well at least it will be fixed for the next job gotta love dipstick "Hey Boss she still needs more oil" lol
Paul
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A few more. You cant beat this thing for getting about. What other machine can track out there and sit in water on 5ft of silt and load it away. So manoeuvrable, you can go across solid ground or float though deep water. The only other option would be to use a barge mounted machine but this way there's so little mobilisation.
You can see where we've been in the last pic. With the lake dropped you can see where we've been tracking around on the silt which is 3 to 5ft deep. The buoys denote where we have dug to when the water is up. No sarcastic comments please!
You can see where we've been in the last pic. With the lake dropped you can see where we've been tracking around on the silt which is 3 to 5ft deep. The buoys denote where we have dug to when the water is up. No sarcastic comments please!
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Yeah............lots of mud and about 5 picnic chairs! 
Rumour has it the Brinks Mat gold is in there..........if I go missing in a hurry I've found it!
Rumour has it the Brinks Mat gold is in there..........if I go missing in a hurry I've found it!
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OK time for dumb questions when your digging do you have to anchor your self some how or does it just sort of work against itself to quick to be a problem ??
great pics thanks for taking the time to share
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great pics thanks for taking the time to share
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You really need to be sitting on something, either the bottom or in the silt to give you a bit of friction. You can work in deeper water but it's not that successful. You can buy a spud leg kit for it if you need to be bobbing about a bit. The machine is really a swamp digger ie built for water upto 4ft 6" deep or very soft marshy ground. My view was that if the water is 5ft deep or over we're probably not going to be working in it.
I hope this helps
I hope this helps
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68a wrote:A very interesting thread Clive
gotta agree this is fascinating something I have never seen before
thanks for the replies and photos
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topkit wrote:So Clive are you the Captain or Chief Petty officer when on board the machine
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