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Work Continues on the Johnson Covered Bridge
April 2, 2002 - On this bright and sunny morning the first truss for the new Power House Bridge is rapidly coming together. Blow and Cote craftsmen Roland Blais, Nathan Cote, and David Morrill are shaping and fitting the huge southern pine timbers like the wooden bridge builders they are. After working on the Pulp Mill Bridge in Bennington, the Irasburg Bridge, the Gates Farm Bridge in Cambridge, and the Fuller Bridge in Montgomery, all using complex trusses, the simple Power House queen post truss must be a piece of cake to them.


Roland Blais shapes the end of a queen post brace. Photo by Joe Nelson, April 2, 2002	The queen posts and end-posts are being fitted into the plate or rafter beam. The notches in the end-post in the foreground will receive the bottom chord. Photo by Joe Nelson, April 2, 2002

Designed by Phil Pierce, this edition of the Power House Bridge is unlikely to succumb to snow load. Photo by Joe Nelson, April 2, 2002	The tenon on this post will fit into the mortise in the rafter beam. Photo by Joe Nelson, April 2, 2002

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This file posted August 5, 2001, revised April 2, 2002