Well, after a slightly less than successful week last week, digger wise anyhow, today has actually been very successful, with the little digger now fixed (turned out to be a very simple bit of gunk in the way of the selector cylinder), however we would appreciate some credit for the impressive piece of engineering we did on Thursday to keep the digger in gear! Ratchet straps always a handy toolbox item!
And on the big digger front, its new slew reduction gearbox is now in and fitted! It arrived on Friday, and we’ve wasted no time getting it installed. We ran out of time to connect up the hoses today, but we’ll get to that tomorrow or Wednesday, give it a good test and then send it back into the field to do another 20 years of work!
Friday’s last minute workday was quite successful too, with around 100 fishplates removed, shortened and reinstalled.
It’s not a lot of fun, but it’ll save us hours of work when it comes to resleepeeing.
We’re now well past Bendigo Road with this, approximately 1/3 of the way along this rather long straight.
Tomorrow’s workday, however, we’ll be back at Boundary Trk, meeting at Maldon from 7.45am or out on site from 8.15am. We’ll select the precise job based on the weather in the morning. It’ll either be dropping out more sleeper plates or installing concrete sleepers. Fun either way.
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