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Update: Overheard a young guy at the supply yard call a dredge a 'big water vacuum' and it got me thinking about how we explain our work.
It reminded me of trying to describe my first cutterhead job on the Mississippi to my granddad, a lifelong operator, who just nodded and said, 'It's moving earth, son, always has been.'
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the_wendy6d ago
Read a blog post once that called heavy equipment "dirt translators.
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amy_anderson6d ago
My wife calls my dozer a 'land Zamboni' and honestly, she's not wrong. Trying to explain grade work to someone who isn't in it always ends up with these funny pictures. Your granddad and wren638 have the right idea, it's just moving dirt. But you have to laugh at the names we come up with when the real terms don't stick. Makes you wonder what the first guy to run a steam shovel called it when he got home.
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