To all following the progress of DTRR:
Sorry for not posting any updates lately. With the warm weather moving in, I've been very busy with farm work (we have a very short growing season here in Maine) and that includes pulling out our brooders and taking delivery of 50 meat chicks plus a half dozen pullets (egg laying chicks) to add to our existing flock. Our incubator is full of White Pekin duck eggs, and I have to get the meat bird coop & run ready for when the meat chicks come out of the brooder.
There has been some progress on the railroad though. The spur from the wood lot to our firewood processing area and outdoor wood boiler is the main focus, and the staging/unloading area at the wood boiler end has been cleared, and quite a bit of gravel has been put in place. This will be the first place where rail will be installed.
The backhoe that broke last month is still down, but I have recently had time to get to it and disassembled most of the machine for better access to the broken pivot bracket piece that requires major surgery. I've also removed the broken hydraulic cylinder to make repairs easier.
There will be more significant updates in the near future but probably not with the frequency I reported them during the cold weather months.
