What do you guys do all winter?

What do you guys do all winter? I get asked this question from October until March every year. Drainage, tree work, irrigation, and equipment repair are just some of the things we do during the winter months. The bridge on #11 had four deck beams that were cracked and needed to be replaced. We had a plywood patch over the broken beams when the stream restoration project started last summer. The first trip over the bridge by the contractor broke the four beams and that's why there was a steel plate on the bridge until mid October. Monday morning of this week was time to replace the broken decking.

  With the plywood patch removed you can see the damage.

The old decking was cut off and the bolts removed to make way for the new ones.

The finished product is a working bridge but the new beams make the old ones look really bad. It would be nice to replace the entire bridge with a design similar to the ones on #6 and #8.