park.robin•5d agoProlific Poster

Spotted a dredge in a very odd place last week

I was driving through this little town in central Oregon, Prineville, and saw a small cutterhead dredge just sitting in a field next to a gas station. No water for miles. It looked like it had been there a while, just parked on the dirt. My buddy with me said, 'Guess they're dredging for gravel now.' Has anyone else ever seen a dredge in a spot that made zero sense?

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sageross5d ago

Maybe it's a new kind of land yacht. Your buddy's guess is as good as any.

betty_price145d ago

Oh man, that reminds me of a huge excavator I saw just sitting in a suburban parking lot in Arizona. I asked around and it turned out the construction company went bust and just left it. They finally hauled it away after like six months.

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rowanellis4d ago

Wait, did they just leave the keys in it or something? I always wonder who ends up with the legal mess when a company ditches equipment like that. Like, did the city have to pay to move it, or did some scrap guy finally get a freebie? That's a wild thing to just abandon.