Thank you Grammie for your lettering. We decided on MS Minnow instead of SS. The barge is not sail powered, it’s muscle powered! Today we’re trimming it out with lines. And we have good progress on the receiving dock. Muscles put to use. Also, thank you again Grammie for eradicating all the poison ivy from […]
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We’re getting close to finishing the barge. Today we’re working on the deck and installing a ‘life line’ around the hull. Ya know, something to grab when you fall off… Now it’s time to start assembling the receiving dock. We have a tradition here (we’ve done it once before) of riding the beams to the […] June 25th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed We had some fiberglass cloth and marine epoxy left over from the sailboat project (All Hail The SEAKING!), so we decided to use it on the barge. It probably wasn’t necessary to glass-in the hull of this thing, but what the heck. It’s not a job for the boys though. It’s a job for Fuddy […] June 18th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed We made a little progress with the barge. We could make a hermetically sealed air chamber for floatation like we did with the sailboat project (All Hail The SEAKING!), but we decided that was an overkill for a barge. We came up with the idea to enclose an innertube under the deck for the same […] June 11th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed A short respite from the world to resume work on the barge bridge project. The crew is starting to assemble the barge itself. They will christen it the “USS Minnow” – they’ve watched Gilligan’a Island… June 4th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed Due to the worldwide pandemic, the barge bridge project is on hold. There’s a sentence I never expected to key into the summer blog. Today I reinstalled the dock swim ladder. That’s an annual thing and I don’t count it against the project, although it will be utilized as part of it. I don’t want […] April 13th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed Today we’re starting on the barge itself. I clamped up a lightweight frame and the boys are putting it together. It’s made of ash and elm. We like to use what grows here and blows down here. We want the barge to be light and float high. Ya know, because of the gator and the […] March 24th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed It’s not technically part of the project, but it will add an element to it. We’re releasing the woodlands gator to the pond! Just working through the punch list while we’re all self-interned… […] March 17th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed Today we’re just kind of mocking-up the receiving dock. It’ll have to be assembled in situ since it weighs about 500 lbs. It’s ‘green’ black locust fresh from the sawmill. Next up: the barge! March 12th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed Today we’re bolting stuff together and learning the principle of triangular bracing for structural rigidity. If it gets any more academic around here, we’ll be integrating the area under a curve… March 10th, 2020 | Category: Barge Bridge | Comments are closed |
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