My boss in Alaska swore by using a 2-inch cutterhead for glacial silt, but after a week of fighting it, the old timer running the fuel dock told me to switch to a 4-inch and production tripled.

So what's the deal, is a bigger cutterhead always better for soft material, or did I just get lucky with that specific silt bed?

3 comments

3 Comments

hernandez.emma9d ago

That old timer saved you a ton of headache. Bigger cutterheads move more soft material without bogging down, so it's a common fix. My own stubbornness has cost me weeks on jobs, so I feel your pain lol.

adam5179d ago

@hernandez.emma What's the worst case you've seen where someone refused to listen to that advice? I've watched guys burn up two motors on the same machine trying to force a small head through muck, swearing it was just a bad part each time. The stubbornness tax gets real high, real fast.

terry_wood516d ago

Two motors? That's just bad luck.