Our bridge
Access to our land is restricted by a small stream that's has a drop of about a meter on one bank preventing car access. Our plan is eventually to build a good solid bridge across it so it's easy to come and go with the car and trailer.
First we've made a temporary bridge which we're calling "Bridge 1.0" to get the trailer across initially so that we can transport wood and other building materials from the river to the land to store them in a dry place. This means we can now order wood for building the house and for building a much more solid bridge - "Bridge 2.0".
Bridge 1.0
This first temporary version was made in the weekend on the 1st and 2nd of December 2012. Basically the idea was to spend $0 on it by using scrap wood and fallen branches we found around the place, and to use four strong logs which would be positioned under the wheels of the car and trailer (the car wheels are 1.8m apart, and the trailer's are 2.1m apart). Here's some pics we took during construction.
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We then tested taking the car across both ways before attempting the trailer.
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And finally we took the trailer across! we definitely won't be taking the trailer across it again! It'll have to wait for Bridge 2.0. We emptied everything out of the trailer first to minimise damage in the event of disaster. We couldn't quite get the trailer lined up initially so we added a few extra logs and some bricks - some of the bits of wood started coming off but it made it across!
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