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Timber-pile bridge with steel stringers, New Jersey. Timber pilings serve as the foundations of many historic structures such as canneries, wharves, and shore buildings. The old pilings present challenging problems during restoration as they age and are destroyed by organisms and decay. Replacing the foundation entirely is possible but expensive.
In jet piling high pressure water is used to set piles. [9] High pressure water cuts through soil with a high-pressure jet flow and allows the pile to be fitted. [10] One advantage of Jet Piling: the water jet lubricates the pile and softens the ground. [11] The method is in use in Norway. [12]
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Albion River Bridge: 1944 2017-07-31 Albion: Mendocino: wooden deck truss bridge: Alexander-Acacia Bridge: 1925, 1927 1984-01-05
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There are ten authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of California, and eight of them are historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers, a popular choice for non-authentic covered bridges.
A modern wharf piling bored by bivalves known as shipworms. As proposed by Richardson, [1] treatment of wood has been practiced for almost as long as the use of wood itself. There are records of wood preservation reaching back to ancient Greece during Alexander the Great's rule, where bridge wood was soaked in olive oil.
HESPERIA, Calif. - All three lanes of Interstate 15 in Hesperia were closed in both directions Monday after a construction worker's blowtorch accidentally ignited the wooden supports of an ...
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. [1] A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R. H. Emmerson and his son, A. A. "Red" Emmerson, the long-term CEO, and A. A. Emmerson's sons George and Mark are now president and CEO.