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Monkeybusiness
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Is it washed first? I’d have thought the salt would wreck the ground.
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Liam1992
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I ment I couldn't get the picture to rotate, the hitch in the machine is fine
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Liam1992
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No it just goes straight on the field, it's got 41% lime content so its sometimes to good for the fields and pushes the PH of the field to high so its not done every year, depending on what the field is like when it's tested
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
haven't been there since '06
... I love Cornwall last time i was down there was visiting Lefty in Mounthawk to pick up me two Danes, that Stu had collected and paid for, for me on the second of Jan '16 .....'The Spare one'
was a long day, with a detour to Josh's in Plymouth, with a van load of white goods and furniture for their new house, they'd bought just 'fore Crimbo
Bri963
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Sorry mate, bit early for you was it?
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Liam1992
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Bri963
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I looked at your picture of the machine with the rotator and grab. Your caption read won't let me rotate, etc. I thought you meant the picture but.... oh dear, I'll concede on this one
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
did some work on a big suction dredger in Barry when I had a few months for Tecweld in 1979/80 .... three enormous engines in the engine room .... 1 driving the prop, the other two driving the snail shell pumps that sucked it up off the sea floor through two huge booms with suction heads on the bottom ... sadly no pix, but was some very interesting work .... took the snail shell pumps out of the engine room.... rebuilt the internals with MIG and they were then machined back to shape at their workshops and re-installed ..... getting them in/out of the engine room was some feat on half a dozen hoists, strung from various lift points around the engine room ..... no direct access to lift 'em out ... all hand ball to manoeuvre them to an access hatch ..... were 4t each with the impellers out and 12ft in diameter
bit like this ...
think this was the boat
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Liam1992
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I would have liked to have a look around on that, trail dredging is definitely interesting work, a good experience.
Our setup alot smaller than that, we've got a single snail pump 14inch, pumps about 6 ton a minute at peak, depending on size of tides and how much weed there is around, our pumps driven by a 280ish HP 5 cylinder scania direct drive.
I know what u mean about pictures I've not got many u used to take a few but I don't save them to memory cards so generally lose them when I get a new phone, also when I've been around it for 12 years u lose a bit of interest in taking pictures.
What was the setup on the dredger u worked on was it an estuary dredger, dredging in the same place most of the time? Or more of a sea going dredger?
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
didn't actually work 'on' the boat ... did some work to it for the company I was working for back then ..... was very interesting but long before the days of mobile phones, digi cameras, etc. ...... IIRC the plumbing to the pumps was about 3ft diameter .... snail shells were certainly big enough to comfortably sit in to weld 'em up.
took us two hard days of winching, hauling and grunting to get a shell out the engine room to the access hatch .... quicker going back in ... all down hill
worked for Tecweld for a year on all sorts, learnt a hell of a lot and got to work on stuff I'd not have done otherwise.
Left hooker
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An old D.G.W machine loading sand at the harbour
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Liam1992
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where is that picture taken, it doesn't look like padstow
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