[TheForge] Old bridges (Was: standard materials on hand)

[John Allen]

You always have to play the game in business. I got 2 free yards of
concrete since a concrete company needed a tail light bracket welded
back on. Good stuff does happen when you stop and ask if they need
help.

On 6/14/09, Dan Scheid <damales at pollybutte.net> wrote:
>
> LOL here it was the opposite. We had at the road just off our property the
> last wooden bridge in riverside county. It was over a small wash they
> replaced with something 4 Time the width of the wash and able to handle four
> lanes .. it was two lane road. Good thing was I got 20 yard of concrete out
> of them being next to the property.
> Dan Scheid
> /
> /
>> There are several very old iron bridges in my area that are slated
>> to come down and I keep asking if I can salvage some of the metal...
>
> There was a 100 year old, one-lane king truss bridge near me.  A
> few years ago, a boom truck with a poorly secured boom went
> across.  Boom came loose, cleaned out a critical element.  Truck and
> bridge went into the (rather shallow, tidal) river.  Of course, I
> tried to get some pieces after they'd dragged the wreckage out of the
> drink.  Ho hum: the whole works had to sit in the highway department's
> fenced compound for months while the provincial engineers, the/some
> insurance company engineers, lawyers' engineers and who knows who else
> had a chance to scrutinize it.  I finally gave up.
>
> After a year of using a really dangerous, unpaved back-road detour
> with no guard rails above the drop-off to the river, we got a crappy,
> ugly insta-bridge and it's still one lane.
>
>
> - Mike
>
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