Gold Rush: Alaska

[kaid]

Still no matter how goofy the hoffmans are they are still better business men and miners than the doofs from jungle gold. I seriously don't know how the jungle gold guys are not dead in some ditch in africa yet.

[Evildrider]

Those Jungle Gold guys would probably fail in the Klondike.

[Slayerik]

Still no matter how goofy the hoffmans are they are still better business men and miners than the doofs from jungle gold. I seriously don't know how the jungle gold guys are not dead in some ditch in africa yet.

You guys see the operator try to kill the loud fighter guy? Just missed!

[Sky]

Oh, Parker.

[Evildrider]

Oh, Parker.

Parker is looking like he's going to have some issues.  He was almost Todd-like in his actions last episode.  Speaking of Todd, I bet he's not gonna be happy that Parker stole a piece of equipment and almost had it go off a cliff.

[Sky]

I wish he had gone to work with Tony rather than blow his college fund to turn into Todd Jr.

[Evildrider]

I wish he had gone to work with Tony rather than blow his college fund to turn into Todd Jr.

This was his working for Tony thing.  It's just that Tony gave him land and said go to it.

[Sky]

At one point in the show Tony said he could come work for him (in a direct capacity).

[Xanthippe]

I wish he had gone to work with Tony rather than blow his college fund to turn into Todd Jr.

What. He's not going to college?

He should have listened to his mother.

[Evildrider]

I wish he had gone to work with Tony rather than blow his college fund to turn into Todd Jr.

What. He's not going to college?

He should have listened to his mother.

I don't know what college is parents planned on sending him to, but they gave him part of his college fund.   100 oz. of gold.

[Ozzu]

Oh ho ho! This season has been so awesome if you enjoy watching people fail over and over. 

[Evildrider]

Yeah pretty much everyone is failing. 

[Sir T]

I stopped watching this as I got sick of the constant "if this doesn't work ITS THE END OF THE WORLD" narration. Must give it another watch.

[Ozzu]

I stopped watching this as I got sick of the constant "if this doesn't work ITS THE END OF THE WORLD" narration. Must give it another watch.

Yeah, they still do that often. I dunno. It's definitely a guilty pleasure for me. Bunch of dudes diggin in the dirt, but I'm right there every Friday.

[kaid]

Yeah pretty much everyone is failing. 

Parker has been doing pretty good but there is no way his washplant can run at the volumes tony wants so it failing was not unexpected. I think the porcupine creek deal they were finding bigger nuggets that a dredge probably would have had better luck slupring up but Fred made the wise call that pit was just STUPIDLY dangerous near the end better to give it up than have your son of friends killed by a collapse. Todd and co are just epic all around well rounded failure with a bow tied on it.

[Evildrider]

It doesn't help that Parker is on some crappy gold.  I think he's barely making 7 bucks a yard.  Also his age, attitude,  and inexperience is really killing him.

[kaid]

I can understand his attidude he is a teenager with all the normal baggage that entails and is trying to run a lot of older rougher guys in a hard job. Finding the right balance of toughness without going to overboard is hard enough for people of the same age and I can see it being a really nasty challange for somebody his age with much older underlings.

That is something that will just happen with time and experiance. Most of his issues are things that will fix themselves over time most of the other miners in question especially Todd and co have no such excuses.

While parker has his issues nobody involved not his workers not tony and not the film crew can doubt he probably has one of the best work ethics of anybody on that show which is a huge deal for a kid his age.

[Xanthippe]

New season.

Hoffmans are back from their disaster, minus their team. Nobody will work for them anymore, to no one's surprise.

Dave Turin has his own claim this year.

Parker is back working the same claim he worked last year, in hopes of making enough to buy his own claim.

Tony Beets is now a regular, he purchased a huge old mining dredge.

(No Dakota Fred - he, Dustin and Melody are not on this year.)

[Evildrider]

New season.

Hoffmans are back from their disaster, minus their team. Nobody will work for them anymore, to no one's surprise.

Dave Turin has his own claim this year.

Parker is back working the same claim he worked last year, in hopes of making enough to buy his own claim.

Tony Beets is now a regular, he purchased a huge old mining dredge.

(No Dakota Fred - he, Dustin and Melody are not on this year.)

Melody works for Tony Beets now.  I don't know if she'll be on the show or not though.  Dakota Fred and Dustin I heard were asking for more money or something and thought they were better off trying to get their own show.

[Evildrider]

So this season has started off kind of weird.  Parker is the same as last year, when he shows his age though is when shit tends to go south for him.  Tony Beets has his dredge but it looks like he bit off more than he can chew.  Todd should really just start a cult, I dunno how he does it.  Changes there though but at least they seem to have good land.

[Ghambit]

Still think this is the best reality show ever done.  Whatever these guys want moneywise, DC should just give it to 'em.  W/o Tony Beets though, the show is just merely good.  Cant wait to see if he actually pulls off this dredge miracle (it'll be the first working gold-dredge in many decades).  Something tells me he's not gonna get any gold out of it before the end of the season and may have to eat crow.  The Viking does not like eating crow.

[Ozzu]

Still think this is the best reality show ever done.  Whatever these guys want moneywise, DC should just give it to 'em.  W/o Tony Beets though, the show is just merely good.  Cant wait to see if he actually pulls off this dredge miracle (it'll be the first working gold-dredge in many decades).  Something tells me he's not gonna get any gold out of it before the end of the season and may have to eat crow.  The Viking does not like eating crow.

I find Tony Beets extremely entertaining just as a character, but spending pretty much all season so far taking apart an old piece of equipment? Ehhhhh. Not so sure I'm enjoying watching that particular process all that much.

[kaid]

I liked in the last episode tony acknowledged his employees who help temper his fuck it just do it fast mentality with enough caution to try to do things right. I am really curious about if they actually can get the dredge up and running. Those things are made of some really basic really durable stuff so I think its pretty possible and they churn through enough materials that even marginal materials can give them pretty good production. I am just curious about the permits needed to run them as I thought that was the main reason the dredges got shut down was how badly they ground up creeks and rivers.