Gabel – I believe most of Georgia’s surviving bridges are attributed to W.W. King, son of your best known bridgewright, Horace King – They built Town’s Lattice trusses almost exclusively, so you will find trunnels aplenty, but…

Large diameter trunnels are not exclusive to Towns

If you haven’t seen this film yet, you’re gonna want to -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQWPX3oaNU

Jim & Don – The trunneled rafter to tie connection is a hyper regional variation unique to coastal Maine & NH – I know of but one inland example, got pix, I’ll upload to p-bucket and post one tomorrow

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges" - Isaac Newton

http://bridgewright.wordpress.com/