New tactic on the dock

My father has only so many years left, at 90, and sometimes he gets impatient. So today he got impatient with messing around with the enormous deck plate he wanted to use for the gangplank on the broken dock. Instead, he modified a couple of 12x6's and had me attach them to the concrete landing. Done. Then he began to hammer on bits of broken wood - after he almost pitched himself into the drink the other day when he stumbled on the shore by the landing. The boards in, I finally had to ask him what the heck kind of death trap he was building. Wiggly and unstable, held together by nails, it looked like a death trap waiting to happen. So I took the situation in hand, measured a third plank, screwed two boards on it, removed the three boards he'd hammered into the new assembly (under his sour gaze), and placed the third plank between the two and screwed them all together. In the next twenty minutes I had half the gangplank screwed together before the driver ran out of juice (19.2v Craftsman).

Tomorrow, I hope  to finish it. Then he can go out on the busted up dock and we'll see what happens.