Garden Bridges and Japanese Water Garden Bridges span the ages
Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005
by Craftsman
Garden Bridges Craftsman
Modern day uses for Arched Span bridges California Redwood Span Bridge.
This article was personally written by Rod Bird in 2003 copied by others ever since.
Wooden bridges have been used for many centuries for things such as draw bridges, for spanning crevices, over creeks, ponds, gulleys and in fact anywhere to cross over low areas such as valleys, dips and depressions as well as water of course. Japan started making wooden arch bridges many decades ago to beautify and maintain Koi ponds and water gardens ... I'm sure you have all seen those appealing pictures of Japanese gardens all of which incorporate a wooden span bridge .Other parts of the world caught on during the last 20 years or so.
You should also make sure the bridge is made of weather and water resistant wood or sealed and stained, along with stainless steel hardware such as bolts, washer, nuts and screws. We use only stainless steel or galvanized hardware in all our bridges and on all our bridges we measure the span length that it will span and not the arch length. You should try to find a bridge that is very easily assembled and only a few tools required. We number and label each board, each post and rail and you just match the numbers and put in the screws and tighten.
It takes an average of 30 minutes to assemble our bridges. Down through the ages the wooden arch bridge has brought joy, beauty and comfort to pond owners, homeowners, farmers, landscapers and many others who have an area that needs to be easily accessed. We would be happy to build you a bridge of modern design or one styled from the early designers.
Feel free to visit us at www.RedwoodBridges.com to see ourmany differetnstyles and sizes of bridges, garden benches, picnic tables, trellises and more. Tell them Joe sent you VIA this copyrighted article..Thanks!
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More commentsThanks for the plans and instructions on building my own garden bridge. Cheers!
Nice bridges and website.
Hey what a great service by letting us common folk use your free plans and instruction on how to build a garden bridge! I really like your garden benches with the high back seats...its nice for us bigger people. Great work!
Nice article and website. How do you get the arches in your bridges like that? Thanks and keep up the good work!
Very interesting article on garden bridges and how they got so popular here in the USA. The different styles of water garden bridges on your website is very creative and a vast. Cheers!
We are glad to have found the garden bridge article on searchwarp and also the Redwoodbridges website. We were going to try your free plans on building a garden bridge but decided to have one built for us. Since we are in Bermuda the shipping was a little tricky, but it was well worth the efforts. Our Garden bridge is wonderful and better than we had hoped.
Thanks to Searchwarp for helping us find our Garden Bridge!
Vasco and Hermilia
Well done article and thanks for sharing the information. I will be sure and check out your website.
Cool article, thanks for the information and best of luck.Margie from Little Rock, Ar
This article is great thank you for viewing. Hope it help you build a bridge if you need and tips call me 479-243-0375 or look at the 1000s on bridge on the web site redwoodbridgesRedwood Garden Bridges....... IS Legendary and Greatest of all times!Thanks for the kind words But thats puts the bar High , I will get there.Handcrafted Garden Bridges is basically a one man operation. I'm very appreciative of all my customers and try to do the best I can with the small talents that God has given me.
God Bless all
JB
Thanks from Rod the article writer and the builder of the garden bridges! Hello to all! I thought I would jump in and comment on why I build a garden bridge. Mark my Werd...I started out with the simple bridge design that you see on this website. I have developed over 2 different designs since then and have copied over 20 published articles on woodworking and some that reside in the Library of Congress. I can say that" Bidge Building has been bery good to me"please visit me at my website and see why I am here and call me . Ask for Rod turd to build them, from all walks of life.Thanks again to all . Take care, Turdy Birdy (;-0
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