gadeerwoman
Senior Member
Got to get around to replacing my old atv bridge that finally washed out last year. Can't get to one side of the little creek with any vehicle except an atv. Creek seldom holds over 4 inches of water and that's only in a small stream maybe 2 foot wide, but banks are about 20' apart. Thinking of digging some holes maybe 20 inches deep and filling concrete footing form with concrete on each side in the driest sections of creek bed and using metal deck post brackets to attach posts on top of concrete. Then running beams to the uprights, then flooring across beams. Would make the concrete pilings maybe 3 foot high. Anyone ever tried similar? Everyone says just run telephone poles across but with on heavy access that is impossible. You can't pull those things by hand and then lay them across the creek by hand. I ain't superwoman!! Water into the creek comes from a couple springs about 400 yards upstream so it's not a heavy flow of water unless we get torrential rains and even then I've never seen more than a foot or so of water depth from runoff into the creek. All will have to be done by hand. Think 20" deep concrete footings will be enough?