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Ben Cartwright SASS

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I was trying to edit the post and messed it all up.

My original post was that I see that someone hits the motherload. I am saying I hope it is Parker or the Hoffmans and not Dakota Fred.

The show based on the how they edit it has Dakota Fred rubbing me the wrong way. Fred told the producer that the show makes him look like someone who is only out for himself but he is really a nice guy. My idea of a nice guy would have lent parker the electrical panel. However he did claim it was his "partner" who wanted $10k for the panel (or was it Fred?)

The Hoffmans seem to make all kinds of mistakes and bad decisions, and Parker is impulsive, but he is only 17!

Still I hope it is either of them, but at the same time if it is Fred, well good for him, I wish it where me! Maybe the next time on the river I will hit a pocket for a hundred ounces!
 

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When it's successful, it was me, when it goes wrong, it was we. Sounds like American business executives today...
 

Kid Parker is just that,still a kid but one of the best equipment operators I've ever seen in a long mining life. 6 loads a hour BOTH loading AND driving,dumping and doing it all HIMSELF whilst driving a overloaded rig both ways. Bloody well amazing feat.
Would someone take TODD and bury his slimy ignorance under them tons a slime they bulldozed. He's cost over 60% loss for the year and they have ALL killed a million $$$$+++ in equipment with abuse,no maintence and extremely sloppy operations. Smash,bash,crash slam and no clean oils/lubes will desecrate even the best.....
F-D- closing chopper shows it all as 100 straight up behind a tiny berm is a raging alaskan river ready to rain down inspontaneous death and destruction in a single second. Good amount of gold with dredge BUT no blaster and just off the sides??? hahaha they'd a found 100Xs the gold under their feet. Wish I coulda seen the whole clip butt....
This series has degraded into a mama drama as to what stupid arse move is fat Todd a gonna pull this week and a complete series on HOW TO NEVER MINE CORRECTLY and the environutz are jus' a lovn' this insane garbage-John
 

Your right John Parker is still just a kid but he's not lazy or a punk like a lot of them nowadays

I hope the best for him! Thou he probaly doesn't need my support . I think he will do well in life
Also he a lot smarter than a lot of adults I see anymore
 

What's keeping Parker from taking smaller loads in a pickup bed or a trailer behind the Polaris Ranger up and down the hill?
Be cheaper too, he could coast all the way down.
 

'yeah, I'd be running pickup loads if I had to. That was an awesome cleanout from the only run he made of that dirt.
 

I know he said the road gets slick when wet, & I can believe that.

because of that, and the fact human nature makes it that repetitive acts cause us
to forget to be careful after awhile, (it's like us driving to the store & back.
eventually we do it without even remembering if we did it yet)
he would really need to do some major changes IMO,
or something bad will happen
 

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Tailing gravels work wonders for a slick dirt road :icon_thumright:
Pretty sure Parker has tons of it.

No reason I can see not to use smaller trucks :dontknow:
 

Not a gold miner, but I watch the show off and on. I think the directors and producers lead Todd to do dumb things to spice up the show. Here is my novice question. If they "blew gold out the end", why not run the dirt from that end back through again? Gold is heavy and would sink right in that area. Please enlighten a curious onlooker. Thanks!
 

I think there are several things going on with Todd.

Gold fever being one of the main ones.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Todd make some kind of bet with the perv from the after shows,
that he gets to shave his face if Todd doesn't get his Thousand Ounces, Personally I'd kill before I'd let
that "guy" (and I use the term guy loosely) near my face.

although that Goatee does irritate me to no end :tongue3:

I think Todd also swore this is his last year if he fails.

He's definitely trying to save face, more then he's doing it for the crew.
if he cared about the crew he wouldn't be forcing them to risk their lives
 

GrizLeeBear said:
Not a gold miner, but I watch the show off and on. Here is my novice question. If they "blew gold out the end", why not run the dirt from that end back through again? Gold is heavy and would sink right in that area. Please enlighten a curious onlooker. Thanks!
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Many large operations would rather spend their operating time running virgin paydirt rather than running their sluice tailings that would typically contain a lesser yield per yard. So it's an operating cost versus profit issue.

With that being said I think their sluice tailings would contain a high concentration of pay per yard due to already being classified. However, probably not enough to be cost effective.

At any rate I would find a way to trap any gold that made it's way off the end of the sluice discharge before it could get washed into the settling pond.

All it would take is a commercial size fluid bed gold trap at the end of each of the sluices.
Lets say their wash plant catches 90% of the gold and the trap catches another 5% that adds up to 50 ounces or $80,000.00 worth of saved gold for every 1000 ounces that the sluices catch.

I seriously doubt that the average commercial wash plant captures more than 80% of the gold. And I've been told that some commercial operations in the Klondike expect to lose a million dollars worth of gold off their sluice per season. But they are so happy with the millions they did capture that the losses are acceptable.

My gold trap idea could save them hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions!


GG~
 

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True. And Todd is making excuses again. He made a huge mistake. 107 oz? And they were just blowing gold off the back end? Man those poor dudes.
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Why does Todd say the gold that washed thru is gone forever? wouldn't a couple of excavator bucketloads from the end get it back?
 

when dave outdoes him in gold all season and todd does exactly what dave said not to shows what a FRICKIN IDIOT HE IS
 

Well, on the loss of gold. It would take less time and cost to rerun it again. No dozer or hauling cost involved. If you know a 1 to 2 hour time period of when the gold could have been lost out
of the sluice. The mill I work at had a dump truck and loader hauling truck loads out everyday from the mill, from 92 when I started until 2012. Also about 4 years we had two trucks hauling. But we still haul a lot out there, but we grind up the majority up for boiler fuel now. Still a lot of waste product.

TT
 

My best friend Bob D was a operator/powder man for over 55 years,blew tunnels for whiskeytown dam and laid a zillion miles a cables in half a dozen states too, and EVEN he says-Man alive that kids' the best he's ever seen. KP does ALL the dangerous stuff himself and protects his crew above all others and NOT like Todd the blob fricken do it(back up in the dark to 5 story fall ya wussy???? F'M... KP can't let the trommel run dry or he'll blow out the gold like Todd the blob. So he works like a madmen. Smaller loads don't get the job done. That AK mud/slime would eat tailings gravel and be even slippyier(sp?) with the polished surface and then from ungodly to death wish to ruination. Winters a comn' early and all must rush like mad. If possible watch for that chopper shot on Freds death hole as jus' pure unadulterated insanity....John
 

So use smaller trucks and stockpile needed material to run the trommel full steam, the gold wont care. :icon_thumleft:
It's mostly the size and weight of the big truck that caused the dangerous handling problem on the slick road.

Using smaller trucks Parker may have to haul everyday then run the material every other day to keep the trommel fed but that would sure beat nothing.
Actually once the paydirt is stockpiled a day or two ahead, he could probably continue to haul every day and run almost every day.

Probably only a couple weeks pay left on the Discovery claim anyway from what they showed.
Otherwise Parkers out of business since he says the Big Nugget mine is out of pay dirt.

I agree about the death trap hole!
 

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Seems to me moving the plant maybe in order.

Even just the cost of moving the materal without the slick road hell there's no née to keep it down there as that placed has been cleaned out
 

So Todd puts $350 k into the gold machine, and doesn't take the time even if it's 2 weeks, to fix the welds. I'm not what he thinks with but it's not his brain.
 

I would agree smokey

I would think he would put a welder up there to fix it whil the rest of the crew runs with Dave .
But then Todd's never been one to make a wise decision

Just imagine where they might be now if they had done that from the start I'd say they would already have the 1000oz mark plus
 

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