Dredging The Mississippi | Floating Excavators | Weeks Marine

This episode of the vlog brought Aaron and the BuildWitt crew down to the very end of the Mississippi River Delta in Venice, Louisiana to check out a MASSIVE Weeks Marine dredging operation. They were placing 10 MILLION yards of sand to restore the coastline for the sake of storm/flood protection + habitat restoration!

Weeks Marine placed a lot of the material using Cat D6s which are completely wrecked once they are done working on a job like this. (sand and salt water are extremely corrosive)

Because they wanted water and gravity to do the majority of the work, they had to make sure they were controlling the material in the first place. Excavators built dikes that control the water flow so sediment and water settled into channels and got them to the grade they needed.

The crew also got to see firsthand some “Marsh Buggies” (aka floating 330 excavators), which are purpose-built machines capable of floating in water and soft material.

If you want to learn more about Weeks Marine, check them out HERE: https://www.weeksmarine.com/ #heavyequipment #excavators #excavator

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-VIDEO CHAPTERS-
0:00 - Intro - Restoring the Coastline
1:23 - Cutting Dredge
2:02 - Marsh Buggies aka Floating Excavators
4:15 - Welcome To Louisiana
4:57 - Building Dikes
6:29 - Caterpillar D6’s
7:20 - The Fat Truck
8:08 - Cat 966M Moving Pipe
9:00 - The Rundown of Weeks Marine’s Mississippi River Project