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Bridgeport Covered Bridge November 2020 Progress Video

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December 13 2020: The Bridgeport Covered Bridge restoration progress.

Herb Lindberg details the December bridge progress:

As in the October Part 1 report, many aspects of the rehabilitation and restoration of the covered bridge across the South Yuba River at Bridgeport, CA are in process here:

  1. Drone camera re-cap of status at the end of October and a birds-eye view of the intensity of activity in the construction yard,
  2. carpenters making final preparations on the four bolster beams and the associated stagger-step portions of the bottom chords; doing final dry-fit assembly of the four framed buttress bridge truss terminations; and chiseling wind brace notches into the four tie beams that will hold the up- and down-river framed buttress posts together
  3. Empire Mine SHP volunteer blacksmiths straightening original tension rods to be re-used in the truss terminus wind brace assemblies,
  4. placing concrete in the south abutment front, rear and wing walls.

Click below to watch the YouTube video titled: November Bridge Progress.

For more information about the Bridgeport Covered Bridge got to: South Yuba River Park Association website.

Our thanks to Will Truax for passing this information along in The Covered Bridge Experience Facebook group.

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