Dorrance Glulam Bridge Project Info

[DH001]

Made a little progress yesterday... Making finger joints has a learning curve and took a while to get it dialed in. We'll be back at the shop on Sunday 1/1 at 10am and hopefully get enough lumber stretched to start laying up a beam next week. 2-3 extra people again should be plenty of help.

[DH001]

We finished the first batch of stretched boards earlier today and are going to start laminating/gluing the first beam this Tuesday (1/3/17). Meeting at the Illiniwek Workshop at 6:00 pm and expecting to stay for ~2 hours. Wear clothes you don't mind trashing. Will need a minimum of 5 people to make the glue up operation work. Without 5 we can't get it done fast enough (epoxy pot life is only 30-40 mins). Please let me know if you can make it! If you have an impact driver/drill with a socket adapter bit and/or a 15/16" socket that will fit on that bit bring those as well (needed to tighten clamps).

Two days after glue up we'll be ready to pull the first beam blank off the form. On that note, if anyone has an engine hoist (like pictured here) and doesn't mind lending it to us for a couple of weeks to move the beams around PM me. Each beam blank weights ~700 lbs and a 1 ton hoist would do the job.