In the spring an old man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of boating (sorry, Alfred). Last spring saw repair of our east dock and with a light winter and gentle melting of the river ice it appears to be solid as ever and ready for another season on Daydream Believer. This picture is from last year - we're a long way from being ready to splash; for one thing, the river is VERY low.Two years ago, however, the ice significantly tipped our west dock and this is the year to deal with that. Ice tipped the outer pier off its rock footing and the whole outer half of the dock was on abou
t a 30 degree angle. Fortunately, the entire structure was constructed with screws so dismantling was just a matter of keeping the batteries charged on the portable drills. Yesterday I removed most of the decking and today I removed the 6X6 stringers and began to take the pier apart. A quick trip to my welder-man for new pier rods and a new pier will take shape.Then the stringers and the de
cking and the staving.
3 comments:
Are those pictures from yesterday? Looks like spring!!
It is definitely spring here, and has been for several weeks. All the snow is gone, and winter coats and boots are packed away. I suspect Mother Nature has a surprise up her sleeve for us, though -- she's tricky!
Pictures of the broken dock are this year.
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