Dear Guys,
I know nothing about gold mining, but I have really enjoyed watching this show because it is funnier than the Three Stooges.
The Man-Child with the idiotic billy goat beard (Todd) is simply a moron.
He routinely wastes $25,000 on some activity without any research whatsoever, and then afterwards, decides to call in an expert for some free advice, who then tells him that he did everything backwards.
For those of you who think Fred is such a bad guy, it is clear to me that Todd didn't "forget" to mail in that last lease payment. (What a crock!) He is a broke deadbeat who didn't have the last lease payment. He was hoping that the owner of the claim would just let it slide by, especially if he found some gold in the honeypot during the first weeks of the season.
I busted a gut laughing last week, when he just picked out a wooded spot on his new claim, and pronounced it virgin soil, without even asking the owner. After a week of dozer work by Todd, the owner told him that the spot was fully mined out in the 50s. Todd then lied to the camera, saying that he only wasted $5,000. Try $10,000 to $20,000.
Best, Mannyrock