Trout Brook Bridge - Official Work Thread

[Wayne Laepple]

Sorry, no bootleg Yuengling this year. I am not attending the FWW as I am recovering from heart surgery. hope to see everyone next spring!

[John Kokas]

Sorry to hear that Wayne.  Get better soon - I know it's a long road back as I'm still on that road myself. 

Well with that update, please forward ALL Yuengling and Original Moxie orders to me before Sept. 30th.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Get well soon, Wayne.

Jeff S.

[Brendan Barry]

Today we installed the diagonals and tension rods on the outrigger beams and rolled one of the temporary bridges out from underneath the bridge.

Upstream side of the bridge.





Temporary bridge rolling out to the left of the picture.



Using the temporary bridge to install the diagonals and tension rods on the downstream side.

[Bill Reidy]

As always, thanks Brendan for the photos for us away folks.

Wayne -- sorry we won't see you Columbus Day weekend.  We wish a speedy recovery for you!

[Gordon Cook]

Unless there was some magic or I'm just missing it, the bridge was jacked up and the dollys and tongue disappeared at some point before the last batch of pictures. When did that happen?

[Mike Fox]

Gordon, wheels are still there. Look in the bottom photo, on top of the bent between the trusses.

[James Patten]

We have some really clever people working for us.  I would never have thought to use the temp bridge to attach the outrigger tension rods.

[Ed Lecuyer]

I would never have thought to use the temp bridge to attach the outrigger tension rods.

I had the same thought. Now I wonder how they attached the outriggers to the west (upstream) side of the bridge?

[Paul Uhland]

James, Ed...I was about to say the same thing.
Devilishly clever are they!
Wonder what's next?? 

[Bill Baskerville]

I was wondering if the sky hook was going to be used to put some brave volunteer on the outriggers to shinny out to connect the diagonals and tension rods.

As Boris would tell Natasha “Those clever Mainers know how to do things “.

[Philip Marshall]

Get well soon, Wayne! You will be missed.

[Bob Holmes]

Well Ed and Bill, it did take some rather daredevil antics by Brendan and Steve L to put the upstream braces in place.  The crane lifted the diagonals, and Brendan and Steve maneuvered some crazy scaffolding, including straddling the support beams, to nudge them in place.  By contrast, the downstream side was a piece of cake!

[Gordon Cook]

Thanks, Mike. I assume then that the bridge is not in its final resting place yet.
Another question, how did you get to the top of the diagonals and tension rod to attach those? Was the sheathing left off there?

[Bill Baskerville]

Gawdon,
The sheathing was put on after the diagonals and tension rods. Hence, when they were removed in the parking lot there was an appropriately sized hole into which they were reinstalled.