Dredging innovations have taken major steps throughout history. However, the basic design of most clamshell buckets in use today have not changed for more than a century. When we, at Cable Arm, ask ourselves how we can improve the clamshell design, we answer with a product that surpasses expectations.
Cable Arm, Inc is constantly innovating based upon job specifications, environmental limits and procedures, and site specific obstacles. Therefore, all of our buckets are individually costomized and built to order.
Reduce time, cut costs, and minimize re-suspension throughout your entire excavation process. Whether you're confined to a tight location or need to cover a vast surface area, have deep or shallow depth targets, include sloped surface areas, or have rigid environmental parameters, Cable Arm clamshells and ClamVision positioning software can provide the best solutions for your dredging needs.

Dredging innovations have taken major steps throughout history. However, the basic design of most clamshell buckets in use today have not changed for more than a century. When we, at Cable Arm, ask ourselves how we can improve the clamshell design, we answer with a product that surpasses expectations.
Cable Arm, Inc is constantly innovating based upon job specifications, environmental limits and procedures, and site specific obstacles. Therefore, all of our buckets are individually costomized and built to order.
Reduce time, cut costs, and minimize re-suspension throughout your entire excavation process. Whether you're confined to a tight location or need to cover a vast surface area, have deep or shallow depth targets, include sloped surface areas, or have rigid environmental parameters, Cable Arm clamshells and ClamVision positioning software can provide the best solutions for your dredging needs.

Cable Arm's ClamVision software, is a fully integrated dredge positioning system. ClamVision gives crane operators a real time view of the barge and clamshell bucket positions as they exist over the dredging project.
ClamVision displays a 3D, color coded surface derived from existing hydrographic survey data. Each bite is also recorded and color coded based on bite depth or bites left. Deeper bites cover more shallow bites for easier viewing. To further help the operator, an information box provides instant feedback showing current depth, final project depth, target depth, and current bucket depth.

Projects requiring uniform removal over a specified area can be difficult for some dredging systems. (Ex. the bottom is constantly sloping and the specifications call for 1 ft of material to be removed throughout.) ClamVision has a separate mode specifically for these situations. In this mode, color is no longer directly tied to depth, but is tied to the “distance to completion."