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A chat with an old timer at the marina in Savannah changed how I look at silt
I was fueling up my work barge last fall, grumbling about a clogged pump from fine silt. An older guy on the dock, who ran a cutter suction dredge for 30 years, heard me. He said, 'Son, that ain't dirt, that's tomorrow's island. You just move it to where it's needed.' He pointed at a new marsh grass planting across the water. It stuck with me that we're not just digging holes, we're building land. What's a piece of advice that changed your view of the job?
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skylerrobinson6mo ago
Oh man, that's so true. I used to just see mud when I was on a site, but my foreman once told me we were basically making a new basement for a whole neighborhood. He showed me the plans, and all that "dirt" was getting shaped into the little hills in the park down the street. It's way cooler when you see the end picture.
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diana_black6mo ago
Yeah, seeing the big plan changes everything. My old boss did the same thing with blueprints on a lunch break. Makes the long days feel like you're actually building something.
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