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Had a weird moment with a coffee stirrer that made me rethink my bucket teeth setup
Last week, I was stirring my coffee with one of those tiny plastic sticks and it snapped. It made me think about the constant, small stress on our cutter heads. I run a 10-inch dredge on the Willamette, and we'd been getting more wear on the starboard side teeth than usual. I started checking the alignment every morning, not just weekly, and the uneven wear stopped. Anyone else have a simple daily check that saved them a headache?
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the_oscar9d ago
On the Willamette, I use a 4-foot level across the cutter bar frame. Check it at the bow, stern, and dead center. If it's off by more than an eighth of an inch at any point, you're gonna start eating teeth on one side.
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