Recently while at the zoo in New Orleans, I saw an unusual boat near the swamp exhibit. It was long and narrow with an enclosed hull. It had a V8 engine aft, and a drive shaft inside of the hull; which powered what looked like a four-blade cutter in front of the boat. It even had a small console for the steering wheel. I was fascinated with this craft, and would have liked to have learned more about it; but I had to tend to my wife, who was ailing from low blood sugar. Has anyone seen one of these boats?
What kind of boat is this?
- Thread starter grubdog
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Maybe a crawfish boat?
used in the rice fields for harvesting crawfish
they are typically bateaus with the motor in back and a hydraulic driven wheel in the front that is foot operated (like a trolling motor) for direction and speed
there are as many variations as there are crawfish in the swamp but here's one style
used in the rice fields for harvesting crawfish
they are typically bateaus with the motor in back and a hydraulic driven wheel in the front that is foot operated (like a trolling motor) for direction and speed
there are as many variations as there are crawfish in the swamp but here's one style
seedtick
No thank you. I don't like going any faster than my Bumble Bee bass boat will. I bet that 35hp would be a trip! It is only 7 times the horse power rating of my boat. If the Coast Guard gets bent out of shape over the lack of a little number what would they think about that.
beekeeper
No thank you. I don't like going any faster than my Bumble Bee bass boat will. I bet that 35hp would be a trip! It is only 7 times the horse power rating of my boat. If the Coast Guard gets bent out of shape over the lack of a little number what would they think about that.
beekeeper
Beekeeper,
Personally. . . I think the Twin 23hp Vanguard mite be a little more fun for ya's. . . . . .
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Personally. . . I think the Twin 23hp Vanguard mite be a little more fun for ya's. . . . . .
:lol: :lol: :lol:
I need to find a book about the different boats from the south, especially swamp boats; I think that it would really be an interesting read.
That Swamp Bulldozer looks like a rough and rugged swamp crawler. Would an air boat be better in that environment?
in the rice field environment, you need to crawl from trap to trap and to be precisely positioned to pick up the trap without having to get out of the boat.
Airboats do neither one of those things very well, plus they're awful noisy
Airboats do neither one of those things very well, plus they're awful noisy
seedtick said:
Doesn't that contraption tear up the rice?? Or do you do the crayfish farming in the off season...?
I obviously know very little about rice or crayfish farming. In Eastern Arkansas, where my mother is from, they grow a heck of a lot of rice. I've seen the fields and the levees and so forth, but never spent enough time out there to really learn anything.
George
Rice-crawfish farmers in the South generally stock rice fields with 50 to 60 pounds of adult crawfish per acre at permanent flood in June, when rice is 8 to 10 inches high. The crustaceans burrow underground when the farmers drain fields and harvest rice in late August or September. The farmers then fertilize and flood the stubble in October to ratoon or regrow as forage. Crawfish emerge from their burrows about a day after ponds are flooded. Newly hatched crawfish, attached to the underside of females' tails, grow to market size in 90 to 120 days.
I can tell you that if you tried to run that contraption into a Japanese rice paddy, a LOT of samurai swords would all of a sudden come out of hiding. Digging up their rice is like tossing a lit cigarette out around all the unpainted, dry-wood houses. They'd be all over you like a duck on a June bug.
So when you are in there working the traps, there isn't any rice to tear up. That's interesting.
Thanks, 'Tick.
GBinGA
Thanks, 'Tick.
GBinGA