My uncle told me to never trust a calm river when setting the cutterhead, and yesterday near Bend I watched a guy's whole rig get pulled sideways into a hidden logjam because he ignored that exact advice.

Has anyone else had a 'calm' spot nearly eat your equipment?

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Postcard until it tried to eat a backhoe" is my whole career in one sentence.

That river near Bend looked like a postcard until it tried to eat a backhoe.

Yikes, that river was just playing possum.

Wait, possums play dead though, right? That river was wide awake and angry, @claire_grant34.