Are they treated? And do you know what with? What are you using for abuttments?

 

Treated. Creosote. Will place a horizontal RR tie at each end. These will only be used by friends and family, walking and biking and only when there is water in the creek, which is fairly rare.

 

Set the upright posts today. Plan to place another tie under each end and secure it to the posts with bolts.

 

Completed the setting abutment/support. Still need to cut the relief in the cross tie to level poles and then bolt everything together and drive the re-bar to anchor everything.

 

You doing this all on your own?

 

Yep, well, my skid steer and me.

 

:thumbsup:

 

Looks great, keep the picks coming.

 

Finished. The one photo looks odd, because the treads are cut to fit around the posts. Those are straight. I did make a mistake when placing the poles and the tapers are at alternate ends. That caused an angle in the middle. There is a correction by using some tapered wedges. Again, the photo from the end makes it look much more dramatic. In the long run, I know that will bug me, so I will end up cutting some different wedges to fix it, but I was racing the weather.The photo looking up is more realistic.

I will do the next one with the large ends of both poles at the same end. This was a learning bridge for me and I'm overall happy. It is solid. I wouldn't go any longer though with poles. I have a shorter one to build with poles and I will use steel box joists for the longer span.

 

FS specs say you'll need hand rail.

 

I'm pretty sure this is on private property. He should be OK.

 

Great idea. Thanks

 

Thanks! That helped a lot... good resource!

 

I think I need to build my bridge two poles long. How do I splice them in the middle without putting a support in the middle of the river? Can I just bolt 2 X 10s or 2 X 12s on either side of the poles for six or either feet?

 

That can get complicated. As you know, the poles are very heavy, so there is going to be a lot of weight at that junction. How long is the actual gap you are trying to span?

 

Nice work