Editing Dredging (section)

====Backhoe/dipper dredgers====
A backhoe/dipper dredger has a [[backhoe]] like on some [[excavator]]s. A crude but usable backhoe dredger can be made by mounting a land-type backhoe excavator on a [[Pontoon (boat)|pontoon]]. The six largest backhoe dredgers in the world are currently the Vitruvius, the Mimar Sinan, Postnik Yakovlev (Jan De Nul), the Samson (DEME), the Simson and the Goliath (Van Oord).{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} They featured [[barge]]-mounted excavators. Small backhoe dredgers can be track-mounted and work from the bank of ditches. A backhoe dredger is equipped with a half-open shell. The shell is filled moving towards the machine. Usually dredged material is loaded in barges. This machine is mainly used in harbours and other shallow water.<ref name=mechanical/>

'''Excavator dredge attachments'''

The excavator dredge attachment uses the characteristics of cutter-suction dredgers, consisting of cutter heads and a suction pump for transferring material. These hydraulic attachments mount onto the boom arm of an excavator allowing an operator to maneuver the attachment along the shoreline and in shallow water for dredging.