Mill Covered Bridge April Progress

 

Saturday, 25 Mar 2000 - Hi Joe,

We had to go up to Canada to put some finishing touches on the Safari route. We also found out that Coaticook, Canada has a covered bridge, not listed in the Guide. It was damaged by the same floods that damaged the Montgomery,VT bridges a few years ago. They completely rebuilt it.

On the way back we stopped in Tunbridge and found them working on the new covered bridge. They had just started work on it on Monday. They have one truss laid out and I saw them install two counter braces. It looks like they are doing a great job. The Truss is of western Hemlock and the chords are Southern yellow pine. The foreman said that they were going to use native Hemlock, but Phil Pierce upped the dimensions, and they had to go west to get the size.

The picture was taken the 24th.
Dick Wilson (rjwil@borg.com)