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**Archive** March 2011 - General Images « Posted: 01 March 2011 at 07:44 AM »
New Month.... Looking forward to March's Photos... Smiley
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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #1 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 08:20 AM »
Dredger at work.

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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #2 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 08:39 AM »
Do you have a name for that in-land waterway dredger Kerch?
Many years ago I was on the team which designed, developed and built that type. the first ones were all named after water birds
Kingfisher, Heron etc
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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #3 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 08:55 AM »
Seen it many times but have never noticed a name on it ,will look next time I see it .
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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #4 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 09:38 AM »
It has got a name on it "La Goulou " which translates to "The Glutton" ,but can't find if it is also a bird .
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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #5 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 10:04 AM »
Dredger and the barge tug.The angle of the second photo is a bit off there was a half naked,hairy  man showing off his shadow boxing skills by the edge of the lock ,it looked horrible .So he got "chopped"

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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #6 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 10:50 AM »
The first ones we built were named with bird names that would be associated with water and the very first was a wading bird (I think) Heron this was because the ling neck and spindly legs
the legs reminded us of the two long square poles at the rear of the dredger known as 'spud legs' they have a walking action to assist the movement of the dredger, then the excavation arm reminded us of the neck and beak of the bird being able to reach down in the depth and bring up a larger object than it's beak.
The first were powered by Volvo Penta and Dowty drive units, but now I can get boring  evil6
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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #7 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 04:05 PM »
And think I might get boring tooooooooooo last picture of the dredger and its tug and barges.

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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #8 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 08:36 PM »
Awww go on lets have some more  evil6
Only kidding  Grin
I have been called an anorak etc when it comes to dredging.  icon_scratch
I am no-longer employed in the dredging industry even though it paid me very well over many years.
Keep posting your images Kerch I enjoy looking at an area I would like to reside in
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Re: March 2011 - General Images « Reply #9 Posted: 01 March 2011 at 08:42 PM »
They are always nice to see Kerch.
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