My quick and dirty bridge

General Lee · Oct 27, 2013

For a while I couldn't access some of my property with my tractor due to a creek. I finally came across an old trailer frame which I laid in place and added some milled 2x12's. Quick and dirty, won't win any cosmetic awards but it works. I do have it staked at the 4 corners to hold it in place in the event the creek gets a little high.

Oh, and my avatar shows this tractor stuck in the area the bridge now lays .....

Dr Dave · Oct 27, 2013

Looks like it does the job, thats all you need.

Dave

tubzz · Oct 28, 2013

very simple and it works, good job

Bigfoot62 · Oct 28, 2013

Hey, it works. Good 'nuff.

One suggestion: get a piece of steel cable and a couple clamps and tie one corner of the frame to a good-sized tree. That will keep you from having to hunt it after a flood.

k0ua · Oct 28, 2013

It looks nice!

James K0UA

NS Gearhead · Oct 29, 2013

That looks great! About the same span I need to cover over my brook. What kind of trailer was it and how long did you make it?

SPIKER · Oct 31, 2013

mine is made from frame of a Mobile Home,

Span is about 20' with telephone polls bolted into the frame and 2x8x10' treated deck boards screwed down.

Mark

General Lee · Nov 2, 2013

NS Gearhead said:
That looks great! About the same span I need to cover over my brook. What kind of trailer was it and how long did you make it?

I believe the frame is from a mobile home trailer and is approximately 20 ft. long. It was laying in the woods on my buddy's farm. A cutting torch was used to cut the axles off and that was it!

Big foot- I like your idea w/ the cable to a tree, thanks for the recommendation.

Kyle241 · Nov 2, 2013

Looks like it works to me! Nice.

RalphVa · Nov 2, 2013

Looks good. I did something similar, but on a smaller scale. My driveway was starting to get eroded out where water was rushing into a big culver under it. I bought an aluminum ATV ramp, sawed the dividers in two and laid the two ramp pieces side by side to cover the hole beside the driveway. Then I built a wall beside the driveway using those interlocking mortarless wall blocks.

I put the ramp pieces on top of "piers" made out of concrete poured into big coffee cans.

It's lasted now for over 12 years. No sign of any more erosion.

Ralph