Simple Woodland Footbridge
Haven't been too active on iNat lately. I've been working on some more projects in the woods.
My daughter and some other kids helped me build a small footbridge for access to a small corner at the back of our lot. The main supports are black locust. We used lag bolts to attach a "ground contact" 2x4 along the length of each main support. Each slat in the bridge deck is anchored to the gc 2x4s rather than the locust beams. I threw a couple flat rocks under the main supports at the four corners where they would otherwise rest on soil. I have no idea how long this will last before one corner starts to sag, but I like the way it turned out. It certainly wasn't over-engineered and didn't take long to throw together. My favorite kind of project.
I'm secretly excited about the prospect of it beginning to sag. I bought a vintage railroad car jack at a sale several years ago that I've been using as a plant stand. If one corner of the bridge starts to sag, I'll try using the railroad jack to lift the sagging corner just enough to slide another rock under the end of the beam at that corner.
The beams were dragged into place with a hand-powered come-along. One of my rules for the wooded garden is... absolutely no heavy equipment. The neat thing about using a come-along is that some of my 50lb helpers were able to drag 1000lb logs using only the winch and their own physical strength. The other upside is that you can pick up a cheap come-along at Harbor Freight for the princely sum of $20.00. Hire a landscaping company and they'll insist on dragging the logs with a bobcat at much greater cost and the 50lb kid will sit idly by staring at his phone.
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