i saw this dredging platform in arklow so i decided to brighten it up a bit hahaha

i sure dont like stuff that spoil the look of the sea

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a dredge on Tuggerah lake with some of the locals. Smoke in the background is from a bushfire/

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Since my last pic was the dredge in Bonanza Idaho, I thought I would share this one from Sumpter Oregon. These huge gears are just amazing to stand next to.

long abandoned lake dredge...taken under a near pitch black night. it was the week before the full moon so the provider of light (moon) had set prior to this shot. I do have some moon aided shots to post on a rainy day.

my solution was to turn my iso up fairly high. (1600) a return visit under a full moon is already planned...although this is fine by me. a little grain gives it a film quality. in addition I have the "day" shots everyone may have already seen of it anyways...

I did get to wander inside of it and upon it earlier in the day...quite a fun place to test one's balance especially while leaning to the right...

details: long exposure, little if any moon, and a tinge of flashlight to the machine itself.

sift through the silt with the machine and View On Black. Probably the only one of it's kind still sort of above water...anywhere!!!

I will share my crayons. but....

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another view of a dredge on Tuggerah lake from april, with smoke from a bushfire in background.

Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sebastian

All the boats and yachts are cleared out temporarily, the finger pontoons are next to go and in a couple of weeks, the dredger moves in!

This is a 5 shot panorama with a little Olympus / Stylus V (also known as μ-mini). A great little point & shoot!

Sumpter, Oregon

The Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge required a three-man crew to operate the machinery. Three dredges worked the valley from 1913 to 1954. Sumpter No. 3 was built substantially from parts of the first dredge, which had been idle for 10 years. Between them, the dredges traveled more than 8 miles (13 km),[4] extracting $10 to 12 million worth of gold more workers to complete the crew for maintenance, bookkeeping, surveying, truck driving, managing and a few other roles.

taken last week on a very windy evening. The filter was very wet from the water but it is not disturbing on the image.

Nikon 16-35mm and the ND4 hard greyfilter.

Thanks everyone for visiting my stream.

dredge on it's way to Athabasca lake, to big point.

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Cobbs Quay Marina, Holes Bay, Poole. Dredging a marina is a task requiring great co-ordination and organization. The whole bay between C and D pontoons was cleared of yachts and motor boats, then the mooring finger pontoons were removed to give access for the vessels needed to operate and dredge the bottom. This process lasted approximately 8 weeks but all is now restored to normal. I must say, it was all highly efficient, my congratulations to MDL Marinas.

First time out with the new Nikon 20mm 1.8G

This dredge sits in the Sumpter Valley Dredge Heritage Area and is the last of three dredges built on the Powder River. Built in 1935, it ran until 1954. It dug up more than four million dollars worth of gold by a simple, but dramatic method.

The Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge required a three-man crew to operate the machinery and 17 more workers to complete the crew for maintenance, bookkeeping, surveying, truck driving, managing and a few other roles. The dredge operated 363 days a year; most of the men were given the Fourth of July and Christmas day off from work. One or two men had to stay on board to watch over the machine during the evenings.

The abandoned copper dredge in Torch Lake.

October 13th, the start of the oyster dredging season and the Fal Oyster Festival. There were six of these boats out in Carrick Roads. They are not allowed to use engines, just sails and oars, to preserve precious stocks by preventing overfishing.

Donated to US Forest Service in 1966 by JR Simplot. The Yankee Fork Gold Dredge is one of the best preserved and presented dredges in the lower 48 states. yankeeforkdredge.com

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U.P. Michigan

7/29/2009

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Dredging Camden Harbor January 2013

Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location. This technique is often used to keep waterways navigable. Dredging is carried out to create a new harbour, berth or waterway, or to deepen existing facilities in order to allow larger ships access.

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Port Vila. Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu.

In 1936 production with Cock's large bucket dredge began, and it worked the alluvial gold and tin until 1954. In its 18 years of operation the dredge produced 70,664 ounces of gold and 1,383 tons of tin concentrate.

The largest dredge in the Southern Hemisphere, it was a floating monster weighing 2,142 tons and pulling the third most amount of power from the State Electricity Grid after Melbourne and Geelong.

By the time it was decommissioned it had dredged 30,000,000 cubic metres from the river flats of the Eldorado Plain. It remains a formidable sight and graphically illustrates the extent of the mining operation in and around the town

Dredge workers often reported hearing the ghost of Joe Bush "Haunting" the dredge when the dredge was not operating due to closure or repair

Last week I walked down to the harbor looking to sketch a simple scene. Instead I found this complicated mess. Every 10 years or so Camden dredges the harbor - removing the silt that the river brings in. I couldn't resist it.

Dredging for new Jetty

13.6.2017. Living adjacent to the Chesterfield Canal, I'm used to pleasure craft passing by. At the moment, the Canal & River Trust are dredging a section of the canal through Ranby village.

Looking at the material they were scooping up, you wouldn't want to fall into that barge! ...........

Dredging

Here be ye olde Quincy Dredge: a veritable floating factory, whose purpose was to (literally) vacuum old processed sands off of the floor of Torch Lake, and send them back to the mill to be reprocessed for copper.

This photo has a fun story behind it. The dredge is beached at the shore of Torch Lake, not too far from the highway. I parked near it and walked in, where I met two kayakers who had just come to shore after looking around the water side of the dredge. We chatted, and not five minutes after I'd met them, they offered to let me take a kayak out and see it for myself! -- Which I did, of course. I love the UP!

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