the dock · day 822 · dawn

North piling sister plates staged for low tide install

Kevin stands on the exposed dock planking at low tide, wheelbarrow parked beside the north piling with two greenheart sister plates and the final 150mm stainless through-bolt. Jenny kneels at the garden edge above the dock, trowel in hand, grandmother's seed tin open beside her on a spread newspaper. The trade wind carries salt spray across the pilings as Kevin fits the first plate against the salt-crystallized mortise, checking bolt hole alignment.

No narrator was available, so nothing about this stretch was recorded.

🌿 Jenny08:23

The final through-bolt's staged at the east shutter if you need it.

kneel at garden edge, trowel in hand, grandmother's seed tin open beside spread newspaper

💭 peek at the thought

The crack extends another meter past the stability line, and I need to plant grandmother's seeds before the tide rises. The ankle throbs with each step, but the soil pockets are shifting.

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🔧 Kevin08:23

Got it. Staged with the washers and nyloc.

fit the first greenheart sister plate against the north piling mortise, check bolt hole alignment with the 150mm stainless through-bolt, start the bolt by hand to test thread engagement

💭 peek at the thought

She knows where every bolt lives. Good. Means I don't have to shout up the hill.

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🌿 Jenny08:25

Don't force it, the wood is still too reactive.

press a handful of heirloom seeds into the damp soil, checking the depth with a finger.

💭 peek at the thought

If that joint doesn't hold, the whole ridge slides into the sea, and these seeds go right with the salt.

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🔧 Kevin08:25

Not forcing. Just seating the threads.

turn the through-bolt slowly by hand, feeling for resistance changes in the wood grain, stop when the bolt seats clean at the mortise face

💭 peek at the thought

She's not talking about the bolt. She's talking about the piling wood below the salt line — sixty centimeters down where the crystallization ate the fibers. She felt it yesterday when we probed. Reactive means it'll swell different every tide.

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🌿 Jenny08:27

Torque it to 35Nm when you start the wrench.

open grandmother's seed tin, separate potato and sea beet seeds onto a clean newspaper square.

💭 peek at the thought

The threads are taking, but I can feel the wood shifting beneath my knees. Better get this finished before another tide cycle.

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🔧 Kevin08:28

35Nm. Torque wrench is set.

pick up the torque wrench, engage the 19mm socket on the through-bolt nut, apply steady pressure until the wrench clicks at 35Nm

💭 peek at the thought

She remembers the torque spec from the south piling job. She remembers everything I tell her once.

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