Not really. I mainly like to see the new equipment that they come up with on the show. Some I've heard about but never seen in action. Like the new derocker that Fred is using on his claim. That's cool. You could run alot of material across that. The tailings that pile up though would be hard to deal with just like Fred is finding out. The Hoffmans hydraulic sluice, I knew that would be a disaster for them. Those things are hard enough to run. You really need an onsite mining engineer to keep them fine tuned. From the preview they showed for next week it looks like the Hoffmans will be using a Goldtron cleanup jig. I've seen one of the older models in use and they are cool. Looks like the Hoffmans have the newest model. Looking forward to seeing that in operation.
Not really. I mainly like to see the new equipment that they come up with on the show. Some I've heard about but never seen in action. Like the new derocker that Fred is using on his claim. That's cool. You could run alot of material across that. The tailings that pile up though would be hard to deal with just like Fred is finding out. The Hoffmans hydraulic sluice, I knew that would be a disaster for them. Those things are hard enough to run. You really need an onsite mining engineer to keep them fine tuned. From the preview they showed for next week it looks like the Hoffmans will be using a Goldtron cleanup jig. I've seen one of the older models in use and they are cool. Looks like the Hoffmans have the newest model. Looking forward to seeing that in operation.
During history's biggest gold rushes, the largest fortunes seem to have been made by the people providing supplies, support and machinery for the miners. I wonder if that's still true today?
found a blog for the guy one the first season. the one with the little kids, he tells all about the DNR people just off camera,the bear shooting,getting into trouble for the log's using the sawmill, and how he was asked not to return .
In the context of GroupGuy's post it means that the people on the show are actors to an extent, and that the events and dialogue are mostly pre-written into a script before each episode is filmed.
Seriously??? I thought they where real people, chasing a real dream...damn producers. I was pulling for the Hoffman crew and now find out its fake...
I'm still pulling for the Hoffman crew. I just wonder what buffoonery the producers have lined up for them next week.....
I don't believe that they are just actors who are being paid to look like fools and lose their shirts. If they were, then they should be getting million $ paydays and winning the Oscar for being such good actors since they all appear to be doing a bang up job of getting poor and making wrong decisions.
I mean obviously the show's producers are editing content and presenting a view that they wish to show, but to say that the events and dialogue are mostly pre-written and contrived? That's what everyone who ends up getting kicked off of a show like Jake from Top Shot and Dorsey from last season's Gold Rush wants us to believe. That way they don't end up looking like the absolute pathetic morons that they really are.
If anything, I'd say that the payment they get for filming the show is the only thing keeping them going and if left to their own devices, they'd have been down the river a long time ago. Natural selection would have taught them a valuable gold mining lesson and they wouldn't be financially capable of showing us that they are idiots for a second time in a row.
I mean obviously the show's producers are editing content and presenting a view that they wish to show, but to say that the events and dialogue are mostly pre-written and contrived? That's what everyone who ends up getting kicked off of a show like Jake from Top Shot and Dorsey from last season's Gold Rush wants us to believe. That way they don't end up looking like the absolute pathetic morons that they really are.
If anything, I'd say that the payment they get for filming the show is the only thing keeping them going and if left to their own devices, they'd have been down the river a long time ago. Natural selection would have taught them a valuable gold mining lesson and they wouldn't be financially capable of showing us that they are idiots for a second time in a row.
I was sort of into this series until I was watching a TMZ middle of this past week and they filmed Todd Hoffman walking into a Morton's Steakhouse in LA. If he can afford to dine at Morton's in LA he either found a load of gold by the end of this last mining season or he's making enough off the TV show itself that he really doesn't even need to look for gold. I now believe it's the latter, so I'm done with this series.
