Recently in Bridges Category

Far be it for Biglorryblog to rub salt into any Aussie wounds suggesting this is the victorious Pommie Isuzu doing a lap of honour after winning the recent 'Ashcans' series...instead it's a great excuse for a 'I'll name that bridge for a pie' competition..So where is it?

It's 'that' bridge again... In Scotland. And Gyles Carpenter has sent me some more shots of it and says: "Hi Brian, regarding the bridge, is it on the A939 near Ballater?" Well don't ask me... I'm just the blogger! But sonmeone can tell me... How about it John, Alex? And for a pie what's that splendid old-timer crossing it. Now click through here for one more.

Gyles Carpenter is back on Biglorryblog and along wioth this rather nice photo tells me" Actually a modern wagon from me for a change! McFadyens with a piece of wind turbine going over the loch near Inverary, Gyles." Well one good turn deserves another so how about this one from John henderson. And for a Scots pie... Where is it?

That'll test your fifth wheel articulation! And click through here for one more...

OK all you Biglorryblog bridge-spotters! Last one for tonight and it's a pie quiz question... Where's this bridge? And the truck on it should be a dead giveaway... And if Andrew Cooper isn't the first one with the answer I'll go to the foot of our stairs...

Biglorryblog's 'Good man in Africa' AKA Jerry Burley has followed up on his previous collapsing Baily bridge story and says: "Yesterday, via the jungle drums bush telegraph, we alerted any and all of your readership that might be passing through the Southern Sudan region by car in the next few days (as, of course, one so often does these days.....) of a bridge that was recently converted into a Parachute Regiment Aerial Confidence Course and then blocked by a wannabe gymnastic truck." He's referring to his original posting...

Now he continues: "Well, it wasn't as bad as it all seemed because working just downstream of this was someone who, for various technical reasons, cannot be named here (I don't think it directly relates to numerous estranged wives and abandoned babies but then you never know this day and age). And guess what he was doing? Bless my soul, how convenient! He's building another, bigger capacity bridge."

"After abutments are complete and cured, this gang with light cranes and basic hand tools can build and launch 10m of meccano-kit Bailey bridge per day - this unit was a 50m, 100 tonne assembly so less than a week and job done. In frankly quite difficult circumstances. You need a widget, you wait a week, so I recommend don't forget the widget. And back to the hotel at night? What hotel? The nearest one is probably in Northampton!"

Jerry adds: " The 7 P's are essential best-practice in this environment. So all's well that ends well then. Class 100 (tonne cap) wasn't it? Now where's my chap with that 150 tonne gross truck and lowbed for the empirical commissioning trial........trust me, it's the best and most reliable way to test things when in Africa, leaving no doubt as to the outcome!  Anyone out there got a spare 200 tonne bridge though, just in case? Regards, JB."

And here it is being slowly pushed back over the river bed on the concrete support.....now perhaps JB will send us a picture of it when a truck is driving over the finished thing..? Maybe even one of his own!

Here's another entry for the "10 bridges you must drive over in a truck" (as opposed to driving off in a truck...) haven't a clue what or where it is. Could it be the big one between Malmo and Copenhagen? You tell me..9for a pie of course) in the meantime, here's another picture of it...

And click through here for one more....

Is it me or have I seen this 'truck on a bridge' picture before. Indeed that curly bridge bit at the top looks VERY familiar to me. How about you?  So where on earth is it? (And for your information its not the Oresund bridge, that comes later) For a quick pie let me have the answer....Tom Cunningham knows ALL about it.

Meanwhile, the answer to the first question is Schenker can....and heaven knows what the driver of the Volvo waggon and drag thought when he saw all those big white letters following him...meanwhile for a really BIG bridge click through here...