Backyard Bridge Build part 1 of 2
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- This is the first part of a two part mini series on a quick summer project connecting two parts of my property. They are separated by a seasonal creek that stays swampy even when no water flows and it can still be tricky to get across it in the best of weather.
The project took about 30 hours to build and was done almost entirely out of material I had in my boneyard with the exception of the driving surface which I'm still deciding on. It is functional and I have driven across it with a temporary deck on it for construction.
This video will take us though cleaning up and reinforcing some salvaged beams as well as placing them on the footings, The bulk of the build and final dirt work will come in the second video next week (maybe earlier:-)
Happy Holidays and as always, Thanks for watching
-Jake
Note; I've recently started shooting in higher resolution but most of this series will be like my previous videos.
0:00 Select timbers
3:24 Clean up beams
12:00 Fab steel
29:00 Move beams to location
34:40 Set beams
Interesting camera perspectives 👍
Great project. Always nice when you can do most of the work with material you have laying around the shop and yard. Looking forward to part 2.
Good project, nice job. Looking forward to seeing how you wrap it up!
Carrying the beams longwise with the strap and forks was genius. Yep i never thought of that and i have a bunch of NOS 20' hydraulic cylinders that will be moved exactly like you showed. Priceless workaround and it never occurred to me.
Always enjoy your videos because i often work alone and have to figure out how to create another set of hands.
Btw hilarious when you said that the bridge was only going to have the dozer go across it. Lol. Just a dozer. 20 tons? I was thinking a small tractor until i realized that i was mistaken. 😅
Great videos as always. Thank you sir.
Thanks for tuning back in brother, glad you came away with a new strategy.
One (or two) more tips for spearing the load, especially if it's round is on the heel end you need to cradle it and an old tire works good for that or at the very least a block of wood. If you have enough machine to move two at a time that's the best because you can tie the two far ends together and then the load is no longer round.
You also can't have enough strap or chain at the fork tips because the load weight is super amplified there and block of wood between the forks can help out immensely.
You will quickly find all the pitfalls with the process but you will also realize that all the quirks can be used to help maneuver the item in a pinch if you remember how it behaves.
Oh, also. My little dozer is only about 10K pounds which is not much more than the mini excavator. It's also not far to fall if something goes wrong and it's a soft landing:-)
@@ShredPile great info thank you! I really appreciate the addl tips and info. Brothers from other mothers! 👍 Time to move your stuff to NC.
10k dozer - awesome. That's a convenient weight when transporting.
Happy holidays!
My thoughts exactly, I loved the way you carried them! Then to go a step further and give tips and tricks with the tire and whatnot...... MASTERCLASS.
You make it look so easy, almost like you're winging it. But, you've clearly had years to perfect your methods.
Hahaha, i'm still laughing at that, "almost like you're winging it" I so totally am most of the time but I do so much of it that it all really becomes so similar that it feels like i'm just doing it again:-)
I appreciate you man, happy holidays! @@yourmother102
Awesome Job!!
nice job!
I would just had screwed the whole project up, as I would just drill the holes in the braces in line, splitting the whole beam...so well thought from you to stagger them...
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It was close :). If you watch again you’ll see me mark center on the first one then catch it on the second and then go correct it on the first one:). A lot of these old timbers are free of heart and they tend to split much easier than a box heart beam (as I’ve found out)….
If you could get some coppertox and drizzle it in that flake part it might help
I may try that, I for sure need to fill all the holes and voids with blackjack, we usually get two ant hatches and one termite hatch a year and they take any way in that they can. I am going to put a metal flashing over the water and ice shield with a good drip edge on it to keep the standing water at bay as well.
I wonder if preloading the under trusses by heating the steal would have helped. Nice work though. Rich in Florida
Hey you caught me at my computer. Great question but I don't think it would help. Any slight benefit would just overload the attachment at the ends of the steel which is lags into the wood. Considering some sort of pre-load when i built it I did start with the steel high on the lags and with the lags angled to stretch the steel as much as possible. As they pulled down I used the hammer to bend the steel at the center block and the ends to straighten and then I finished running the lags in. Perhaps a better attachment would've been to also anchor the steel ends to the footing but in the end I think what I built is sufficient for my needs and you can clearly see that the steel is behaving as intended as a cradle to keep deflection in the wood beam at a minimum. Just to satisfy my own curiosity I may set up some sort of analog measuring system to monitor movement as I add the deck surface and begin to use it for real in the spring. Thanks for tuning in!
Sorry, inadvertent dislike there:-) I corrected it.
Wenn du elastomer oder Hartplastik unter die auflagerpunkte vom holz auf das Fundament legst fault das Holz nicht weg.👍👍👍🇩🇪
Vielen Dank dafür. Die letzte Aufgabe, die ich erledigte, bevor ich sie die Auffahrt entlang bewegte, bestand darin, jeweils eine Asphaltschindel an der Unterseite festzunageln, wo sie auf dem Fundament liegt. Ich hoffe, das wird ausreichen.
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Great work, enjoyed the vid, subscribed for more.
Thanks for the sub, I appreciate that!
Are you getting any time for your shipping container build? Or is that your winter time project?
No, I’m full time plus right now on the modern house series. All the spare time corners are full of loose ends and rush jobs. I’m still shopping for the workshop porch material which is the same as the bridge deck so in both cases permanent access is the next step :-)
wow , amazing what ya can do alone with ingenuity and heavy equipment. impressive
May I ask where you’re at with that heat this time of year ?✌️
Hey thanks, this is actually footage from about the end of August In Nw Oregon. Wasn't the worst year but we had some hot ones
@@ShredPile august makes more sense! we are in Reno NV , enjoying your show thanx
40:40 no cap, yo😈
ya caught me....:-)
@johndemeen5575 it was raining here at work, and I inadvertently fat fingered your comment gone with a wet screen but I wanted to respond to your reaction to my using a cut off wheel with no eye protection. Were you to stick around the channel longer you would see me employ PPE on a regular basis. Since my face didn’t have to be right in it nor did my eyes need to be open to do it if you’d watch further, you’d see that I rarely ever cut a bolt completely because it’s at that point it usually pinches if it’s going to. I chose to stop and complete the cut by breaking it with a sledgehammer. So no offense taken, and I actually have the same reaction on RUclips for various things that I choose not to join in on for the same reasons. Take care, and I hope you’re enjoying a nice holiday break.