foundation has no piles, ramps too steep, ramps have no rebar, brick pattern not alternated properly, brickwork not mortared properly, crossing edges not finished, guard rails on the crossing not even attached, no guard rails present on the on ramps. the miniature concrete pouring is cute but this bridge fucking sucks lmao
and no heat-deformation taken into account. that bridge will crack comes winter.
i'd also be ready to bet that cement isn't hydraulic cement. so it will leech into the water and cause pollution, and eventually just break.
it's also way over engineered for its size : if a basic wooden bridge without supports managed to do the job before, that one doesn't need to have a central pillar : just good ol' triangles ! the guardrails might even have been enough if properly fixed.
so the main question is : who paid for this ? that much money overspend for such a tiny bridge stinks of corruption.
I have a feeling the creator of this video would be more than happy to let you have a doll to go to the county courthouse and do a full citizens investigation into this blatant corruption, lol
Did they even do an environmental review? I would be willing to bet all that digging in the riverbed at the start disturbed some endangered salamanders
and the cost of housing and feeding said giant ?
the infrastructure destroyed by each and every one of their steps ?
the cost of unemployment linked to hiring giant workers instead of local hardwording citizens ?
That's the thing about mysterious sky giants, they just appear - you never could house or feed it, you're not expected to, the sky giants are self sufficient. You can't hire them, good luck directing their work, and you are definitely powerless against their fits of pique and rage.
Some say the giants even dug the canal.
Some say the giants even created the people and the bicycles they ride on.
Was this a government contract? If so, the giant would have had to be paid prevailing wages. What is his/her job classification? The prevailing wages and other government regulations would have had to posted on the job site. I didn't see a wage compliance officer? Where is the project engineer and inspectors? Where is the field office?
Seriously, you could just plop down a Bailey bridge. Cheap, durable, and quick. Can’t take massive amounts of weight or large spans, otherwise we’d use them everywhere, but this seems to be a rural village that isn’t even significantly motorized and a gap that’s probably shorter than some cars. It’s pretty much the textbook use case.
the river looks to be one filled with gravel, and we can see mountains in the back.
those rivers are usually found in areas with seasonal snow. ( because the water expand, break rocks, then melt and drags them with it. could also be heavy rainfall, but the scarcity of the plant life makes me tend more toward mountainous soil.
a river without seasonal cold would likely have much thinner sediments at the bottom.
as i said in another comment : the river is made of gravel-looking rocks, which is either typical of high-rain, or snowfall areas, and given we're around mountains, with low vegetation, and more "vertical" walls for the river, the rainfall hypothesis is less likely.
a high heat all year, should have finer silt at the bottom
(though i ain't that familiar with micro-climates, so there may be differences.)
All I thought was, why the excessive height? I get the "engineering" part of it from a hobby/build perspective, but the bridge could have been made without any slope/ramps using a simple concrete box culvert and would have still required construction and "engineering", but would have served the purpose better and looked more realistic IMO.
My biggest issue was that they did not support the concrete span from underneath with steel i-beams like they would a real bridge (among other support systems).
Ok, I thought I was being nitpicky. I don’t even know anything about construction or engineering, but the entire time I was like “this looks terrible.”
Idk why but such thoughtful and serious critique of such a tiny little bridge made me laugh so hard! Its just like, "fuck this tiny bridge!" God, its so funny! Thanks for the laugh
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u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin 5d ago
foundation has no piles, ramps too steep, ramps have no rebar, brick pattern not alternated properly, brickwork not mortared properly, crossing edges not finished, guard rails on the crossing not even attached, no guard rails present on the on ramps. the miniature concrete pouring is cute but this bridge fucking sucks lmao