Dogspikes

It was a bit of a long boring day, however all dogspikes are now driven in (into holes drilled yesterday and today), all the way from Boundary Trk to Rifle Range Bridge, along the UP leg. Just all of the other leg and then down to Brown Street to go!

The plan was to use the excavator to tamp up the section Boundary Trk to Sawmill Rd, while the spiking was occurring. However, the tamper had other ideas, deciding after about 20mins in that one it’s tynes would rather crack off its weld and stop working. If it’s not one thing it’s another!!!

Once that was done, collecting the old timber sleepers was undertaken between Sawmill Rd and Boundary Trk, with a little more to go, then it’ll look quite neat and tidy again.

The offending part is now down at the Castlemaine workshop for repair when they get time.

The digger was instead diverted to dropping out concrete sleepers from Boundary Trk down the hill until we ran out, approximately 160 were dropped out and roughly another 100 are needed to finish down to Rifle Range, however there are plenty there now to keep us busy for a good while, however we do need to complete the spiking of the down leg first.

At the end of the day, we ran the digger through to Muckleford, so we can begin sorting through the piles of mess to collect enough sleeper plates to do the down leg next week, we’ll be setting us a sieve table to hopefully help reduce the back breaking bending over. Meeting at Muckleford from 8.15am.