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The 'before and after' of the channel near the old mill after we pulled out a 1972 Ford Pinto.
We were on a standard maintenance dredge for the county, clearing silt from a narrow channel that feeds into the river. The flow had been a trickle for years, and the banks were just muck. Last Tuesday, the cutterhead snagged on something solid. Took us four hours of careful winching and digging around it to finally get it up. It was a rusted-out Pinto, completely buried except for the roof! Must have been there since the 70s. The very next day, the water level in that whole stretch dropped by almost a foot and the current picked up noticeably. It's like we pulled the plug in a bathtub. Has anyone else ever pulled a whole car out of the muck? What's the weirdest thing your dredge has ever surfaced?
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