"Before"
Bill cuts the vegetation.
Lynn asks for the password.
Ryan emulates the nearby beavers.
Bob, Terry and Bill set markers in the mud.
Terry prepares to install a post.
Terry, Bill and Bob work on a test pile.
The girls enjoy the recently hayed Land Trust meadow.
Heading home through the meadow.
Joe & Pat going over pile setting, and Ryan setting on a pile
"Is it level on your end" - Rudy, Ryan & Bill
setting the joists
Bill Dyer, Trail Com. Chairman
Ryan swinging the sledge hammer
Bill & Bob discussing field changes
Everybody wants to try the Pile Masher - artistic welding courtesy of Rick Swanson
"sharpening a pencil" : Bill & Andy put a point on the pile
Joe P. connects the stringers while a couple of nice folks drive some piles
High water shows why we needed a new boardwalk.
Heron on the old boardwalk during a flood.
Typical flood - the old boardwalk sinks and is impassible.
turning the corner
"once your feet get soaked they can't get any wetter" - Andy Cable: Swampologist
Your Friendly Neighborhood Boardwalk Crew; Bill, Bob, Burt, Terry, Lynn & Rudy
Burt fishing out scraps from the swamp
The Boardwalk starts to shape up
piles were installed 4 feet on center - sometimes straight
Don Pendergast helps level the joists
Richard makes music with the Bellringer & a 12 lb sledge
teamwork
break time
Richard & Joe Pratt enjoy a spur-of-the-moment picnic lunch courtesy of Joe
we're over the second stream
Bruce Nichols & Andy Cable with the Pile Masher
Richard hitting the "Son-of-the-Bellringer"
Son-of-the-Bellringer courtesy of IDA
Don fastening the decking
Rudy going back for more lumber
getting close to the end
Lynn Reid - when she wasn't fastening decking
Pat Gajdosik from the Land Trust - waiting for a reporter - she normally doesn't knit with a chainsaw
Andy & Bob cutting joists
Bruce Nichols - Shelton Land Trust - with his trusty stump remover
Joe Welsh; President Shelton Land Trust, with a young recruit; - Ryan W.
Rudy, Bill & Lynn adding the bull rail
The Last Board
Lynn fastening bull rails
Bill Dyer fastening decking & rails
Joe is a hands-on-a-2x4 President
Lynn & Ryan at the end
We Finished the Boardwalk
Happy Trails from the Lane Street Boardwalk Crew
