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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