Heavy Duty Bucket to Dredge Rock

Category:

Dredge Plant

Description:

Heavy duty basket with air rams instead of steel arms. Compressed air, supplied via hose from

the dredge, powers the cylinders with microsecond, repetitive bursts of high pressure air.

Nine-cubic-yard capacity bucket weighing 90,000 lb., used by Dutra "Super Scoop" on Boston

Harbor deepening job, where glacial till and granite had to be removed.

Reviewer:

C. Woolley

Company / Organization(s):

Projects Completed:

Boston Harbor

Location:

Boston, Massachussetts

Completion Date:

1993

Information Sources:

Literature:

Title:

"Revolutionary Hawco Bucket Will Break and Dig Hard Rock"

Month:

February

Year:

1995

LitType:

Periodical

Publisher:

International Dredging Review

Publisher Address:

PO Box 1487, Fort Collins, CO 80522

Publisher Phone:

970 484-9562

Page:

Chapter 5 Other Technologies Reviewed