Spiking

The success story today was that we’ve now completed drilling and spiking to Rifle Range Bridge, however we broke the digger again – it must have been a Thursday, always on a Thursday!

The high / low range gear selector keeps jumping out of gear, it’s had an issue for years not always meshing correctly, but today it decided to just not mesh at all. Anyway, a ratchet strap onto the selector arm held it there well enough to get it to Maldon, hopefully it’s just the selector mechanism itself, as the gearbox portion behaves perfectly once its actually into high or low, so fingers crossed easy fix, but… let’s not get too hopeful, unfortunately with the age of the machine, these things are likely to keep cropping up.

We divided our attention instead to trimming 6 hole fishplates into 4 holes, same as previous but this time using a cordless band saw, a great improvement! We’ll cover that in greater detail tomorrow, as that’s what we’ll be doing.

Meeting approx 200m on the UP side of Bendigo Road Crossing in Maldon from 8am.