Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

77F clear sky.
Good day for outside leave control and my back pockets starting to drag.

Mama and her cubs spent most of the day here snoozing eating apple acorn.
Plans rest of the day...after dinner feet up on the deck enjoy smooth cigar wait for the critters and stars.

Enjoy your evening all.

Sounds like a good day for you and them.

 

[WinterDeere]

Can you explain to me how it is that covered bridges come under the Army Corps in the first place? Is it a national historic bridge?

I honestly don't know. I just remember a vote at the time, on whether we as taxpayers wanted to assume local responsibility for the bridge, in order to have it rebuilt as a covered bridge. If not, the ACoE was going to tear it down and replace it with a concrete bridge.

 

[daugen]

Engineer, just booked Friday night at a place I've never been, Delaware Seashore state park, right next to Indian River inlet. I've driven past there a few times but never saw the rv park. That is one skinny barrier island there.
but hopefully some good boat watching
my friend from Milton said they wanted to take their first rv trip there, not too far from their home so they can come check it out when I'm there.

looks like a very pretty drive up along the beach there, reminds me of NC.

39345 Inlet Rd · 39345 Inlet Rd, Bethany Beach, DE 19930

39345 Inlet Rd, Bethany Beach, DE 19930

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[WinterDeere]

This is probably one for the "Tell us something we don't know" thread, but one of the largest covered bridges of the era ran across the Delaware River at New Hope PA (@daugen, @kenmbz), and failed in famous and spectacular fashion during a storm and flooding event that affected our whole area in 1903. In fact, that was the second time that bridge washed out, the first being in the 1840's.

New Hope (1814-1903) - New Hope - Lambertville | The Story of Bucks County's Covered Bridges

Another early wooden covered toll bridge over the Delaware River was the New Hope Delaware Bridge Company's link between New Hope and Lambertville. Designed by architect Lewis Wernwag using his own construction design, the bridge opened for business in September 1814. The New Hope and...

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It was replaced with the current steel bridge, shortly after 1903, although even the steel bridge has been partly washed out a few times:

Lambertville NJ | Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1955 | Facebook

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Great Flood of 1955. On August 19, 1955, the Delaware River rose to its highest ever on record, in some areas almost 40 feet above normal water level. The...

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[daugen]

I honestly don't know. I just remember a vote at the time, on whether we as taxpayers wanted to assume local responsibility for the bridge, in order to have it rebuilt as a covered bridge. If not, the ACoE was going to tear it down and replace it with a concrete bridge.

let's make it into a concrete bridge so it will support a steady supply of quarry and dump trucks in an area that has only known light traffic. Let's hear it for the 53
foot Prime trucks coming down your street...

too bad some local historical society doesn't take it on as a project.
if it's structurally unsound, they either have to fix it or replace it.

some of these small wooden bridges are unsafe for today's gigundo
EV trucks, weighing 9000 pounds. Lot of four ton limits. Be the first Hummer to fall through the boards...

 

[Engineer42]

Engineer, just booked Friday night at a place I've never been, Delaware Seashore state park, right next to Indian River inlet. I've driven past there a few times but never saw the rv park. That is one skinny barrier island there.
but hopefully some good boat watching
my friend from Milton said they wanted to take their first rv trip there, not too far from their home so they can come check it out when I'm there.

looks like a very pretty drive up along the beach there, reminds me of NC.

39345 Inlet Rd · 39345 Inlet Rd, Bethany Beach, DE 19930

39345 Inlet Rd, Bethany Beach, DE 19930

www.google.com

We've never camped there, but it's been there forever. Not much for shade, but if you want to fish the inlet is just a short walk. The drive up ocean side has the towers used during WWll for triangulation.

This spring and last fall they had breaches just north of the bridge from storms. The normal sand bypass system has been out of service for 4 years or more. Bureaucracy.

 

[daugen]

Winterdeere, I was five during the Flood of 55 and rode on the back of our John Deere B, which my fathered had reinstalled the snow plow, in August... to go down to River Road to plow mud out of neighbor's driveways. That one took down a bunch of bridges.
strange use for a snow plow too
my memory is the terrible smell
all kinds of nasty stuff came down the river and most of the local ground critters drowned. It was a bad smell, the smell of things dying

 

[WinterDeere]

Winterdeere, I was five during the Flood of 55 and rode on the back of our John Deere B, which my fathered had reinstalled the snow plow, in August... to go down to River Road to plow mud out of neighbor's driveways. That one took down a bunch of bridges.
strange use for a snow plow too
my memory is the terrible smell
all kinds of nasty stuff came down the river and most of the local ground critters drowned. It was a bad smell, the smell of things dying

The bench vise I have in my shop now was picked up by my father, as it floating down the street in front of my grandparent's house. Well, the bench it was bolted to was floating, the vise itself is about 80 lb. of cast iron.

I have a whole scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings of that storm, as well as one other in the 1960's, both of which flooded Point Pleasant down thru Morrisville, PA.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,

Yes for sure the tractor would be much better at it but the spacing between trees is 6 to 8 ft making it difficult

Frits, understood, your tractor is larger, could be a problem for the tractor or the trees. Although white oak is great firewood

Hope you were able to be official taste tester.

Thomas, absolutely !

Happy Birthday Scotty GD's!

Thanks Billy, beautiful pictures from your Hike. Birthday party went well, they had a bouncy house for the kids, they had a blast in there, along with my son and his wife !

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Monday) morning. Overnight Low of 6.8C and it's presently 18.7C, clear with a steady wind. There was 7.0mm in the gauge @0900... and, yes, another howling wind was had yesterday.

A lot of branches are going to be required to be collected due to the annual Spring Gales... and I'm going to have to repair my flagpole as it came down whilst I was at Church. <sigh> Oh, well.

Other than that, I seem to have adjusted to the time change just fine. Of course, the adjustment these days is probably not the same before I retired.

That's about it, take care all.