From Crossing to Crossing, we’re now all clipped up! In reality, by morning tea, we were all clipped up. This method did prove to be quite efficient – although we have discovered once everything is nicely squeezed up, the jaws of the digger are just as effective as the power pack – but for not very much money we got to give it a very good test drive.
The morning, however, was quite foggy and chilly, but we didn’t let that dampen our spirits too much.
Once done, we did need to do a follow up run to fix anything the machine didn’t get right or ones it could reach (which can happen in odd cases) – this was a very easy process that took very little time.
We’d completed bits of this yesterday so once we’d finished in the curve, it was job done and off to Donkey Farm Track we went.
Once there, the temporary speed boards that were at pipeline crossing were cascaded to there new home and installed.
We spent some time breaking up the old timber – which makes its removal much easier.
We even found the time to give the drains the bit of a clean out at both crossings.
Given how successful we have been this week – we’re going to celebrate by calling off workdays on Wednesday and Thursday this week – we’ve got a few repairs to effect and some other odd jobs to catch up on.
We’ll be back in action next week, with everything running as Normal Monday through to Thursday – it’ll be a bit of an odd job week – as we’ve still got some tidying up to complete the job and some extra stuff up towards Castlemaine that we can’t ignore forever.
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