Posted by fixerupper on July 18, 2013 at 19:51:35 from (100.42.82.30):
The gravel road bridge between our two farm places will be closed for a couple of weeks while they replace it with two 96"X70' tubes. The 1/8 mile trek between the to farms will be 4 miles for awhile so I thought I'd make a temporary bridge of my own just for the golf cart so I could still scoot between the two places. I had a couple of 32' long utility poles so I dug a ramp in the bank with the loader, drug the poles across, laid eleven 36" solid doors across the poles, screwed them down and I had a bridge. The doors came from an institution for handicapped children in a nearby town. The laws told them they had to replace all the doors so these perfectly good mahogany solid core doors were going to be destroyed till my neighbor rescued them. When I got the doors he told me DO NOT BRING THEM BACK!!! LOL It leans to the west on the south end and there's a lean to the east on the north end but it's solid and that's all that matters. I put an old green finger pinching jack under the center, or close to it, to take out the bounce. There's no railing, never will be and the granddaughters love walking across it. There's practically no water flowing under it. I was told "well, well, what happens if it rains? The dirt ramp will be too muddy!" My answer to that was "if only it would rain!" Jim
A couple of the doors have signs saying "please announce your exit" Another sigh is an illustration of how to help a handicapped person get in a wheelchair, so these doors have personality.
The machine of destruction heading for the doomed bridge.
Hmm, the tubes would make a nice golf cart shed if only my feet wouldn't slide underneath it getting in and out
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My son headed out to pick up another load of feed to deliver. Truck was nice and cool inside and Dad here wasn't feeling too well so dad went for an air conditioned ride. Jim
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