Recent content by Stonewilled

It has been in that bottom for ten years. With privet growing through it holding it in place. But that's when it was sitting squarely on level ground. I know that just the fact that it is over the creek means it will be subjected to far greater forces. But will it be that significantly...

Or chain it to large trees upstream on both ends?

What do you think would happen if I anchored it with rebar to a Mass of concrete and kept it held down? Would flood waters just destroy it?

I was thinking ballasts and rings so it can slide up rebar hammered down into soil with a sledge as far as I can?

I have a bridge that I've repositioned over a creek in a flood plane. Pretty sandy soil on both sides. A few trees upstream and downstream on both sides. More on the side I'm standing on and fewer/further on the side she's on. That is a 3-4 inch diameter water oak growing at the corner next...