replaced bridge for snowmobiles 3rd time

Michelle K linnane · Oct 26, 2011

I have a snowmobile trail that runs through my property and it crosses the creek down in a gorge. Last year or the year before my neighbor who maintains the trails built a cement block wall and had the bridge about 10 feet in the air. Lasted two years until Irene hit this year and the water took it away. Laudy had the bridge chained on one side to some hemlocks. So that did not go to far. When they rebuilt the bridge last the water carried it almost two hundred yards down stream and they dragged it back up with backhoe. I guess laudy has come to the conclusion no matter wat he does he will redo bridge every year now. Poor guy, I was home this time and went down to watch them rebuild bridge and took my camera. We looked all over the cement block wall and did not find it. Incredible the force of water. My dog Blue (HAM)

Michelle K linnane · Oct 26, 2011

It is really pretty down there and I watched the guys for a while as they got bridge up here are more pictures. All the boards that were on the bridge got washed away Laudy will fix that another day. But the base is up and he can do the rest without help or backhoe down in the gut.

Michelle K linnane · Oct 26, 2011

The trail home!

Travelover · Oct 26, 2011

Michelle K linnane said:
........ Poor guy.........

Don't kid yourself, he is having the time of his life. It is called seat time. :laughing:

Ken45101 · Oct 27, 2011

Wow, a lot of work for a snowmobile trailer!

A guy a couple miles from us put in nice concrete piers and a semi flatbed trailer for a bridge, piled up a ramp to access it. First year the flood washed away the ramp and pushed the trailer body half way off, next year it disappeared entirely. I now can see the end of it peeking out of the creek bed a short distance downstream. Most of it is buried under rock.

Our driveway bridge (concrete) gets flooded about once a year on average. We have beefed up everything to stop the erosion and just let it flood. We loose a truckload of gravel on the approaches but the bridge is solid. The county engineer did a study of the drainage area upstream and said we really needed twice the capacity under the bridge.