Bridge

Aussis Disposals???????

That's a whole heap of steel. Good luck with your search and putting it together.

Happy trails, Mike.

Dunno what you want it for but to bridge the river on our farm a few years ago we used the base of a railway carriage that had been bought by a nearby caravan park to convert to a cabin.

Some little feral set fire to it and the upper part was destroyed leaving only the base. Lifted into place on some concrete blocks set into either bank it made a great bridge and would have gone close to the length you want.

I'd say an old railway carriage would be cheaper & easier to come by than a bailey bridge. Might be cheaper and you need to be able to get a crane in there to lift it into place.

Dave

Railway carriage ! Great idea. I am sure you could even get the design safe loading figures as well for peace of mind.

You could try the Roads and Traffic Authority in NSW, their bridge crews still use bailey bridges while carrying out maintenance on the timber bridge's. They could have some old stock??

Have a look in The Land news paper. They have adverts in the classified sections for bridges or bridging materials at times. You could also use the old bunch of logs across the gap then build a deck on top.

Installing a temporary bridge isn’t exactly an easy job. Last time I did one was with the modern equivilent of a baley bridge that is made out of Aluminium. It took 20 blokes going for about 4 hours and the aid of a Unimog to ‘launch’ it across a 20m gap.

There are ways it can be done, but none of them are easy.

Might be more than you need.
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We used an old Semi Trailer tray on my Mother in laws farm. Just put in suitable foundations each side. 12mt bridge only cost about $2000.

Admittedly was restricted in weight capacity, i thnk from memory about 5 tn max.

Alan

Harry.
A 40 ft shipping container up side down makes a cheep bridge. They slide fairly easily when upside down. they weigh about 5 ton but can support a lot more.
Eric

Ah it's getting better, lots of suggestions and I'm writing them all down.
John---
Aussie doesn't have any Bailey's
Alan---
Semi top sounds good, but need to take at least 8ton.
Eric---
Shipping container, well it would be impressive to say the least, but a little impractical for the situation, thanks all the same.
Hoyks---
The logs are our first way to go, but finding ones long enough will be a
c h a ll en ge. We still might have to go that way anyway if we can't find a Bailey or modular bridge of sorts. Now that newspaper your talking about, The Land, where is that publication from?
Keep em coming fellas I'm all ears. :>)