Updated 12/13/2014:
Despite the sad events of the past two weeks, some incremental progress has occurred:
- My supplier has completed the second bridge pier. I have not seen it, but expect it will be delivered shortly.
- I have searched for commercially available bridge shoes of an appropriate size for the bridge and come up empty. Nothing big enough appears to be available (sigh).
- I have taken a first cut at designing a properly sized bridge shoe. It's rough and after a review, I have some modifications to make. The goal is to end up with a series of Visio drawings of the components (triangles, rectangles). Those drawings will be used to make precision quantity cuts of parts (I'll need 8 bridge shoes). I will then assemble them.
- Just below the bridge shoe is a (I'll call it a footer for lack of a better term) footer consisting of 8 "I" beams on edge holding up a plate. The bridge shoe rests on the plate. I've designed that and will start building those as soon as I have the materials.
That's all I know at the moment.
George
