Build a bridge...

[Ocean1]

... and get over... Bugger.

[Sully60]

They could always just build some supports underneath and just leave it there.
Water features are all the rage these days, so I've been told.

[Mikkel]

I assume (and pray) that this could only have happened in the states (or France)... Where is it?

[Ocean1]

They could always just build some supports underneath and just leave it there.
Water features are all the rage these days, so I've been told.

Possibly. Need to update google maps though: ... turn left onto Ebineezer's creek road. Drive 1.6 miles to kitchen, turn right into toilet. Drive 0.002 miles to hallway, turn left into bedroom...

[Ocean1]

I assume (and pray) that this could only have happened in the states (or France)... Where is it?

Appears to me Merkin hardware.

Wonder if the bridge max weight was posted...

[Mental Trousers]

Whoever approved the route is about to need one hell of an enema.

[janno]

Tis a very looooong and skinny house!

[fireball]

so thats where my bloody house ended up......:Oops:

[Hitcher]

So have the engineers amongst us got a retrieval solution? The house appears to be comparatively unscathed, but is it now condemned to the same fate as the bridge?

[jrandom]

So have the engineers amongst us got a retrieval solution?

Give me a bloody big spatula and a place to stand...

[ManDownUnder]

So have the engineers amongst us got a retrieval solution? The house appears to be comparatively unscathed, but is it now condemned to the same fate as the bridge?

I recommend Chinook, Sikorksy and co.

[NinjaNanna]

Reminds me of an Allens Confectionary Advertising Campaign.

It's Moments Like These You Need Mintees

[Hitcher]

What would a house like that weigh? 50 tonnes? 100 tonnes?

[Ocean1]

So have the engineers amongst us got a retrieval solution? The house appears to be comparatively unscathed, but is it now condemned to the same fate as the bridge?


Give me a bloody big spatula and a place to stand...

It's the place to stand that's the problem. You can move amazing weights with simple hydraulics, but you'd first have to get something down into the river bed to support them. Couple of sheets of 1" steel plate to spread the load and you'd easily lift the last section of bridge back up for long enough to get the house off.

What I find surprising is that houses in such circumstances often stay largely intact. You sometimes see simple 4x2 framed structures where a slip or a tornado has deprived them of most of their support and they survive remarkably well.

[Waylander]

What I want to know is why a concrete and asphalt bridge is being supported by old rotting timber.....

[Kittyhawk]

At least the house was built to last unlike the bridge...

Now where's the big bad wolf to huff, and puff and....

[NighthawkNZ]

f***... that ferking funny bwahahaha