~~~ Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Anyone else watch this on discovery channel? I'm ridiculously addicted to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints Bevy Squad Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Me too. Been waiting for the new series for ages, where the Hoffmans' are in South America.. Looks like they will make some serious coin down there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Watched it since first series. I do feel it's becoming more and more scripted though with their fake arguments and fallouts. Series one was pretty hilarious just given the number of basic errors they made. I love Tony"Fucking" Beets! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Love this show. I watch Gold Divers, too (oddest crush I have on Emily....). Gold Rush is the best though. "Todd, we're leaving you in charge of the plant. Run it at 50% as it's fragile." "Sure Dave......Right, let's run this thing at 100%" ... ... "Aww frick, what just snapped?" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Been great this season. The Hoffman's continuing incompetence means they'll lose money. Parker and 3 guys have almost as much gold as the Hoffman's and a dozen raked in last season. I hear that next season will have no Dakota boys and no Hoffmans, but will be Parker, Freddy Dodge and Tony Beets, the coolest man on TV. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I fucking love Tony fucking Beets. Think the only thing that scares him is his wife 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I liked last week's one where Parker had pretty much finished. "What the f**k you fucking want, Parker? You gotta fucking dig the fucking ground. I see fucking gold I can pick with my fucking fingers." Or words to that effect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I think there was more use of the eff word! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Thing is, last season Hoffman got just over 800 ounces. To get that he had two wash plants, a trommel and an army of men and loads of equipment. This season Parker beat that with 2 washplants and about 4 guys and a couple of old diggers. Hoffman really is an eejit. I wouldn't accept a lift off him as he'd end up crashing the car at 200 mph in to a central reservation. The new season starts in the US this week. Gutted that we're 6 months behind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 (edited) This was the first season I've seen, agree its class. id like to see the Hoffmans try the jungle again but obv thats unlikely. Cant get enough of the discovery channel lately, the 2nd season of ice cold gold starts next week aswell! Another show I've been hooked on is Appalachian Outlaws on the history channel, some hillbilly types searching the woods for ginseng, Its far far better than it sounds. Edited August 21, 2014 by Fisherman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Thousand ounces. The Hoffman's target for last season, where they got investors, raised massive sums, hired an army of guys and came away 200 short. Parker managed it on much, much less. Not only that, this season Parker got more than the Hoffmans in total over 4 seasons. How class was Tony Beets' wife. Volunteering the poor bloke for an 18 hour shift in the freezing cold. Really looking forward to more Tony next season. Full episode on parker was actually not bad. Might have been nice in the early part of the season to have a full one in each of the places. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Todd: "Guys, I have absolutely no proof but I know that this ground has a million trillion dollars worth of gold in it" Fast forward 4 weeks Todd: "Well we gave it our all but we've only found 3 flakes of gold" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Just noticed this on the Wikipedia entry for Gold Rush Alaska. On August 10th, Todd Hoffman stated on his Facebook page, "Gold Rush Season 5 late Oct. Start letting everyone know. You might not want to miss this season." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I also see on Wikipedia that Harness died of a stroke in June this year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I also see on Wikipedia that Harness died of a stroke in June this year. Was he the guy that walked off the site for a week to shag his bird in a motel, when they were all standing round waiting for him to fix something? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Was he the guy that walked off the site for a week to shag his bird in a motel, when they were all standing round waiting for him to fix something? That's him yes. The mechanic with the bad back! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 EXCLUSIVE: Fred Hurt (aka Dakota Fred) and his son Dustin Hurt from Discovery’s reality series Gold Rush will be the subject of All That Glitters, a new documentary currently filming in Haines, Alaska and directed by Kirk Roos, producer of The Brass Teapot and Matt Walsh’s comedy directorial canon High Road and the upcoming A Better You. Doc focuses on some plot elements that were left unresolved on Gold Rush pertaining to the Hurts’ obsession with diverting a waterfall in their quest for the legendary Porcupine Creek mines on the Dalton/Klondike trail. http://deadline.com/2014/07/gold-rushs-dakota-fred-to-stake-new-mining-claim-in-doc-all-that-glitters-799797/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Disappointing, I like Dustin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 Would any of you give up your current jobs to give gold mining a bash? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Would any of you give up your current jobs to give gold mining a bash? If you want to be P&B's "Todd Hoffman" I will follow you to Alaska! Seriously though, yes. Watching the show it looks fairly easy, but of course it isn't. There is a tonne of back breaking work, extremely long hours and a helluva lot of luck. I have wondered if heading out to some of the old gold mining areas here in Oz with a metal detector and a spade might prove a better use of my time than my current job! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.