Gold rush

Piperflyer · Jan 19, 2013

The show is already starting off this year (2013) with all the claims going broke because of equipment failure or bad choices in where to look. How long can the show keep going on, I want somebody to strike it rich, I'm sick of all the bad news every week.

tractorshopper · Jan 21, 2013

If I were Todd's investor, I would have pulled the plug on him completely after the most recent trommel failures. What a waste.

94BULLITT · Jan 21, 2013

tractorshopper said:
If I were Todd's investor, I would have pulled the plug on him completely after the most recent trommel failures. What a waste.

I would not have gave him money to begin with.

Heywood Jannockitov · Jan 21, 2013

Why don't they just put another sluice box under the part of the trommel where they thought they were losing the gold? Did that beast not come with a warranty? :confused3: Do a permanent repair on the trommel flight seals in the off season. There, see after watching this show, I'm an expert now! :laughing:

ray66v · Jan 21, 2013

I am not sure why the urethane calk on the trammel, did not stay in those gaps? Normally, urethane sticks to anything, and does not come off easily.

If they went over paint, rather than clean, bare steel, (my guess is they did), the paint is probably where the adhesion was lost.

Too bad. But, it looked like I could have put a wire end brush on a die grinder, and have that cleaned out, and re-caulked in a day or two?

94BULLITT · Jan 21, 2013

I think that all of the dirt and rocks running through the trommel was about like sandblasting and slowly wore away at the urethane.

charlz · Jan 21, 2013

94BULLITT said:
I think that all of the dirt and rocks running through the trommel was about like sandblasting and slowly wore away at the urethane.

That is what I would have thought as well, was surprised to see they had used any kind of a 'sealant' in that application.

Certainly not a good thing for the guy that designs/builds that trommel.

edlegault · Jan 21, 2013

I have often wondered why they didn't have another sluice box to double catch the tailings. Even on the old machine? Would have been cheaper than a whole new machine.

RxRatedZ71 · Jan 21, 2013

Keep up the conversation. My wife and I decided to trim our budget and tighten our belts 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately, for me that meant narrowing our satellite channels down to only 55, with Discovery being the only one I truly miss. Now i must stay semi- in the loop through TBN. We are looking to go with Netflix soon so at least i'll have the Goldrush from 2010-2011.

94BULLITT · Jan 21, 2013

RxRatedZ71 said:
Keep up the conversation. My wife and I decided to trim our budget and tighten our belts 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately, for me that meant narrowing our satellite channels down to only 55, with Discovery being the only one I truly miss. Now i must stay semi- in the loop through TBN. We are looking to go with Netflix soon so at least i'll have the Goldrush from 2010-2011.

Here are some clips from the show.
Season 3 Episode Guide : Discovery Channel