Strange machine

[Mike Fox]

Found this little gadget in France, having previously seen it being repaired when one of the tracks had come off.

 

I know what it is, but I'd love to hear what others think

 

 

[Rob]

Seaweed collector?

[Sam]

there is a similar smaller version at our work site, it is used for cleaning the pond they use for injection freshwater,

 

lillypads/ anything that can block the suction filters,

 

this looks like a heavy duty version

[niggle]

A new way of dragging for ragworm in Holes Bay?

[alun j.]

Oyster farming.....lifting out the baskets in shallow water ??

[gaffa]

Sorry Mike....I cheated ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yUNwq-Qu3Q

 

Seems a very expensive and innefficient way of picking up and off loading a few strands of weed to me

 

Much better if they got rid of the rake and fitted it with a combined ragworm trawl and a sandeel and shrimp net   could make a few bucks with one of those at low tide

[Mike Fox]

I should have said no Googling....sighhhhhhh

 

This means that the stunning prize of a brand new self-tuning air guitar in a colour of your choice should really have gone to Rob, but now the competition is null and void.

 

Saw it in Carteret. The sandy bottomed river bed there often has the side opposite the town covered in weed, which rots and attracts flies, and smells like rotten eggs at low tide. Not great for a seasidey town. The device was being used to rake the weed up, and transport it back across the river bed for disposal ashore.

[gaffa]

Well Done Rob

Make sure you  fit new strings and tune it correctly before you use it.

Maple is nice?