Stream Crossings

[RalphVa]

We've 2 stream crossings over a small stream that flows into Ivy Creek, which runs along most of the east side of our property. The little stream is mostly along the north side of the property.

I put in a tractor crossing and a people crossing. We had to move the people crossing when the territorial neighbor moved in and almost had to move the tractor crossing after all the floods of it in 2018.

Here's attached the tractor crossing, which consists of 5 or 6 four inch PVC pipes underneath some cemented rocks with tiles on top and a 4x4 across the upstream top to keep stuff in place. It survived the 10 to 12 foot deep flood in 2018, but my wife had to go down many times during 2018 and scoop muck from the upstream side of the PVC pipes. Because of this, we were entertaining moving it near the relocated people bridge, with 4 railroad ties all tied together with some 2 bys across. Friends at church had built tractor/truck crossings using 3 railroad ties. After 2018, the crossing has, again, posed no problem to maintain.

Ralph

 

[RalphVa]

Here is the people crossing that was moved because part of it encroached upon the territorial neighbor's property corner. The people crossing is just 3 4x4s with 1 bys tying them together on top. One could just raise the 4x4s vertical and let them drop to the other side. Then work ones way across from one side to the other by screwing the 1 bys in place.

The other shot is of a people bridge my wife drug down from that territorial neighbor's property because it was across a dam overflow channel on his property. We put it where shown because that area kept staying mucky after a big rain.

Ralph

 

[airbiscuit]

How wide is the stream at the widest point of the crossing?
How deep is the stream at the deepest point of the crossing?

 

[RalphVa]

The stream at the new people bridge is 8 ft wide. Think it's a 5 or 5 ft deep trench but water depth is only 6 or 8 inches, normally. We'd had 2 big floods down there. One in 2004 was 6 or 8 ft deep over the bridges. The one in 2018 was 10 or 12 ft deep over the bridges.

The tractor crossing is about the same except that the trench is only a couple feet deep.

Ralph

 

[Rebeldad1]

why dont you go find a old flatbed off a truck and drop it across it. use it for both.

 

[airbiscuit]

I also like the idea of a truck or bus frame for the sub structure.

 

[RalphVa]

why dont you go find a old flatbed off a truck and drop it across it. use it for both.

Big problem is how you get it down the hill that drops 100 ft elevation from here around the house to the creek area.

I'd figured on getting a boom pole rig for the 3ph to drag railroad ties down and to position them across the little stream.

Ralph

 

[RalphVa]

I also like the idea of a truck or bus frame for the sub structure.

Big problem is how you get it down the hill that drops 100 ft elevation from here around the house to the creek area.

I'd figured on getting a boom pole rig for the 3ph to drag railroad ties down and to position them across the little stream.

Ralph

 

[airbiscuit]

If you can drag railroad ties, you can drag a truck or trailer frame.

 

[RalphVa]

If you can drag railroad ties, you can drag a truck or trailer frame.

Railroad ties can be drug underneath the tractor. If you drag a truck or trailer frame from the back of the tractor down our back hill, they could overrun and hit the tractor rear wheels.

 

[LouNY]

Use your back or box blade to tow with,
chain of the blade with the ability to use the blade as a stop for what you are towing.

 

[3Ts]

You've also got lots of trees on the way to the creek, so you could also winch the trailer bed down to the creek using the trees as anchor points. - with a pulley, you could also use the tractor as an offset puller to replace the winch.

 

[RalphVa]

Getting it across the stream would be a problem. Would need a winch with wire up over a high up pulley on the other side of the creek.

I used a little aluminum ramp made for ATVs as a cover over a culvert inlet to under my road years ago. Just made some tiers out of coffee cans filled with concrete to sit it on. Still there.

Ralph