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Lost a cutterhead to a buried tire near New Orleans last month

Was working a job on the Mississippi River, clearing a channel near a bridge pier. Hit something hard, thought it was rock. Nope. Old tire wrapped around the cutterhead. Took 4 hours to cut it off. Now I always run the sonar slower when approaching bridge abutments. Anyone else deal with hidden debris like that?
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ruby_patel27
Four hours for a tire that already got a second life, nice.
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johnson.daniel
Was it really buried that deep or did you just get unlucky?
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