I found this big brute parked in one of my fishing holes this morning. What the "L" is it on the front of that thing?
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Looks like one of those drill bits from that mining show, but on the front of this HOG? They'd have to be drilling onshore, but from the water :confused: :confused: And I dont know where they would be happening. I dont know of any rock walls shoring the river here.
Looks like one serious cutter for a river dredge?
I never would thought it to be that in a million years. But you gave me a place to start looking, and you were right. :eyebrow:
Google brought up a site belonging to the US Army Corps of Engineers with this on it.
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The cutterhead dredge, as shown above, is a rotating cutter which loosens the material to be pumped. This type of dredge is used for dredging tougher material.
I dont see how that could possibly be productive. It'd be like mowing a football field with a push mower. :doh2:
Here's one Google produced.
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Yeah, Kinda cool machines. They have a bigger (wider) dredger used for the softer river bottoms if I recall. I think the one you have pictered chews threw the hard stuff. I watched a thing about them on TV a while back, and if I remember correctly, they use that one to cut direct or pivot in in an arc to cut by anchoring the back of the boat some how.
Would make a cool ass boat house though. :biggrin: Anchor it up, gut and redo the inside and then sand blast and paint that cutter. :thumb2: Make for a nice looking pad along the river.