Sorting

It was just that sort of day.

Great fun was had at Muckleford, separating a big pile of various steel goodies combined with mud, ballast and general mess.

It was all in aid of getting more sleeper plates onto pallets ready for the next leg near Boundary Track.

However, the great innovation of today was the sorting table! It took us a few incarnations to get right, however we’re now very happy with it.

It holds a bucket’s worth of stuff to sort and can be easily scraped underneath to remove the ballast/dirt mixture. We also found if this is scraped out regularly, you can easily recover anything that might fall through without much scratching around.

As well as cleaning and stacking 6 pallets worth of plates, we’ve separated all the smaller items into discrete piles, which will make collection later a much easier task! We’re quite happy with this contraption and no doubt we’ll be back doing this next Friday, to get any more plates – once we’ve dropped out this lot and recovered the pallets.

Tuesday’s workday will be dropping these out, starting at Boundary Trk from 8.15am, no need to meet at Maldon.