Creek crossing

Chad, this is not the same creek that runs through yer back yard and along our eastern boundary... it's a tributary that I call Toilsome Creek. Dunno what I was thinkin'... Our Troublesome Creek crossing is a foot deep an' 12 feet wide, when the water is low.
 
Angle grinder did better, but faildd... gotta get more wheels
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After a while, it stops cutting and gets pinched. Might hafta cut out a chunk...

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What is used for reinforcing in these?
If it's not steel, could you use a chainsaw?
 
I'ma thankin' I gotta get three or four cutoff wheels and use 'em up grindin' a wedge outa the rubber, so's I can reach the wire.

Wishin' I had an acetylene torch!
 
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If you need any more let me know we have couple more tracks been mowing around for years and trying to figure out what to do with them. Also will a regular grinding wheel cut you out a larger notch plus it will cut the steel?
 
I might want another... let's keep in touch about that! Thanks!

Part of the problem is that the cutoff wheel diminished in size as it got deeper. That's why I need three or four more.

I'll try a regular grinding wheel, too, if I can get one 4.5" or 5".
 
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I might want another... let's keep in touch about that! Thanks!

Part of the problem is that the cutoff wheel diminished in size as it got deeper. That's why I need three or four more.

I'll try a regular grinding wheel, too, if I can get one 4.5" or 5".
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Harbor freight. Up to 7"
 
Mac up with me and bring them by the shop one Saturday and we’ll use the torch.
 
Chad, I have one more saw to try... if it fails, I'll drag it onto the trailer and head yer way.

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Btw, I have no more Saturdays free, til September on account of my son bein' married August 21.

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What I ended up doing...

Collected brick bats and made a dam upstream of the ford. Laid the two tracks I have on top of the brick bat dam. Then, with much effort, I cleared the ford of the big, jagged rocks that made it difficult for the UTV. The poles will be used for making a pole barn addition to the shop.

Trucks and tractors go through the ford. Mowers go across the brick bat dam. UTV goes either way.

Interesting thing about the brick bat dam is that the water level behind it is fairly constant. It passes the amount of water necessary to maintain the level behind the dam, and no more. When it rains really hard, the water goes over the top, but usually the top is dry.


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Out at my range land we built a bridge out of an old flatbed salvaged from a wrecked truck.
Used the neighbors tractor to haul it into location on a flatbed trailer. It has worked great for the last 2 years. The neighbor dude worked for beer and some range time! lol
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MacEntyre said:
Man, that looks like it would wash away real easy!
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So far so good... Water has washed over it, but it stays put.
We poured concrete "pillars" at each corner and anchored it down, then built up dirt for "ramps" on & off the bridge.
The bed ( bridge )is pretty dang heavy. It came off a 2.5 ton Chevy farm truck.
 
@Jeppo, it's Toilsome Creek. The big one, Troublesome Creek, has a useful ford, and floods too deep to bridge.

Also, if I made it so that vehicles could cross on the bridge, then the Williams Pipeline Company would use it, and tear it up. They can cross on the fords.
 
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