!! In the quiet hours of the bootcamp grind, I found myself: Esteban's Bootcamp Experience

B.E.L. Post # 159

After the morning meeting, Seth and I headed to the classroom and got right into the Cooper Gate repair/rebuild. We ended up basically rebuilding the entire gate frame, minus one piece. This time around we upsized everything and used larger diameter stock — roughly 4".

Once the frame was back together, we headed out to the Abbey for installation and got it set in place just before lunch. The only thing left at that point was to install the lintel piece.

After lunch, we shifted gears and headed out back to the laboratory area, down at the sawmill site. We felled another tree and bucked it into 8' lengths for milling, but the sawmill started giving us trouble again.

Seth took a closer look at the motor belt and found it had torn. We headed back to the shop, grabbed a replacement belt and a socket set, and got it swapped out. After that we ran the mill again, but we were still running into issues, so we decided to pause on that rather than force it.

We wrapped up the day by heading back to the Abbey and finishing the install of the lintel piece we had left earlier. With that in place, we called it for the day.