How to move a bridge?

[PILOON]

Is this the Brooklyn bridge?

Did he offer it to you for $1.00?

 

[LD1]

Iam guessing the bottom of the bridge is going to be 4-5 feet from the ground?? Anyway, you could poor a cement pillar in the middle and add about 50% capicity to your overall rating, If you do it your self, Pretty simple, a cardboard tube , rerod and a couple yards of crete, oh yea, and a cross member to set on top of the pillar, It wouldnt cost much, I look at this project as more about landscaping,.. Rather than, What would be the cheapest way to cross the creek, so to speek, Good Luck, Eric

Good Idea but wrong numbers.

Adding a center support cuts the span in half. It will increase the load capacity by WAY more than %50. It is actually more like 400%, or 4:1 if the span is cut in half. Provided the supports can handel the load.

 

[BHD]

I my self would not pay more than local scrap price for that, that way if it does not work out all your out is the moving of it,
don't forget to figure in the cost of decking the bridge as well,


you could check in to a old semi flat bed trailer as well, remove the axels and have a bridge, (narrow but a bridge), would most likely be easer to widen a flat bed, (mostly for peace of mind) than need,

 

[jetboat]

Just a thought, you say that you might just throw down some gravel... why not pour a concrete pad over the top of the spillway. Then use the sides of the bridge as sides so it looks like you have the bridge. Would give you looks and a good driving surface.

 

[boggen]

sounds like a whole lot of work. and a lot more cash to dump into this thing before all said and done.

get yourself a large culvert. move in dirt around the culvert and over top of it. and be done with it.

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house moving company in your area. would be folks to call. as someone else said. they should have the running gear, hydraulic jacks, etc... to lift it up and move it.

with others get a "engineer" involved. before ya get to far along.

 

[BrentD]

you could check in to a old semi flat bed trailer as well, remove the axels and have a bridge, (narrow but a bridge), would most likely be easer to widen a flat bed, (mostly for peace of mind) than need,

The bridge is already sitting on a fated semi trailer.

I had considered pouring a center support, but something I probably should have mentioned early on is that the spillway is only about 2/3 the length of this bridge across so we'd have about 1/3 of the bridge on solid ground. The other issue with a center support is that it could become a brush/debris catcher in flood conditions when it would be running and create a danger of wash-out.

 

[kubotakid USA]

Good Idea but wrong numbers.

Adding a center support cuts the span in half. It will increase the load capacity by WAY more than 50. It is actually more like 400%, or 4:1 if the span is cut in half. Provided the supports can handel the load.

Yea probably more than the 50% number I threw out there, I always over engineer sum so i dont have to worry about nit pickers sayin that aint quite good enough, and the way your overhead is designed, It wont be 4 to 1 unless you run a stiff leg up in the center, which would be simple to do, I was thinkin about 16/18 in dia collum, shouldent affect much but tree branchs

 

[Taylortractornut]

Yall give up too easy. Id weld a 5th wheel kingpin in the froned end of it or a simple pintle hitch and haul tail earl on a Sunday with and escort. Theres no way a DOT officer will be up that early. I think and over width permit here for a day can be as low as 150 dollars. Ive moved alot of stuff biggerthan this the same way and my neighbors in the sonstruction business in the day used to to this to old rail cars for county bridges.. As for the strength If it held up county maintenace trucks going over it should be stron. I pour a middle support or 2 of them. To clean it out if any debris got in it you could build a catch grate or make the center beam pointed on the upwater side. To deck it I would contact a saw miller and get them to mill some telephone poles to make the decking.

 

[kubotakid USA]

Yall give up too easy. Id weld a 5th wheel kingpin in the froned end of it or a simple pintle hitch and haul tail earl on a Sunday with and escort. Theres no way a DOT officer will be up that early. I think and over width permit here for a day can be as low as 150 dollars. Ive moved alot of stuff biggerthan this the same way and my neighbors in the sonstruction business in the day used to to this to old rail cars for county bridges.. As for the strength If it held up county maintenace trucks going over it should be stron. I pour a middle support or 2 of them. To clean it out if any debris got in it you could build a catch grate or make the center beam pointed on the upwater side. To deck it I would contact a saw miller and get them to mill some telephone poles to make the decking.

TTN, H@ll Ya, :drink: Those, are call (special) SUNDAY permits, :laughing: Sounds like a plan, sign me up, :drink:

 

[BHD]

If you would pull it with a farm tractor, there is little in most instances they can do as it is then a farm item and usually falls under the farm exempt rules most states have for farm equipment,(licence plates and width rules), a flag car would still be recommended,
I realize the distance is the biggest obstacle for a farm tractor,