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scottb
Member
Post Number: 39
Registered: 01-2013
| | Posted on Sunday, November 2, 2014 - 8:42 pm: | 
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Hello Everyone,
There are signs posted that the bridge will be closed for replacement Nov 1st-Dec 1st. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 1288
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 3, 2014 - 7:24 am: |
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Thanks for the update Scott.
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1655
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 3, 2014 - 8:53 am: |
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Great info. Thanks for passing on. |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1658
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2014 - 2:32 pm: |
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Photo from scottb. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 1290
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 9:25 am: |
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Looks like an entire new structure is being built.
The last time I was across it, there was fresh flagging tape to the south of the existing bridge, so it looks as if it may be a new location as well.
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grncnu
Member
Post Number: 356
Registered: 08-2010
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 9:31 pm: |
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In the photo it looks like the new structure is being built on the old concrete footings. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 1291
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 7:22 am: |
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It is hard to tell from the picture, but looking under the bridge structure to the other side, it looks more like a pressure treated wooden crib holding it up.This is the more common footing used up there, way back in the bush.
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debaz525
Member
Post Number: 2
Registered: 03-2014
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 7:47 am: |
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This is the old bridge you see in the picture. They are removing all this. (supposed to remove as much as they can of the old wooden cribes.) they installed 6? screw in piles each side i beleive. you can see the steel box way in the back, thats part of the new peers, 1 on each side. the new steel bridge is 80 foot long and will be in the same location as the old bridge. |
ed
Moderator
Post Number: 1292
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 7:37 am: |
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Thanks for the update debaz.
Hopefully, we will be able to drive across the new bridge next year to visit some of our favourite spots on the other side of the river.
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grncnu
Member
Post Number: 357
Registered: 08-2010
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2014 - 12:54 am: |
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So this sounds like a major upgrade, not just replacement of a decrepit bridge- or am I wrong? From what you can see of the top structure, it looks fine, but it isn't much more than 30 feet long, maybe 40 feet right across.
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1659
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2014 - 8:56 am: |
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This is in preparation for significant logging operations by Goulard and Gervais, including crossing the North Yorston River with a road, somewhere around Talking Falls, to log the Solace Wildlands. This is Gervais' alternative access to the bridge it wanted over the Sturgeon River.
The project will include upgrading the road to Twinkle Lake.
http://www.ottertooth.com/Temagami/Maps/heartland01b.htm
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1661
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 9:10 am: |
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More photos from Scottb
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1663
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2015 - 10:47 am: |
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The bridge is complete. They still haven't fixed the nasty washout just past the bridge. I assume they will blast, because it seems to become a problem area every couple of years. The bridge still sits very low for spring runoff levels, and will probably fill up with logjams, just like the old bridge. I am sure that our canoeing friends will often need to portage around the bridge, as opposed to being able to pass under.
— scottb
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brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1664
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2015 - 10:50 am: |
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Here's a photo of the bridge in 1980. This was where my Dad once got stuck, putting three tires down and separating the logs. It took five hours to jack the truck back up on the logs, and then wrap two chains around them to force them together. The jackpine logs would bow in the middle (and sometimes separate) when trucks would cross!
— scottb
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eddy_turn
Member
Post Number: 53
Registered: 03-2011
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 9:33 am: |
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Thank you for update and the story! |
undecidable
Member
Post Number: 4
Registered: 07-2015
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 8:16 pm: |
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That is brave! |
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