The Aquamog CCX-238 Cutting a New Channel Through a Dense Cattail Area
October 28th, 2009
This article is about the Aquamog CCX in action. The machine is great for creating channels or removing unwanted cattail plants from lakes. This is by far the quickest and most effective Aquamog when it comes to just emergent aquatic weeds and cattail control. Where other Aquamogs need to many attachments to do the same work, the Aquamog ccx just digs right in to create new cleared water.
The Aquamog CCX with its two independent cutter blades in the front of the barge can remove cattails to a depth of three feet. The blades move the vessel as well as do the root removal job. Removingthe roots can cut down on re-growth in the area.
When the roots are removed they remain on the surface of the water and are than easily picked up and removed from the water body using an aquatic weed harvester. The harvester moves the plant material to the shoreline for final placement and/or off site landfill.
Cattails are a good plant that have alot purposes in nature. Cattails provide filtering of nutrients and some heavy metals from the water, as well as provide homes for birds and other wildlife.
But, if not properly maintained they can quickly turn into a large water plant issues that can be very difficult and costly to handle. Thus the Aquamog CCX was made.
The Aquamog was created in the early 1980s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family formed AU in the 70’s. Both Tom and Dave McNabb developed the Aquamog brand and line of equipment through out the 1980’s and 1990s 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, California have been working together on the Aquamog CCX project for about 10 years and in February 2009 the Aquamog CCX-238 was welcomed into into the “Mog” line.
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