Sleepers

Nothing too earth shattering today, just more of the same, however we did manage a power of work, clipping up the remaining 150 odd sleepers in curve 19, before tackling a further 80 sleepers getting us into Curve 18.

It was all going like clockwork… until it wasn’t, when the little digger had a hose blow down by the main boom pin. This is very much a symptom of age unfortunately and given this one has gone, the others are probably only a matter of time away, we’ve got enough parts now to do a repair tomorrow that’ll keep us going for a while at least. It’ll be an enormous job to replace all those hoses, as they run back to the main valve block, meaning more or less a full strip down in that region just to gain access.

After a cuppa, the big digger was called in to substitute, it does the job sort of, with much less finesse and about half the pace. It’s real time to shine is the heavy lifting.

Using the big machine we managed to get half the extra 80 sleepers under and clipped up, leaving only 40 to go tomorrow, which should be very comfortable, even if we’re delayed repairing the little one.

Meeting on site from 8am tomorrow (by the 87 mile post).