Tough tool meets challenge of hitting rock bottom
Hall Contracting and Atlas Heavy Engineering have banded together to build one of the toughest marine digging buckets in the country.
The custom backhoe bucket weighs in at 17 tonnes and has been purpose designed for excavating hard rock.
Hall Contracting chief executive officer Cameron Hall said it had been manufactured for use on Hall’s 65m-long backhoe dredge, Woomera, which is currently tasked with widening the Clinton Channel at Port of Gladstone.
“It’s possible we may encounter hard rock while undertaking these works, so the new bucket. . .
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