It was at least 6 long and tedious hours, John! 
Cliff, if @Hines does not remind you, I might! This has been a magnificent build, and it would be great to see it condensed into a “how to.” I’ll probably never have need for anything so grand (nor the skills to make the attempt!), but there are individual tricks in here for smaller projects that would be easier to pull from a Wiki than from your thread. It might be a bit of work, but it would give your crafstmanship twice the exposure and more than double its already considerable value to fellow modelers!
Please do think about it!
Eric
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I was looking through a ‘logging railways’ book yesterday, and found a photo of a Weyerhauser trestle being constructed with pre-built bents. The train pushed the bent to the end of the trestle (I think) and it was installed there.
Unfortunately the book is packed for our trip to FL. I’ll dig it out at the weekend.
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Eric, that’s most kind of you, thanks very much for the compliments.
I’d be honored to do a how-to, but it would need to address workarounds for the laser work (I guess that’s not too big of a deal, just would involve traditional jig-building).
So since you and Bill asked, you bet I’ll seriously consider it.
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That would be interesting to see how they pushed off the bents and landed them, Pete.
Have a great journey south, and I hope all is well down at the winter digs.
Thanks to Sean, the dunk 'n wipe 'n brush operation progresses, with another 6 bents within 1.5 hours!
All that’s left are a few small ones, and a gob of stripwood for lower stringers and braces.
Some times you have to put a fire under this guy …
Holy cow, how long have you been building the trestle?
I made a note to copy the photo when I unpack. Incidentally, I doubt a logging company would have any problem winching the bents in to position!
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Um…
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Not nearly as long as I’ve been working on my feed mill or Snow Dozer…
Did you start either of those threads before April of 2022? Actually, that was the restart of the project, which I began the design for in 2013 (or thereabouts).
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Dec 2014 was the start of the thread here, but again I started this before my wife and I got married in 2009…
I started posting in 2019 on that but I started it when my wife and first got married in 2009…
I think they both got started over at MLS… Now that would require some digging.
Okay so here’s the feed mill thread from MLS. 2009
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nope.
untill you have sawed/shortened some o these strips…
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Craig dude, I think you win this contest. 
Indeed. However, here’s the longer explanation:
I should have said, until someone guilts me back into the outer diagonal braces that I no longer want because a) when leaves go in, they’ll never come out and b) I’m digging the thought of avoiding all that work. But if I gotta do those braces, I’ll need to stain that strip stock (which, btw, is of different dimensions). I didn’t on this round, because if I don’t need it for this I’d like to leave it unstained for a different project.
But, yep Korm, I gotta cut and install all those other bits first. So, from both ways around the barn, we’ve come to agreement.
Well I’m hoping to work on (notice I didn’t say finish) the feed mill this winter. I say that every winter and not much progress is made but I have a little bit for fire underneath me now. I’ve been asked by folks running the NMRA national convention for 2027 to have my layout on tour/host potential ops. I really really want at least one major scene done.
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