Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Bolting in the joists
Are landscape timbers suitable for joining pontoons? Are they too heavy? Will they rot?
Shut up with those annoying questions and get moving. That seemed to be our credo.
Pontoons
On May 17, Terry and I shelled out $400 -- our major capital outlay -- to procure two 24-ft pontoons from Karl B. of Highland Park. Karl, a contractor, was kind enough to deliver the pontoons to the Camden launch where we met him, unloaded the pontoons, and towed them down river to our shipyard. Karl threw in, gratis, six sheets of treated plywood and a transom -- all of which proved useful.
Let the scrounging begin
Tim W. inspects some landscape timbers tangled up in the log jam at the Port of Minneapolis. Eventually, Terry and I extracted 11 8-ft timbers, which we used for floor joists.
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