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Hit a submerged car frame yesterday on the Mississippi River job
I was running a 12-inch cutterhead dredge near Baton Rouge yesterday and the suction just died. Thought it was a plug but after 45 minutes of backflushing I found a whole car frame wedged in the ladder. Must have been dumped there years ago. Scraped up the cutter teeth pretty bad and cost me half a shift of downtime. I rigged a grapple hook setup to pull it out but man what a headache. Anyone else deal with hidden junk like that on river jobs?
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grantw3220d ago
You sure a car frame is worth 45 minutes of troubleshooting? Sounds like you got a good story out of it at least.
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shanelee20d ago
Heck yeah, spent almost an hour pulling an old washing machine out of a creek bed last spring!
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