Who sells bridge clamps here?

[Buckwheat]

Jiggah...... i live in Decatur,i welded for 30 years and if i had the material,i would be more than glad fix you up.But no welder at home now but you should be able to find someone close to you that would fix you up???

[Buckwheat]

Town Creek bridge is about 15 ft in the air. We use a 2x4 with a pvc pipe in the center to place up there, but these guys come through with this huge arm clamp thing. The guy told me there is a guy off of this site who sells them.

do you live close to town creek in Lawrence County??

[FurFlyin]

The C clamps work for bridges with Steel I Beams. Town and Short creek bridges have concrete beams. I know what Jiggah is talking about but I don’t know really how to describe it. I use to have one that I made myself. It was 3/4” plywood with a notch cut out to hold onto the concrete beam. I think I still remember how to make the clamp but I can’t remember how I came up with the size and shape of that notched area. If the notched out area isn’t perfect it won’t hold onto the beam

[Buckwheat]

ok top pic is a new c-clamp,(bottom pic i just put the pvc pipe there) cut the little handle at the bottom off, get you 1/2 or 3/4 pvc pipe 3 or 4 ft. long, weld you a rod,rebar or what ever you want to use at the end where you took the little handle off ,right under the weld slide you a washer on it up to the weld,tack it off, then slide your pvc pipe onto the rod, let enough of what ever you used to connect to the c-clamp stick out just enough to where you can weld you a 6 or 8 inch handle to the end,now you can hold it (the pvc pipe) and turn it while holding it.the washer will keep the pvc pipe from going up,the main rod is inside the pvc pipe now.

don't got to have the pvc pipe but makes it easy.

hope this helps........

[Gamblinman]

In Illinois it has been illegal to tie to bridges since the 9-11 disaster

Technically, it is illegal to fish under or tie off to any bridge in the US, per Homeland Security, but very few enforce it.