Most summer residents strive to improve their garden, give it a well-groomed appearance, hence the desire to add something from landscape design to make the eye happy and the heart happy. You can line the paths with flat stones and install lanterns, but the real hit is still a decorative bridge for the dacha, assembled with your own hands and placed in the most visible place, usually in the floodplain of a dry or real stream. Many people think that this is unnecessary, but there is little work in such construction, but how much pleasure the process of building a decorative wooden bridge for the garden will bring.
A wooden bridge is best suited to the landscape at the dacha
What can you make a decorative bridge from?
Any attempts to assemble or build something on a dacha plot always ran into the problem of the dacha being unsettled and unsuitable. A country house is not a garage, not a carpentry shop or a metalworking workshop, so you can only count on working with hand-held carpentry power tools; you can also bring welding or a grinder if the network allows.
The second question is materials. Decorative bridges made of wood and natural stone look best on a summer cottage. This is still an element of landscape design, and not a full-fledged bridge. Although, if you make a real arched bridge over a stream or pond, then it is better to use metal, for example, weld a supporting frame from a square pipe or profile.
For unsupported arched structures, the best material is metal.
Therefore, the list of materials from which you can make a decorative garden bridge with your own hands will be quite short:
- Beams, logs, wooden slats and inch boards, all pre-sanded with an abrasive tape and treated with an antiseptic. We apply varnish or protective oil after assembling and installing the decorative bridge at the place of service;
- Natural material - thick branches, roots, stumps, tree trunks;
- Metal profile, square pipe and corner.
Important! In addition, you will need to stock up on red brick, concrete and gravel. They will be needed to strengthen the shoreline of the pond, otherwise the decorative bridge may slide down at the first attempt to walk across it.
The banks need to be lined with rubble or bricks
It is better to entrust the construction of a bridge made of brick or rubble stone to professionals, especially in a situation where a decorative detail of the landscape is an integral part of the composition of a brick dacha and adjacent buildings.
Doing simple carpentry and welding work when building a decorative bridge from scrap materials with your own hands will not be a particular problem. You just need to choose the right place to install the bridge in your dacha and find or come up with a suitable model yourself.
We are building a bridge.
There is a river, width 4, depth 1.5-2 m, and the desire to cross it on a loaded Niva, a chainsaw, forest around, stones along the river, the ability to bore concrete on the spot, + nails, staples, etc. and I. in the nearest villages there are only very old women who have spent their whole lives moving over logs, so I will have to build it on my own if I understand how to build it (the bridge). I searched the Internet, but nothing caught my eye. Who will advise what?
Geher
There is a river, width 4, depth 1.5-2 m, and the desire to cross it on a loaded Niva, a chainsaw, forest around, stones along the river, the ability to bore concrete on the spot, + nails, staples, etc. and I. in the nearest villages there are only very old women who have spent their whole lives moving over logs, so I will have to build it on my own if I understand how to build it (the bridge). I searched the Internet, but nothing caught my eye. Who will advise what?
I would advise you to recruit volunteers in ward 151 and conduct practical training on the construction of the crossing.
Geher
I searched the Internet, but nothing caught my eye.
All. It will definitely be enough for a couple of years.
Geher
There is a river, width 4, depth 1.5-2 m, and the desire to cross it
RikiTiki
So look for it yourself. And in general Google is general
