Following on from last week’s big effort to place all the remaining biscuits out between Pipeline Crossing and Donkey Farm Track (pics below) – today saw us begin the clipping up with an item of hired equipment.
It all went very much to plan, with the Down Leg clipped up all the way and the UP leg approximately half clipped up.
The item is a hydraulic Fastclip install / extract device that mounts to a power pack – we have power packs but can’t really justify the expense of a head, hence the short term hire.
We hired this through Kennards Hire (Rail Division) in Melbourne – a shoutout to them is deserved as they did look after us on the hire price and collection time – thanks Kennards.
We even grabbed a couple of videos to show the exciting action! It’s a fancy squeezer.
In essence working this way will allow us to clip up 1000 sleepers in less than 2 days – far far quicker than we could by hand.
Tomorrow’s should see this knocked over very comfortably.
Thursday’s Workday (24th July)
Frosty was Thursday – very frosty.
The task was to pop in these biscuits – typically requiring the sleeper to be aligned / moved / lifted etc…
That was comfortably completed on Thursday and the afternoon was spent marking up Old Broken Sleepers as free to anyone willing to come and collect.
We’ve popped a note at the piles indicating we would appreciate a donation to help support our efforts.
Tomorrow’s crew (Tuesday 29th July) will doing more clipping up – starting again at Pipeline crossing – this time heading along the UP leg until completed.
It’s very likely that we’ll not have a workday on Thursday as we’ve got a Driver Experience Train operating the full length of the Railway.
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