Lineside mowing and trimming

We had all the toys out for a play today, with the aim being to reduce the lineside grass and remove a few bits of foul foliage.

The area between Boundary Trk and Rifle Range Bridge had lots of little bits of foliage that were close or hitting trains, so these have been removed and left in the bush to help give a bit of habitat.

The flail mower was off working closer to Castlemaine and the difference down that was is very impressive.

We even tackled a rather messy area of gorse and blackberry, using the ever so delicate rip method we’ve become quite good at.

All these items have been loaded into the tipper and taken to Muckleford for disposal tomorrow.

In amongst all this, quite a bit of whipper snipping has been done around Winters Flat Bridge and the crossing. We’ve got a bit more to go tomorrow but we’re looking pretty good.

The fire restrictions come in Monday and we’ve got a bonfire heap at Muckleford to burn tomorrow ahead of that. As such we’ll be meeting at Maldon briefly around 7.45am, then down by Winters Flat Bridge for a little more mowing, then hopefully we’ll make our way through to Muckleford around 10am.