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As some of you know, the central states had a bad storm come through. This is some of the damage I received...
Here is the bridge going to the other house that washed out. This is the third bridge build in the lifetime that I know of, we built this bridge from scratch back in 03. Used 12" diameter telephone poles soaked in creosote, 3 foot below the creek bed, every 3 foot, 5 on each side. 8x12 beams laying down on top of that, then 8x12 beams running across the creek with 2 foot spacing. The 8x12 beams are also creosote treated throughout. The decking is treated 4x6 lumber. If you look closely in a couple pics you can see the decking and 8x12 beams. There was a couple beams left over, so they are sitting on the side for future widening of the bridge. I've had my firetruck loaded across this bridge and it didn't even flinch or make a sound. With it at 36k lbs, I'm comfortable knowing it will hold 40k...
Here you can see how much earth was removed, its much more than in the pics, its about 8-10" all the way across...
Here is a stump that washed up from somewhere, doesn't look big, but take notice the scale difference between my 5'8" tall sister compared to the stump. It's about 40" diameter, 3 foot tall. There is its brother that washed up in another pic later with the tractor...
This is a tree that washed up onto the bridge. Also notice the footrail of the bridge was slung parallel to the creek. Yeah, the water topped the bridge...
Here we had some 12x12 timbers that were stacked on the treeline behind the Chevy. Don't worry, the Chevy ain't ours, its a friend of the family. He drives Ford's now, you can't see it, but about 20 feet to the left of the Chevy is where the garden is...
Here is all the debris on the tail end of the bridge. If this gives you an idea of how much and how fast the water was running. You can also see the cutoff of the piling we used as well as the beams and decking. The floog washed out the earth on both sides, the bridge structurally is sound, but its an island now...
Just to the right of the bridge and the road to the bridge starts on of the fields. You can see here the rock that was deposited from the creek overflowing...
I'm standing on the road, about 30 feet from the bridge, here you can see the treeline of the creek on the left, and what's left of the lake. You can also see more rock piles...
Past the basketball ball goal and the shed, which is hidden and past the spruce in the pic, I'm in the field looking back towards the house and my shop, which is next to the road, you can see my shop on the left, on the right is the treeline for the creek. You can see the grass how it is laid over from the water topping the banks like a levee that was breached...
A little further down the field is where these stumps washed up, the one in front the tractor is the brother to the one by the bridge. The creek is on the other side the tractor...
You can barely see the stumps in front the tractor, but this shows you how much earth was removed from the flood, we lost about two feet on the field side of the creek. It took out the earth around this tree, which fell onto the power lines, knocking out power to the old house...
Hard to see, but if you look closely you can see where the tree leaned up against the power lines, touching all 3 together, knocking them out...
This is the tree that was washed out, touching the power lines...
On the other side of the tractor, this is the rest of the field, you can see just how much debris was carried. In the farground, you can see the paved road, which had 6-8" of water on the road, for a distance of about 200 ft...
To go along with all the rock that was deposited, there is literally tons on sand in the field. Here is my foot after just stepping in it. I sunk about 6"...
SVT
Here is the bridge going to the other house that washed out. This is the third bridge build in the lifetime that I know of, we built this bridge from scratch back in 03. Used 12" diameter telephone poles soaked in creosote, 3 foot below the creek bed, every 3 foot, 5 on each side. 8x12 beams laying down on top of that, then 8x12 beams running across the creek with 2 foot spacing. The 8x12 beams are also creosote treated throughout. The decking is treated 4x6 lumber. If you look closely in a couple pics you can see the decking and 8x12 beams. There was a couple beams left over, so they are sitting on the side for future widening of the bridge. I've had my firetruck loaded across this bridge and it didn't even flinch or make a sound. With it at 36k lbs, I'm comfortable knowing it will hold 40k...
Here you can see how much earth was removed, its much more than in the pics, its about 8-10" all the way across...
Here is a stump that washed up from somewhere, doesn't look big, but take notice the scale difference between my 5'8" tall sister compared to the stump. It's about 40" diameter, 3 foot tall. There is its brother that washed up in another pic later with the tractor...
This is a tree that washed up onto the bridge. Also notice the footrail of the bridge was slung parallel to the creek. Yeah, the water topped the bridge...
Here we had some 12x12 timbers that were stacked on the treeline behind the Chevy. Don't worry, the Chevy ain't ours, its a friend of the family. He drives Ford's now, you can't see it, but about 20 feet to the left of the Chevy is where the garden is...
Here is all the debris on the tail end of the bridge. If this gives you an idea of how much and how fast the water was running. You can also see the cutoff of the piling we used as well as the beams and decking. The floog washed out the earth on both sides, the bridge structurally is sound, but its an island now...
Just to the right of the bridge and the road to the bridge starts on of the fields. You can see here the rock that was deposited from the creek overflowing...
I'm standing on the road, about 30 feet from the bridge, here you can see the treeline of the creek on the left, and what's left of the lake. You can also see more rock piles...
Past the basketball ball goal and the shed, which is hidden and past the spruce in the pic, I'm in the field looking back towards the house and my shop, which is next to the road, you can see my shop on the left, on the right is the treeline for the creek. You can see the grass how it is laid over from the water topping the banks like a levee that was breached...
A little further down the field is where these stumps washed up, the one in front the tractor is the brother to the one by the bridge. The creek is on the other side the tractor...
You can barely see the stumps in front the tractor, but this shows you how much earth was removed from the flood, we lost about two feet on the field side of the creek. It took out the earth around this tree, which fell onto the power lines, knocking out power to the old house...
Hard to see, but if you look closely you can see where the tree leaned up against the power lines, touching all 3 together, knocking them out...
This is the tree that was washed out, touching the power lines...
On the other side of the tractor, this is the rest of the field, you can see just how much debris was carried. In the farground, you can see the paved road, which had 6-8" of water on the road, for a distance of about 200 ft...
To go along with all the rock that was deposited, there is literally tons on sand in the field. Here is my foot after just stepping in it. I sunk about 6"...
SVT
