Dock Raising Work Day Report, Jan 28, 2006

We had 12 members present for the work day. We did not get as much done as I expected. (It is not unusual for me to expect that I can do a job is much less time than it actually takes.) We finished about 15 feet of main dock and two finger piers, and pulled nails and stacked the old lumber which is good enough to use for some future project. The finger piers took longer than expected because Bob Horan and Mike Bragg had to do a lot of the work sitting in a jon boat. It took about 4 hours to do the first one. We must have learned a lot because it took only about 2 hours to do the second. The rest of the main dock is going to be a little more complicated. It looks like some of the nails holding the old stringers have pulled loose and some of the cross bracing is missing. We sill need to reattach the old stringers and replace some of the cross bracing before we add the new stringers and deck boards. A special thangs goes to Arlene Mueller who prepared lunch for the gang. [Click here to see photos of progress.->http://www.OSYC.net/photos/2006-1-28-RaisingDock/page_01.htm]