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The fence builder started building fence on the neighbors and then mine. We talked to him last night. Said it would be quicker and easier to come in through my place. He asked if he could pull a goose neck trailer with a load of fence supplies in that way. The neighbor and I said the road would be good but the bridge over the ditch is a bit sketchy. Well he tried it today. He didn't have the trailer square behind him. So he went across but the trailer missed the bridge. Had I been home and if he stopped as soon as it happened. We could have unloaded the trailer with the tractor and then used the tractor to pick up the back of the empty trailer and set it on the bridge. But instead he used the truck and a skid steer to pull it on across totally dismantling the bridge. Note in the one picture two full bundles of T posts now forming a dam in the ditch.

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Nesikep said:
Your T posts now

That sucks
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Well at least some of the T posts were and still are going into my fence. And the fence builder gets to repair the bridge. I said that I can pull the posts out with one of my tractors. But they are going wading to hook them up. I already called a sawmill guy about 3x12 16 foot long bridge decking.
 
I gave a young guy this guy's phone number. If he had gone to work for him it would have been an interesting day for him yesterday. Two of his hired guys were stripped down to their BVD's in the ditch fishing out T posts. Turned out there was 3 bundles. The first bundle had broken so they were pulling out posts one or two at a time. Second bundle we hooked on to it with my tractor. Got it to the edge of the ditch before it blew up. Majority of the posts were still in their 5 post bundles. Still a by hand passing them out of the ditch. Used a piece of bale twine to get chains around both ends of the third bundle. It got lifted out in one piece. I thought about getting my camera and taking a picture.
 
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I was talking to a neighbor and told him about my bridge. The actual clear span is about 6 feet. There is 6 RR ties for the stringers. There are concrete RR ties that the RR uses in spots here The ones they replace they give away for free. So my neighbor suggested I get a bunch of those concrete ties and just line them up making the entire deck concrete. Hmmmmm a thought.
The ties are 8.5" by 7" and 8 feet long. The bridge sits on a concrete wall about 8 inches wide by 4 foot tall that looks to have a pretty good footing
 
The new bridge which the fence builders installed yesterday. They bought the decking and used RR ties from my pile to replace all the stringers. I need to bring up some big rock to fill that hole to the right. Also I have a pile of old bridge to burn this winter.

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