The Hoffmans realize they could be losing thousands of dollars of gold out of the end of their sluices and they are forced to tear apart the washplant and rebuild. At Smith Creek, Parker turns into a lumberjack to get to his gold. The Hoffman crew risks its all to run through the night in a bid to finally break even for the season. Fred has to abandon his best paydirt yet when his excavator gets stuck in the pit.
The Hoffman crew is desperate to get ounces, but Todd's decision to run the dozer on solid ice ends in disaster. The Big Nugget mine faces closure if Parker fails to hit a pay streak The Hoffmans are finally on the gold, but a new love threatens to derail mechanic James Harness right when the crew needs him most.
Desperate for pay dirt, Parker bulldozes a dangerous road A heart attack has 91 year-old mining legend John Schnabel battling for for his life. The Hoffmans find a gold nugget that becomes a game-changer and Dakota Fred accomplishes what Jack Hoffman never managed to do at Porcupine creek. With the washplant prepped, the Hoffman crew finally has their first clean-out of the season. Pressure mounts at Big Nugget where Parker is forced to run his grandfather's safety dirt.
This special lifts the curtain on Gold Rush and goes inside the lives of the men seeking gold in Alaska and the Klondike. The Hoffman crew is dead in the water until Harness can repair their broken excavator. Parker Schnabel totals his gold for the season and hands the Big Nugget mine back to his grandpa. The miners continue to run dirt but an equipment malfunction brings the operation to a halt. Meanwhile, James Harness collapses and Jimmy Dorsey drives a wedge between himself and the crew when he takes on an extra job to earn cash.
Now, as to whether or not he is clean from the morphine? That was not directly addressed in the episode, but one would hope that breaking the addiction will be part of his recovery process—good luck to you, Jack Hoffman.
Although it was hard not to have sympathy for the man, after awhile his complaints became, well, annoying for the context.
By the end of the season, the team had lost confidence in Harness, and for good reason, given the way that he had left them hanging with half-completed work on broken machines. Rumors had spread that he had been let go by the Hoffmans because he had been caught in the gold tent alone, insinuating that he had been skimming gold for himself. Fortunately, the latter was not true—he had not been caught skimming gold.
However, the former, that the Hoffmans let him go, was indeed the case. Harness did, however, take the opportunity to let Todd know that he had also lost confidence in him as a leader—basically, where were the riches they had been promised?
No one on the team backed him up on that one—this was a meeting directed at airing grudges against Harness, after all—but it is hard to believe that their silence indicated that no one on the team, with their five piddling ounces of gold each after two seasons, was agreeing with him as he left the building. Parker, visiting the Klondike, pulled out his freshly created Apparently, yes, it was too hard for Todd Hoffman to be civil, and Parker left the site with his bubble burst and a bad taste in his mouth for the Hoffmans—at least for Todd.
One thing is for sure: Parker has a fantastic work ethic. Interestingly, Dakota Fred and team were not part of the "Revelations" episode. So, could it be that we have seen the last of Dakota Fred and company? Image: Wikimedia Commons. Skip to main content. You are here Home. By Mechele R. Among the things revealed include Parker's war with the production crew, Jack Hoffman 's morphine addiction and back problems, and how Parker is still digging up gold in the dead of winter for next season.
Three months later, back in Sandy , Oregon , Jack Hoffman goes through risky surgery to fix his back. Then, the entire Hoffman Crew gathers and discusses what the plans are for the next year, and what has to change. The entire crew decides to fire James Harness , due to his absences and because Harness did not seem dedicated.
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