Last year on our property in Northern WI we had some small scale cedar logging done and I’m left with about six hundred 8’ un-peeled, air dried poles ranging in diameter from maybe 3” to about 12”. Many in the 5-9” range. All stacked in neat piles.
On the other side of my property there is a 65yard long moss bog that has and old stick-built “boardwalk” traversing from the solid ground on both sides of the wet spot. It’s the only trail linking 2 large sections of my property. That boardwalk is now garbage and I want to replace it this coming summer somehow, hopefully using all the cedar logs i mentioned above.
My goal is to have a good enough crossing to get across with a ATV / UTV / Snowmobile year around. In the summer, I need to pull an atv rough cut mower across it to mow the trail system on the other side.
Time horizon is 20 years that I need it to last. I should get that easy with cedar, right?
I’ve done some research online for build ideas without much luck at all. A local guy I know told me about a method involving steel anchors on either side with a certain kind of rope essentially “weaving” the logs together to span the gap. I think I have enough logs to lay them crosswise across the entire 65 yards giving me an 8’ wide deck…..but I’m absolutely open to other ideas.
Can anyone offer advice or resources I could look into myself?
On the other side of my property there is a 65yard long moss bog that has and old stick-built “boardwalk” traversing from the solid ground on both sides of the wet spot. It’s the only trail linking 2 large sections of my property. That boardwalk is now garbage and I want to replace it this coming summer somehow, hopefully using all the cedar logs i mentioned above.
My goal is to have a good enough crossing to get across with a ATV / UTV / Snowmobile year around. In the summer, I need to pull an atv rough cut mower across it to mow the trail system on the other side.
Time horizon is 20 years that I need it to last. I should get that easy with cedar, right?
I’ve done some research online for build ideas without much luck at all. A local guy I know told me about a method involving steel anchors on either side with a certain kind of rope essentially “weaving” the logs together to span the gap. I think I have enough logs to lay them crosswise across the entire 65 yards giving me an 8’ wide deck…..but I’m absolutely open to other ideas.
Can anyone offer advice or resources I could look into myself?
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