Sleepers

We had quite a successful week, installing an additional 160 concrete sleepers towards the Bridge.

An excellent start was made on Tuesday, with 60 inserted and clipped up.

Wednesday saw the remaining 60 inserted and timber sorted/bundled. Making for a very productive morning on Thursday of clipping up.

So productive an extra 40 were installed.

All pretty standard stuff and we’re getting reasonably quick with the big digger now, certainly not as efficient but we’re comfortably achieving 160 a week without any great panics.

The only difference is the use of the tamping head to complete the job, the grab control while adequate for the clipping up, just isn’t quite firm enough, this takes a little extra time but it’s not onerous.

We’re now about half way to the bridge, and it feels like we’re making good progress now.

Next week will be more of the same, we’ve got 4 clear days next week, so we may even achieve a few more than 160 sleepers, however Monday will require a few sleepers being dropped out. Meeting at Maldon 8am or out on site from 8.30am