aighead
Senior Member
Hey Gang, I've previously posted about a pretty small bridge I've built over my small creek that goes to the back couple acres of my yard. Well, I have been offered a decent pile of concrete block and I already have some that the previous home owner so sweetly stored in the fence-row. My question is has anyone built a bridge out of this material and would you trust driving a backhoe over it when it's complete? The picture below is the bridge I currently have, but picture it covered in packed dirt that likes to fall apart off the sides.
The plan would be to dig up the bridge that is there, plus some, to get a decent spot to lay the blocks and fill them with dirt/gravel/concrete(?), probably try to keep the same pipes I have there but make the layout a bit nicer, then fill the empty space with more dirt/gravel/concrete, then lay additional blocks on top probably a couple layers high, and maybe re-cover that with dirt (though I think it'd be nicer if it was just the block to drive over). I assume that if I pack the empty space between the leading and trailing stacks of block and the pipes then I could pretty securely stack block over the pipes so it's all sturdy enough to drive over, but maybe I'm wrong... I just realized that it can't be dirt that would just wash away.
What am I not thinking of?
The plan would be to dig up the bridge that is there, plus some, to get a decent spot to lay the blocks and fill them with dirt/gravel/concrete(?), probably try to keep the same pipes I have there but make the layout a bit nicer, then fill the empty space with more dirt/gravel/concrete, then lay additional blocks on top probably a couple layers high, and maybe re-cover that with dirt (though I think it'd be nicer if it was just the block to drive over). I assume that if I pack the empty space between the leading and trailing stacks of block and the pipes then I could pretty securely stack block over the pipes so it's all sturdy enough to drive over, but maybe I'm wrong... I just realized that it can't be dirt that would just wash away.
What am I not thinking of?