Our charter commitment and devotion is to custom design, engineer, and build your Dredge bow to stern guided by your unique requirements. At Custom Dredge Works, we begin every build by completing an exhaustive analysis of your unique environment, obstacles, production objectives, and preferences balanced against your investment budget to develop a tailored design.

The right tool for the right job. Though you surely may find a solution that costs less, or a dredge that boasts more bells and whistles, experience has shown that inexpensive usually leads to production issues in the field and complicated technology and gadgets can translate into unscheduled shutdowns with long wait times for parts and trained repair technicians. In addition, it is common for many of our competitors to employ proprietary parts and components, which require long-term allegiance. This approach typically results in costlier and time consuming repair and maintenance issues. At Custom Dredge Works we’ll build you the dredge you would build for yourself.

Flexibility, creativity, determination and passion, combined with the courage to
take responsibility and accept ever changing challenges: these are the skills of Custom Dredge Works
people, whatever their specialization.

Engineers, project managers, designers, specialist engineers and individual craftsmen:
the finest professionals with the best credentials to create products to standards of
quality that exceed the sum total of their individual points of excellence.

Custom Dredge Works is a company formed of people who can make valuable contributions from research, to fine tuning designs and production, without ever losing sight of their primary goal of
satisfying Customers.

1. “Built like a tank” Construction: Solid, heavy duty. Extra internal supports, reinforcements, trusses, double and overlapping welds and joints. Socket welds on all hydraulic lines. Rigid quality control inspections and scrutiny. Skilled craftsmen, utilizing the latest fabrication technology.

2. Longevity: Maintained properly, our dredges are designed and built to provide a productive functional lifespan of up to 40 years.

3. Accurate and Predictable Production Capability: Our dredges are very carefully custom designed for each client and application. If the site composition was accurately described, and the dredge Operator is competent, our dredges will consistently perform at or beyond the desired metrics.

4. Minimize Unscheduled Shutdowns: Since time is quite literally money in the world of Dredging, unscheduled shutdowns must be minimized with the length of each occurrence shortened as much as possible. After years of trial & error and common-sense analysis, consistent patterns have emerged as to why unscheduled shutdowns occur. Based on these patterns, our goal is to anticipate, avoid, and shorten shutdowns employing key strategies.

5. Use only “Best-in-Class” O.E.M. off-the-shelf parts: This allows for quick and easy access to local parts dealers in most locations for fast self-maintenance or local certified repairs. The specific OEM brand components used in your customized dredge are determined by you and aligned with your preferences.

6. Utilization of high quality electronic controls: The dredge must be able to operate in the event of a electronic failure. The dredge control systems can operate independent of the PLC or computer control.

7. Redundant non-electric hydraulic controls: Insures continued operation in the event of a PLC or electrical failure.

8. Install only Stainless Steel Hydraulic fluid tanks: Avoids the residue pollutants produced by tank coatings, which inevitably corrupt all hydraulic systems.

9. Back-Up Gearbox Replacement Program: CDW stocks its standard gearboxes, in the event a replacement must be immediately available. CDW can ship new or offer a remanufactured alternative at a more economical cost.

10. Fast deployment of replacement parts: Parts and service crews can be dispatched for emergency projects at a moments notice.

11. Support: Immediate expert telephone support and troubleshooting.

Custom Dredge Works provides three options for powering your dredge:

• Electric Power
• Natural Gas
• Diesel Engine

Each power source provides advantages and disadvantages.  Custom Dredge Works will work closely with you to determine the best power source solution for your operation commensurate with initial Costs, Fuel costs, Maintenance, Ecological impact, Transportability, Noise reduction, Liability, ease of Operation, and Resale Value.