[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh.
I'm never surprised by your plans anymore.
Don't count your chickens until they hatch though, dude.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Piece of cake.
Day shift, night drift?
Here and the hill?
NARRATOR: For nearly 40 years, Tony snatched up
gold-rich ground in the Yukon.
Now, with gold prices holding at historic highs,
he's looking for months till payday.
To get his $16 million payout, Tony's
reopening his Indian River operation where
he hopes to bank 5,000 ounces.
40 miles north, he's counting on his Paradise Hill claims
to deliver the other 4,000 ounces of gold.
But there's one massive problem.
Let's get going.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
NARRATOR: Leading the charge to push the first dirt
of the season at Paradise Hill, a brand-new massive 850
horsepower D11 dozer that can shift 45 yards of dirt
in one push, and a 100 ton 950 excavator, the biggest
in the Yukon.
Yeah.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
OK.
NARRATOR: Tony's first target on the hill
an eight acre cut he discovered 30 years ago,
filled with big gold nuggets.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
We need to move an absolute crap ton of dirt
this year if we're going to reach Tony's goal.
Gold is high right now.
So [BLEEP] strike while the iron is hot.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
NARRATOR: When Tony discovered the prime piece of land,
he didn't have big enough equipment
to get down to the pay layer, 80 feet below the surface.
Even last year, it would have taken at least
three weeks to get to pay.
But with his new arsenal, Tony wants
it done in just five days.
It definitely is nice to have the 950.
Three and a half scoops to a rock truck, then it's full.
You know, it's crunch time.
We have to get this dirt moved.
Holy [BLEEP].
That stuff is solid.
[LOUD MACHINERY NOISES]
I'm just wasting time here.
I cannot get through this.
This is just not working.
Tony, do you copy?
This wall is completely solid.
I think we're at a [BLEEP] standstill.
Can you please come and talk to me?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
This wall is completely frozen?
Yeah.
She's solid.
NARRATOR: To rip through the frozen section,
Tony plans to take his brand-new, $2.7 million,
D11 dozer to the top of the pay dirt cliff.
He'll then go right to the edge of the 40-foot drop
and use the 10-ton ripper shank to break up the frozen layer,
so the excavator can get to the pay dirt beneath.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The D11 has arrived.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
He had it high enough, sink the ripper in, pull
the whole [BLEEP] cliff down.
NARRATOR: Tony maneuvers the 120-ton machine
right to the very cusp of the 40-foot drop.
Tear the [BLEEP] out.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
NARRATOR: As Tony busts through the permafrost,
Ruby removes the pay dirt beneath.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
NARRATOR: Tony has pay dirt ready to run,
a full month earlier than last year,
a vital head start on his mammoth 9,000 ounce goal.
Want to say that again?
No.
[MUSIC PLAYING]