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Can we talk about how much sand we actually move in a shift?
I was looking at my logbook from last week on the Mississippi River job and realized we pulled out 1,200 cubic yards in a single 10 hour shift. That number blew my mind because I never stop to add it up while I'm running the cutterhead. Has anyone else ever crunched their daily numbers and been surprised by the total?
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elizabethf8516d ago
1200 yards in one shift? That's INSANE.
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Did you actually take the time to measure the trench width and depth for that yardage, or were you going off the barge estimator? I remember back in '09 we had a job on the Mobile River where the estimator swore we moved 1,500 yards, but when we dry-docked and measured the spoil pile it was barely 800. The whole crew was scratching their heads until we realized the cutterhead logs were including rehandle from the day before. @elizabethf85 is right that 1,200 is a big number, but I always double-check those figures now because machines lie and so do logbooks sometimes.
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