Hit my first 500 yards of dredge pipe without a single blowout last week

Over at the Port of Baltimore on the Patapsco River job. Been running a 12 inch cutter suction for about 8 months now. Usually I'm chasing leaks every other shift, but last Tuesday we hit 500 yards straight. No clamps slipping, no hoses popping. Foreman just looked at me and said "you finally figured out how to tighten a bolt." Has anyone else had a stretch like that where everything just clicked for a few days?

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wade4383mo ago

Did you have to back off the pump pressure to get there?

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parkernelson3mo ago

@wade438 Not really, kept it pretty much the same. Just tweaked the air mixture a hair.

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