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Dredge auger grabbed a wetsuit and spun it into a disaster
I was working a job up near Astoria last month, clearing a marina channel, and my cutterhead snagged something soft but heavy. Turned out it was some old abandoned wetsuit tangled around a mooring line, and it wrapped so tight around the auger it stalled the whole hydraulic system. Had to shut down for two hours and cut it off with a knife while my buddy filmed me cursing. Anyone else ever snag something that made you question your life choices?
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sam175mo ago
Two hours and a knife? That sounds more like a bad day than a real disaster. People pull whole cars out of dredge lines sometimes. A wetsuit is just neoprene, it rips pretty easy if you've got a sharp hook. Maybe it's because I run a smaller setup on the Willamette, but we've snagged way worse and never shut down for more than 30 minutes. Couldn't you have just reversed the auger and cut it loose with a boom pole? Might be overthinking the whole thing.
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dianas505mo ago
dude same @sam17 are you seriously acting like TWO HOURS with a knife is no big deal??
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the_angela3mo ago
Right?! Like @sam17, we once spent three hours untangling a damn fishing net. No joke.
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