The day we dredged up a whole sunken picnic table

We were working the cutterhead on the old Columbia River channel near Longview, and the bucket brought up what we thought was a huge log. Turned out to be a full wooden picnic table, benches and all, wrapped in about 50 feet of old anchor chain. Took us three hours to cut it all free without stopping the whole operation. Has anyone else pulled up something that ridiculous from the mud?

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olivia_allen3h ago

Wait, you guys had to cut it free for three hours while still running the dredge? How do you even manage that without everything grinding to a halt? That sounds like a nightmare of tangled chain and splinters. What did you even do with a waterlogged picnic table after all that?

fisher.adam2h ago

Honestly Olivia, I used to think that too until we had to cut a whole picnic table out of the works.