Tanglewood Bridge

Thats pretty cool Dick! My what a tangled bridge you weave!

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I’ve often thought about smoking fish, but can’t figure out how to keep them lit. The Bridge is nice though.

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Beautiful Dick and not nearly 94lbs, or is it? No kidding that is nice, that would look nice in anyones back yard. What is a tag alder anyway? mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

By the way Obi, I smoked catnip once, is it anything like smoked fish? Miike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Hi Mike,
Here’s a little info about tag alder.

BIRCH FAMILY (Betulaceae)

IND. STATUS: OBL

FIELD CHARACTERISTICS: A deciduous shrub or small tree occasionally reaching 10 m. in height. Leaves are alternate, simple, serrate to doubly serrate, and ovate to oval. Undersides of leaves are pale green or have a thin, waxy coating. Leaves are often hairy above with hairy veins beneath. Main leaves have 9-12 pairs of lateral veins. Twigs have sessile, woody, cone-like pistillate catkins. Staminate catkins are pendulous and usually clustered. Over winter, both types of catkins are conspicuous: last growing season’s pistillate catkins and the new staminate catkins that will flower in spring.

ECOLOGICAL NOTES: Speckled alder is the dominant in alder thickets of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and it may also be present in bogs and coniferous swamps on acidic soils. It occurs primarily in and north of the vegetation tension zone. Speckled alder is an important wildlife food plant, especially for beaver and white-tailed deer. Another common name is tag alder. A synonym is A. rugosa (DuRoi) Sprengel.

SOURCE: Gleason and Cronquist (1991); Swink and Wilhelm (1994); and Voss (1985).

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The Deer like the bridge.
Here’s a picture of a newly born Fawn, about 6’ away from the bridge. His coat was still damp. I took this with the telephoto lense. I was about 50’ away.

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Hi Dick,
That “Tanglewood Bridge” sure is looking great and rustic.

I never have used Tag Alder, but around my neck of the woods there is a vine called Oriental Bittersweet which tries very hard to just take over and is quite invasive. This vine works at strangling the trees it comes into contact with, so most landowners are glad to get rid of it. There is a lady over in CT who has made a name for herself, making all types of rustic designs and furniture out of this vine.

Have a good day!!!
GODSPEED
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Thanks Frank,
That vine must be the same as the one that’s in Arkansas where my son lives. It winds around a tree & chokes it to death. I brought a piece home with me. It’s a long 1” spiral about 5 feet long, that was wrapped around a 4” diameter Pine. I tried to peel it, but the bark seems intertwined with the wood. The wood fibers intertwine in a beautiful pattern.
I finally made a hanging yard ornament, or ”Watcha-m-callit” Twister using my old failed CD disks.

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dick, love the pics of the deer and your bridge.
and the whata ma callit. lol

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Thanks Pat

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I like the design you made on the sides of your bridge. It looks like it belongs there, too.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Dick didn’t you make an arbor out of this too? I am doing some backyard planning and I am adding another pond and making a smaller bridge between the two would be something I would like to do. Also I need a new arch for my flowers. Now with all this snow it delayed me from looking for some supplies! What did you use to attach it all? Thanks!
Krum

-- Cathy Krumrei

Krum
I’ll enter it as a project. I’ll go through my image files.

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your heart must have been pounding when you saw the fawn. What an honour.

Love the bridge. I don’t have a creek on my property (not even a trickle) but I could fake one just so I could have such a bridge to look at.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Debbie
That creek is as fake as you can get. LOL

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see? I was so focused on the beautiful bridge I didn’t bother to look underneath.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I think I want to go and dig a real creek out in my back yard so I can make one of these. Nice job!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Panamajack,
Just get yourself a pile of rocks, & imagine a creek like I did.

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Nice! One of my ultimate plans for my landscape is to build a footbridge like this, but more “orderly”, since I’m a bridge engineer by profession. Probably white oak for the beams, and cedar for the rest. I also have a fake creek (“arroyo” here in the Southwest) in my backyard, just waiting to be crossed.

-- Measure twice, then try to figure out which one was right.

Hey Dick, what a nice looking bridge, not to mention your decks and benches and everything else. I just love the carved bear in the post. I stumbled upon you today and can’t quit looking. Thanks.

-- Janice

Very cool bridge Dick

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Thank you for the nice compliment Janice.

You can’t tell what you’ll find on this site, that’s why we enjoy it so much.

We just had to drain everything, & close it up for the winter. It’s been an extremely cold October.

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Thank you Jim, its really COOL! now.

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how much of that stuff do you have to smoke ,
to do this kind of work ? (LOL)

beautifull bridge !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I thought you meant a bridge for a tanglewood guitar LOL still I like the job you did.Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

The smoke burns the eyes too much David. <(:O}#

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Thank you, Alistair.

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