Just to keep you informed, and to get your advice on better ways to tackle the engineering problems:
After a lot of initial setup of ladders strapped to the trees:
And setup of the many utillity ropes, and tree-to-tree netting:
We've finally got the 100-foot-long 3/8" steel cables hung well:
The next step, was building the first 16-foot long set of the 10-foot- wide decking from the top of the hill, which will eventually connect over
100 feet downslope to the gnarly big redwood at the bottom of the hill:It's amazingly ungainly tying all the 16-foot long 10-inch wide boards to the 100-foot long swinging 3/8-inch cables as we try to build the bridge:
It took two people and a lot of rope to get things squared up at first:
In fact, it was so ungainly, that we put in temporary crossbeams, just to hold the bridge square as we were assembling it on the hillside:
Even steps as simple as screwing in the self-tapping screws is difficult when the entire 16-foot long 10-foot wide bridge-like structure is swinging freely and nowhere bolted to the ground:
But, eventually, we managed to assemble the first 16-foot long 10-foot wide lengths from the cables between the groups of redwood trees: