Yep, well the digger is certainly broken, we think we’ve narrowed it down to the slew pinion, unfortunately inspecting it proved to be impossible without removing the slew motor, it’s now loose and tomorrow will involve the removal and inspection.
Despite not having a formal workday, a lot was still achieved, with various odd jobs, including mowing some of the overgrowth, poisoning some weeds, collecting gluts, replacing a trolley wheel and generally assisting with the digger.
At this stage we’re extremely unlikely to have the digger back in action this week, so we’ll still have workdays, but they’ll focus very much on odd jobs around Maldon Yard, meeting there from 8am on Thursday.
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