Gold rush

SPIKER · Jan 24, 2012

I like the shows too, I love Shelby Swamp logger guy he cracks me up, (keep waiting for him to kill himself though.)

I'm not a miner but I watch these guys MINING and think WTF are these idiots doing!? I bet you could make a living of the tailing they are running off the ripples up in the Klondike mine. not to mention how they are finally on the bedrock seeing the gold dust in the dozer blade path in the water... then they walk away from it??? that is where they need a vacuum or water wash/suction to clean off that muddy layer where 50% of the gold has washed down too. nope drove over it with muddy dozer tracks and then drive through the creek & wash it off ??? yep they are going broke for a reason.

Mark

Canada_CT230 · Jan 24, 2012

That show is called, "Moron Miners" in our house.

I think those guys have a few screws loose and absolutely no idea of what they are doing. I always remember thos big oil companies saying. Hey lets drill (and spend millions of $$$) for oil over there cause it feels right.

The other thing that aggravates me is that they keep saying..."..in the Klondike." Come on...Admit to your USA viewers that you are in CANADA! They are living their "American Dream" in Canada.

Well at least our gold is safe and sound in the ground.

Diamondpilot · Jan 24, 2012

These guys are idiots. I dont think they could get nailed in a hardware store. And to let Jack lead them, thats nuts.

Big Boot and the kid across the river could out mine that group any day of the week ten times over.

I like Shelby also. I would pay him a weeks salary to take me on a 2 hour ride in the swamp. It would be a hoot. HEAR WE GO.....

Chris

woodlandfarms · Jan 24, 2012

Just so we are clear, the guys do NOT get paid. The company receives a stipend, it is usually very small. What they do with that (give to the employees or ??) is not of our interest. But we (the producers) do not block them from making side money, shirts, appearances, toys, blah blah blah. The budgets on these things are really tight, there is no real money to pay the guys appearing on tv or to rent on camera machinery. I bet the car smashed in loggers cost $500 at the junk yard, and was sold to a junker for $300 and the production company sweated the cost.

Gods Country · Jan 24, 2012

The show is about trying to strike it rich not actually getting there. If they found the gold the show would be over. Enter a bunch of clowns that couldn't find their wives glory hole with both hands, let alone one with gold.:laughing:

muddstopper · Jan 24, 2012

I havent figured out how the money adds up either.. All that equipment and the breakdowns, noway they can make money with just 100oz. I also dont see how they can strip all the soil and drive thru the creeks without the EPA being all over them.

On another note, I have buddy that dredges for gold all the time. He started with a 2 1/5inch, then bought a 4inch and now has a 5inch. Told me the other day he was going to buy another 5inch and run both of the big ones this year. He finds gold in the rivers around here, and since he doesnt work anywhere, must be making a living out of it. Another guy claims to have found over $100,000 worth of Platinum in the river (different river) in one summer. I have even panned some myself, but never found enought to make it anymore than a passtime hobby.

Canada_CT230 · Jan 24, 2012

muddstopper said:
...I also dont see how they can strip all the soil and drive thru the creeks without the EPA being all over them.

Don't worry...that is coming soon to a moron mine near you.

caver · Jan 24, 2012

This was posted after the first season by Dorsey who did not sign a contract with the production company. Lots of things in the first season that made no sense are explained here. Dig around on that site for what really happened last year.

Martian · Jan 24, 2012

caver said:
This was posted after the first season by Dorsey who did not sign a contract with the production company. Lots of things in the first season that made no sense are explained here. Dig around on that site for what really happened last year.

Very interesting site, lots of interesting stuff!

JoeinTX · Jan 24, 2012

I watch as well out of curiosity........but it is complete BS. Know that full and up front.

It has been explained and detailed, quite well, other places on the internet what exactly the business arrangement here is. Once you understand that, it then begins to make sense as to what these various sets of "actors" and "situations" are meant to convey.

After all, if anyone involved were losing money......the "miners", Discovery Channel, etc....then the show wouldn't still be on the air. Anyone ever wonder where all of these "hard on their luck" folks at their wits end in this bad economy who are staking their last bits of their savings have been able to come up with, over and over, untold thousands and thousands of dollars for leases, equipment, and such? It doesn't add up. It can't.

For a group, whom have not produced 1/100th of the money they have put into it, can keep going on season over season.......you see the money isn't in the gold they find themselves. The "gold" is somewhere else.

It's not "reality." No where close. It's a gorilla ballet set-up and orchestrated from the get-go.

The Hauffmans are kinda pretty much idiots. Dakota Fred is not a villain...he may actually be one of the few on the show with a clue. The kid across the way from Fred isn't actually running the Big Nugget. It's in the family and he's just a tool for the Summer months of filming. No way in **** a producing gold claim as proposed gets handed off to a teenager as an afterthought.

It's one great big sham. Woodland Farms understands exactly what I mean above.

Nonetheless, it's still pretty good TV for a night. Woodland Farms also knows exactly what I mean here.