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• Excavator mounted mast
• Accommodates any style
of hammer
• Two hydraulic winches
controlled by excavator
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This goal plays out in “the way we fabricate the tooling,” he
said. “The horizontal dredgehead doesn’t disperse the underwater
silt. We have different accessories that are designed to
contain silt, such as the environmental (clamshell) bucket
that closes completely. We use biodegradable hydraulic
and other oil, and for power use hydraulic diesel drive. One
engine does everything, and the fuel tank is inside the dredge
– a tank within a tank – so there’s no possibility of an oil spill,”
he said.
Attachments include horizontal cutterheads, backhoe
buckets, an effective closed environmental bucket with
hydraulic opening and closing, rakes and rock breakers, to
name a few. Capabilities include aquatic weed cutting and
harvesting (widely used in Africa), excavating and dredging,
trash and debris collection, laying pipeline and underwater
cables, marina maintenance, beach refurbishment, contaminated
sediment handling and removal, and preventive ice
breaking on rivers before the spring run.
“Every day we get new applications,” said Grant. New tools
are designed as the need arises.
A standard cutterhead working in aquatic weeds and
debris can end up fouled with massive amounts of vegetation.
Grant’s response to this problem was the Conical
Cutterhead, in which an outer casing only allows entrance of
small material through to the rotating cutterhead, sloughing
off the weeds and debris.
In response to a need by a Russian customer, Normrock
is creating a pile driving attachment for use by the two largest
models – the AE850 and the AE1200 – to be delivered
this year.
“It will be quite fun,” said Grant. “It will pick up the piles
and drive them,” while moving easily around the project site.
Machines are self-launching
The Amphibex vessels are self-propelled and equipped with
four tilting spuds for stability while dredging and to selflaunch
the dredge. Two outrigger stabilizers are equipped
with floats that steady the dredge while underway and while
working. They can be tilted to the bottom as another leg to
provide extra stability while the excavator is in use. In shallow
water, the dredge can work while resting on the bottom.
A quick connection system allows the rapid exchange of
tools and attachments.
COMPANY PROFILE
This cutting head for the
AE1200P is hydraulically
controlled. The company’s
Conical Cutter is designed
to prevent plant material
and other debris from
winding around the cutter
by limiting the size of
material that can enter the
space around the cutter.
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