Wasted $250 on a fancy hydraulic cutter head that clogged on the first job in Norfolk harbor

The salesman said it'd chew through anything, but after 20 minutes of dredging that muck it jammed up so bad I had to pull the whole rig back to the yard and spend half a day unclogging it with a fire hose, so has anyone else had luck with a simple blade setup instead?

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nancyg1411d ago

Had a buddy who tried running a blade setup in similar conditions down in Savannah and yeah it just turned into a tangled mess of fishing line and old rope in about 10 minutes. Sometimes these hydraulic heads just need a little extra muscle upfront to break through that first layer of goop before they start working right.

max_brown10d ago

A diffuser plate in harbor muck? Never heard of that before.

angelarivera11d ago

Hear me out, but I think the problem might be the water depth and not the cutter head itself (those harbor mucks are brutal for any setup). A simple blade setup will just get wrapped in all that line and debris even faster from what I've seen on similar jobs. Maybe try dropping a diffuser plate ahead of the cutter next time to break up that soup before it hits the actual cutting edge.