My cutter head got jammed on a concrete block in the Calcasieu River

Working the lower Calcasieu near Lake Charles last week and hit something that stopped the cutter cold. Turned out to be a chunk of concrete someone dumped, maybe 3 feet across. Spent 4 hours pulling it out with a crane barge. Has anyone else run into random debris like this in your dredge area?

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wendyw713mo ago

You pull much debris out of the Calcasieu? That river's got some weird stuff at the bottom.

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rileynguyen3mo ago

Yeah @wendyw71 the trick is to go slow near the bottom.

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