vpracer
Bronze Member
I'm about to buy a new piece of property that will have about 5 acres stranded due to a large creek crossing. The creek is about 28ft wide and about 8 or so feet deep. I've been looking at old 40' flat bed trailers, old 45' semi trailers and the 40' flat shipping rack as options for the crossing. I'll be driving 4wheelers and my 7040 tractor across the bridge and I believe all those bridge options will support the weight. I've ruled out culverts because the creek does flow pretty good if we have a big rain and I think it'll wash out or plug up the culvert.
So, my issues is this, I only have access to one side of the creek at this point. It makes getting the bridge in place very difficult. I have an old D6C dozer that I can use to drag the trailer down to the creek but the part I can't figure out is how to get the trailer to lay across the creek, given I can only be on one side. If I push the trailer out over the creek, then the end will fall down into the creek. I thought about trying to stand it up on end somehow and let it fall across the creek. Somehow I suspect there a million things that could go wrong with that idea, like how to stand up a 40' trailer on end. I thought about laying two telephone poles down, letting them fall across the creek, then sliding the trailer over on top of those so that the end of the trailer will be support as it goes across the creek. But then would the trailer have enough support for me to get a tractor to the other side and lift the trailer off the poles.
I sure would appreciate some brainstorming thoughts?
So, my issues is this, I only have access to one side of the creek at this point. It makes getting the bridge in place very difficult. I have an old D6C dozer that I can use to drag the trailer down to the creek but the part I can't figure out is how to get the trailer to lay across the creek, given I can only be on one side. If I push the trailer out over the creek, then the end will fall down into the creek. I thought about trying to stand it up on end somehow and let it fall across the creek. Somehow I suspect there a million things that could go wrong with that idea, like how to stand up a 40' trailer on end. I thought about laying two telephone poles down, letting them fall across the creek, then sliding the trailer over on top of those so that the end of the trailer will be support as it goes across the creek. But then would the trailer have enough support for me to get a tractor to the other side and lift the trailer off the poles.
I sure would appreciate some brainstorming thoughts?