Everyone like to collect something.

Old Roy · Dec 30, 2012

I see old tractors, and farms, especially barns,

I would like to collect pics of Covered bridges being used , or just setting off closed to traffic. but still there. with a little history on where they are, and possibly when built. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Greg_Ky · Dec 30, 2012

Give this a try.
Poke Here

DownSouth · Dec 30, 2012

A whole bunch in Ohio.
Ohio Covered Bridges

The Dukester · Dec 30, 2012

Hmmmm...as I recall there are several covered bridges in Madison County, Iowa. Yes, they're really there, not just in the movie.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 30, 2012

i live in southeastern ohio and my county has 11 covered bridges i beleive and they are all still in use except for 3 which are restored and closed to traffic

JD Seller · Dec 30, 2012

Here is a web site with pictures and a short history of the covered bridges in Madison county Iowa
Covered Bridges of Madison County, Iowa

Rollie NE PA · Dec 30, 2012

My wife collects Outhouses. Pictures, miniture replicas,etc. The bathroom is filled with them.
I made her an outside shed in the form of a His and Hers outhouse. Hey, what ever makes her happy.

JD Seller · Dec 30, 2012

Roy my wife is from southern Ohio. They have quite a few covered bridges still there. Here is a web site for the whole state of Ohio. Just click on the county name and then there will be a list of the covered bridges in that county. The click on the link to a picture of each bridge and a description of where it at.

One that always amazed me was the Eagle Creek bridge in Brown County Ohio. It was 174 feet long. It was shame that it washed out after they built a new bridge to take the traffic off of it. The new bridge directed the water flow during a big flood in 1997 right at the bridge. It was washed clear out. It was built in 1872 and served for over 120 years. It did not last more then 3-4 years after they bypassed it.

here i direct link:

http://www.ohiobarns.com/covbri/oh/brow/35-08-18.html
Ohio covered bridges.

JD Seller · Dec 30, 2012

Here is a link to a site with a listing for all the states in the US with covered bridges.
US covered bridges

JD Seller · Dec 30, 2012

Here is one that an old Army buddy took me across while I was in Ft. Campbell Ky. This bridge was the only covered suspension bridge in the world. It was build in 1867 and was 253 feet long. We walked across it and you could feel it move with just a car driving across it. Some one burned it in 1981.
Sherburne Covered Bridge Kentucky

gtractorfan · Dec 30, 2012

You reminded me, when my wife redid her bathroom she decorated it with outhouse border etc.

Buckeye · Dec 30, 2012

Here is one in Jackson county, Ohio. We have three. This one is at Buckeye Furnace state park and was in use until a car wrecked on it and it was deemed structually unsafe. County built a new bridge and moved it to the state park some 300 ft away.

Buckeye · Dec 30, 2012

The inside of the Buckeye Furnace Bridge.

PJH · Dec 30, 2012

Here's a video walk through of the Mary's River covered bridge not too far from me. I didn't listen to the audio.

If you want more pics of it, let me know. I drive past it a couple times a week and I can fix you up.

Paul
Marys River bridge near Chester, IL

Anonymous-0 · Dec 30, 2012

Parke County, Indiana has 31 covered bridges. It is known as the "Covered Bridge Capital of the World" They have a festival in the fall. There are maps available to plan routes through the county to see them.

Paul from MI · Dec 30, 2012

I second the Parke County, IN, a really neat place to visit, lots to see and do. Plus a whole bunch of covered bridges. We spent a weekend the a few years ago.

farmerjohn · Dec 30, 2012

There are 100's of them across the country, I am sure you could get a picture of most of them on-line. Induana county PA has four with one of them still in use.

Ted in NE-OH · Dec 30, 2012

Ashtabula County , Ohio has the shortest covered bridge only 18ft long and it is new. We also have the longest covered bridge 660 ft. long new also. Google "covered Bridges Ashtabula County". We have 18 covered bridges.

Genos · Dec 30, 2012

I am from Parke County In. with 32 covered bridges, and you all need to come & drive your tractors through them on our Covered Bridge Antique Power Annual Tractor Tour always the last W.E. Of June.

kruser · Dec 30, 2012

Old Roy,
Will be looking for the vidieo!

PS: Kinda hard to find a covered bridge here in central Illinois.
Jim2

Old Roy · Dec 30, 2012

WOW !! Thanks guys !!
My intentions were to use some pics to make another video (Movie) Lot of these I can't use because of credits to be given to the owners of pics that have names on them..Even though they are out in the web for all to see, I don't want to chance being sued over any copy rights deal.

I thought some of you may have pics in your area and wouldn't mind if I did such a thing as posting them to music.

I can still use pics for my own amusement I guess.

the tractor vet · Dec 30, 2012

We still have a few down here in Columbiana County. There was one on Wayne Bridge road and it sat just a few feet from a farm i use to farm , Yea it was picturesque but it was a thorn in my backside . As it had a 4 ton limit , was to narrow to get the disc or corn planter thru or the haybine or the combine as it was not high enough or load bearing enough . Use to cringe taking the 706 across it by it's self let lone with the plow hooked to it .The 706 weighed in at 12500 . The only way in was a long ride of like fifteen miles to come in the other way from the other ground i was farming . Then one night the bridge went up in flames . A coal company had started stripping coal about two miles up from the bridge and had asked the county to build a new bridge so they could move the coal out easier then the six miles up the back road that was not to good as it was mostly one lane . Nobody can prove it but they think that someone sprayed diesel fuel all over it and then lit it and due to the location of this bridge no one lived close to it and by the time someone saw the glow the flames were shooting above the trees in the valley and by the time the fire dept got there she was charcoal and floating down the creek. Now the county had to do something and they build a new Million dollar bridge on a 75 cent road . They put in a perstressed concert bridge in that could hold everything a bridge on the interstate could hold. yea it made it nice for me , but the coal company is the one that made out like a bandit .

Walt Davies · Dec 30, 2012

We have a lot of them out here in Oregon. I would go get pics but I don't drive that far anymore. One is pretty close maybe I can get over there sometime and take pics for you.
Walt

wilson ind · Dec 31, 2012

get me on a nailing list for that group i live few miles south of clay city would like to drive in that

Anonymous-0 · Dec 31, 2012

Now this is a covered bridge. Longest one in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVWbGVjpEw4

Pops1532 · Jan 1, 2013

If you like old bridges, you should check out the bridge hunter website...
http://bridgehunter.com/
Search "covered".

W_B · Jan 2, 2013

We used to live near the Rock Mill covered bridge (Fairfield Cnty, Ohio). Drove over it many times but the morons with trash trucks and back hoes didn't understand the height limitations and after the last incident they repaired it and closed it to vehicle traffic and build a new (boring!) bridge nearby. Best thing about the area is the Rock Mill itself, right by the bridge. Being restored by the county historic parks department, they just hung the new 10 ton water wheel and are working on the flume (I think that's what it's called, directs the water over the wheel). Some old machinery in there and more to be added from another mill that was torn down. I remember it when we were sure it was going to fall into the gorge but they got it stabilized and mostly restored and will be a great attraction for many generations.

Most interesting thing I learned that this was the third grain mill in the area, the oldest dating back to the 1790's when the area was first settled and the Zane Trace was established. On the gorge floor was the site of some sort of woolen mill that used human urine (from the mill workers and from an inn that was downstream) as a washing agent of some sort. The cuts are still in the rock that channel spring water to small rock basins. No plans that I know of to re-create that!

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