Twin Pipe Creek Bridge

Twin Pipe Creek Bridge FARM HOME Miscellaneous When the 70-year-old piling bridge under our farm road got too shaky for heavy loads I had local contractors bid on replacement The solution? Two 72-in dia corrugated metal drainage pipes held in place by concrete and packed clay Mike Nolte at Nolte Service & Repair first removed the deck of the old bridge and placed it 300 ft upstream to carry light traffic during the 3-day construction He filled the creek channel depression under the old bridge with rock and broken concrete and then weighted down the 28-ft long pipes with more broken concrete and clay packed over the top He poured concrete around the inlet end of the pipes Nolte raised the grade of the approaches to the bridge with nearby pasture dirt and gravel packing more clay over the pipes and then two layers of coarse and regular road gravel Total cost of the new bridge was $25 000 Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Rex Gogerty 33475 K Ave Hubbard Iowa 50122 ph 641 487-7617; rexgogerty@netins net ; Mike Nolte Nolte Service & Repair Bondurant Iowa ph 515 249-6124

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