Go Anywhere Portable Bridge

Go Anywhere Portable Bridge FARM HOME Miscellaneous 3-4-29 If you've got gullies, creeks or ditches you've been driving around for years because there's no easy way to cross them, maybe you need a portable bridge. Instead of building a costly permanent crossing over each ditch, gully or whatever, you simply pull a portable bridge to wherever its needed for bridging livestock, equipment, vehicles or whatever, explains Bruce Pohlig, president of Continental Custom Bridge, Alexandria, Minn. "We cut the cost of building a bridge in half," Bruce told FARM SHOW. "We'll build any size - from a narrow foot bridge to a 4 lane highway bridge for semis." Working with a Continental representative, you select from several bridge designs, choosing a portable or permanent bridge to suit whatever load the structure is likely to carry. Bridges are all-steel with wood decks. Trusses are built above the deck on standard bridge designs, but can be built below the deck, or even eliminated, if necessary to accommodate wide machinery. Pohlig says farmers are buying bridges to carry center pivot irrigation systems or wide equipment over streams or ravines, for driveways and many other uses, A tow bar can be adopted to certain bridge designs to give them portability for moving from place to place. A typical 10-ft. wide, 40-ft. long bridge rated at 5 to 7 tons, enough to support a 100 hp. tractor, weighs about 6,600 lbs. Cost is right at $5,800, plus delivery. The company delivers anywhere in the U.S. and Canada on its own trucks. For more details, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Continental Custom Bridge, Route 5, Box 178, Alexandria, Minn. 56308 (ph. 612 852-7500).

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