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Originally Posted by TomPenny
nah there are no wires there...
had another guy out yesterday. His price included the excavation, insisted in 12' piers, no top slab same price.
I was looking at the water lines and this place really dams up. I tend to get as high as the culvert when it down pours.
Its the bend in the stream, the culverts direction and I guess lay past the culverts. At any rate, wonder if a bridge is not a better choice all things considered. I could do most of it myself. If I put a footer on each side with a ledge, attach i-beams or thick walled tubing to span the creek, deck it with either wood or expanded metal.
Then I could easily do some attractive, sturdy railings.
This would allow me to excavate and clean out the area.
My first concern to this idea is how far back to put the footers to prevent errosion up to them
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12' piers? expand-metal=squshy deck(no weight support). put footers as high up on the bank as possible(bridge span permits) out of flow-keeps thrash from hanging-up on piers as water flows through. As to the I-beam thingy? the float has 2 I-beams under w/cross-brace every ft.?ithink? then side stake pocket beams. I would hate to buy all that $teel today.
On the float(trailer) bridge we used 3' wide(comercial bldg siding) cut-offs up rite gently pushed down(trac-hoe) into dirt(coregation, makes stronger than you think, pushes like knife in soft-med soft ground)& nailed to tie-beam(between pilings) w/wings going back to top of ditch. done only to keep turbulance from undermining bridge dirt approaches. Any kind of mini-wall can be used to prevent approach wash? wash on pilings no problem-little or no turbulance w/open bridge. pilings only 4-5' deep. supports 9000# tractor/tools,no problem.
