Fishplates

Today, we had a change of pace, collecting around 500 4 hole fishplates from near Dunolly.

These were generously released for our use by RTHV and VLine, as they were otherwise heading for scrap.

Using 5 vehicles and a couple of trips back and fourth, we managed to get everything hand loaded onto pallets.

The telehandler made very light work of the task back at Maldon!

In total 9 pallets were collected, stacked, strapped and transported back to Maldon.

These plates will mean we don’t need to cut quite so many 6 holers down to 4 holers, however we do still need another 1500ish to meet all our needs, but this will be a massive help.

Tomorrow’s work will be back installing sleepers, out by Rifle Range Bridge from 8.30am.