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Hit 10,000 cubic yards on my dredge and it just hit me different
Was out on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge last Wednesday, running the usual suction dredge on a flood control job. Checked my logbook and saw I crossed 10,000 cubic yards moved on this machine alone. That's a lot of mud and sand. I've been doing this for 6 years and never really counted until that moment. The tally was right there in the numbers. Told my deckhand and he just laughed, said 'that's like filling a football field 10 feet deep.' Made me stop and think about how much work that really is. Anyone else tracked a round number like that and felt kind of surprised?
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gracej993mo ago
That part about filling a football field 10 feet deep really hit me... I used to think dredging was just moving mud around, but hearing that comparison makes you realize how much sheer material you've actually handled. It's wild how a simple number in a logbook can suddenly make all that physical labor feel real.
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sandragrant3mo ago
Nah, it's just mud. Numbers don't mean much.
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wade_anderson3mo ago
Nah man, numbers just make it sound way more impressive than it actually felt.
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