The reenforcement timbers slanting in the opposite direction will act as tension members. Another view of the end-panel reenforcement construction. This work needs to be done at all four corners of the bridge before the jacking operation can begin. We're starting to jack on the south end to bring it up two inches. The jack will raise the bridge no more than two inches at a time, rotating from corner to corner.
Preparations are underway to lift the north end four inches.
It is expected that the bridge will have been raised two feet by the weeks end. Left to right - Phil Daniels and Brian Dube are installing the reenforcing timbers at the northwest corner end panels. View of the Poland Bridge from the southeast end. Notice the scaffolding had been moved to facilitate the construction of the reenforcing timbers at the north end of the bridge. When the bridge has been lifted high enough, the bridge-wrights will begin to insert cribbing timbers.