Tuesday Report

 Today's report will be relatively brief, as most of what I have to report is more of the same.

I got a lot more of the tack molding on the north side cleaned up, at least 3/4 of the way.

And I removed another ventilator, along with nails and screws and lots of canvas.

Here Gerry checks out what the roof structure looks like.  Two short boards were replaced (at Wheaton, I'm pretty sure) for some reason.  Perhaps a pole came loose and hit the roof?

Next, we can see that John has been making good progress on the roof of the 306:

He wasn't here because his wife is in hospital.  We certainly all wish her a speedy recovery.

Gerry was doing more welding on the end of the 1808.  This is all the steel work the bumper needs; next will be a layer of wood, followed by more steel.

Here Tim and Gerry are discussing what needs to be done next.

You know, I actually received a complaint from a long-time reader that we're not seeing enough pictures of Tim in the process of doing something.  Well, we can fix that.  Ponder how much of this corner post has rotted out and is missing.  Luckily, Tim knows just what to do.

The original post was made of poplar (an unusual choice, I should point out) and it's not possible to get poplar in a large enough size for these posts, so it has to be laminated.  That's what he's in the process of doing here.  You'll notice the short piece used as a pattern sitting in front of the new boards.

This perhaps makes it a little clearer.

And he has been using the department's biscuit cutter to install biscuits.  They ensure that the works don't slide relative to each other when glue is applied.

I hope that's satisfactory, at least for today.  Just don't ask to see pictures of Tim riding his bicycle at 60 mph.  Too dangerous!