It was quite an adventure getting it in there. First I took a piece of concrete I had from my old garage apron and moved it to the north side of the creek bank to use as a foundation I used my payloader to push it back through the woods. Once I got it to the creek bank I was able to push it over where it was high centered. I then proceeded to crawl under it with the torch and remove the under stuff. (I only have one set of tires I need to drag out of the creek eventually). Once all that was removed I pushed it until I almost buried the loader in the muck. It didn't quite make it to the other side though. With a plank I was able to make a foot bridge across. I then proceeded to dig a hole for a footer on the other side. The fun part was carrying all those 80lb bags of cement through the woods and across that plank. I then mixed all that concrete in a wheel barrow (with creek water) and poured my footer. I set the footer so the ICG (?) bar would set on it.
I am fortunate in that I have a friend who services and hauls logging equipment. He brought a skidder over and was able to doze through the swamp on the south side. We then used the winch to pull it into place. I tried to help with the payloader so after we got it winched in he came to the other side and pulled my loader out of the muck. That was about 2 years ago, been a (somewhat dangerous) foot bridge ever since.
