riley43•2d agoTop Commenter

Put a sand pump on my dredge and the difference was night and day

I spent about 6 months running my old setup with just a standard suction nozzle and it worked fine for soft stuff but anything with gravel or clay would clog me up constantly. Last spring I finally swapped to a proper sand pump from a guy out of Baton Rouge and I could clear the same amount of material in half the time. The suction is way more consistent and I don't have to stop every 15 minutes to clear a blockage. My back thanks me too since I barely have to fiddle with the nozzle anymore. You lose a little bit of fine material compared to the old method but the speed gain makes up for it ten times over. Has anyone else made that switch and noticed the same thing with wear on the pump impeller?

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wendyprice2d ago

Wear on the impeller? That's the price you pay.

the_jessica2d ago

Oh man, tell me about it. I had a jet pump that ate an impeller in less than a year because I kept running it with a little bit of debris in the tank. Ngl, I was too stubborn to break down the system and clean it out properly, so that wear just kept getting worse. Honestly, you learn the hard way that you gotta stay on top of maintenance or you'll be shelling out for parts way sooner than you planned.

wells.olivia13h agoMost Upvoted

My buddy did the same thing, ended up replacing two impellers in one year.