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Hot take: found out that one dredge pump can move more sediment in an hour than a dump truck can haul in a full day
I stumbled on a stat from the USACE website last night that a 12-inch dredge pump pushing 4,000 gallons per minute can shift around 500 tons of material per hour, which blew my mind because I always figured trucks were the backbone of moving dirt, not our pumps.
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morgan_lewis183d ago
Idk man, once you see that number it's hard to unsee it.
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angelacooper3d ago
...and then you add in the downtime from haul roads, loading times, and dump site traffic jams. My brother runs a small excavating outfit and he's always complaining about how many truckloads it takes just to clear a pond. He told me once that a single pump running for a week could do what his whole fleet of five dump trucks struggles with in a month. Honestly it makes you wonder why more small guys don't invest in a decent pump setup instead of just piling on more trucks. Tbh the math on fuel and labor alone probably makes the pump the smarter play long term.
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