Well, yet another record today, with around 130 concretes inserted and clipped up in tangent 12-13.
It started out chilly, but with a sense of excitement. As today we were able to try out our latest toy! A hydraulic clipper.
The procession of equipment just before we started work.
It was all done in the usual fashion, however only about half the sleepers have been tamped as we had more than enough people to bar up the sleepers.
It was a big learning curve… As can be seen by all the detailed looks and intrigue. It does work very well, however it’ll really comes into it’s own when doing both clips at the same time, however we were only doing one at a time today and the gang still thought it was an improvement.
We even setup a trolley with clips, biscuits and tools to streamline the operation.
The beast in action.
Unfortunately it doesn’t really work with the gauger, just too little space for everything, so we only used it on one side. However when it’s re-railing time this machine will be on the job flat chat.
Today’s effort saw the whole tangent completed, with only ballast scraping and tamping to go tomorrow. The next section (next week) will be this short stretch up to Farmers Bridge.
Tomorrow’s crews will also start bundling up the good timber removed, for storage and re-use elsewhere.
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