Gold rush

[Andyjc86]

Parker never bought big red from Todd, it was Freddie dodge's machine, and they worked out an agreement last year, which I'm guessing carried on this year.

[rgw2012]

I must admit to struggling to understand why Dave can't blast the ice rather than trying to use machinery to break it up - is blast mining illegal in the Klondike or is it just too expensive? With the value of the pay dirt underneath I would have thought it was worth exploring.

[youngsyr]

rgw2012 said:

I must admit to struggling to understand why Dave can't blast the ice rather than trying to use machinery to break it up - is blast mining illegal in the Klondike or is it just too expensive? With the value of the pay dirt underneath I would have thought it was worth exploring.

Imagine an 8 ft thick lake of frozen ice over your claim, how are you going to shift it all, even with explosives?

Even if you can shift it, what are you going to do with all that water, once it thaws?

[youngsyr]

Du1point8 said:

What I don't get is why is the sluice not on wheels so they can move it easier, it would make the job so much easier of having to move it.

Instead of losing a few days, it would be a few hours.

It must be due to a combination of its weight and needing to be fixed solidly in place (and level) once operating.

Having seen what some of these can do with machinery over the years, fixing wheels to a machine would be a walk in the park for them.

[Sway]

youngsyr said:

rgw2012 said:

I must admit to struggling to understand why Dave can't blast the ice rather than trying to use machinery to break it up - is blast mining illegal in the Klondike or is it just too expensive? With the value of the pay dirt underneath I would have thought it was worth exploring.

Imagine an 8 ft thick lake of frozen ice over your claim, how are you going to shift it all, even with explosives?

Even if you can shift it, what are you going to do with all that water, once it thaws?

To be fair, it's really not that unusual, and pretty straightforward.

Scalp the top, exposing the ice. Pneumatic pick to smash it into chunks, dozer chunks away.

I've seen that and more done (like 14' thick reinforced concrete with loads of rebar running through it). Appreciate it's more difficult out in the middle of nowhere, plus I haven't seen anyone using attachments like that in the show, so may be tricky to find in the local-ish area.

[Condi]

Sway said:

youngsyr said:

rgw2012 said:

I must admit to struggling to understand why Dave can't blast the ice rather than trying to use machinery to break it up - is blast mining illegal in the Klondike or is it just too expensive? With the value of the pay dirt underneath I would have thought it was worth exploring.

Imagine an 8 ft thick lake of frozen ice over your claim, how are you going to shift it all, even with explosives?

Even if you can shift it, what are you going to do with all that water, once it thaws?

To be fair, it's really not that unusual, and pretty straightforward.

Scalp the top, exposing the ice. Pneumatic pick to smash it into chunks, dozer chunks away.

I've seen that and more done (like 14' thick reinforced concrete with loads of rebar running through it). Appreciate it's more difficult out in the middle of nowhere, plus I haven't seen anyone using attachments like that in the show, so may be tricky to find in the local-ish area.

Its physically possible, but I doubt its cost effective on a short season.

[Sway]

Agreed. It's not a quick process.

I suppose the question is whether they can secure the claim for next year early enough to get a decent start this season. Hope they do, Dave deserves a bloody good season.

[rgw2012]

youngsyr said:

Imagine an 8 ft thick lake of frozen ice over your claim, how are you going to shift it all, even with explosives?

Even if you can shift it, what are you going to do with all that water, once it thaws?

Explosives would easily break that ice up and you can just dump it in the feeder pool they use for the wash plant to thaw out. There has to be some reason they aren't doing it eg legality or cost I guess.

[ch427]

rgw2012 said:

Explosives would easily break that ice up and you can just dump it in the feeder pool they use for the wash plant to thaw out. There has to be some reason they aren't doing it eg legality or cost I guess.

Probably time and cost, im guessing some sort of drilling would be involved down into the ice to use explosives.

[Easternlight]

The problem they were having with the ice wasn't that they couldn't break it up, it was where it was melting it was making deep mud that the machines couldn't work in.

Parker got another D10 tonight, and they said it would add $8k a week to their fuel bill! So what's the total for all the plant?
Their clean ups sound impressive but from what his mum was saying there's no profit being made?

[p1doc]

anyone watch dirt last night-some quality slagging off by social media of todd lol
martin

[youngsyr]

Easternlight said:

The problem they were having with the ice wasn't that they couldn't break it up, it was where it was melting it was making deep mud that the machines couldn't work in.

Parker got another D10 tonight, and they said it would add $8k a week to their fuel bill! So what's the total for all the plant?
Their clean ups sound impressive but from what his mum was saying there's no profit being made?

Parker's mum was saying there was no cash coming in, not that there was no profit being made, there's a big difference.

Parker is essentially reinvesting all of the gold he's pulled out (plus a lot more cash from loans) into machinery to pull more out.

Hopefully it pays off for him and his gold haul will increase week on week.

[T16OLE]

It does indeed seemed to have paid off this week

[TTmonkey]

Brilliant program. Parker is 19 FFS. Most 19 year olds around hear wouldn't know how to wash their own clothes let alone was gold out of pay dirt.

[Kaj91]

To be fair Parker isn't your average 19 year old, mining is in his blood. It also helps when Mom can buy you another D10 Dozer and Dad can build roads for you.

[Matt_N]

Looks to be an over 200oz clean up for him next week too.

Sad to see the news about James Harness, as soon as they showed that but I knew it would be something regarding him.

[p1doc]

parker looks like he is going to do very well,will todd run out of land now he has monster red......
martin

[westtra]

p1doc said:

parker looks like he is going to do very well,will todd run out of land now he has monster red......
martin

They have the ground by the looks of things if they can get through the ice.

[Sway]

Good week for all of them from a progress perspective.

Bit pissed off with the trailer for next week - they don't normally give pretty much all the result detail do they? Half the fun watching is predicting the weigh ins!

[Mcphisto]

Enjoying this series, this week Parker broke the record for the biggest clean up in Gold rush history, but next week he's involved in an accident in his Raptor.

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