Dozer on the show Gold Rush Alaska

[Tonkatoys]

Yeah! A realiyy show about Noobie tractor owners!

Franklin puts a 3 foot brush hog on his Yu-Suck greymarket (painted yellow) machine and prodeeds to stall it just before going over a 3 inch cliff. This could have gotten his new golf shoes dirty.

A raccoon eats the wiring on a YingYang and it won't stop when the naive Rembrandt turns the key to "OFF". Crashes through the back wall of the garage and into the 2 foot deep swimming pool (edit: make that a Hot Tub). Would have been OK except Mom and the pool boy were practicing their tennis lessons.

Derek waxes his tractor with boat polish and slides off the seat, falling down on the 18 pack parked on the footwell. One splits opens and the fight with the wife gets nasty. The police reports indicates that the beer has a Born on Date that's more than a year old.

Elmo puts a ladder in the FEL to string the xmas tree lights. When he finishes, the ladder pulls away and drags all the lights off the neighbor's house.

Jennifer puts gasoline in her new Mercedes diesel tractor and 'burns the town red' when she arrives at the hair dressers (edit: make that a salon).

Old Jake finally 'pulls the trigger' on his tempermental Oliver. A 50 BMG can sure generate a lot of anxiety. He splits the block in two pieces but the machine just keeps on going into the river. Might be hearing from the EPA on this one.

Antique Threshing Machine Society member teams are airlifted into northern Canada where they must meet the challenge of getting home alive. The winning team finds an old Rumley Oil Pull, fabricates wings from local spruce trees, gets her started on the last remaining swig of VO and they fly her home to Tampa Florida. The other teams are never heard from again.

Probably a lot of potentially exciting episodes, given the 'jam's some members get into...

Awesome.

 

[ragkar]

The guy that really annoys me is the old one with the white beard. He's always saying 'non guts - no glory' I'd say 'fool hardy'. He keeps ignoring the advice and plans of the others. When the boss goes off he starts following his own plans that were dismissed. He keeps saying 'I know there's gold down there' He knows no such thing. If I were the boss he'd be fired.

It's be interesting if we knew what the profit sharing plan was. Several guys put a lot of money in to buy equipment. Others, like the mechanic, have special skills and others are just extra hands.

I noticed that episode 4 isn't on next weeks schedule. Is 3 episodes all there is? I'm going to the Discovery site to see.

That guy on the claim across the creek has a lot of heavy machinery too. We saw that for a couple seconds in one episode.

 

[DieselAddict]

I still can't figure out why they would only take one chain with them into the Alaskan wilderness? Also the 2 new gators and 2 new 4-wheelers that I've seen that is probably around $30,000? And as far as the "big scary black bear" that they wasted way to much time hunting goes looked like the poor little guy still had milk on it's lips

 

[charlz]

I noticed that episode 4 isn't on next weeks schedule. Is 3 episodes all there is? I'm going to the Discovery site to see.

It comes back January 7th with 7 more weeks of episodes

 

[charlz]

I happened to catch a rerun of the first episode the other night. What got me was the blow out on the dump truck. You are caravaning hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment on a tight schedule, to a remote part of Alaska, where is the service truck equipped to deal with breakdowns like this? You would need to have to have the ability to at least deal with minor break downs like tires, broken hoses, fluids, broken teeth and blades, etc. Or does every break down come with the drama of having to wait for the repair guy to come out to your remote destination?

Brian

And why not leave a few hours earlier to make sure you had some cushion in your timetable? It is stuff like that which makes me wonder if it really went down that way.

 

[charlz]

Like crossing a river with a nearly new Track-hoe.Yes, it was very much over hyped, like some of the other realitys.

I didn't get the part where they 'had' to sling the one gator from the excavator as they crossed the river. He drove in that far, couldn't he just turn around and drive back to the bridge? How long could that possibly take versus rigging up the gator and risk damaging it?

 

[aczlan]

I didn't get the part where they 'had' to sling the one gator from the excavator as they crossed the river. He drove in that far, couldn't he just turn around and drive back to the bridge? How long could that possibly take versus rigging up the gator and risk damaging it?

Also, why would you KEEP GOING into a KNOWN hole in the streambed that WILL make the excavator tip forward when you have a gator slung from the bucket?


Aaron Z

 

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Also, why would you KEEP GOING into a KNOWN hole in the streambed that WILL make the excavator tip forward when you have a gator slung from the bucket?


Aaron Z

That hole was nothing for that machine. If they had a lick of sense they'd of used the bucket to test the waters. They are the worst bunch of idoits I've seen trying to pretend they know how to run that type of machinery.

 

[dfkrug]

When you get the house swivel submerged in water with that big
excavator, I wonder if you are causing damage to it. Not to mention all
the drive pinons and bogie axles. I would suspect that at least you
would need to do some serious re-greasing.

 

[tony Cecil]

Eddie----You are just being kind I would go with you and your planning anytime.....I just think they have way too many people--in real life--no discipline and family along for a lark...I`m enjoying the episodes I have seen, and if that bulldozer were mine, and I had left it out in the elements for three years---My luck would be the fuel, oil, filters etc would be contaminated along with field mice ect . Now your luck may have been different, but probably not......I also would wonder if things would not have frozen cracking different components.....A question I have is `doesn`t engine oil freeze?` Tony