These two men are gems themselves. The stars of this programme.

Les and Ron are my favourites on this fabulous programme. Tough, resourceful and humorous. Australia should be proud of such men!....... I think they're great!

How can you not love these two old codgers? That's a rough way to make a living and all I can give them is a ton of respect.

Rod is a honest man a rare thing these days Straight up honest.

I love these two, Rod takes good care of the old fella, or tries to when he's allowed. You can tell Rod is a big hearted guy.

Rods a cool cat and les is great too , love them guys the best

These guys are my favourite off the show for sure! ❤️🤜🏻💥🤛🏻

Good on the old boy, I really like these 2. Les is a national treasure , we need men like him and Ron around for a long time.

Awsome guys love these 2 men hard working 💪 they look out for each other and have a genuine love for each other...

All of these miners are hard grafters, I want them all to succeed especially the Ploughboys, great series.

Rod you are a legend

Need more of these guys

These blokes are sound, along with the other guys on the show, I reckon most Aussies are ok, down to earth and grafters. I’m a 66year old builder with real bad joint pain also, I’ve slowed down a lot and just ‘plod’ through my work with all sorts of different pain killers, still glad to be going tho!!! Salford uk

We need more on these guys

Lezz should be doing all the deals that made me laugh 🤣🤣🤣

Ron is ferocious but now I know that LES is so savage in negotiating price...😂

Would love to see these two get a ton of high quality grade opal they deserve a bit of luck and some money

All the very best to the both of you blokes. You are hard workers and deserve a break. Hang in there. I wouldnt mind catching up with you towards the end of the year and having a talk.

Love how rod loved les ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I like the old fello. He’s tougher than than nails.

Luv watching these two , their fkn legends 💯 keep it coming boyz from Auckland New Zealand 👍😎🔥🔥

Rod I think you should give Les your negotiation hat , mate he is stubborn loved it , Cheers .

mid 70's god bless him, my building career caught up to me at 50, when my back went

Well done both of you respect

Ploughboys are the ones we always want to see do well

Pulls his hand away "No!" Hahaha

I’d love to see them hit a jackpot so Les can retire and take things easy and Rod can treat his wife.

Nice one lads les is a happy bunny 🇬🇧

Think Rod and the old bustard are my favourite opal hunters it's big and it's 🧀

Whoa - the owners get a really huge cut!!

Love you guys 💕💕

I am not a doctor, but a lifetime of opal mining and being over 75 is why you are tired and your joints ache.

As others have said, remove the belt that twists and run 1 belt short until you can get a new set of belts

Good find mate,,,,,

first good day folks thanks from london Canada

Seems like the discovery channel would have a few shipping containers full of spare parts on hand in cases like this belt snafu. But that would take away from the prolonged drama that stretches it into an episode. 😆

Twisted belt -- put it on the outside or just cut it off, Ya know I have watched these people and everyone seems to pass a helping every now and again. It was once like that here is the US but in the last long while don't happen anymore. My partner died about 6 months ago. If you had something going on he was the first one there to help...miss him

When you have a belt like that, you want to take it off and put it on the very end or the outer portion of the pulley, or just take it off entirely until you can get a replacement for that one belt. I'm sure the machine will continue to run as it normally does, it wouldn't hurt to use some belt dressing

If I was aloud over there ide love to give it a go

Gostei muito dó seu canal é sou garimpeiro 👍👏

Back in the day we made our own belts out of leather and rivets

Well done team beautiful opal, I'm chasing river gold west coast NZ creek's bloody cold heavy wet suit required,plenty of flooding get out with metal detector,might see a pig too,boil up,doughboys,watercress, potatoes

Justin Rhodes KZfaq has similar pain in his joints and swelling and it was from a tick bite. He's a homesteader

Les Drives a hard bargain 😉next time send him and when he’s walking back to truck with the gems go offering him a 1% deduction 😆wow guys

Les you got the same problem I do. We just getting older

Next time leave him at home 😂🤣😂🤣👌

I love precious stones but I love gold more than stones so I'm mining it from e waste and it's nice.

I always wondered where Strop ended up 😉

You should close the door of your truck while you're underground otherwise you might end up with a dead battery from the overhead lightning on

Dig those V-belts go with a kog belt system.

Les needs some crowdfunding so he can chill a bit

Seen this show about a month ago,, old news..

Les you need CBD oil they have rub and drops and what not it does wonders without the high!

Les, have you vitamin D3 checked, and B12, I was hurting in my joints so bad, Dr checked my blood for Vit deficiency had no Vit D3 and no B12 even register in the blood test. Also was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, several videos on utube to check out the symptoms. Get well.

Take the one flipped belt off. The drive should run okay anyway. Looks like what, 15 or 20% less grip. Should still run. The belts are car fan belts. Hard to see none in Australia exist.

its big and its cheesey

With his age an life hard labor any number of things

Rod sounds like Ringo Starr.

My favorite hope he hits the mother load…. He can do it I know it one day pal all it will take then you can kick back. . Help les out

Send les some cbd!

The problem with me blower not going.................

Rod if you need some belts message me please. I'll send from US Direct to you.

big and cheeszy

Big and cheesy 🇬🇧👍🏻💚💙🧡💜

Pissy rubber belts have to be imported to Australia. FFS we here in Australia should be manufacturing these things not waiting on some 'slow boat from China' or elsewhere....

Cut the one that twists n run without it

Never met a rich opal miner ...

Who pays for the machines?

RAGNAR LOTHBROK

Way don't you yos metal chains set-up.

Drs Don’t know what’s causing his aching joints. Hmmm maybe his age?

And the partners get $14,000 for doing nothing?!? Fuck me!!!!

It's big and 🧀

👁✌️👁

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oldddddddd

One thing I can take away from half of these videos, it IS *BIG, and it IS CHEESY*

Timthetatman on ice

Did les get the vax...

It’s big and it’s cheesy

Also, for all of that, $30,000 US isn't a lot to ask for. You can make $50,000 US off of that at least. I can't stand middlemen, at all. They always want a handout.

Hi my name is Fletcher I was diagnosed with brain cancer and had multiple surgery’s and I was recently diagnosed with radiation nocroces and that makes my muscles weak. I’m really struggling with paying my medical bills so I was wondering if you could giveaway some of your gold so I can sell you don’t have to give me anything but please I’m really struggling Thanks Fletcher

That's some bad acting and editing.