Concretes

Another successful day, yesterday’s small crew managed to get a big head start on the job, which enabled us to get another 124 sleepers installed today.

Lots of pics follow, all pretty usual stuff so not too much commentary.

We’re just about around to the next stockpile, which means we’re about 1/4 of the way towards Donkey Farm Trk.

We did so well sleeper inserting, we had the afternoon free to tidy up – we’ve now used up all the sleepers we’ve distributed beside the track, so unfortunately before we can do any more, we need to drop out many more.

We’ve got quite a system in place now, being a bit further from Maldon, running e everything back with a digger is a bit impractical, so the trusty truck is getting some use.

One of our long running faults has been the headwalls on this little box culvert. Until we replaced the sleepers, there was little point replacing them.

Another couple of droppers and these should last the life of this culvert now hopefully – the culvert is really a little undersized but it’s only a very small issue on rare occasions so next time the timber needs renewal, we’ll build a slightly bigger one.

It’s been a busy week, a total of 232 sleepers installed, given our slightly different arrangements this year and only having a 4 day work week, rather than 5, we’re extremely happy with the progress.

Monday’s crew will be on the exciting job of preparing and dropping out sleepers, meeting at Maldon 8am or on site from 8.30am.