He Used Quonset Sections To Build Foot Bridge

2005 - Volume #29, Issue #6, Page #23

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When his mother needed a footbridge to cross a creek near her home, Miles Aronson found a solution. He had just finished helping a friend put up a Quonset building, and he realized the left over sections would do the trick.
  "My mother wanted an arched deck and the Quonset sections had just the right shape and weren't too steep," says Aronson. "I took three sections, bolted two end to end, cut one down the center and bolted half to each side of the other two."
  Working with Quonset sections was simpler than working with raw corrugated metal. The predrilled holes made it easy to bolt the sections end to end and to add the half sections to the sides to make the bridge wider. The predrilled holes also came in handy when it came to adding a wood deck.
  "I just pre drilled holes on 5-ft. long, 2 by 6-in. treated planks so they matched the holes in the Quonset sections," recalls Aronson. "We ended up with a 1/2 to 3/4-in. space between each board. The bridge itself is 17 ft. long and five feet wide."
  After building his mother's bridge, Aronson had a request from the local community for a similar footbridge. They needed railings on their bridge, which he made with 1-in. steel pipe.
  "The railings took almost as long to make as the bridge," recalls Aronson. "I bolted steel plates to each side of the bridge, about two feet in from both ends, and welded pipe uprights to them."
  He then bent two lengths of pipe until they matched the arch of the bridge before welding them to the uprights.
  "The bridge is about five feet wide and is really strong," says Aronson. "I think it could hold 20 people with no problem."
  Mounting the bridge in place was even easier than building it. Because it's built with galvanized metal and the deck boards are treated, Aronson simply dug a hole to set each end in. The holes are deep enough that the first deck boards are at ground level. Not only was it easy to build and install, but it can also be removed just as easily.
  "Two people can pick it up, and four could easily pack it away," says Aronson.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Miles Aronson, Box 336, New Hazelton, B.C. V0J 2J0 Canada (ph 250 640-3573).

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He Used Quonset Sections To Build Foot Bridge AG WORLD 29-6-23 When his mother needed a footbridge to cross a creek near her home, Miles Aronson found a solution. He had just finished helping a friend put up a Quonset building, and he realized the left over sections would do the trick. "My mother wanted an arched deck and the Quonset sections had just the right shape and weren't too steep," says Aronson. "I took three sections, bolted two end to end, cut one down the center and bolted half to each side of the other two." Working with Quonset sections was simpler than working with raw corrugated metal. The predrilled holes made it easy to bolt the sections end to end and to add the half sections to the sides to make the bridge wider. The predrilled holes also came in handy when it came to adding a wood deck. "I just pre drilled holes on 5-ft. long, 2 by 6-in. treated planks so they matched the holes in the Quonset sections," recalls Aronson. "We ended up with a 1/2 to 3/4-in. space between each board. The bridge itself is 17 ft. long and five feet wide." After building his mother's bridge, Aronson had a request from the local community for a similar footbridge. They needed railings on their bridge, which he made with 1-in. steel pipe. "The railings took almost as long to make as the bridge," recalls Aronson. "I bolted steel plates to each side of the bridge, about two feet in from both ends, and welded pipe uprights to them." He then bent two lengths of pipe until they matched the arch of the bridge before welding them to the uprights. "The bridge is about five feet wide and is really strong," says Aronson. "I think it could hold 20 people with no problem." Mounting the bridge in place was even easier than building it. Because it's built with galvanized metal and the deck boards are treated, Aronson simply dug a hole to set each end in. The holes are deep enough that the first deck boards are at ground level. Not only was it easy to build and install, but it can also be removed just as easily. "Two people can pick it up, and four could easily pack it away," says Aronson. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Miles Aronson, Box 336, New Hazelton, B.C. V0J 2J0 Canada (ph 250 640-3573).

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