SAMSON III

SAMSON III is a 50' x 100' Clamshell dredge. Her spuds are 36 inch square 60 foot long. raised on pullmaster winches. She is equipped with slewing winches to control dump scows along side. The crane is a Bucyrus Erie 88B series 4 150 ton Crawler. Samson III has a variety of buckets form 5 cubic yard round nose digging buckets to an 11 cubic yard Cable Arm Envirommental bucket. Samsons position is fixed via multiple DGPS units these along with a Hazen tide gauge feed information to a PC using WINOPS dredge control software.