If you are not a waterway, you need the bridge
. It happens that a country plot with a very seductive price dissects in two a small rivulet, or even a trickle, and at first this fact is not given importance. However, when the formation of landscape design begins, as well as the breakdown of the garden and the garden, one has to take into account the water obstacle, which can become a serious obstacle if you do not build a bridge across the river. And if it is not, is not it worth considering the option of building some kind of flooring through an artificial pond? After all, this can become part of the registration of the site.
In any case, there is a river, or not, throw a pair of logs fastened with brackets through it, it will not be enough, the design needs to be grounded. Once in Russia, the villagers naively believed that in winter the frozen water bridge was ruining to keep warm, but in time it was proved that this diversion is actually carried out by ice. Unfolded from below by water, frozen to the supports, it pulls them from the bottom, collapsing and the flooring itself.
To prevent this from happening on your site, it is necessary to fasten the bridge very carefully, making the construction as heavy as possible.Separately it is necessary to consider the bridge across the pond, since this may not be a straight-line flooring, but a tortuous one, for example, one section moves to the right or to the left with respect to the other. And even at all it is possible to make turns with the help of short connecting decks between sections of the bridge located one from another on the meter, and even one and a half aside. And, at last, huge interest can be represented by a water bridge without a flooring, along which it is possible to overcome a pond as dry land, and the impression will be that you go on water. But we will return to this variant.
The easiest way to make a bridge over the
stream We will not go into technical details now, we would like to cover too many constructive solutions, so let's touch on only some of the nuances. What could be a bridge over a stream or a small river? Let's return to two logs. If you use them as a lag for the deck, pouring on top of the board, the bridge will be very reliable. To the plane of the bridge was a continuation of the path, you need to dig a small shelf in each bank, with a width of 2 bayonets of a shovel, and lay logs on them, the thickness of which should correspond to the height of the "steps".But this option is possible only with a narrow waterway.
Wooden parts for the bridge must necessarily be treated with antiseptic compounds, as well as linseed oil, metal - densely covered with paint.
Excellent lags can be boards placed on the edge, and they can be lengthened by joining the butt with metal plates and bolts. Having drunk a large radius from wide boards, you can get a humpback bridge for a pond or artificial pond, which is possible only if you find two, equally curved. Very strong and reliable flooring from the timber, and if as a basis to take metal trusses with a given curvature, it will almost perpetual construction.
When creating a bridge project, try to fit it into the overall design of the site. For example, if you have metal and stone everywhere, a log deck with rails made of thick curves of twigs( to merge with nature) will look like a foreign element. Therefore, first draw a bridge, the pictures should include at least approximate dimensions of the parts. It is very important to inspect the site, where you will make the crossing , before the beginning of the construction work. Perhaps in the summer there the land is reliable, and in the autumn or spring - swampy, then it is necessary to pull decking from the bridge to the place where the soil is always solid.
The bridge for the pond - ideas can be a lot
What a good artificial pond - it can be made of any shape, and even an island to supply, for beauty. And to get on it, and then completely cross the reservoir, build two bridges, small and, more likely, decorative than necessary, especially if you can simply jump over to the site in the middle of the pond. It can be arched constructions, on which it is not very convenient to walk, but it will look beautiful. You can also make regular straight decking. But why not build a non-standard bridge for the pond?
Option one - hanging. This type of ferry will be quite unexpected and exotic, and a lightweight design will fit into any landscape design. Another interesting option, how to make a bridge on the pond - to use as a basis otesannoe on the one hand log. As a flooring to complete the composition, you can lay the croakers. If such a log is dug into both banks, it will become a reliable crossing. And, finally, the option is absolutely without a flooring - at short intervals in the bottom of the reservoir, cuttings of thick logs soaked with antiseptic and linseed oil are driven in, so that they only stick out slightly over the water.
Especially worth mentioning is the bridge on the lake. Of course, it is impossible to spread the floor across a large space, except that a pontoon crossing can be laid or paved with many decks laid on piles( which is possible at a shallow depth of the reservoir).Therefore, consider the option of the bridge, that is, the deck, cutting off a few meters from the shore. Such a design can be made rectilinear, T-shaped, or in the form of the letter G. The main thing is to establish strong supports, better concrete "bulls", which will not move a storm or moving ice.