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Requirement

8. Trestles: the lashings, the pole positions, and what an X brace does

Required

How a trestle is built and why it holds up. Directly relevant to several of the structures requirement 9 offers.

Where this step comes from

  1. Pioneering Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 8