No, this is no great crossing, unless you need to get to the other side of my pond's spillway.
In the past, friends have had to jump across and risk a muddy shoe or two or perhaps getting tangled in a briar, so for those folks, it is great indeed. Utilizing some recycle deck boards I had on hand and a couple of 6 X 6 pressure treated beams already in place, I designed a simple deck bridge. Wanting an 'arched' design, I originally sought to make the bridge deck itself arch, but also wanted a way to get my tractor across and an arch complicated it all in both time and material cost. So I thought to arch just the railing top to give the same visual effect without the cost and fashioned the whole railing to fold down to be able to drive across. Not being an engineer by trade, but more visionary to the end result, I laid it out on paper the way I thought it should go and went from there. Once it was in place, I test set up the balusters and decided to go against my original drawing and finish it in a simplier way without them. I have always loved the look of cedar and with a good amount of sanding the top rail is very smooth and inviting to touch. I later added a couple of small solar powered lights to the railing for nighttime use and solid stained the deck and railing base to match the adirondack chairs and other pieces in the yard.
It is a really pretty addition to the landscape and anchors that end of the pond.
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