Betsy crosses the Mat on ice- first time for the season. No more packrafts!
Betsy wraps the ends of the posts that will go into the ground, to allow for frost heaving that won't heave the posts as well.
Cross-braced posts waiting to be backfilled. By now the dirt we took out digging the holes was frozen solid, and required a whole lot of sledge-hammering and pickaxe-ing to backfill. It took about as much time to backfill as it did to dig.
All the wood was warped a little, so we would turn the wood so the warps worked with the direction of the beams. A new discovery for me- most long spans of lumber aren't straight, some aren't even close. Lumber also doesn't live up to it's advertised measurements; a 2x4 isn't 2 inches wide OR 4 inches tall. No one has been able to tell me why yet.
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