16x03 - Rick's Bold Call

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I'm just looking at resumes,
because we're gonna do


year. We have a lot to do.

So, you need good people
that you can count on.

The truth is, somebody can
write a really good resume

and be terrible.

30-year-old Parker schnabel is leaning

on his crew like never before.

After years of running the cuts himself,

he's testing his top
lieutenant's ability to lead.

Mitch and Brennan are
getting sulphur ready to go.

We'll have their wash plant
firing up there very soon.

We have two wash plants
already running here on dominion.

Bob, and sluicifer.

Two weeks into the season,
and with only 400 ounces,

Parker wants his 40-person
crew firing on all cylinders

to bring in a big haul this
week and put him on track for

his 10,000-ounce season goal.

We do have a big crew
this year, you know,

a bunch of new people.

Tyson has a lot of training to do.

People need to understand what
the expectations are and when

they're doing things wrong,
and if they can't correct it,

then we just need to
get rid of them, which is...

Always a challenge.

Parker's given me more
and more responsibility.

This year from last
year, it's probably about

three times as much.

We have so many new people,
and with Parker still expecting...

more than double
productivity as last year,

that's a large ask from
a lot of new people.

Parker's charged rising-star
Tyson Lee with overseeing

the huge dominion creek
operation, where two cuts

are already producing gold,

the bridge cut and the
recently opened golden mile,

which Parker believes
could deliver big numbers

if the crew keeps it running.

Hopefully the new people
have an understanding of what

we expect we need out of
them here as a mining outfit.

And we're figuring out their caliber.

Right now, we have Michael
digging pay down by Bob in

- the bridge cut.
- The cut's looking hell a nice.

Clearly Parker's not
around, he's going for

a big season this year.

The size of his operation, that's massive.

New recruit Mike Thompson
is a veteran gold miner

with years of experience
operating heavy machinery.

So I did five years at a neighbor mine.

Parker offered me this job

and it's very hard to say no to.

Tyson's also relying on
another new hire to keep

the bridge cut gold coming in.

I have Amy learning how
to run loader right now.

She's feeding Bob, and I
wanna throw a bunch of stuff

at her with the wash plant.

I have zero, zero mining experience.

So, for the last three days, I
have been doing some training

and today is my first day on my own.

Going from being a
teacher just half a month ago,

it's gonna be a big transition.

Greenhorn Amy Lee traded
a career as a science teacher

to become a gold miner.

Taylor and Tatiana are my besties.

Tatiana actually trained
me in a rock truck,

which was amazing.
We had such a good time.

And then on day two,
they just let me loose

on my own, and that was that.

After proving herself, Tyson
is putting Amy in charge

of one of the most important jobs,

feeding pay dirt into the wash plant.

- How's it going, Amy?
- Good, you?

- Pretty good.
- Good.

How are you finding things?

Now that I've gotten
over a little bit of the fear,

after a couple hours it's getting better.

- That's good.
- Yeah, yeah.

I'd like to do a once-over
the plant with you and just

kinda give you some things to look at.

Yeah, awesome.

So there's this tail drum
up here, so you can see

- how it's nice and clean.
- Yeah.

That's how it should always be.

- Yeah.
- If the belt walks left

or right, that can be an issue.

When you're feeding the
wash plant, a rock gets stuck

on the belt and I've had it
cut the belt clean in half like

- a razor blade before.
- Yeah.

If you think something is wrong...

- Yeah.
- Just shut it down.

- Ok.
- Let's run up here.

- Yeah.
- Open this, rip on this.

That's the breaker.

Then run up there, open the bypass,

close the main.

Any questions?

- Not at this moment.
- Just a sponge.

- Yeah, let me just absorb.
- Yeah.

You absorbed it all.

Still a little bit like, holy.

Yeah. You'll get it.

All righty. Go make us some gold.

- Ok.
- Have fun.

When you think of all the
responsibility you have,

and you're the sole
person watching the plant,

it plays on your mind a little bit.

I'm really happy with Amy.

Can't wait to see what
she can do this season.

Yep, go ahead.

I'm on my way.

The last thing I wanna
do is tell Parker that

the cut's flooded and
we gotta shut Bob down.

Man, that's a lot of melt water.

That's not what I needed, man.

We have a lake in here.

We spent so much time
getting the bridge cut drained.

It's getting flooded out again.

The water's backing up
the ditch line of the cut.

I'm thinking that 8-inch
culvert's not big enough.

Yeah.

You'll need to rattle this
hoe over and dig up this road.

We got that big old culvert up there.

So let's throw that puppy in.

Let's get this water out of here.

So we gotta get this water
out 'cause right now the only

pay we can truck to Bob is in this square.

If it's flooding out,
Bob's gonna shut down.

As the 114-acre bridge cut
thaws, melt water seeps into

its drainage ditches, where
it is then channeled through

an eight-inch culvert under
Bob's only access road.

But the narrow culvert is
overwhelmed by the volume of

meltwater, causing the ditches
to overflow and flood the cut.

To stop the flood, Mike
must dig up the access road

and replace the small
culvert with a much larger

36-inch culvert, then rebuild
the road to wash plant Bob.

I'm gonna take the small
little 8-inch culvert up

and let the water go.

If I don't hurry up and
get this water figured out,

Bob's gonna run out
of pay. That's bad news.

You ain't sluicing, you ain't producing.

Here comes some water, boys.

Go get this culvert.

But it's the only thing I
got kicking around here,

so hopefully I can do
the job. Throw her in.

Right about...

There. Send it.

There's one way to put a culvert in.

See if this bank falls out on me.

That could suck?

Me.

This is sketchy, man.

Anybody bring some extra undies?

I can safely say that culvert's in place.

I'm pretty proud of this. I feel pretty good.

- Mike saved the day!
- That was fun.

- That was exciting.
- Nice work, Mike!

, yeah.

She's working.

- Right on!
- See you.

We got that done. Tyson's happy.

Pretty proud of myself. Pretty happy.

It was like, what, an hour?
Hour and five minutes?

We got her done.

Well, you know, Michael
sure stepped up to the plate

and saved the day.

He got that culvert in,
got all the water leaving us.

He ex*cuted it perfectly.

We just gotta keep the gold coming in.

Ten miles southwest, king
of the klondike Tony beets

has already mined out his
first cut, hauling in 632 ounces

of his 6,500-ounce target.

After a hot start on his Indian river claim,

Tony's nearly out of pay dirt,
and he needs to open more

ground at the early bird cut, fast.

Just like Parker,

Tony's also relying on
a crew of new recruits

to get the job done.

Well, this is my first year here.

Who wouldn't wanna
come to the Yukon to work?

I love it here. I love the chaos.

We've got a lot of
equipment packed in here,

weaving together.

Rock truck drivers Tyler swan
and Sam Moore are part of

an all-new crew tasked
with getting the early bird

extension down to pay in just one week.

I'm pretty new to gold mining.

I've only been at this for
a little over a month now,

and there's very rarely a dull moment.

Tony's approach?

Throw the newbies in
at the deep end and hope

they can swim.

It was pretty sparse on training here.

And then off into the deep end

can be a little bit stressful.

Back it up a bit, back it up a bit.

Pretty tight spot we're working in.

We've got a bit of a
bend to turn around here.

Now, we're all in this together

and you have eyes on everything.

Sam has just toppled
one of Tony's essential

$300,000 rock trucks.

Jacob, I'm gonna need some help.

Jacob, do you copy? Jacob?

Jacob, do you copy, Jacob?

My truck sort of tipped over here.

My box gave way under the bank.

We're gonna need some help.

At Indian river, Tony's racing
to extend his cut down to pay

before wash plant
sluice-a-lot's pay pile runs out.

But rookie driver Sam
has flipped his rock truck,

bringing the operation to a halt.

The game plan is go up,

use the 480 if it'll pull it
and hook on to the high point

of the box and pull it back
over on the right side up.

All right, let's go flip this truck over.

Rushing to the rescue

is heavy equipment
operator Jacob Moore.

Hopefully it comes over nicely.

All right, sounds good.

Whoa.

Nice and easy.

Drive ahead very slowly.

All right, everything went
smooth and properly done.

We're back on the road now,
so hopefully we didn't lose

too much time.

I'm feeling a little bit...

Stressed about what Tony will think.

Copy that.

I'm definitely backed
into corner at this point.

I've got all this ground
that I just finished paying off

and no water license to be
able to mine it, and it's just like

it's there taunting me.

Really, this has left me
with no other choices

but to move on.

One hundred miles east of Tony,

Rick ness hasn't mined
a single ounce of gold.

Forced to abandon a pile
of pay and the richest ground

he's ever mined at
his Duncan creek claim,

Rick's committed his entire operation

to gamble on new land.

At the end of the day, I
had to make a deal with Troy

in lightning creek.

You know, I have to do
something before we lose out on

that even, and there's people
snooping around for ground with

licenses on everywhere,
and I can't afford

to wait any longer.

- Last week...
- I'm here to make a deal.

Rick met with landowner Troy Taylor...



We're gonna do a 100-ounce payment,

and we can get started
on there right away.

Made a handshake deal
to lease lightning creek

and moved his entire mining operation

eight miles northwest.

Well, we're at lightning creek.

We're gonna go and hit
this as hard as we can.

This year, you know, gold
price is once again record high.

So we got about 100 ounces
a week to get by the end of

the year if we're gonna
get to 1800 ounces.

So we really gotta get a move on.

We've broken ground
down at lightning creek.

Plenty of challenges ahead of us.

It's a new ground we gotta learn.

Time to get on some gold.

Rick's opened the diamond cut
and is depending on his crew to

locate the pockets of gold-rich
pay dirt in this notoriously

unpredictable area.

The diamond cut is definitely
going at a good speed.

But at the start of any
cut, it takes some time

to get prepped up.

This ain't bad.

It may seem frivolous that
we're just moving dirt from

point a to point b, but
this is what we need to do.

Efficiency is key.

Not gonna lie, this is a good day.

I just wanna make sure
I'm keeping up with the pace,

'cause at the end of the
season, I want a big gold bonus.

So, you know, whatever it
takes to get down to pay and start

moving it is what I'll do.

What the?

Look at that.

- You ever seen pay dirt?
- Pay dirt?

That's what it is, right
there. Boulders and gravels.

Pay dirt is gravelly and rocky,

gold-bearing material that
lies beneath the waste topsoil

known as overburden.

That's the with the gold in it.

Right. Yeah.

- Just look at it.
- That looks good.

That whole floor down
there, that's the payday

we're looking for and that
came quick when we don't

have to go down 150 feet?

Just even this area
right here is bigger than

I know, I know.

That's exciting.

And that should make for quick stripping.

And then we've got below
that, according to Troy,

anywhere that's 12 to 15 feet of pay.

- Yeah.
- So put the overburden

where it wants to go,
and we'll have a good

amount of pay dirt
exposed here in no time.

- Let's get back on the gold.
- Let's do it.

- Let's go.
- -We're already down to pay.

You know, I'm not used to that.
We're used to going 100 some

feet through overburden just to

get to it, and it's nice
that it's so shallow here.

Bailey's doing a great
job. Trucks are moving dirt.

Sun's out, good day.

With the team on the pay
layer, Rick tasks the crew with

stripping the entire diamond cut.

Compared to, like,
Rick's claims, it's a huge

difference because we're
moving about 160 feet worth of

overburden and over
here it's, you know, five feet.

It's my first time seeing pay.

Once we get that through
the sluice box and through

the plant, it'll be good
to see the actual gold.

While the team works,
Rick takes a moment to make

his handshake-deal with
Troy official and sign the lease.

Ridiculous.

Kinda reading through it,
and I just don't like some of

the stuff I'm seeing.

Yeah. Hey, zee, you got a copy?

Why don't you come over here
and I'll show you something?

What's up, buddy? You
gonna make me read?

No, I've got an updated
agreement with Troy.

He's given himself an
awful lot of power, I think.

Well, how it works is that I
have to submit my mining plan

to him, and then he
decides how it works, right?

It says that he shall have
access to the equipment

and or personnel at his discretion.

Well, that means, to me, that
means, yeah, on a Tuesday,

he'd come and shut down the sluice box.

I think it's a bit of an overreach.

I just... I... don't you?

I always assumed when
you leased the ground,

then you get to do with it what you want,

like how your mining plan is.

And this sounds like you signed a lease,

and then he has all the power.

I don't know what the angle is there.

I don't know if there is an angle.

At this point, I'm waiting
to stumble around a corner

and find him like this,
like, "whoa, I pulled the..."

You know what I mean?

Stupid like that gets
your wheels turning, right?

Let's just read over the
contract a little bit more.

We're down here. We'll
keep plugging away.

Yeah, yeah, no, like I said, I appreciate it.

Screw my head on straight.
Make sure that this deal is in

our favor and keep on trucking.

- Keeps everyone here.
- Thanks, buddy.

- All right.
- We'll talk to ya.

- See you at dinner.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What the is this?

If I fail to make a payment,
a minimum of $20,000

every month, it may
terminate this agreement

within three business days.

Even when I'm not producing
gold now, I'm on the hook

for 20 grand a month.

The more I look at
this, the more I'm saying

it's not a chance in hell I'm signing this.

I don't know why he's
putting all this extra here.

It's just not sitting right with me.

I've worked with Troy for
a while, and I trust the guy.

But it's fishy that I just paid him off,

and now we're going back, and...

Suddenly he's got more ground for us

and we're not paying him again.

You know, I'm kinda thinking
he might be using my lack

of options to...

Turn things in his favor.

Rick has already spent over
$40,000 in fuel and wages

mining lightning creek.

But it could be all for nothing.

I'm trying to stay calm,
but I'm getting pretty riled up

about it 'cause I'm
already down there working.

I've got money into this.
I've got guys down there.

I've got equipment down there,

and I'm not stopping,
but I'm not signing this,

so he's gonna have to
change his way of thinking,

'cause that's.

Right now, we have
two wash plants running.

I have a little bit of time
to do a lap of going into

the bridge cut, checking on
Bob, making sure everyone's

doing all right.

At dominion, Tyson
Lee is maxing out sluicifer

on the golden mile.

And in the bridge cut,
he has new operator Mike

digging out pay dirt.

I wanna prove to this
crew that I'm capable

and I can do the job.

Like, whatever they throw at
me, I definitely have the taste

of that gold fever.

While greenhorn Amy, in
charge of running wash plant, Bob,

feeds 250 yards of pay an hour,

I am making sure that I am
keeping a constant flow of

pay dirt going up the conveyors
and also making sure they're

not getting clogged up or
many other things that I'm sure...

Gotta shut off the generator.

This doesn't look good. What happened?

It's all clogged up at the top.

I just saw rocks sh**ting from the side.

Must be a rock jammed in
somewhere, like up against

our chain drive that
caused it to not wanna spin,

- but first things first...
- Yeah.

Get all the dirt off the belts.

Tyson suspects wash plant Bob
has rocks lodged in its hopper

feeder's internal conveyor
chains, stopping the mechanism

from moving pay dirt
toward the shaker deck

leading to it piling up.

The solution?

Dig out the hopper feeder,
removing all rocks lodged in

the chain conveyor.

Then, clear any rocks
from the super stacker's belt

rollers and start the plant up again.

- Yeah, we just wanna...
- Clear it out?

Yeah, 'cause if we fire
the super stacker up,

- they'd be flying around like popcorn.
- -Ok.

They'll get sucked
down into the tail drum

- and slice the belt.
- Ok.

You did a great job, though, Amy.

Thanks.

What happened?

This chain bind up on something?

Like a rock got stuck in the chain drive.

- Ok.
- Did we anything up?

I don't know.

We're just tryna shovel
it out and make sure that

the belt's all good.

You can see there's a lot of big rocks

on the conveyor belt itself.

Give me that shovel.

- Watch out.
- Ok.

Look at the bottom of that belt.

You know it's serious
when Parker shows up

and jumps into action.

Tail drum's packed full of.

Let's just get the big ones out of there.

Let's climb down once Parker's
done doing Parker things.

I think we're good to go.

Nice work.

I'm climbing down. You're still up there.

Generator's getting fired up.

Whoo!

Yeah, looks good!

You want some dirt?

Hey, Parker, you want some dirt?

Yeah.

I'm so out of shape.

Fire it up.

We're ready to sluice.

I'm so happy

that I was able to spot it right away

and shut it down because there
were so many rocks that were

jammed up in the belt.

How's Amy doing?
She dealt with that well.

Yeah, definitely.

She did it exactly how we showed her.

Yeah.

All right, see you on the flip side.

See ya. Amy's doing wonderful.

Couldn't have done
anything better, really.

The bar is set high.

At the early bird extension,
Tony is battling to open

his new ground before
his only running wash plant,

sluice-a-lot, runs out of pay.

But he's dealing with a batch
of rookies who are struggling.

I'm back here today, and I am really glad

Tony didn't fire me.

Tony has his eye on greenhorn Sam,

who flipped his rock
truck earlier in the week.

I'm still on pretty thin ice.

You feel like anything could get you fired

if you're not careful.

With the clock ticking, Tony
has brought in experienced

truck driver Mason macintyre to help out.

The conditions down here
are pretty sloppy right now.

It's causing like a lot of big
ruts, which is hard to drive in

sometimes, for some people.

You gotta adjust to the conditions.

And some people catch on
really quick and are used to it.

And some people just
don't catch on at all.

And that's how mistakes happen.

That can be quite dangerous,
honestly, if you can't run

something like this, which
is not simple, but a lot more

simple than another piece of equipment.

Somebody dumped her.

At Tony beets early bird cut,
another $300,000 rock truck

has flipped.

Yeah.

A little soft.

Yeah, a little bit.

Experienced driver Mason
macintyre has flipped

his first truck.

Ok.

Tony uses the 480 excavator
to empty the rock truck's box of

dirt and push it upright.

Part of me is happy to see
that it happens to other people

besides me, but I
mean, I feel for the guy.

It's pretty unpleasant
when the box flips over

on your rock truck.

Thank you, Tony.

That's my first truck I tipped over.

It was a little scary.
Tony was pretty relaxed.

I think I had the luck, 'cause I'm here

in my second season.

Tony's crew are back in
the rigs to get down to pay

before sluice-a-lot runs out.

I asked Troy to come
down and meet me here.

I'm basically gonna tell him that

his contract is bull.

I mean, I don't know what
he wants me to do with this.

I'm not budging off that
ground, and I'm not signing

this, so we need to come
to some kind of compromise.

After moving his crew to a
new claim on lightning creek,

Rick ness has called a
meeting with landlord Troy Taylor

to negotiate the terms of the lease.

- Hey, Troy.
- Hey, Rick.

- How you doing?
- Good.

Good to see you.

We gotta put some signatures
on paper and make it legal.

There's no way.

I have gone over the
contract and a lot of things that.

I don't like.

It says that you have the
right to change the mining plan

at any time.

You can pull my equipment
and my personnel when

you see fit.

There's an awful lot of power
going in your hands here.

I mean, I would like to
think that our last contract

went pretty smooth.

I think it's coming down to a trust thing.

And, you know, for me
right here in this contract,

it looks like you don't trust me at all.

And so, I'm kinda wondering
why I trust this, you know?

Yeah, I get that. It's nothing personal.

It's just since the last agreement,

things have changed so much.

With the water licenses these
days, if there's any blemish,

if you are doing anything
wrong, maybe you weren't here

on a day that something's
going sideways,

it will be reflected on me.

It could result in getting
my water license revoked.

I wanna keep mining, so I have to...

I have to have some
teeth in this agreement.

I kinda see where you're
coming from, Troy, but I don't

believe that this level of
supervision is necessary.

I mean, I don't wanna
feel like I'm looking over

my shoulder all the time,
and that's why I brought this,

you know, off the bat.

That's 100 ounces that I owe
you as the minimum royalty

on this deal.

And I'd be willing to give that
to you upfront right now today

and get rid of this.

Boy, from my perspective, if
I don't have some control in

the agreement, that's all I've got.

I can't back up on that. I just can't.

I understand it's gotta
be a tough one to...

tough pill to swallow.

What if I buy it?

That's - that's a big one for me.

I would need another,
another 200 ounces

- on top of this.
- So 300 ounces total?

Yes.

It's just, it's just too much.

You know, I get that
ground is at a premium with

a water license right
now, but it's a lot of money

on the line and I won't be squeezed.

It's just not gonna happen.

How about I get you
another hundred ounces?

That's 200 ounces total,
and then we call that good.

I'm still responsible for
the water license until

I get paid.

As you know, I'm still on the hook.

How about...

By the end of the month,
and then we part ways?

This is gone. Your name's off it.

- I take over the ground.
- In a month?

In a month. Your liability's gone.

You're paid.

Rick, that's a lot of gold
to produce in a month.

You've got a lot of stuff to do still.

If that's what it's gonna
take to mine this ground

my way, that's... that's
what we're gonna do.

I'll make it happen.

Well, I like your determination.

Let's do it.

- Call it good?
- Yeah.

All right.

- All right. - Deal done.

Well, we don't need this anymore.

Rick ness has just purchased
another 1,600 acres of land

for $700,000 in gold.

I'm not sure what I just did.

I think I came out on top.

Gold prices are higher than
ever, but right now it seems

that a ground with a water
license on it is even harder

- to find.
- He owns it.

It's all his.

So, I hope it's good ground,
and I wish him the best.

The guys are probably
gonna question this.

This ground is...

We haven't even sluiced
it yet, but we did test it.

We know there's gold, so
I need to get this ground.

I need to just get this going.

This was the only way I saw how to do it.

Whoo!

We've hired a lot of people this year.

- I'm Ethan.
- I'm raya.

I'm Jordan.

They've come with a range of skills.

I've milked cows my whole life.

- Demolition side of things.
- I was a line cook before this.

The revolving door of new
people is not gonna stop this year.

New recruits have
come from far and wide.

I went for a motorcycle ride


- find Parker.
- Hello.

- Hey, Parker.
- You're Steve, right?

Yes, yes. Good to meet you.

I heard that you just
showed up on a motorcycle.

Yeah. It's sitting at your office.

I saw it there, and I was like, " that."

And then today is not the day for tourists.

And then nona found me and
was like, "he's in the loader."

You know, I've been running
equipment for 30 years,

and I've always dreamed
of coming up here doing this.

Do you have, like,
work clothes and stuff?

This is it.

He's, like, literally in his riding clothes.

Glad to have you on board.

Can you take a picture?

Here you go, Steve.

At the early bird
extension, Tony is panning

to see if his crew has hit pay.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

Not exactly.

Ok, I see that.

There's lots of colors in there.

It looks good.

You know, sparkles up at the top.

Yeah.

For sure.

Yeah.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, seeing that pan of gold
with some gold in it was nice.

I've had a few mistakes
coming in here, but, you know,

seeing the gold makes it worth it.

Hello, family.

- Good, how are you?
- How are you?

Bring it over here, Michael.

After a turbulent week at
Indian river, Tony is ready to

weigh the gold from the early bird cut.

How's your new crew doing?

Most mine are returnees, so...

Yeah.

Do you wanna see
the fruits of your labors?

Last week, the early bird
cut delivered 214 ounces.

- You ready, Mike?
- Yep.

Ten, 20, 30,



Hundred, 110, 120, 130,

hundred... forty.



Worth nearly half a million
dollars, bringing Tony's total

to 774 ounces.

But it's a drop in production.

If Tony is going to hit
his 6,500-ounce goal,

his extension of the early
bird cut will have to deliver

a big improvement.

So we're still a little
ways off from our goal.

It's still pretty early.

But I think everybody
should go back to work.

Sounds good.

Bye.

Love you.

- Where's Chris?
- He didn't hear us.

Chris?

His new hearing A*DS really don't work.

- Sorry, I'm late.
- No, you're fine.

Anything crazy happen
down on your end?

- It's just lots of dirt.
- Yeah.

Just trying to stack everything up.

Yeah, we're really limited on space.

It's very tight up there.

Mitch and Brennan have
been stripping ground

at sulphur creek.

While at dominion, Tyson's
kept two wash plants sluicing

with new crew.

You got a new plant operator, Amy?

- Yep.
- How's she doing?

- She's doing really good, yeah.
- Is she?

Going from being a school
teacher to a loader operator,

so that's definitely the
change of pace for her.

But yeah, she's doing really good.

Is it though?

If she was like a
kindergarten to fifth grade,

it's probably not that much different.

I have to talk really slow to these guys,

so they understand me.
Don't eat the crayons.

Two plants running, though, all week?

- Yeah, two plants.
- You got two plants, man.

You're responsible for both of 'em.

Here we go, sluicifer.

Washplant sluicifer's been
running in the golden mile

all week, and Parker's
hoping to see an uptick

from last week's 112 ounces.

Let's see how the golden mile did.

Ten, 30, 40, 70,



There's 120, 130, 150, 152 even.

Worth over $530,000, a


- Perfect.
- That's a lot better.

A lot better.

Picked up a few ounces over last week.

- Definitely.
- Working some kinks out.

Yeah.

Next up, Bob at the bridge cut,

which is averaging 143 ounces a week.

We got 30, 50, 80, 100,



Worth almost $550,000.

Wow, that was close?

Yeah.

- Those two plants are...
- Four ounces off each other?

Just a couple ounces off of each other.

- That's weird.
- Yeah, that's crazy.

This week, we got 308.2 ounces,

which gives us a season total of 707.9.

Tyson has nearly
doubled their season total.

You know, last year at this
time, we were talking about


all thinking it was pretty doable.

Are we thinking we're
gonna do it this year?

You're too early to ask that question.

You guys need to get on the board now.

- Yeah.
- Dear.

Hopefully next week,
there'll be three pans lined

- up there.
- There will be.

- Right?
- Yeah.

Sounds like we don't got a choice.

All right. Have a good one.

Thanks, Chris.