Just realized I've been running my 8-inch cutterhead backwards for like, three months.

I was on the Ohio River last Tuesday, pulling up basically nothing but silt and mud. My foreman comes over, watches for a minute, then goes 'Ray, why's it spinning that way?' I mean, idk, I just hooked it up like the old one. Turns out the rotation arrow on the new motor was pointing the opposite direction of the old housing stamp. The pump was fighting itself the whole time. No wonder my production numbers were so bad. Anyone else ever get tripped up by something stupid simple like that?

4 comments

4 Comments

charles_baker281d ago

Three months of fighting the pump.

wesleyflores1d ago

Three months of fighting the pump" is the worst feeling. I once spent a whole day trying to figure out why a belt kept walking off... just to realize I'd put the dang thing on inside out. It's always the simple stuff that gets you.

the_emma1d ago

Wait, you spent a whole day on that? That's brutal. An inside out belt would drive anyone crazy. Makes those three months of pump fighting sound almost normal. The simplest mistakes really do cause the biggest headaches.

theajohnson1d agoProlific Poster

Yeah, wesleyflores is right, it's always the simple stuff. You get so deep into the problem you miss the obvious fix right in front of you. That kind of thing just eats up your whole day for no good reason. Makes you feel like an idiot, but honestly it happens to everyone.