The recent tirrential rains and flooding washed out the
bridge to John's house. It is on private land, the cost of rebuilding professionally would be prohibitive. So. the oly answer was diy. Being a real community costs were minimised, mainly the cost of feeding the woofers. Max and Greg, his son, felled the trees (niton eucylaptus), and used their tractor to put them onto a trailer for the two km journey. It took just over a week of hard work and clever inginuity from John to complete the task. Men and women joined in, with never more than four at any one one time working. There are three concrete piers with two logs
spanning the length of the bridge. Screws bolted old railway sleepers to the log base.
Top. Trees for felling
2. Max trimming logs
3. First half of the bridge
4. John, Veronika and Marina, on 2nd span.
5. Almost complete
1 comment:
Seems like such a lot of work for such a small bridge...wont it just get washed away again?
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