![]() ![]() Hot tar to seal the gaps between the planks and Square platform made out of native planks and supported on columns atop the truck loadout Pipeline-supported on oil drums of course-came ashore and elbowed I say classic Nebraska because on my first tripĪ lot of these sand plants strung out along US 6 as it paralleled the Platte River. The plant was the classic Nebraska spread tableĪffair built atop the truck loadout bin. Out that his winch did do the job, however, He told me that the secret to thisĬlutch and brake friction elements had to be “piss elm”. Hoist winch was a pre-MSHA, dangerous-looking contraption he had put To form a hoist frame to support the end of the suctionĮlbow on the pump inlet to the suction pipe, which kind of lopped over the side of the platform. Of lumber and oil drums over next to the water, tipped it up on edge and let it flop over into the The upside down “dredge hull.” We dragged this collection We nailed planks and beams together to make The accumulated components included a bunch of (mostly) empty oil drums native lumber planks and beams an 8” x 10” dredge pump of doubtful parentage a castoff 6-71 Jimmy diesel an old truck loadout bin spikes many pounds of #9 black annealed wire and an old end loader to use as an erection crane. My introduction to sand and gravel dredging began when I was assigned to assist Les, a veteran Nebraska pumper, with the task of building a dredge and a sand plant. ![]() The Saga of the Naked Dredge began nearly fifty years ago. ![]()
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