Small bridge project

[Western]

Finally had some time to work on the bridge. We got the approaches done except a little dirt work. Only thing left is welded "clips" for bolting the treated lumber down, priming and painting.

No short rails yet, but they are probably coming.

This dude is strong, I have no reservations about driving a pickup over it at all.

 

[sailorman]

Man, that baby looks good !!!!!! You could drive a lot more than a tractor over it !

 

[boggen]

wow! nice doing with the wood planks to fill everything in! then the grating to help any snow ice melt through. along with getting rain water off of it!

 

[gwjd]

if ti were me and it was well within your porperty

i would skip the railings all that will do is make something 2 wide for the bridge like a brush hog or tree trunk

 

[Western]

Thanks for the comments.

If we put the rails on, they will be short ones and/or removable. The bridge is only 8' wide ,so with his widest trailer he only has 1' of "wiggle" room. I figure if he's crossing with a load of wood and some how the trailer gets off the side, it could pull him off potentially. I doubt that would ever happen, BUT.

The rest of his implements (for now) are around 4', So he's good there. (24 horse Kubota)

 

[beeforty]

Nice looking bridge:thumbsup: What size grating did you use? Was it hard to come by? A neighbor used all grating down the road from me for his decking, it is a all galvanized, two lane bridge. Have you thought of tying the ends of the pipe together in case someone gets close to the edge so they won't start bending down one at a time?

 

[Western]

Nice looking bridge:thumbsup: What size grating did you use? Was it hard to come by? A neighbor used all grating down the road from me for his decking, it is a all galvanized, two lane bridge. Have you thought of tying the ends of the pipe together in case someone gets close to the edge so they won't start bending down one at a time?

beeforty,
Thanks, The grating is 1"x4"x1/8th mesh. size of the sheet was 2'x20'. We found it at the steel yard, most of them here have it or will get it. The thicker mesh was more $$ and the galvanized was even more. These where $302 each.

I had mentioned it to him (the edges), they are pretty solid. They are 16" out past the I-beam, the I-beam is set to the width of his Toyota P/U wheels (just over 5+').

It would take allot to bend that thick wall, 2 7/8's pipe.

 

[atgreene]

Looks great! I'm looking at building a bridge on a new piece of property. I wanted a culvert, but due to leaf damns in the fall and snow, slush and ice in the spring there's no way a 3' culvert will work without flooding a huge area and potentially washing out around the culvert.

Good job!

 

[Western]

Looks great! I'm looking at building a bridge on a new piece of property. I wanted a culvert, but due to leaf damns in the fall and snow, slush and ice in the spring there's no way a 3' culvert will work without flooding a huge area and potentially washing out around the culvert.

Good job!

Thanks atgreene for the compliment.

Culverts are nice and somewhat cheaper, but situational and they aren't fool proof.

 

[Western]

I had realized I never put a final photo on after Eddie mentioned it. The neighbor and his brother had finished the wood and the bridge turned out great. I went today to look at it after the flooding we just had and the bridge took it with no problems. This bridge sure turned out stout (sp)