The Aquamog CCX-238 Cutting a New Channel Through a Dense Cattail Zone
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | Great Sites
This post is about the Aquamog CCX in action. The machine is ideal for creating channels or getting rid of unwanted cattail growth from lakes. This is by far the quickest and most effective Aquamog when it comes to only emergent aquatic plants and cattail control. Where other Aquamogs need to separate attachments to do the same work, the Aquamog ccx just digs right in to make new open water.
The Aquamog CCX with its two independent cutter blades in the front of the barge can uproot cattails to a depth of three feet. The blades move the machine as well as do the root removal work. Getting rid ofthe roots limits re-growth in the area.
Once the roots are removed they float on top of the water and are than easily picked up and removed from the water body using an aquatic plant harvester. The harvester takes the vegetation to the shoreline for final placement and/or off site dump.
Cattails are a good plant that serves a lot functions in nature. Cattails provide filtering of nutrients and some heavy metals from wetlands, as well as provide nesting for birds and other wildlife.
However, if not properly controlled they can quickly turn into a large water weed problems that can be very hard and expensive to handle. That is why the Aquamog CCX was invented.
The Aquamog equipment line was invented in the early 1980s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family formed Aquatics Unlimited in the 1970’s. Both Tom and Dave McNabb created the Aquamog brand and line of machinery throughout the 1980’s and 90’s while with AU. Tom continued the Aquamog line into the new century with the addition of the MarshMog. Tom’s new company Clean Lakes, Inc. (www.cleanlake.com) located in Martinez, California and Dave’s company DK Environmental (www.dkenvironmental.com) in Lafayette, CA have been working together on the Aquamog CCX project for about 10 years and in February 2009 the Aquamog CCX was welcomed into into the Aquamog family.