A gold Rush and Discovery channel 10th season anniversary excavator walk around. Look for the ways to enter the giveaway contest in October.  Beautiful machine.  Seems fitting they let a top tier operator put it thru its paces.  What an honor Chris!  Considering that Chris has done thousands of hours of real work, in some pretty hairy situation, without scratching his own machines, then I'd say Ian the Brit has nothing to worry about.  Now if they'd let Boss Man Uncle John in the cab, then that would be a whole different, gold paint scratching, story.  i haven't watched the show for a long time, so there's probably some context i'm missing.. but why isn't Todd Hoffman's signature on the seat is it because he was always the underachiever of the cast or is he just out of the show completely
Regardless, that is one beautiful machine. i hope they'll end up selling one with a similar color scheme. maybe brass-plated instead of straight up gold. cause it looks really good on that Volvo.  You should be their #1 Spokesman, Not Gold Rush!.......I wouldn't Let Rick drive into the Dealership let alone run the Excavator.....At least there wouldn't be a hill he could wreck the counterweight and compartment doors on, LOL. You could beat all three at a skill contest if they worked together to accomplish the same task :-)