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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 29, 2017
Caption: Anchoring the Dredge Marker
Additional Description: Caption: (right center) By loosening or tightening the bow lines at the front of the dredge, the operator could make "sweeps: in and arc, taking 110-foot "bites" out of the land with the bucket line. The spud stabilized the dredge and acted as a pivot point of the back end as the from end swung from side to sided and the bucket line scooped up material. When the dredge was ready to move to the nest location, the operator hoisted the spud and dragged the dredge forward with cables. Then he dropped the spud, burying it once again in the pond bottom.
Submitted: December 9, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p407572
File Size: 3.297 Megabytes

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