This is a combination of all of the video and photo notes I took throughout the fabrication, welding, painting, erection, and concrete pour of the 53'×14' bridge project
I tried lengthwise splitting some 4x6x5/16 structural tubing with my metal saw and it warped bad, and that was with no kind of heat as well. Pretty sure it was just the stress built into it when it was made.
Yessir...and I have noticed when I cut bar grating with my 8" Milwaukee saw sometimes it will bind up on the blade really bad and other times it zips right through without binding at all...so I think its a change it the grating itself...some areas in the metal has more stress than others and you just never know until ya try to cut it
Great job! Was this job done recently with sky high steel prices? Let me guess, at least $10-15k in steel and another $10-$15k in labor? Here in Washington state wide flange beam and channel are at about $1.30/lb . Again, awesome job!
This job was done this summer...steel was closer to $25K if you include the pipe for the two pillars and the decking to pour concrete on...labor was about another $25K including shop fab, on site installation, and painting...but that does not include the costs of heavy equipment, trucking, or concrete, those services were provided by other vendors besides myself. For my shop labor I made around $65 per hour...and for my on site work with my mobile welding equipment I made around $75 per hour...I don't think I made a killin' on the money but I did fine and I was proud to do it and enjoyed the work. The bridge was not the most challenging thing I ever built but it was definitely the biggest job I did so far this year.
@@NBSWELDING that’s right that pipe I’m sure wasn’t cheap. Definitely a cool project, hey even though it was $25k for yourself it still beats working for some one else, that has value in itself. Great work and I have been really enjoying your channel! Be safe!
As a WV operator no Mom's boy here. If you leave the day of work without an adrenalin high you haven't been working. Especially hanging steel and operating heavy equipment. Love your channel!! Stay Safe.
Did you have that all engineered or have you just done similar things in the past? Also I was always taught not to torch cut holes because any jagged edge is a stress riser and you seem to do it frequently with success, is that just an old wives tale?
My steel supplier has a formula that will tell how much weight so many beams of such size on a given span will hold...then I just made sure it was a little stronger than that...so it was not engineer stamped or designed but I did have some information to start with. And yes I burn holes alot with a hand torch and I've been doing so for decades with no issues or ill effects at all...I think if the difference between a burned hole and a drilled hole causes a failure on your fabrication then your definitely didn't build with heavy enough material in the first place
new sub here super cool deal there wow ur city asked you to build a bridge & u said hell ya i drew this up and presto Bravo man thats not something many folks can say Cogrates man SAWEEETT
Steel supplier offered calculations on beam and channel sizes for 80K#…We didn’t get any engineer stamp on it…it’s private property so the engineer wasn’t a necessity
Lot of faith in that pipe, seems like it would be holding a lot of weight with the steel, concrete and vehicle crossing. That's just my 2 cents, either way excellent work.
Yessir…at 7:40 in the vid you can see an end view of the vertical section of the pipe…it is 5” OD and 1” wall thickness drill collar heavy weights…the tensile strength, elongation, and corrosion resistance all are more than double that of mild steel
❤Hi,as we say in Scotland, Made in Scotland From Girders😂 meaning that the structures are solid and safe( Google Irn Bru it's a soda soft drink ) well done on this project regards 🏴🇬🇧🛠️
Man that's an awesome project! Cool to see you got to leave your company's name plate in the concrete work at the end! How does that work when it comes to the engineering of the design? Did the customer bring you approved plans or do you just base it off of years of experience? I'm sure it differs state to state, county by county but was just curious about the aproval/design process.
My steel supplier came up with beam and channel sizes that they have calculated will hold 80,000 pound trucks on a span of 20 feet or less. Our longest span between supports is 20 feet. It is not engineer stamped and it doesn’t need to be since it’s a privately owned bridge. It’s really just overbuilt instead of engineered.
Yes it can be very hard to decide what size materials to use and how to brace them...in the case of this bridge if my steel supplier hadn't had calculations we could use I would have searched and found another bridge in use and measured what size beams they used, how far they span, and how they braced them. It can be especially hard when your building something that you cannot easily compare to something else or if your building something out of metal that was formerly made of wood or plastic...but still trying to find something similar to look at can give you a place to start.
@@NBSWELDING Wow! Congrats my friend on phenomenal work quality! It’s so nice to see somebody put so much time and detail into a project. Especially today where I think anyone under the age of 30 won't even show up for work let alone do quality work. And I completely agree with you on being a little overbuilt, certainly a whole lot safer than just good enough, something else there is just way too much of in these days. Also, nice explanation of stitch weld vs continuous weld and future rusting when you added that 2" to the angle. This might be a stupid question, but that 6" angle that you were saying was essentially just a concrete form on the side of the bridge deck, why couldn't you have just built that as a concrete form? Built it out of plywood and typical concrete form? I've seen a lot of bridges where you see the edge of the concrete deck is exposed. Or is there in the future probably gonna be some type of railing or guard rail of some sort welded to that? Keep up the great work! And that sense of humor! You could be a stand up comic!
@@Adirondack_Gimp92 It could have certainly been done with a wood form...but they asked for steel angle so they got steel....and like you said that gives them the option to weld on the side if they want
I luv your videos. Well done, but No side rails ? Were these plans Govt. Approved ? You did what the customer wanted, but if it's condemned and torn down, you might be building another one. Also, I hope you have good insurance, incase you get sued at some point, for one of your creations.
This is on private property...it has side rails but the landowners did that part afterwards and I had nothing to do with that. At the time when I built this I was carrying a 9 million dollar liability policy...I lowered my insurance since then but that's what I had at the time
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So not see why anything needs to be level, you want water to flow off the side instead of all of it accumulating at lower abutment and possibly freezing
I'm not an engineer...I'm a Redneck...all I can tell ya is that this bridge will more than hold anything that you can legally drive on the road without a special permit
I use Tillman Oilshield 1340 gloves…they are the most durable that I have found and they tolerate water and oil better than any welding glove that I have found I roll the long cuffs on my gloves back one fold to make them easier to put on and take off…but be advised that rolling that cuff back like I do will result in burning your wrists more often when welding…I nearly always get small burns on my wrist from folding those cuffs but it doesn’t bother me as much as struggling to get the gloves on quickly with the longer cuffs…I’ve never liked the long stiff cuffs on welding gloves…if your not careful with the long cuffs they will push your shirt sleeves up resulting in wrist burns anyway
Your right I did…poor choice of word for what I was saying I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but you didn’t realize that what you heard was not what I meant….LOL
Good looking project, my first of yours I've watched. I hope the concrete contractor placed rebar in the conc. (2 layers, 1 on bottom of 2 #4's at 12" o.c. each way and 1 layer on top of 2#5's at 12 "o. c. each way....minimum).....and I'm not an engineer just a highly experience bridge builder who has gone in to make bridge failure repairs for the state/government. It hould handle a normal load, it would be those huge overloads that occasionally sneak out onto it that I'd worry about, (if there was a worry...lol). I'll try to follow you sense I've found you.
The rebar is #6 @ 12" on center but only one layer across the short direction...I didn't do that part As a metal fabricator I have my own special way of doing concrete. The way I do concrete is I show up in the last 20 minutes of a pour and grab a trowel and slide it around a few times and take a couple pictures. Then I act like I was there busting ass with a placer in hand all day. I think what they did was pretty much what you described but instead of two layers of 1/2" they had one layer of 3/4" and one layer of 1/4" welded wire mesh. Same amount of steel probably just another way of doing it. Thanks for watching and commenting
Arkansas 13, What part of AR?? Just won a small bridge job of very similar construction which has No rebar on or over the deck pans, only 4x4 concrete wire. It's Engineered 40 foot clear span. Most of the engineered bridges we build with spans from 25 to 45 ft have # 8's, 6"o.c longitude with # 5's trans , & mats top and bottom of the 24 inch thick concrete deck. While box floor forms on the ground are Full of bars. Just sharing.
My guess is that if you saw torch cut holes that formed cracks from the hole it is likely that the steel was a very hard or high tensile strength type of material such as a truck or equipment frame and it was likely a major component that had constant stress. This bridge is A36 mild steel and the channels sections are secondary components that hold the spacing of the beams even and reduce some of the wobble across the span, now that the q-decking has been plug welded on top we set 3/4” rebar 12” on center and poured 8” of concrete on it. At this point the channels we bolted together aren’t really doing much. Thanks for commenting
It’s looks very good tho. Your good at what you do brother..👍🏻 I bought my truck down where you shop is off a guy that was a welder. Everyone & there mother seems to be welders in that region & they all own tow behind campers for work. lol..they all work up where I’m from in pgh
Ok, I just watched that whole vid. Hard hat's off to ya man! What a fucking awesome job! Is that your design or did an engineer design it? I am thinking you did, because of the kind of winging it on certain parts. I will have to say my favorite part was......"about to do some sketchy shit, do da, do da.......hope I get away with it..........." I literally had my drink come out my nose!!! I knew as soon as I seen that weld, it looked like a 1/4" rod did that. I have a few or more tins of 1/4" lo-hy, and I love playing with it. It makes that distinct looking weld. This is a lot bigger than the one I am going to build. I will end up with 3 beams, 16' long. I have two 13' beams I need to splice to match the other two 16'ers. I don't think he has decided if the deck will be steel pipes, or wood. It is to get his tractor and bush hog over the 5' wide creek.
Nice job! Certainly a lot of work, and interesting to watch. You really seem to be good at what you do.
Thank you
I tried lengthwise splitting some 4x6x5/16 structural tubing with my metal saw and it warped bad, and that was with no kind of heat as well. Pretty sure it was just the stress built into it when it was made.
Yessir...and I have noticed when I cut bar grating with my 8" Milwaukee saw sometimes it will bind up on the blade really bad and other times it zips right through without binding at all...so I think its a change it the grating itself...some areas in the metal has more stress than others and you just never know until ya try to cut it
Great job! Was this job done recently with sky high steel prices? Let me guess, at least $10-15k in steel and another $10-$15k in labor? Here in Washington state wide flange beam and channel are at about $1.30/lb . Again, awesome job!
This job was done this summer...steel was closer to $25K if you include the pipe for the two pillars and the decking to pour concrete on...labor was about another $25K including shop fab, on site installation, and painting...but that does not include the costs of heavy equipment, trucking, or concrete, those services were provided by other vendors besides myself.
For my shop labor I made around $65 per hour...and for my on site work with my mobile welding equipment I made around $75 per hour...I don't think I made a killin' on the money but I did fine and I was proud to do it and enjoyed the work.
The bridge was not the most challenging thing I ever built but it was definitely the biggest job I did so far this year.
@@NBSWELDING that’s right that pipe I’m sure wasn’t cheap. Definitely a cool project, hey even though it was $25k for yourself it still beats working for some one else, that has value in itself. Great work and I have been really enjoying your channel! Be safe!
Watching you follow the bridge made me go, "that town looks similar to stuff around me lol", same state, different area haha I'm in Martinsburg, WV
As a WV operator no Mom's boy here. If you leave the day of work without an adrenalin high you haven't been working. Especially hanging steel and operating heavy equipment. Love your channel!! Stay Safe.
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That hardener makes a big difference but man it's not cheap.
Did you have that all engineered or have you just done similar things in the past? Also I was always taught not to torch cut holes because any jagged edge is a stress riser and you seem to do it frequently with success, is that just an old wives tale?
My steel supplier has a formula that will tell how much weight so many beams of such size on a given span will hold...then I just made sure it was a little stronger than that...so it was not engineer stamped or designed but I did have some information to start with.
And yes I burn holes alot with a hand torch and I've been doing so for decades with no issues or ill effects at all...I think if the difference between a burned hole and a drilled hole causes a failure on your fabrication then your definitely didn't build with heavy enough material in the first place
I believe DOT requires chain for securing metal on a vehicle during transportation
new sub here super cool deal there wow ur city asked you to build a bridge & u said hell ya i drew this up and presto Bravo man thats not something many folks can say Cogrates man SAWEEETT
Really appreciate your thought process. Nice job!
Redhead and dewalt make screw in anchors that eliminate the wedge effect of traditional anchors i use them in every application
Them guys in west Virginia know thier stuff. PROFESSIONALS .God bless yall real good.
Thank you Sir
Great work. You're one of the most versatile people I've seen on TH-cam.
New guy here, This was really cool to see from start to finish, Thanks.
Thanks
Nothing like taking a time out to let the the engineering come to ya
very nice and professional project
Thank you
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Ahora solo falta colocar una baranda de protección lateral, y estará 100 %...
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You are incredibly smart, funny as sh*t, and one good looking fella! What an amazing job! Rock on, brother!
Thank you
I have your "Sketchy Sh!t" song stuck in my head.
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That’s a pretty significant piece of work.
Awesome bridge. Is it rule of thumb or were all the calcs done?
Steel supplier offered calculations on beam and channel sizes for 80K#…We didn’t get any engineer stamp on it…it’s private property so the engineer wasn’t a necessity
Lot of faith in that pipe, seems like it would be holding a lot of weight with the steel, concrete and vehicle crossing. That's just my 2 cents, either way excellent work.
Yessir…at 7:40 in the vid you can see an end view of the vertical section of the pipe…it is 5” OD and 1” wall thickness drill collar heavy weights…the tensile strength, elongation, and corrosion resistance all are more than double that of mild steel
❤Hi,as we say in Scotland, Made in Scotland From Girders😂 meaning that the structures are solid and safe( Google Irn Bru it's a soda soft drink ) well done on this project regards 🏴🇬🇧🛠️
I live in Ireland , just found your channel, boy you some fabricator, I wish I was as good. Love your channel.
Thanks and thanks for commenting
what a champion. The best part of the whole project was the plates connecting the channel to the pipe
You made one helluva bridge
Thank you...it was a great opportunity 👍
Man that's an awesome project! Cool to see you got to leave your company's name plate in the concrete work at the end! How does that work when it comes to the engineering of the design? Did the customer bring you approved plans or do you just base it off of years of experience? I'm sure it differs state to state, county by county but was just curious about the aproval/design process.
My steel supplier came up with beam and channel sizes that they have calculated will hold 80,000 pound trucks on a span of 20 feet or less. Our longest span between supports is 20 feet. It is not engineer stamped and it doesn’t need to be since it’s a privately owned bridge. It’s really just overbuilt instead of engineered.
@@NBSWELDING i appreciate the feedback! Just trying to learn how to not overbuild every dang thing that I'm asked to put together.
Yes it can be very hard to decide what size materials to use and how to brace them...in the case of this bridge if my steel supplier hadn't had calculations we could use I would have searched and found another bridge in use and measured what size beams they used, how far they span, and how they braced them.
It can be especially hard when your building something that you cannot easily compare to something else or if your building something out of metal that was formerly made of wood or plastic...but still trying to find something similar to look at can give you a place to start.
@@NBSWELDING Wow! Congrats my friend on phenomenal work quality! It’s so nice to see somebody put so much time and detail into a project. Especially today where I think anyone under the age of 30 won't even show up for work let alone do quality work. And I completely agree with you on being a little overbuilt, certainly a whole lot safer than just good enough, something else there is just way too much of in these days. Also, nice explanation of stitch weld vs continuous weld and future rusting when you added that 2" to the angle. This might be a stupid question, but that 6" angle that you were saying was essentially just a concrete form on the side of the bridge deck, why couldn't you have just built that as a concrete form? Built it out of plywood and typical concrete form? I've seen a lot of bridges where you see the edge of the concrete deck is exposed. Or is there in the future probably gonna be some type of railing or guard rail of some sort welded to that?
Keep up the great work! And that sense of humor! You could be a stand up comic!
@@Adirondack_Gimp92 It could have certainly been done with a wood form...but they asked for steel angle so they got steel....and like you said that gives them the option to weld on the side if they want
nice job
Wow, I aspire to be this good. 🤘🏼
Dam...Knot bad....looks good ...:-)👍
Thank you 👍
I luv your videos. Well done, but No side rails ? Were these plans Govt. Approved ? You did what the customer wanted, but if it's condemned and torn down, you might be building another one. Also, I hope you have good insurance, incase you get sued at some point, for one of your creations.
This is on private property...it has side rails but the landowners did that part afterwards and I had nothing to do with that.
At the time when I built this I was carrying a 9 million dollar liability policy...I lowered my insurance since then but that's what I had at the time
I can't help but noticing your coveralls dirty with oil and other combustibles. I had a very dear friend that worked for Rish in the coal fields with me that died from his clothes catching on fire from not cleaning them. Not a day goes by but what I think of him and miss him. Please take the information and use it wisely.
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Nice piece of work......
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So not see why anything needs to be level, you want water to flow off the side instead of all of it accumulating at lower abutment and possibly freezing
C.B., you’re the man ! Welder of all, pretty work as always ! 👍👍👍
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how much extra weight is the 2 inches of concreet and how much will this cut down on max weight beringkkk
I'm not an engineer...I'm a Redneck...all I can tell ya is that this bridge will more than hold anything that you can legally drive on the road without a special permit
Beautiful job on that iron 👍
Thank you
What brand of gloves are you wearing?
I use Tillman Oilshield 1340 gloves…they are the most durable that I have found and they tolerate water and oil better than any welding glove that I have found
I roll the long cuffs on my gloves back one fold to make them easier to put on and take off…but be advised that rolling that cuff back like I do will result in burning your wrists more often when welding…I nearly always get small burns on my wrist from folding those cuffs but it doesn’t bother me as much as struggling to get the gloves on quickly with the longer cuffs…I’ve never liked the long stiff cuffs on welding gloves…if your not careful with the long cuffs they will push your shirt sleeves up resulting in wrist burns anyway
Had to smile when at about 1:15 you said this bridge will fall!
Your right I did…poor choice of word for what I was saying
I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but you didn’t realize that what you heard was not what I meant….LOL
Enjoy the ingenutities🤣👍
Good looking project, my first of yours I've watched.
I hope the concrete contractor placed rebar in the conc. (2 layers, 1 on bottom of 2 #4's at 12" o.c. each way and 1 layer on top of 2#5's at 12 "o. c. each way....minimum).....and I'm not an engineer just a highly experience bridge builder who has gone in to make bridge failure repairs for the state/government. It hould handle a normal load, it would be those huge overloads that occasionally sneak out onto it that I'd worry about, (if there was a worry...lol).
I'll try to follow you sense I've found you.
The rebar is #6 @ 12" on center but only one layer across the short direction...I didn't do that part
As a metal fabricator I have my own special way of doing concrete. The way I do concrete is I show up in the last 20 minutes of a pour and grab a trowel and slide it around a few times and take a couple pictures. Then I act like I was there busting ass with a placer in hand all day.
I think what they did was pretty much what you described but instead of two layers of 1/2" they had one layer of 3/4" and one layer of 1/4" welded wire mesh. Same amount of steel probably just another way of doing it.
Thanks for watching and commenting
@@NBSWELDING...Lol, I like your way of pouring and finishing concrete!
Arkansas 13, What part of AR?? Just won a small bridge job of very similar construction which has No rebar on or over the deck pans, only 4x4 concrete wire. It's Engineered 40 foot clear span. Most of the engineered bridges we build with spans from 25 to 45 ft have # 8's, 6"o.c longitude with # 5's trans , & mats top and bottom of the 24 inch thick concrete deck. While box floor forms on the ground are Full of bars. Just sharing.
Any final pics or vids with it 110% done in use - is it on google maps?
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Don't know about the Google maps...they haven't updated my area in over a decade or two
That something else, WOW! You have a wealth of terrific knowledge, almost to much, well maybe not. 👍
did you use a zinc primer on the pier bases and then put rustoleum red over that?
The zinc base that went on first was ZRC...a cold galvanizing compound
And yes I think I put Rustoleum red oxide primer over that and the painted black
@@NBSWELDING thanks. i will look that up. wanna sink a steel gatepost in concrete. looked into hot dipping it but they had a 500$ minimum....no thanks
Mean job buddy,top man
Thanks...I feel fortunate to have been given the opportunity to build that bridge
Goodin
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Awesome work and video 👍
You better hope them holes you cut with the torch don’t crack. I’ve see it happen Before
My guess is that if you saw torch cut holes that formed cracks from the hole it is likely that the steel was a very hard or high tensile strength type of material such as a truck or equipment frame and it was likely a major component that had constant stress.
This bridge is A36 mild steel and the channels sections are secondary components that hold the spacing of the beams even and reduce some of the wobble across the span, now that the q-decking has been plug welded on top we set 3/4” rebar 12” on center and poured 8” of concrete on it. At this point the channels we bolted together aren’t really doing much.
Thanks for commenting
It’s looks very good tho. Your good at what you do brother..👍🏻 I bought my truck down where you shop is off a guy that was a welder. Everyone & there mother seems to be welders in that region & they all own tow behind campers for work. lol..they all work up where I’m from in pgh
Wood goes on next?
They have added wooden handrails on the sides
Was this job designed and certified by a civil engineer?
No Sir...private job on private property...no engineer required
SPENDS TO MUCH TIME TALKING, NOT ENOUGH WORKING GOING ON
Did you see the part where the guy fabricated a 53'×14' iron bridge by himself???...and it fit and assembled perfectly...that was awesome!!!
Just spitting out knowledge the whole damn video. Priceless. Wait, you built a bridge all by yourself. Ha
Ok, I just watched that whole vid. Hard hat's off to ya man! What a fucking awesome job! Is that your design or did an engineer design it? I am thinking you did, because of the kind of winging it on certain parts. I will have to say my favorite part was......"about to do some sketchy shit, do da, do da.......hope I get away with it..........." I literally had my drink come out my nose!!!
I knew as soon as I seen that weld, it looked like a 1/4" rod did that. I have a few or more tins of 1/4" lo-hy, and I love playing with it. It makes that distinct looking weld.
This is a lot bigger than the one I am going to build. I will end up with 3 beams, 16' long. I have two 13' beams I need to splice to match the other two 16'ers. I don't think he has decided if the deck will be steel pipes, or wood. It is to get his tractor and bush hog over the 5' wide creek.
My steel supplier gave me the beam sizes...those are the sizes they use for that span to hold 80,000lbs...then I went from there