fellsbiker
October 21st, 2003, 11:26 PM
|Warning: This post has nothing to do with the fells!|
I wanna build a bridge. For an ATV. Not a quad abut one of those "off road go karts" Like this
http://www.gokartsupply.com/286pict.htm
So I ride it in there private woods near my grandma's house. And I've gained alot of insight on just what it takes to make a trail. With only one user, even if that user has a 6.5 HP motor, it can be really tough making something that will not fade away to nature. Anyway, I'm to an area that is kind of deep mud, almost a small pond/swamp, but not quite. I only have access to this one corridor so I have to go over it, and I really don't have very much ground clearance on this thing, deep mud is a big no no. So I need to make a bridge. And I figure I've come to the right place, you guy's have built a lot of bridges. My problem is I can't come up with a construction technique that fits the problem. I really have very little money to spend on this thing. One thing I do have is a free unlimited amount of wooden palettes. They should be wide enough for me to drive across. But if I just lay them directly on the mud I think they will get swallowed up by the mud, or at least knocked majorly out of alignment and when i try to drive over i'll just end up knocking them all out of alignment. I can't think of a *cheap* way to make a raised bridge out of these pallets, ones that wont collapse under the force of a 250 LB go kart + 140 LB rider. It doesn't need to be high, not like the new MTB loop bridge at the fells, thats huge, I don't have to worry about water flow underneath or animals crossing. As long as you can drive over it it doesn't need to be nice or neat or pretty. Another problem is I can't tell how long it goes for, so I have no idea how long it needs to be. I was thinking about a way of chopping up a tree trunk into 1.5' sections and using them with the palettes on top, but i don't have a chain-saw, or a tree to kill :-) But I'm afraid if I used anything with a smaller diameter, like a cinderblock with the palettes on it, it would just fall right over. I'm not sure but if anyone has any ideas, let me know.
I wanna build a bridge. For an ATV. Not a quad abut one of those "off road go karts" Like this
http://www.gokartsupply.com/286pict.htm
So I ride it in there private woods near my grandma's house. And I've gained alot of insight on just what it takes to make a trail. With only one user, even if that user has a 6.5 HP motor, it can be really tough making something that will not fade away to nature. Anyway, I'm to an area that is kind of deep mud, almost a small pond/swamp, but not quite. I only have access to this one corridor so I have to go over it, and I really don't have very much ground clearance on this thing, deep mud is a big no no. So I need to make a bridge. And I figure I've come to the right place, you guy's have built a lot of bridges. My problem is I can't come up with a construction technique that fits the problem. I really have very little money to spend on this thing. One thing I do have is a free unlimited amount of wooden palettes. They should be wide enough for me to drive across. But if I just lay them directly on the mud I think they will get swallowed up by the mud, or at least knocked majorly out of alignment and when i try to drive over i'll just end up knocking them all out of alignment. I can't think of a *cheap* way to make a raised bridge out of these pallets, ones that wont collapse under the force of a 250 LB go kart + 140 LB rider. It doesn't need to be high, not like the new MTB loop bridge at the fells, thats huge, I don't have to worry about water flow underneath or animals crossing. As long as you can drive over it it doesn't need to be nice or neat or pretty. Another problem is I can't tell how long it goes for, so I have no idea how long it needs to be. I was thinking about a way of chopping up a tree trunk into 1.5' sections and using them with the palettes on top, but i don't have a chain-saw, or a tree to kill :-) But I'm afraid if I used anything with a smaller diameter, like a cinderblock with the palettes on it, it would just fall right over. I'm not sure but if anyone has any ideas, let me know.