Discussion
danpalmer1993 said:
Yeah that wasn't as successful as he hoped!
Got a feeling that Todd will be the one who strikes it rich after that episode!
I enjoyed last nights episode so much that I had to download the season finale. I won't give anything away. Got a feeling that Todd will be the one who strikes it rich after that episode!
I'm guessing that they are probably a month or so into the new season that will be being filmed right now. I wonder what each of them are doing.
westtra said:
SHutchinson said:
I always get the feeling that a lot of the risky looking stuff is just for the cameras.
I would say your right. I was amazed they wore harnesses when working at height. One of the cast put his leg in the winch as it was stuck, it freed the winch which promptly mangled his ankle and shattered his knee cap.
westtra said:
Finally managed too see show fully for tuesdays episode. Part of me thinks this final push is not actually a final push just the show edited to look like they all downed tool to go home. Look at last year with parker amd the water cannon way passed where we are just now.
Yep, it's a complete set up. 300 oz for Hoffman and 400 oz for Parker is a drop in a bucket, it doesn't make any meaningful difference to either of them.Did Discovery air the Freddie Dodge special? It didn't record automatically and can't find any repeats?
youngsyr said:
Yep, it's a complete set up. 300 oz for Hoffman and 400 oz for Parker is a drop in a bucket, it doesn't make any meaningful difference to either of them.
Did Discovery air the Freddie Dodge special? It didn't record automatically and can't find any repeats?
It's on next week at 7pm before The Dirt.Did Discovery air the Freddie Dodge special? It didn't record automatically and can't find any repeats?
rohrl said:
youngsyr said:
Yep, it's a complete set up. 300 oz for Hoffman and 400 oz for Parker is a drop in a bucket, it doesn't make any meaningful difference to either of them.
Did Discovery air the Freddie Dodge special? It didn't record automatically and can't find any repeats?
It's on next week at 7pm before The Dirt.Did Discovery air the Freddie Dodge special? It didn't record automatically and can't find any repeats?
Really enjoyed last nights episode although annoyingly missed The Dirt which was on before. Glad to see Parker and his team stuck it out and got the gold that they wanted.
Seems Todd will be around again next year although with all the money and kit he has invested I can't see how he is happy with half the gold Parker made.
Seems Todd will be around again next year although with all the money and kit he has invested I can't see how he is happy with half the gold Parker made.
My thoughts on last night's episode:
For me the rigged nature of the show really stood out in last night's episode, in 5 months of mining, Parker pulled out 2,000 Ozs, yet he somehow manages to pull out 400 Oz in one week for the finale?
And Todd manages to pull out 30% of his season total in one week? Never going to happen.
Then there's the whole nature of the "jeopardy" amounts required in the final week for each team - I fail to see how 300 Oz for Todd and 400 Oz for Parker make that much difference, claims sell for multi-million dollars, those amounts barely move the needle.
Those thoughts were underlined when you saw Todd's claim owner at their final clean up - when the results were announced he was smiling and clapping like an excited school boy and already had the claim contract drawn up for next year. Contrast with last week where he looked ready to shoot Todd for their miserly gold to date.
Finally you then have the gold handed out to Todd's crew - looked to be just shy of 50 Oz per man (was just under half one of those jars they always claim holds 100 Oz). So call it 40 Oz. Say there are 6 guys on the crew (excluding Todd and Dave), so that's 240 OZ. They made 1,300 Oz and had to give the claim owner 20%, so that's another 260 Oz. They owe 300 Oz to Freddie Dodge for Big Red. So, we have:
1,300
(240)
(260)
(300)
500
So, that's 500 Oz remaining to cover running costs and Todd and Dave's profit - bearing in mind Dave put in $500K to buy into the partnership and that was supposedly all spent on leasing equipment, then you have a net $0 return for Dave and Todd before running costs.
From Parker we know that running costs can add up to $10k per day - so you have to conclude that Todd made a massive loss from the mining over the seaosn, potentially millions of dollars.
For me the rigged nature of the show really stood out in last night's episode, in 5 months of mining, Parker pulled out 2,000 Ozs, yet he somehow manages to pull out 400 Oz in one week for the finale?
And Todd manages to pull out 30% of his season total in one week? Never going to happen.
Then there's the whole nature of the "jeopardy" amounts required in the final week for each team - I fail to see how 300 Oz for Todd and 400 Oz for Parker make that much difference, claims sell for multi-million dollars, those amounts barely move the needle.
Those thoughts were underlined when you saw Todd's claim owner at their final clean up - when the results were announced he was smiling and clapping like an excited school boy and already had the claim contract drawn up for next year. Contrast with last week where he looked ready to shoot Todd for their miserly gold to date.
Finally you then have the gold handed out to Todd's crew - looked to be just shy of 50 Oz per man (was just under half one of those jars they always claim holds 100 Oz). So call it 40 Oz. Say there are 6 guys on the crew (excluding Todd and Dave), so that's 240 OZ. They made 1,300 Oz and had to give the claim owner 20%, so that's another 260 Oz. They owe 300 Oz to Freddie Dodge for Big Red. So, we have:
1,300
(240)
(260)
(300)
500
So, that's 500 Oz remaining to cover running costs and Todd and Dave's profit - bearing in mind Dave put in $500K to buy into the partnership and that was supposedly all spent on leasing equipment, then you have a net $0 return for Dave and Todd before running costs.
From Parker we know that running costs can add up to $10k per day - so you have to conclude that Todd made a massive loss from the mining over the seaosn, potentially millions of dollars.
Edited by youngsyr on Wednesday 13th May 13:22
I noticed one of Parker's jars was "Georgia Moon".
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/search?q=Georgia...
Not surprised he pranged his truck earlier in the season.
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/search?q=Georgia...
Not surprised he pranged his truck earlier in the season.
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