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Back on the Columbia River, new guys keep running the cutterhead too fast in silt.
It just churns everything into a cloud and you lose your cut. I learned to ease it down after watching a 12-hour shift turn into a 24-hour one. Anyone else see this with the newer electric drives?
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mary_west23d ago
That 12-hour shift turning into 24 sounds brutal. Did the old-timers ever explain why the new drives make it easier to run too fast?
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hannah40023d ago
Oh man, it's the lack of physical feedback. Old drives had a real rumble you could feel in the floor when you pushed them. New ones are so smooth and quiet, the only speed check is a tiny number on a screen you're too busy to watch. You lose that gut sense of going too hard.
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luna_wright23d ago
My 2003 Freightliner had a vibration that made my teeth hurt at 68 mph. I'll take the quiet and just watch the tach.
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