Bridge Building?

[tuk]

Got a couple of good tracks down in the scub at the local river but theres a drain we have to go round, was thinking about building a little bridge accross it, its maybe 2-3 meters max wide. thought about a couple of willow logs wired together and dug into the bank for each wheel to ride on. we only have bush basher trucks so dosent matter if a bit rough. has n e 1 got n e ideas?
cheers
Brendon

[oljamesyboy]

might get better response if you out down what bit of country you from

[tuk]

in ypuk/ypawa, just after peoples thoughts and if n e body done 1 b4 and how strong it was.
not after help building it...

[GotFlex]

is that the track from waipuk to waipawa with the big drain at waipawa end? just drive it

[getsum]

we have a few tracks here that have logs roped together to form a bridge, ride the grooves across...works well...

[tuk]

"we have a few tracks here that have logs roped together to form a bridge, ride the grooves across...works well...
we have a few tracks here that have logs roped together to form a bridge, ride the grooves across...works well..."

was exactly what we were thinking but wasnt sure how the logs would hold,

The track does go from ypuk to ypawa but if youv drivn it you would know that you have to do some stints on the stop bank as theres no trak, we have made alot of new tracks down taipare rd end. I want to avoid the stop bank as my 2.8dt rugger with s.o.a, 285 tractor tyres dosent like trying to turn on the top of the bank, and theirs 2 drains too steep or deep.
the trak in from ypawa is undrivable to a standard 4x4 at the moment as ruts are getting very deep.

[GotFlex]

awesome i know where your talking now mate. cool little track eh

[tuk]

definitly gets mudy in winter, its good 2-3hr hr trek to the ypuk bridge and back from taipare rd. i think i know the drain you are talking about aswell, rolled my truck creating a new track across it couple weeks back as the original crossing stops on the diffs, when i went down i caught a log and spun me sideways then it was all over. i was there last weekend and the new alternative trak looks like some people got majorly bogged. managed to cross it but had to be pulled out on return.
will prob b down there again this wekend if n e body want to try it.
I park my truk at my mates who lives at the start of taipar rd.
got variuos pics of that area if u on email as cant load up pics to site.

cher

[coxsy]

you could uses the places proper names wia instead of y jeess boy

[chevrolux]

helped my old man build a bridge for a school down at there little forest plantation thing. We used old power/phone poles. Make sure you find treated ones though. The untreated ones are now so far gone they break just looking at them. Farrrrken heavy bastards though. We tirfor'd them along the track. This was only a walking bridge but would definately trust it with a truck on it. The poles were are bloody long so the 'abutment' (which was just the bank) was really big in relation to the length of the bridge (only about 3m). Plenty of area to spread load across.

[Overkill]

you could uses the places proper names wia instead of y jeess boy

You could use proper grammer

[coxsy]

which is the worse , lazy spell of nz place names or my grammer

[Overkill]

which is the worse , lazy spell of nz place names or my grammer

In the big scheme of things....neither

I can understand both

[flyingbrick]

which is the worse , lazy spell of nz place names or my grammer

In the big scheme of things....neither

I can understand both

can you teach me coxsys language? maybe start a new thread?

[SMOKEY]

,tx writing is for PHONES, please use long hand on all posts .
I would be very careful building anything that public can use, If someone has an accident you the builder can and will be held responsible as was the case some years ago when a bridge collapse caused a fatality.

FITZY.

[rokhound]

you could uses the places proper names wia instead of y jeess boy

You could use proper grammer

WTF? You mean Wai, yes? Kind of ironic that you could bag someone for interesting spelling etc

[Overkill]

WTF? You mean Wai, yes? Kind of ironic that you could bag someone for interesting spelling etc

Not the Wai, the "uses".......How's that ironic?

[Swamped]

I would be very cautious of the liability factor too.
Wired logs should work fine so long as they are set right. Dunno about willow though
We put a bridge in over a similar sounding spot but used the deck off a dead truck that was abandoned years earlier nearby. Was a long thing off a bedford. Took a bit of dragging but worked a treat.

Watch that its high enough that water can't build up and push it around and that its dug in well at either end. Also consider track approach. If you don't have room to line up on it, it could be hairy. If not done right it would just be safer to hit the bottom and winch out rather than have a truck slide off it or more likely fall in the hole in the middle.

I don't like this bridge (there are a lot worse about I just don't have pics) without a guide but you get the idea. I like that the outer logs are sawed flat on top too.

[Suza]

I would be wary of the liabilty issue. When I was workimng in the bush we used to put in temp bridges made from old train caridge decks and when we finshed we always pulled them out so we coukldn't be held liable should something happen e.g one end washing out or someone doing something dumb

[Swamped]

Yeah if you guys have driven over some old forestry bridges, the very temporary sort. They get real dangerous real fast as it can be just wood and brush with heaps of dirt packed into it. We had a real near miss when a bike fell through the hollowed out part beneath from water flow and spat the rider off. Could stick use at your own risk signs up maybe but they would probably grow legs in short order.

[tuk]

cheers for the advice, neva thought about the liability factor. maybe il have to round off the edges and create a new obsitcal

for the p.c police--"go moan bout sumfing else"

[getsum]

I would be very cautious of the liability factor too.
Wired logs should work fine so long as they are set right. Dunno about willow though
We put a bridge in over a similar sounding spot but used the deck off a dead truck that was abandoned years earlier nearby. Was a long thing off a bedford. Took a bit of dragging but worked a treat.

Watch that its high enough that water can't build up and push it around and that its dug in well at either end. Also consider track approach. If you don't have room to line up on it, it could be hairy. If not done right it would just be safer to hit the bottom and winch out rather than have a truck slide off it or more likely fall in the hole in the middle.

I don't like this bridge (there are a lot worse about I just don't have pics) without a guide but you get the idea. I like that the outer logs are sawed flat on top too.

very similar to the ones ive used over here...
not for the faint hearted on the coast because theyr usually wet and slippery too..