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An old guy at the Port of Tacoma told me to watch the water color more than the gauges
I was running a new suction dredge on a channel job last year, and this retired operator named Walt was watching from the dock. He came over after my shift and said, 'Kid, you're staring at your pressure gauge like it's a TV... but that muddy brown plume behind you? It's too thin. You're leaving good material on the bottom.' He was right. I slowed the cutterhead by about 15 rpm and the load thickened up right away. Anyone else have a simple tip that changed how you run a machine?
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andrew69313h ago
My old foreman in Spokane always said to listen to the hydraulics, not just watch the levers. I thought he was nuts until my pump started making a weird whine right before a hose blew.
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ward.mason13h ago
Sounds a bit dramatic, doesn't it?
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