Chainsawing gravel

[bcp]

 

[dragoneggs]

Holy crap! Very cool but I don't understand what they are trying to accomplish? Thanks for sharing and please elaborate.

 

[tcartwri]

Jeeze, I'm going to have some vivid nightmares tonight.....

 

[Baby Grand]

I think it's prepping the road bed to replace ties & ballast without cutting the rails?
Careful with that axe, Eugene!

 

[Bob Rooks]

That's really doing it the hard way. When the rails and ties were replaced by my cabin (switches included), they had a machine that would literally lift the track while at the same time pushing down on the tie, popping the spikes out, and then just spit the old tie out the side. There was another machine that installed the new ties and compacted the ballast. Got pics of it somewhere.

 

[bcp]

Holy crap! Very cool but I don't understand what they are trying to accomplish? Thanks for sharing and please elaborate.

Here is a page about the undercutter alone:

Undercutting - Off-Track Undercutters - Hulcher Services, Nationwide Railroad Contractor

That's really doing it the hard way. When the rails and ties were replaced by my cabin (switches included), they had a machine that would literally lift the track while at the same time pushing down on the tie, popping the spikes out, and then just spit the old tie out the side. There was another machine that installed the new ties and compacted the ballast. Got pics of it somewhere.

And a page about the integrated machine than undercuts, cleans, and replaces the ballast.

Balfour Beatty Rail, Inc. - Ballast Undercutting Services

Bruce