38:03,467 --> 00:38:05,066 we're sending to the plant. 903 00:38:05,066 --> 00:38:07,500 It's real muddy and kinda has a lot of silt on the top. 904 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:09,233 So that's encouraging. 905 00:38:09,233 --> 00:38:10,767 -[man 1] Yeah. -[Thurber] Look at that one. 906 00:38:10,767 --> 00:38:13,300 [Sterling] [bleep] Yeah. Look at that! 907 00:38:13,767 --> 00:38:15,433 Hey, boy. 908 00:38:15,433 --> 00:38:17,834 Everything's looking pretty good so far. 909 00:38:17,834 --> 00:38:20,000 Hope it's another good one. 910 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,634 [Sterling] What's the prediction today? 911 00:38:21,634 --> 00:38:24,433 Old timers said it's bad luck to predict your own count. 912 00:38:24,433 --> 00:38:26,667 [man 1] This is probably gonna be a good pull, dude. 913 00:38:27,634 --> 00:38:30,166 Not to seem too optimistic about it. 914 00:38:30,166 --> 00:38:32,200 -Hey, Tater. -[Tater] Yeah. 915 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,100 [Sterling] It's like half a pan? 916 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:36,667 -[Tater] Just out of the bottom? -[Sterling] Yeah. 917 00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:40,100 [Tater] Oh, yeah. That looks pretty darn good. 918 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,567 Good job, guys. 919 00:38:41,567 --> 00:38:42,934 Maybe we're back on track. 920 00:38:58,033 --> 00:38:59,934 [Todd] Hey, Dad, we brought your plant in. 921 00:38:59,934 --> 00:39:02,333 -Yeah. -What do you think about that, Dad? 922 00:39:02,333 --> 00:39:06,934 You know, I, I made it not knowing if it was gonna get used, 923 00:39:06,934 --> 00:39:09,900 but I'm glad that Hunter's using it 924 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:15,066 -and it's gonna be fun to see how it works. -It had a few leaks. 925 00:39:15,066 --> 00:39:17,800 I mean, you never had ran water through it before. 926 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,600 -[Jack] Never. No. -So I think it'll work good. 927 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,834 Yeah. Good job helping out, everybody, on the plant. 928 00:39:22,834 --> 00:39:24,467 [Micah] Yeah. It was pretty cool. 929 00:39:24,467 --> 00:39:27,467 [Todd] Thurb, what's the total on the season so far? 930 00:39:27,467 --> 00:39:30,033 We're at 192.7. 931 00:39:30,033 --> 00:39:32,200 Almost 400,000 bucks. 932 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,166 [Todd] Not bad. It's a good start. 933 00:39:34,166 --> 00:39:36,600 -Yeah. -[Hunter] Nice chunk of change. 934 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,467 -Yeah. -I feel like we have another big one coming. So... 935 00:39:40,467 --> 00:39:43,066 Thurbs, give us the good news. 936 00:39:43,066 --> 00:39:44,166 [Jack] Pour it out. 937 00:39:44,166 --> 00:39:46,233 God. It feels more than the last one. 938 00:39:46,867 --> 00:39:47,734 [Todd] Twenty... 939 00:39:48,467 --> 00:39:55,567 [Jack] 40, 50, 60, 70, 80... 940 00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,900 88, 90, 98, 100. 941 00:40:01,667 --> 00:40:06,967 -104, 109, 110... -[Hunter] I knew it. 942 00:40:06,967 --> 00:40:12,800 [Jack] 114, 116, 118, 119... 943 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:18,533 122.7. 944 00:40:18,533 --> 00:40:19,533 No way! 945 00:40:19,533 --> 00:40:20,967 [Sterling] All right. Big bother week. 946 00:40:20,967 --> 00:40:24,700 [Todd] That's our second biggest cleanup ever. 947 00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:26,000 -[boy] It's pretty good. -That's pretty good. 948 00:40:26,333 --> 00:40:27,367 It's really good. 949 00:40:27,367 --> 00:40:28,367 -[Todd cheers] -Yeah. 950 00:40:28,367 --> 00:40:31,734 That cut, man, is... This is, this thing is money. 951 00:40:31,734 --> 00:40:33,533 -Yeah. Hard work works, man. -Let's keep grinding. 952 00:40:33,533 --> 00:40:35,200 Way to go, guys. Way to go. 953 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,867 [narrator] It's still early in the season, 954 00:40:36,867 --> 00:40:41,200 but the Hoffmans have managed to get 315.4 ounces 955 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,934 of their 3,033 ounce goal. 956 00:40:43,934 --> 00:40:47,634 This week's haul is worth well over $200,000, 957 00:40:47,634 --> 00:40:52,200 but they still have 2,718 more ounces to go. 958 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,700 Whatever you're doing, Andy, 959 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:55,033 keep doing it, man. 960 00:40:55,033 --> 00:40:57,100 -Triple digits. -Keep bringing dirt. 961 00:40:57,100 --> 00:40:59,200 -We should just keep doing this every clean out. -Yeah. 962 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,800 At some point we're gonna need to find some more pay. 963 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,033 Right now, we've got all our eggs in one basket 964 00:41:04,033 --> 00:41:05,567 and that's kinda scary. 965 00:41:05,567 --> 00:41:10,133 Yeah. I'm kinda looking for a needle in the haystack, to be honest. 966 00:41:10,133 --> 00:41:12,767 Gotta find something that's not frozen, 967 00:41:12,767 --> 00:41:13,900 that we can actually get to 968 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:15,433 that's got good gold. So... 969 00:41:15,433 --> 00:41:18,200 I'll just keep poking around and we'll see what we can find. 970 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,767 -[Todd] Do your best. Go from there. -[Hunter] Okay. 971 00:41:20,767 --> 00:41:22,233 Let's grind it. Let's get going. 972 00:41:22,233 --> 00:41:23,667 Let's get this thing, man. 973 00:41:23,667 --> 00:41:24,533 [Jack] All right.