It took some shrewd thinking on the part of some cunning country folk that I guess are presented with odd requirements such as this from time to time. The front of the bridge was put on a tractor, the back on another truck, looked much like a caterpillar in motion, and they snaked it down our road to the farm, and all the way to the back side of the pond, and then used a tractor with a lot of manpower and an odd assortment of tools that they used to help them eventually work it into place.
The old bridge, which was nearly as long, and not light by any means but made of wood, had to be moved first, and I have video of two young strong guys that actually pulled it into the small pond and then used 2X4's to paddle it the length of the pond and actually "lift" it ( albeit a real struggle ) into place over the second opening between the two ponds, where a bridge used to exist before the elements destroyed it. In fact, in the picture I posted yesterday, if you look carefully, the first bridge in the picture is the one the two boys paddled the other one into place to swap with. As you look off into the distance, you can see the second bridge is also made from wood, although it is so far away one cannot see that it has dropped all the way to the waters edge at one end. That bridge, the one with the two feeders on it, is the one replaced with the massive one. Had we elected to put it in the spot where this first bridge is, the job would have been 6 hours or more shorter!
The entire process was a sight, I was really worried that someone would get hurt, they were using simple manpower for the last 12 feet as no equipment would fit, and it was an inch at a time! Over the next few days , I will try and post some of the videos I took to Photobucket and will post the links for anyone interested, I have been meaning to for awhile anyway, its just our ISP is slower than my response the first time I was asked to marry a girl
Yea....if your wondering, it happened a LOT more times after that.....my pond is not the only thing in my life that could sure use some clearing up
