Good morning!!!!

[Thall303]

Neat culvert and bridge.
What is the culvert made of?

 

[daugen]

that is a really cool looking bridge and Don since we can't zoom in on avatars it's nice seeing the whole thing in detail.
What a great combination of art and function.
Keep up the good work Ron.
It must smell good too...

I had to chuckle, that culvert is about three times the size of my main water ditch.
Texas sized!

 

[txdon]

Neat culvert and bridge.
What is the culvert made of?

It is a 8' galvanized culvert with steal walls on top. The steal walls on top are held together with pipe. (think opposite steel wall cave-in protection at a digging construction site, instead of keeping the dirt from caving it, the walls are keeping the dirt from falling out.) The top of the bridge and the south side are stone. The stones were drilled and and placed on the pegs with liquid nails. None have fallen off in 12 years. The bridge was made in Dallas - a design by Harvey and constructed by a Tractor-by-Net group. We took it apart, transported it 200 miles and then had another party installing it.

At the installation party Harvey got his truck stuck really good and we couldn't budge it with my tractor and I had to call my cousin with his bulldozer to pull harvey out. Just added more excitement to the day!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The red cedar looks a bit bright now but it should weather to a pretty matching color of the surroundings. The spaces will be filled in and it will look uniform and rustic when finished. There are about 80 cut logs now on the bridge, another 20 to go. The lower cedar logs are longer than the upper so when you look down from the bridge all the logs will be visible. More pics when we finish!

Further down stream the dry creek is damed up to form a big pond and during the wet season there is about 2 feet of water under the bridge. We are expecting up to 6" of rain this weekend so we need to finish today or it might be another 12 years . . . .

I like the bright ends of the cedar. I would be tempted to put some polyurethane over them.


Sodamo, I saw where Hawaii, yes Hawaii, is under winter storm warning or watch or whatever. ??? I guess at higher elevations than you guys.

Lots of good and somber stories about families in the past.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Frosty 30 heading to 54.

Fascinating reading so about many ancestry stories. Ed, I didn't know they smoked dope back in Poe's days. But, I can picture him in my mind doing exactly as your grandfather described. Have you been to the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond? ...old stone house in area where he used to live, and he did have a job there...literary publication...I guess he just wasn't cut out for farm work. Read a lot of Poe in high school.

No I never was interested in Poe. His stuff was and is a little off of my taste, well a lot off of my taste. If everyone was like me Poe would have been forgotten just like my grandfather. I was told that Thomas Jefferson smoked a little weed too but I never saw him do it myself. Ed

 

[300UGUY]

36 here, and only going to 39? Pretty gray and depressing sometimes here in Michigan. Some days you can't see the sun at all, even at noon.

Great bridge. Really a work of art, not surprised that Harvey was involved.

Have a good one!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 42F @ 5:45AM. Sunny. High 52F. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph.

Will both sides of the bridge get the cedar treatment, Don? The stone looks so nice in your avatar pic, it seems a shame to cover it up?

I remember months at a time during the Ohio winters of my youth where the sun didn't shine, Irv. Cold, dreary gray skies, no green in sight as the leaves had all dropped and there weren't many evergreens around, just lots of dead grass and bare limbs. Lots of clinical depression and alcoholism to go along with it. Didn't bother me much though, as I was too busy going to school and working my butt off at part time jobs...

After almost a dozen trips back and forth to the garage, the new wall switch for the overhead fan is in and working. Most of the trips were to flip the breaker on and off, as there was a surprise or two along the way with regard to how it was to be wired. But everything needed was in the box it came in, a tribute to Lutron for anticipating all the different configurations that it might have to work in and making sure a frustrated homeowner wouldn't need to call for tech support or just give up.

Good news from the doctor, as the x-rays were clear and my kidneys are still stone free after two years. Sure don't wanna go down that road again.

Wasn't able to bring home all the parts off the van that needed paint; something about employees not showing up for work. But as the parts come off the chassis, it's clear more of the undercarriage should be undercoated anyway, so this afternoon I'll snag another undercoating kit and head back over with a paint brush to catch the rest. Then tomorrow I'll coat the rest of the parts, which should be off by then.:confused2:

Picked up a new laptop from FedEx while I as in town, and when I got home found out what was in the box wasn't what was ordered. I can't even find what was sent on the Apple web site? Not looking forward to the phone call to Apple to find out what went wrong...

TGIF gang!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It is a 8' galvanized culvert with steal walls on top. The steal walls on top are held together with pipe. (think opposite steel wall cave-in protection at a digging construction site, instead of keeping the dirt from caving it, the walls are keeping the dirt from falling out.) The top of the bridge and the south side are stone. The stones were drilled and and placed on the pegs with liquid nails. None have fallen off in 12 years. The bridge was made in Dallas - a design by Harvey and constructed by a Tractor-by-Net group. We took it apart, transported it 200 miles and then had another party installing it.

At the installation party Harvey got his truck stuck really good and we couldn't budge it with my tractor and I had to call my cousin with his bulldozer to pull harvey out. Just added more excitement to the day!

You know that means we've been friends for over 12 years now, double doggone darn, seems like forever.......

When Don says stuck, he means stuck. His Kubota tractor and two 4 X 4 Dodge dualies in a chain gang couldn't move Lucy. But a crawler with pyramid tracks made it look like nothing but a thing.

 

[daugen]

You know that means we've been friends for over 12 years now, double doggone darn, seems like forever.......

You guys in Texas have had a great deal of fun together and those of us far away can only smile and give two thumbs up.
That bridge is a remarkable creation built not only with steel and boulders but with friendship.

 

[PJSprog]

27°F this morning with clear skies, going up to 48° today. Everything was frost-covered this morning. Nice.

Have you considered a DNA test. like "23 and Me" to find out where your genes say you are from?

Never was all that interested, Don. My older sister, also adopted, found her biological mother about 25 years ago. She found out she has a brother in Chicago, and gets along great with him. Her mother ... not so much. I have no children, so genetic history really isn't all that important to me.