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The use of emplaced logs is now sometimes used in temporary bridges used for logging roads, where a forest tract is to be harvested and the road then abandoned. Such log bridges have a severely limited lifetime [ 3 ] due to soil contact and subsequent rot and wood-eating insect infestation.
The expense of rail led to the bridges' unusual steel construction; while most logging bridges were temporary wooden structures, the Simpson Logging Company felt that only a permanent bridge would justify their investment. The bridge was converted to a roadway in 1964, though it continues to be used for logging. [2]
Bridges, which progressed during 1942 from pontoon bridges to temporary log bridges, were replaced with steel bridges where necessary. Replica log bridge at Aishihik River crossing. A replica log bridge, the Canyon Creek bridge, can be seen at the Aishihik River crossing; the bridge was rebuilt in 1987 and refurbished in 2005 by the Yukon ...
Nov. 22—FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to have a Madison company build a temporary bridge over Orbeton Stream on Reeds Mill Road in Madrid Township. The steel in the ...
The bridge was shut down on Tuesday, blocking a highway used by thousands of Morris and Sussex county travelers every day. Temporary bridge to reopen Route 15 will take 6 weeks to build, NJ says ...
Officials say Florida's hard-hit Pine Island is getting a temporary bridge to aid hurricane relief and recovery work. (Oct. 5)
A lightweight box crib Hardwood railway sleepers used as a box crib, North Australian Railway, 1975 Bailey Island Bridge, Harpswell, Maine. The only granite cribstone bridge in the world. A box crib or cribbing is a temporary wooden structure used to support heavy objects during construction, relocation, vehicle extrication and urban search and ...
May 2—Shares0FacebookTweetEmail CLIFTON PARK — Workers installed a temporary bridge on Sitterly Road above a portion of the Northway overnight Saturday to Sunday, but the section of Sitterly ...