![]() I designed and built a suction sand dredge for a client in Antigua for their beach resort. A real cutter head barge as in your photos will easily run several million dollars. ![]() The cheapest real river barge suction head (no cutter) dredge will cost at least a quarter of a million dollars. A small dredge will cost at least your budget for a home made piece-o-junk that will only work for a few weeks or months if you are lucky. That’s okay, so am I, but you got to smell the coffee. You have no budget to build a marina, nor do you have the understanding of the environmental issues that you will encounter and here you want to build a dredge to create a channel? You are a dreamer. Your ecology might dictate that you run a dredge 24,7,52, forever to keep silt out of a small channel. You have no idea how much mud moves within a river system. You are in no position to build a dredge.you need to talk to a professional coastal engineer in your area.
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