Need to build a bridge

[Mountain Man]

I’ve got a 3’ creek I need to be able to cross in my buggy for a new hunting spot down by the river. Need to be able to pull it up at anytime due to flooding concerns. The water is 3’ wide but boggy on each side. We have already sank 3 atvs trying to cross it last year.

I was thinking about putting a few 4x4’s together and some kind of dimensional material on top of that for each side of the Viking but didn’t know if anyone has done something better. Don’t want to build for a tank but definitely don’t want to bust going across.


Thoughts on if that will hold a Yamaha Viking ?

[Drycreek3189]

Three joints of 8 5/8” casing for each wheel track, (six in all) would make a good bridge. Should be able to find some used at a reasonable price considering oil prices are in the dumpster. If you stake them down properly, they will stand the floods. You’d need to weld some straps across them in three or four places but they’d last forever.

My son built this one with some old catwalks from a tank battery and a few boards.

[Briar Friar]

Maybe consider a sectional floating board walk/drive....dunnage is another word...same same but different. I got the idea being out in AZ and CA near Yuma...Imperial Sands Dunes...where pioneers used a floating wooden wagon trail to get across the sands. Powerline Construction companies use big sections of dunnage to move tracked equipment on soil someone doesnt want torn up.

[Balcones_Walker]

I have the same requirement, but was planning to just use a culvert pipe and caliche fill

[Mountain Man]

Good ideas.

TTT

[3whunt]

No brained for that short of a stretch. Rail road ties bound by t posts. Won’t wash in a flood and super cheap