Bridge#2
- Thread starter buggyman1
- Start date
- Views: 55388
RobS
Super Member
Excellent! Turned out great.
tugboat-2
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2007
- Messages
- 576
- Location
- ERIN, Ontario, Canada
- Tractor
- Many over the years, + '05 JD-4410 TLB, but quite proud of my big green "Rolls": AKA: 2006 JD-3520 Cab, HST, Tunes & 2-way tiltmeter, Cobra communications and 6" (x2) rear wheel spacers for a lot less pucker-factor!!
BUGGY : ..... what a waste of time! I came on after checkin out your "stuff" and wanted to comment on a couple things, but I'm wasting your time because I am absolutely speechless,...I mean it, complete loss of words other than to say I am so, very, very impressed!!!
I absolutely love the tandem tractor with lowbed float and the excavator just blows me away! Your shops are probably envied by us all!! I thought you and your lady were "bridgebuilders" but WOW! You blow me away man!!!!!
Congratulations and keep the pics coming,...on everything you do !!!
CHEERS and the best to you !
. . tug
I absolutely love the tandem tractor with lowbed float and the excavator just blows me away! Your shops are probably envied by us all!! I thought you and your lady were "bridgebuilders" but WOW! You blow me away man!!!!!
Congratulations and keep the pics coming,...on everything you do !!!
CHEERS and the best to you !
. . tug
BlacknTan
Platinum Member
It's what women in Switzerland call a purse...
OP
buggyman1
Platinum Member
Great job, I love it. I wish i'd seen yours before I built mine, i would have copied a lot of your ideas...again great job.
OP
buggyman1
Platinum Member
Thanks, i'm a "shift mechanic" for G.E. until they outlaw the lightbulb.
OP
buggyman1
Platinum Member
See why they call me buggyman lol. The excavator was the hardest and most time consumming of anything i've made (the tracks were killer). Thanks for the kind words.
slaveToHorses
Gold Member
Wow buggyman, you are awesome! You are one skilled craftsman.
Great bridge. You did a wonderful job. Thanks for sharing it all with us.
OP
buggyman1
Platinum Member
Thanks, I had good teachers.
Very interesting that with all this talent no one managed to come up with the answer to want is a Geneva Clutch. Part of the answer has a clue in the question, Geneva. Geneva is in Swaziland and what are the Swiss famous for other than cheese? Clock works. The Geneva clutch is a device that takes continuous rotating motion and transforms it into a start-stop or step rotation. Doubly interesting is that I haven't found any reference to the Geneva clutch on the internet but it shows up as the Geneva Wheel and Maltese cross.
Remember IBM punch cards? For a brief instant the card is stopped and holes punched in it evenly spaced without a tare, also the Motion Picture Cramer and Projector, digital motion. Some of the Geneva Wheel sites go deeply into the applications, amazing.
Geneva drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
woodlandfarms
Super Member
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2006
- Messages
- 6,149
- Location
- Los Angeles / SW Washington
- Tractor
- PowerTrac 1850, Kubota RTV x900
Are you effected by (directly or indirectly) the EU banning filament bulbs?
OP
buggyman1
Platinum Member
Yes, by 2012 you can no longer buy a regular lightbulb, it's not green enough. G.E. wants to get out of lighting alltogether.
Danno1
Veteran Member
jayste
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2008
- Messages
- 1,744
- Tractor
- 2004 Kubota M4800 SU
OP
buggyman1
Platinum Member
This was really a fun project. I like bridge#2 better than my first one. It was way harder, bigger, more $$$, and more head-scratching than #1. I've learned a lot building them both. I think 2 turned out better, stronger, and just looks better. The dogs love them both (i'll get pics of Salt & Pepper, maybe when I start the fort). Its such a joy seeing them running across them, playing on them, kinda like the pigs in "Lonesome Dove" (jayste). I love that movie (mini-series). I have had a great time talking with everyone on TBN. I've enjoyed showing off what i love to do, and thanks for being interested and so very helpful. It takes a village, TBN came through.
jayste
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2008
- Messages
- 1,744
- Tractor
- 2004 Kubota M4800 SU
"Bridgeman1",
We enjoy seeing your progress and learning along the way as well. Even the "detour" posts have taught us something. We've even visited trains, English wheels and Geneva clutches all the while sharing in your endevors! Anyway, it's been a ride, enjoyed the comraderie and by the way...."We don't rent pigs!"
Jay
We enjoy seeing your progress and learning along the way as well. Even the "detour" posts have taught us something. We've even visited trains, English wheels and Geneva clutches all the while sharing in your endevors! Anyway, it's been a ride, enjoyed the comraderie and by the way...."We don't rent pigs!"
Jay
DJ54
Elite Member
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2009
- Messages
- 4,631
- Location
- Carroll, Ohio
- Tractor
- IH Farmall 656 gas/ IH 240 Utility/ 2, Super C Farmalls/ 2, Farmall A's/ Farmall BN/McCormick-Deering OS-6/McCormick-Deering O-4/ '36 Farmall F-12/ 480 Case hoe. '65 Ford 2000 3 cyl., 4 spd. w/3 spd Aux. Trans
Nice bridge..!! I didn't read all posts, but did see the one where you drilled 300 holes though the wood, and beams... Maybe someone else suggested it, but I didn't happen to see it if they did.
IF it ever needs to be replaced, or you build another... Instead of drilling through the beam, maybe use what we called "bridge deck clips". You drill beside the beam, and a steel strap approx. 3" long, with a hole towards one end. The clip has..., I guess you call it a offset bend in it. It allows it to be flush with the wood, and thickness of the beam. The other end clips to the beam when tightened.
Smaller versions of this, are used on semi lo-boy decks...
I see you are east of Lexington... Beautiful country..!! I go across Rt. 68, from Maysville, to Lexington to visit my sister.
Speaking of bridges... I may post some pictures of a bridge we are "building" on our "Rails to Trails" project. We are using railroad flat cars for the bridge structure, with decking, and rails to come later. Thay have put another one in since we set the first one, but wasn't there for that one...
Like I don't have enough to do around here already... I volunteer doing stuff like this...
And..., if that's not enough... We pack stone in by horseback, where ODNR's equipment can't get..!! This was done on a bridle, and walking trail in Hocking State Forest, in SE Ohio... We packed 30 tons of stone in by horseback, ( and my Donkey) 2 years ago last spring... 180 lbs. at a time...!!
Sure makes you appreciate things with hydraulics..!!
IF it ever needs to be replaced, or you build another... Instead of drilling through the beam, maybe use what we called "bridge deck clips". You drill beside the beam, and a steel strap approx. 3" long, with a hole towards one end. The clip has..., I guess you call it a offset bend in it. It allows it to be flush with the wood, and thickness of the beam. The other end clips to the beam when tightened.
Smaller versions of this, are used on semi lo-boy decks...
I see you are east of Lexington... Beautiful country..!! I go across Rt. 68, from Maysville, to Lexington to visit my sister.
Speaking of bridges... I may post some pictures of a bridge we are "building" on our "Rails to Trails" project. We are using railroad flat cars for the bridge structure, with decking, and rails to come later. Thay have put another one in since we set the first one, but wasn't there for that one...
Like I don't have enough to do around here already... I volunteer doing stuff like this...
And..., if that's not enough... We pack stone in by horseback, where ODNR's equipment can't get..!! This was done on a bridle, and walking trail in Hocking State Forest, in SE Ohio... We packed 30 tons of stone in by horseback, ( and my Donkey) 2 years ago last spring... 180 lbs. at a time...!!
Sure makes you appreciate things with hydraulics..!!
