On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:17:31 -0600, john Szalay john.szalayatatt.net
wrote:

Canal Lee wrote in
:

This is the front section . The gray part gets lowered to the river
bottom and sucks up mud and muck and pumps it on shore to a holding
area . Environmentalists always try to stop dredging because they say
that the pumped up mud pollutes the land where it winds up . Rightly
or wrongly the Army Corps of Engineers always over rules them and the
dredging goes on .

Missing here is the actual cutting head which is like a round ball
with nasty teeth . Probably out being rebuilt as it take a beating
grinding up the river bottom .

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That's it . They are bugger then they look , 8'-10' diameter .

Thanks for the pic John .