Work Weekend Scheduled in the Nash Stream Forest

Join T.C.T.A. for a work weekend scheduled in the Nash Stream Forest for June 4-5, 2011

The Rowells Brook Bridge HAS to be rebuilt. Nothing is more important
than that.

If there are enough people, we'll break out into two crews to do
different things.
If you're interested, please email ahead at cohos@cohostrail.org to let us know you're coming, which days or both, and whether you're staying overnight at Kamp Kirk.  Send emails to the attention of Kim Nilsen, subject:  Nash Stream Project.

Things to bring: x-tra socks and boots, water, snacks, warm clothing, gloves, & hat.  If you're staying overnight Saturday accomodations are free, just bring a sleeping bag & pillow.  Tools needed for the job: 1 average chainsaw with gas and oil, 1 log shave (I have one), 1 ax, 3
or 4 good hammers, 2 wrecking bars with claw & 1 shovel - lopers and a bow saw if you have them. 

The Project in Detail:
Improving the Rowell Brook bridge (two miles from the Christine Lake Road in the south
eastern quadrant of the Nash Stream Forest).
The project should take an average work day, including walking in and walking out, depending if
we have no less than three people on hand. It would be great if we could attract five or six folks
to assist.

There are two parts to the project. The downstream log stringer absolutely has to be replaced.
But since we would have to pry up the deck on the bridge to remove the stringer, we might as
well replace both stringers while we are at it. That means that two modest-sized trees have to be
taken down, limbed, cut to length, peeled of their bark, and moved into position. The foundation
support cross timbers probably will have to be replaced on each end. We’ll do that, too.

The second part of the project is disassembling the bridge carefully and then reassembling it
once we have the new stringers in place.