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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Rod you are a legend

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

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.

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

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

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

Need more of these guys

Love how rod loved les ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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

We need more on these guys

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.

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

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

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

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

Pulls his hand away "No!" Hahaha

Ploughboys are the ones we always want to see do well

Well done both of you respect

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

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

Nice one lads les is a happy bunny 🇬🇧

Whoa - the owners get a really huge cut!!

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

Love you guys 💕💕

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

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

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

Gostei muito dó seu canal é sou garimpeiro 👍👏

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

I always wondered where Strop ended up 😉

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

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

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.

Les needs some crowdfunding so he can chill a bit

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Send les some cbd!

its big and its cheesey

With his age an life hard labor any number of things

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....

big and cheeszy

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

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

Never met a rich opal miner ...

RAGNAR LOTHBROK

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

Cut the one that twists n run without it

👁✌️👁

oldddddddd

Who pays for the machines?

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

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

It's big and 🧀

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

Timthetatman on ice

It’s big and it’s cheesy

Did les get the vax...

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.