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Talked to a retired operator at the Port of Tacoma and he changed my mind on sediment checks
I was grabbing coffee near the yard and got talking to a guy named Frank who ran a cutter suction dredge for 30 years. He said he never started a shift without checking the sediment sample from the exact spot he'd be working, not just the general area survey. He told me about a job in '98 where the survey said fine silt but they hit a patch of old concrete rubble that wrecked a pump because no one checked the specific spot. I've been skipping that step to save time, but now I'm thinking it's worth the extra 15 minutes. How many of you actually pull a fresh sample from the exact cut point before you start?
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chen.jade3d ago
wrecked a pump" seems like a one in a million thing...
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william3203d ago
My buddy managed to burn out a brand new pool pump in under a week. He forgot to open a valve after cleaning the filter... the thing just ran dry and seized up. Cost him almost a grand to fix. Makes you wonder how many "rare" failures are just simple, dumb mistakes.
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