This morning we painted one side and edges of the 2\/ 2″x12″\/ 12′ arches, cut and painted the 5\/ 2×4 \/29 inch interior braces, and have found room enough to paint 3 of the decking boards that will be sawed up into deck for the bridge. This afternoon we’ll flip the boards and paint the other side 2 coats. Then we’ll paint more decking boards—there’s quite a stack—and tomorrow level the bridge footing and make sure it fits, then screw together the 2 arch pieces, mating them parallel with each other, held apart by 2 of the 2×4 bracing boards at either end, then one in the middle.<\/p>\n
That’s going to weigh plenty. Once we haul that into place, which may involve assembly on pondside, we’re going to probably attach and hand-saw the decking planks after they’re screwed to the arches, sitting on our previous work as we deck our way across the bridge. We haven’t room to paint every decking board at once. But we’ll get there. We’re going to take some pix as we go, because this is going to be quite the bridge.<\/p>\n
We priced a 12 foot bridge of this sort when we started. It came in at about 2000.00. We’re getting out of it for the price of the lumber and the paint—and OSG and OSGuy’s invaluable help, which they’ve given us.\u00a0 Basically, this is what we did:<\/p>\n
The main arches: two twelve foot 2″x12″ fir boards. Mark the high point of the arch at center and run a curve to the board ends plus 2″, ie, a curve ending at the 10th inch of width. Then mirror-image this to the other side. Give yourself a foot and a half ‘footing’ space, flat, for the bridge to set on. Shoot a mark 5″ down from the top of the board center. Run that in a curve to the inside of the footing. Mirror same.<\/p>\n
You then have a 5″ thick 12 foot arch. Cut two of these. And let me tell you, OSGuy using raw strength and a bandsaw to cut the pair of these boards, and OSG holding the free end of these very heavy boards during that operation—priceless.<\/p>\n
Everything else is little boards in 30″ or so lengths, but those two timbers are the biggie. That’s why bridges cost so much. Finding an OSGuy and an OSG is next to impossible.<\/p>\n
I don’t think you could bribe them to do it twice.<\/p>\n
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