307. C Frame (make four).]
[Illustration: Fig. 308. D Frame (make four).]
[Illustration: Fishing off the Cantilever Bridge.]
[Illustration: The Cantilever Bridge in Reddy's Back Yard.]
[Illustration: Fig. 309. E Frame (make four).]
[Illustration: Fig. 310. F Frame (make two).]
[Illustration: Fig. 311. G Frame (make two).]
[Illustration: Fig. 312. H Frame (make one).]
[Illustration: Fig. 313. I Frame (make one).]
[Illustration: Fig. 314. J Frame (make one).]
The frames with which the cantilever bridge was built were made of
saplings from 3 to 4 inches in diameter. We procured them from Mr.
Schreiner's lands up the river. In making the frames the sticks were
fastened together with 1/2-inch bolts 6 inches long. It was quite a strain
on our pocketbooks to buy these bolts, but Uncle Ed had written that nails
or spikes would be useless to stand the strains of so large a bridge, and
that if we could not get any bolts we had better give up the idea of
building a cantilever bridge. To make sure that we made no mistakes, Uncle
Ed had made a drawing of each different size of frame we would need,
designating each with a different letter, and then these same letters were
marked on a general view of the bridge, so that we would know exactly
where the frames belonged.
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