Bridge Ideas for multiple creek crossings

[deezler]

A long time ago a man I knew had one large creek to cross when building his house. He found scrap semi-oil tanker trailer. Had it towed to his place, removed the tank from the frame and cut-off the ends, then had a man that build ponds/lakes prepare the creek-site and put the tank in place. Then he flattened the tank to fit with the track-hoe bucket.
Once the back-fill was completed, it became part of the crushed stone driveway.

He... crushed a round cylinder tank to flat by using an excavator? And then drove across it as a bridge? Or was the tank then just a culvert pipe? That is about the most red-neck thing I have ever heard, lol.

 

[ning]

A long time ago a man I knew had one large creek to cross when building his house. He found scrap semi-oil tanker trailer. Had it towed to his place, removed the tank from the frame and cut-off the ends, then had a man that build ponds/lakes prepare the creek-site and put the tank in place. Then he flattened the tank to fit with the track-hoe bucket.
Once the back-fill was completed, it became part of the crushed stone driveway.

Trying to understand the tank's part in this. Flattened, I'd imagine that the trailer frame would serve as a bridge frame, but that's not mentioned; completely flat doesn't compute.

Is the tank not completely flattened, just a bit, and it serves as a culvert?

 

[Sportsman762]

I have used railroad tank cars as culverts. They are around 7/16" thick and about 10' in diameter. They delivered just the tank with the ends cut off and we patched the holes for the filling and drain tubes, then put them in as a regular culvert a bit bigger than normal culverts.

 

[RayIN]

Trying to understand the tank's part in this. Flattened, I'd imagine that the trailer frame would serve as a bridge frame, but that's not mentioned; completely flat doesn't compute.

Is the tank not completely flattened, just a bit, and it serves as a culvert?

Sorry, flattened into an oval vs round. That all depends on width of stream and height of banks.

 

[nasser44d]

Fords, or scrap flatbed semi-trailers. Might get two or three short bridges from a long trailer.

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