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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Try this site, It is entirely devoted to building homeade brideges.  You 
might have to navigate a bit or ask questions to meet your needs.  Good luck 
....... bobford

http://www.bridgesite.com/cgi-bin/dcforum_5/dcboard.cgi



--- On Thu, 7/10/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] Owner built bridges
> To: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 10:01 AM
> Thanks, Don. If you find it or think of the title let me 
> know. Meanwhile, I see if I can find anything on the 
> Internet by that description.
> 
> Has anyone on the list designed or built such a bridge 
> themselves? Getting to the lowest tractor crossing 
> location with heavy equipment wouldn't be easy, would 
> likely destroy more habitat than it's worth. I would
> say 
> it needs to be about a 50 foot span and one side of the 
> land is maybe 3-4 feet higher than the other. It would 
> likely need to be 3 feet above the rock creek bottom to be 
> of any use in crossing. Any supporting structures would 
> have to be somehow anchored into conglomerate limestone 
> which can be fragile...at least there is no frost line to 
> consider.
> 
> --Sage
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:46:09 -0500
>   "Don  Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >>Is there any book or source you could recommend on
> >>owner-built small-scale bridges (foot, tractor)?
> I'm
> >>thinking of something along the lines you see in
> state
> >>parks, etc.
> > 
> > One of the Fine Homebuilding books of a collection of 
> >magazine articles has 
> > at least one article on building a bridge of local 
> >materials.  Unfortunately 
> > like so much of my life it is in storage and 
> >inaccessible.
> > 
> > Don Bowen      KI6DIU
> >
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> 
> > 
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