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Renovation Continues on East Fairfield Covered Bridge (cont.)
VT-06-03

East Fairfield Covered Bridge. Photo by Joe Nelson September 4, 2008
The east end of the downstream chord shows wet rot.
East Fairfield Covered Bridge. Photo by Rae Laitres August 29, 2008
Pointed out by Greg Wilcox, this hard-wood shear block has been filling its purpose, i.e. preventing the longitudinal slippage of chord members. The slippage of these chord members has distorted the shear block.
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Joe Nelson, P.O Box 267, Jericho, VT 05465-0267
This file posted 09/07/2008