Got a call from a mate who was to busy,6 wheel lorry went through this bridge over a main drain, household is stranded, till thursday when we fit temp. bridge.
i've dug 2 base plinths and concreted ready for bridge to sit on, 2 layer A252mesh rc45 concrete for a 6 week stand with foot traffic only,
more pic to follow 100t crane on thursday
lorry driver was very lucky,it was standing vertical on the same side as minidigger,
3x1x.3 concrete pad, bridge is 18mx2.6m comes from beaver bridges,they suggest lay it on sleepers,but the engineer over-ruled it, over kill in my opionion MSH
I would have thought a gang of steel shutterers and fixers would fix and pour that in a week
around 20m3
but i suppose it would cost around the 20k mark
LLL
All went well today, -4 this morning,crane arrived from Leed's,bridge from shropshire/wales border, 1.5hr to rig crane 100tonner, 10mins to lift bridge in,lean mix across the ends to walk on, home at 3.30pm
Just hope we win the final phase fitting new bridge and abuttments, down to 3 quotes so fingers crossed
dig dug dan wrote:Long way for a crane to come. Was there not one nearer?
Local crane co. came out and looked, but whated paying £3500+vat up front before they lift,this crane was hired through bridge co. on there a/c, as the consultant won't get paid from loss adjusters for a month, lot of expense and time 3.5 hours each way travel 1.5 hours to rig up and pack away for 10mins work MSH
