Another extremely successful day of rail cutting. We’ve now got only around 30 rails left to cut which should be easily accomplished over the next couple of days
We will be running a rail train tomorrow, mainly because we really need to clear some rail to give us more room to store all this rail as it gets cut around the Junction.
Meeting tomorrow from 8.15am at Maldon Junction.
Another extremely successful day of rail cutting. We’ve now got only around 30 rails left to cut which should be easily accomplished over the next couple of days
We will be running a rail train tomorrow, mainly because we really need to clear some rail to give us more room to store all this rail as it gets cut around the Junction.
Meeting tomorrow from 8.15am at Maldon Junction.
Rail cutting and stacking, that was the game today.
We’ve re-hired the bandsaw and this time around the boys are so quick, the diggers just can’t keep up with their rate of progress!
We didn’t do an exact stocktake of what we cut today (maybe around 20ish rails, but at least a further 5 with joints were broken which slows the rate a little), but it would appear based on the rate the rail is needing to be fed up the hill, we may come close to getting most of the loose rail cut this week, which is very promising.
We’ll be here doing exactly this for the next three days, so please feel free to come and see what all the fuss is about. From 8.15am at the Junction.
Well today was promised to be an action filled fun experience, it didn’t dissapoint!
The day was almost exclusively devoted to picking up all the steel work and relocating for collection by truck.
We had a very impressive turnout today, with 12 of us on hand for morning tea!
With an even nicer spot found for lunch.
Thankfully having so many allowed for a couple to assist in servicing the little digger and marking up the next rails to be cut. It also meant the crew picking up the jewellery got a small rest between filling the bucket.
As per the rest of the project we’ve separated out the 80lb anchors, but 94lb anchors, plates and spikes have all been piled together for separation at a later date. Here John does the honours of chucking in the last anchors for the day.
Thankfully the big digger and it’s very strong grabs are able to manage the little diggers loaded bucket with ease, while it was out of action being serviced.
This is one of many piles produced today, they seem too small for the enormous amount of work that goes into picking up all the jewellery, but hopefully we can hire a magnet so we don’t need to manually handle these again.
Tomorrow is looking hot, too hot for any significant works, so we’re suggesting to take a day off. We’ll be out towing rail with the diggers, but even that might be given away by lunch time if the heat gets too much (rubber tyres on hot steel rails aren’t the best mix).
Next week will be rail cutting and stacking from Tuesday to Friday, so lots of activity for anyone interested.
