Timber Bridge Gallery

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Carroll Vogel moving Kubota across Silver Creek Bridge Stringers before installation of decking.                     Silver Creek Bridge, WA, prior to installation of handrails (1995).

 

Bothe-Napa State Park, CA. This bridge was built in one day by Carroll Vogel and crew during a training program in 1987.                     Bothe-Napa State Park, CA.

 

Alicia Spence and Carroll Vogel at Dillon Ranger District, CO, 1988. Solid stringer Wilderness bridge with dovetail deck splines.                     Solid stringer bridge under construction at Mt. Rogers NRA, VA, in 1988.

 

Carroll Vogel using slick to clean dovetail mortise at Mt. Rogers NRA, 1988.                     Installing the dovetail spline to pin the stringers together, Mt. Rogers NRA, VA.

 

Mt. Rogers NRA bridge several years after construction. This bridge is built of White Ash, the same timber used in baseball bats.                     Student shaping tenon on post top for bridge on Sandia Ranger District, NM, in 1988.

 

Boring mortises in handrail for Sandia Ranger District Bridge, NM.                     Completed Sandia Ranger District Bridge, NM. There is no hardware in this bridge.

 

Trout Lake Bridge under construction, Yellowstone National Park, 1989.           Randy Hessong and Carroll Vogel on Trout Lake Bridge, YNP, WY, 1989.

 

Trout Lake Bridge, YNP, WY, 1989.

 

Crew making relief cuts for hewing the deck of bridge near Bend, OR, 1989.

 

Timbers for Bend, OR, bridge after hewing deck and cutting of railing dovetail mortises.                     Bend, OR: East Cultus Bridge after completion by John Schubert and his trail crew, 1993.

 

Mt. Baker Ranger District, WA. Beginning solid stringer bridge.                     Completed bridge at Mt. Baker, WA, 1988.

 

Fallen log fitted with cedar handrail by Steve Wennstrom and crew near Mt. Baker, WA, 1988.                     Ken Nattinger installing dowel pin into stringers and sill, Sandia Ranger District, NM, 1988.

 

View of dowel pins through stringers after installation of wooden wedges.

 

Carroll Vogel and SCA Work Skills Director Missi Booth Goss on solid stringer bench built for Teton Science School, WY, 1989.

 

Solid Stringer Bridge built at Kachess Campground, Cle Elum Ranger District, WA, 1989. This is the largest solid stringer bridge built by Carroll Vogel and crew (overall length: 100').                     Kachess Campground Bridge, WA, 1989.

 

Pete Luchetti drawing of Kachess Campground Bridge, circa 1989.

 

Railing detail of bridge at West Cultus Lake, OR, built by former student John Schubert and trail crew, 1991.          Bridge at West Cultus Lake, OR, built by former student John Schubert and trail crew, 1991.

 

Carroll Vogel and crew after finishing Polecat Creek Bridge, Yellowstone National Park, WY, 1985. This bridge subsequently burned up in Yellowstone fires in 1989.         Carroll Vogel and crew after completing bridge over Witch Creek, Yellowstone National Park, WY, 1981.

 

Simple stringer bridge with treated timber deck constructed at Walker Valley ORV area, WA, 1994.            Simple 3-stringer bridge constructed at Madeira Canyon, AZ, in 1987.

 

Pinnacles National Monument, CA, 1988. This project involved reconstruction of existing bridge.

 

Pinnacles National Monument, CA, 1988. This bowstring truss bridge was reconstructed by adding two additional, deeper arches.

 

Prince William Forest Park, VA. This crescent truss bridge design was based on a bridge concept developed by Sir Isaac Newton for Cambridge University, England.

 

Prince William Forest Park, VA. This crescent truss bridge design was based on a bridge concept developed by Sir Isaac Newton for Cambridge University, England.

 

Floating glu-laminated stringers across Baker Lake for 77' long Noisy Creek Bridge., WA, 1995

 

Winching Noisy Creek Stringers off barge and into position.

 

Nearing completion: Noisy Creek Bridge, WA, near Mt. Baker.

 

Noisy Creek Bridge from Baker Lake, WA, in 1998.