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Here's a time lapse of our nature bridge being built.
Major Progress on the Nature Bridge
We got a lot done on the bridge on Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th. Here's Art Tuftee applying the torchdown on top of the glulams.
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Jerry Granahan drills a hole through the glulam.
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With the glulams in place and attached to the concrete footings we were ready to begin attaching the railings on Saturday. By the end of the day we had attached almost all of the railings.
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Next we will add the decking.
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Thanks to everyone who turned out and we hope to see you at our next session on Friday August 10th and 9:00am.
Beams for the Nature Bridge Are Placed
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Art Tuftee has been our project lead on our Nature Trail and Bridge project. This past Friday and Saturday we moved two 36' glulams a quarter of a mile into the bridge site. Moving the glulams one at a time, two Dingos carried each end until they got to a sharp turn in the trail. At this point the glulam had to be detached and muscled around the corner by hand.
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It was then picked up by the Dingos again and moved down the trail to the highline.
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Both ends of the glulam were hooked up to the highline and it was allowed to slowly slide down the line on pulleys.
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Once it was positioned between the bridge footings the glulam was set down and picked up at one point at its middle. This allowed it to be turned so that each end sat at the proper location on the footings.
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Once both of the glulams were in place they were stood on edge and bolted to the footings.
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It was a great weekend of trail work and we're looking forward to continuing work on the bridge this Friday and Saturday, July 27/28.
We'd like to thank Birch Equipment for use of the Dingos and to Hal and Hella Lee for providing lunch on Saturday.
We hope to see you on the trail this weekend helping with the bridge!
MVPF Fundraising Raffle
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The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is hosting a raffle to raise funds for projects - Like the new Nature Bridge being built at Little Mountain Park. Here’s the details…
