We’d had a successful week so far, a further few hundred concrete sleepers have been dropped off trackside and distributed.

We’ve now got the little digger back on action and from tomorrow we’ll be back into replacing failed timber sleepers near Rifle Range Bridge.

There isn’t a great need to meet at Maldon, so if we meet out at Rifle Range Bridge from 8.30am we should hopefully get a hundred or so sleepers in tomorrow.

Today saw another few hundred sleepers drop out in piles beside the track up past the old tip crossing. Tomorrow’s gang will meet at Maldon at 8am or out on site from 8.15am where those sleepers will be distributed trackside and a few more fishplates will be trimmed from 6 home down to 4 hole.

Today was a big day of moving and stacking concrete sleepers.

Approximately 300 low profiles were taken out to near Rifle Range Bridge.

A good number were then distributed trackside, ready for insertion later next week, hopefully when the little digger is back in action, just waiting on a couple of hydraulic fittings now.

The afternoon, between showers, was spent loading full profiles at Maldon onto the civil wagons, which have now been placed in 3 road at Maldon to keep them handy, while out of the way.

Tuesday’s workday is likely to involve distributing these sleepers trackside out past Bendigo Road again, however check back Monday for confirmation.

Unfortunately, we got a little distracted with another small telehandler issue today, so we forgot to grab any pics. However, it wasn’t an overly eventful day.

We’ve bundled removed timber sleepers Boundary Trk to the end of the curve. Installed about 12 additional concrete sleepers out on the straight to Rifle Range before needing to go and fix the telehandler’s issue – heavy corrosion on a couple of fuse blades (the fuses themselves were fine, hence intermittent fault in making a connection). The result seems to now work without any hesitation. However, we’ll not say we definitely fixed it just yet!

We did a fair portion of trialling and playing with fastclip type concrete sleepers in 80lb, we’ve definitely come up with an excellent method now – just took us a good few hours!

Tomorrow’s weather is not look marvellous, however we need to get sleepers out to near Rifle Range Bridge, so that’s what we’ll do, rain or shine, meeting there from 8.30am.