Thursday, November 28, 2019 ” American Thanksgiving ”
It was cool in the morning and the temperature remained slightly above freezing. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the stores were closed and the traffic was extremely light. We were fortunate that Billy sacrificed his Thanksgiving celebrations with his family to help us work on the bridge.
On the way to the job site, I stopped to take a picture of the concrete bridge myself and some youth had helped build in 2017.
When we arrived at the job site, we continued bolting the I-beams, inserted rubber pads under them and welded the ‘ transverse bracing ‘ on the road side of the bridge.
Billy welded a piece of angle iron on the road side of the bridge to hold the wood decking in place and then we attached a roll of felt on the beams for moisture protection, before starting to nail the 2″ x 4″ x 12′ boards on edge, to form the deck.
By the end of the day we had completed a quarter of the deck.
When we arrived back at the campsite, we took showers and then the four of us had supper together . During the evening, we discussed various topics while Esther knitted a blanket.
Ralf Hamm 