Hit 10,000 cubic yards on my cutter suction dredge this week

I was just checking the totalizer on my cutter suction dredge out in the Mobile River and saw I passed 10,000 cubic yards of material moved since January. That number caught me off guard because I usually just think about daily production, not the big picture. Has anyone else hit a milestone like that and realized how much more you've been doing than you thought?

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felix47816d ago

Used to think hitting big numbers like that was just a flex for guys running bigger rigs. This honestly changed my mind though. 10,000 yards is a ton of material when you break it down by the bucketload, especially in a river with current and mud that fights back. Respect for sticking with it through the grinding days when the pump was acting up.

anthony16516d ago

Is it really that deep though? I mean guys move dirt all the time, it's not like he dug the Panama Canal by himself. A lot of those big numbers get thrown around with some pretty generous math behind them too. Maybe it's just me but grinding days with pump problems sound more like bad planning than some heroic struggle. Plenty of operators out there pulling the same kind of yardage without all the drama. Not saying it's nothing, but the way people talk about it you'd think he was wrestling an alligator in a thunderstorm.