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    Build a bridge...

    ... and get over... Bugger.
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    Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon

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    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.

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    I assume (and pray) that this could only have happened in the states (or France)... Where is it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sully60 View Post
    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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    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...
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    Whoever approved the route is about to need one hell of an enema.
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    Tis a very looooong and skinny house!
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    so thats where my bloody house ended up......
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    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?
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    So have the engineers amongst us got a retrieval solution?
    Give me a bloody big spatula and a place to stand...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    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.
    $2,000 cash if you find a buyer for my house, kumeuhouseforsale@straightshooters.co.nz for details

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    Reminds me of an Allens Confectionary Advertising Campaign.

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    What would a house like that weigh? 50 tonnes? 100 tonnes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    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?
    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    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.
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    What I want to know is why a concrete and asphalt bridge is being supported by old rotting timber.....

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