Hit 10,000 cubic yards on my old Ellicott last Tuesday and had to stop for a second

I was running a job on the Waccamaw River, just doing my usual routine, when the totalizer ticked over to 10,000 yards for this contract. That number caught me off guard because I usually don't pay attention to the counter much. It mattered because that's the most I've ever pulled from one site in my 12 years doing this work. The material was mostly sand with some silt, so it came out steady without much downtime. I had to check the gauge twice to make sure I wasn't reading it wrong. Has anyone else had a milestone on a job that just felt bigger than the numbers showed?

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patricia3853d ago

Hold on a second. 10,000 cubic yards is a solid number, but I gotta call something out. An Ellicott dredge doesn't measure in cubic yards. Those machines use totalizers that track in cubic feet or sometimes tons, not yards. You might be thinking of how much you think you moved or how the contract billed it out, but the machine itself doesn't tick over to a yard count. I've run a couple 370 Dragons and they only spit out total feet of material moved, not volume in yards.

garcia.miles3d ago

Wait, did my totalizer just get ratioed by a guy with actual experience? Lol.

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