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That weird vibration in my 8-inch cutterhead turned out to be a chunk of railroad tie.
We were working the old channel near Paducah, and the whole rig started humming like a bad bearing. Pulled it up and there was a 3-foot section of timber, spikes and all, wedged in there. Anyone else ever pull up something that old and solid from a riverbed?
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jessicaw1115d ago
Actually, railroad spikes are softer than the cutter steel, so they usually just bend. Christopher_west1, the real worry is the timber itself jamming things up. That old, dense wood can really shake a machine apart.
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