Sleepers

Thursday last week did see some success using the big digger for sleepers, we managed 100 across our two workdays, which was about 60 less than we’d normally achieve, however it got us out of the curve and into the straight, with the bridge in sight.

It was a frosty start, but glorious sunny day.

It was much the same as always, however our sleeper trench apparatus was dusted off, as its much quicker and controllable than just using the grabs.

Plenty of time was spent jacking and squeezing, however this digger doesn’t squeeze anywhere near as firmly so we’ll need to come back with the tamping head to finish this off.

After a good tidy up, it came up looking quite snazzy.

Before we can do much more we need to move concrete sleepers down as we’re almost out of dropped out sleepers. This week will see this sort of work with no sleepers installed, given the weather is not looking great either workdays might end up a bit quieter than usual.

Monday we’ll be at Maldon all day, however from morning tea of Tuesday we’ll hopefully be back out on site moving sleepers.