Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Okay now for starters remember this is SPRING break. The first 2 pictures show what happened Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Tuesday it was cold but that didn't stop Jim and his friend Carl Werner from heading out to Jim's blind to start work on the bridge Jim has been planning for ages. They cut the 15' long cedar pieces and got them in place.


This is the finished bridge. Don and Jim finished the assembly work, split with a chain saw the planks you see and nailed everything together with galvanized 7" spikes.

As you can see it holds the 4-wheeler just fine and will be able to handle all the deer Jim and Tom can haul out of there in the future. It was a huge job and they worked really hard on it. Also shored up Jim's blind, made a new ladder so he can get into it easily, cleared some additional lanes for Don or maybe just extended them. Hopefully one of them will expand on that or you can ask them.

Also we need a first aid kit at the cabin. Don attempted to amputate his leg with the chain saw however he must have tough knee caps because it ended up not being as serious as the clothing rips and blood indicated! The only thing we had to doctor it up with was lighter fluid and a couple of bandages that were not even suitable for a paper cut. He is doing fine and hopefully took care of it when he arrived home this afternoon.

As for me I read a lot and learned 4 days at the cabin is my limit! We were there 5.