ON THE JOB AT CRATER LAKE

1992

Spring

Contract for phase two of the Lodge reconstruction project is awarded to a Portland Company for a bid of $8.9 million. The new lodge will have 71 rooms when completed. Each room will be enlarged over the old ones. The project should take two to three years. Landscaping and outside restoration will be a third phase. The Park Service is still “studying” the erosion problem behind the Lodge. One scientist says the slippage is great, while two others colleges say the rate of sliding is virtually nonexistent...”at least during the life of the new lodge.”


There is a picture of the crater lake lodge for you to see
Of course the first thing we did was a whole lot of demo. By the time we were done with the domo work the whole roof system was gone as were the exterior siding and sheathing. We removed all of the old windows, The masons, believe it or not, even took down the rock walls one rock at a time, labeling each and every rock so that they could put them back in exactly the same place that they came out.
The first season one of my jobs was shoring the floors up from the basement to the roof. We hauled 1 ton iron beams into the building by hand, supported them with 6x6 wood posts and jacked and leveled until we had everything well leveled. Then the work of removing old and rotten framing
started. However the Historical Society wouldn't let us just remove and dispose of the old lumber
no, we had to reuse anything that was even remotely usable, consequently there was probably twice as much lumber in the new building as there was to begin with.
See all of those windows? The last year I was there my primary job was to install windows, so almost every one of those windows you see there I put in! Boy do I have some stories to tell about that job, but seeing that I'm such a slow typist I'm tired of typing for today, so I'll save some of those for tomorrow and the rest of the month.
Until then..........