 All right, let's say This is the bottom level and you know, there's some water in there, whatever Okay, now I'm gonna have oh, yeah, there's a water channel here So that's where the water always is now. I've got a walkway here I'm gonna have a walkway there and from here to there is gonna be Minimum six feet like two meters Maybe more but I want to have at least two meters like six feet across here Because that's plenty of room to be able to you know, drive her a kayak through here If I want to That's not the important part of the guy in the kayak. All right, so we've got our our land here And our land here, that's the important parts. I need to get from there to there Now important factors about these pieces of land. I would not call this Stable so I mean, it's not it's not like just gonna shift around a lot But it will move a little because this is you know all dirt It would be a different thing if I was building on bedrock if I was Bedrock here and bedrock here. I could put a nice stone arch and not worry about anything shifting and it could just push against these and you know But it's not so these are somewhat Shiftable So that's why I wasn't at first thinking too strongly about a masonry bridge I was thinking, you know, I could use aluminum aluminum something up here or a fiberglass thing You know something that could shift a little bit and it has enough strength on its own that it's not going to come apart But then after discussing with some people about a masonry bridge I just really kind of got hooked on the idea of a really pretty just stone bridge here and I did some thinking and I Should be able to make it so the bridge itself can shift so What I'm thinking is I Make stone pieces like this and these will probably be like styrocrete Styrocrete with you know a good layer of Mortar on the outside to make sure the nice and strong And I probably put more of them than this But this is this is the rough idea. So, you know, just your basic arch except it's not actually connected Across each each one of these things So they'll have the right angle so that they fit up to the next one so that when you put them all in They do stay in an arch shape, right? But because they're not mortared together, they can shift a little bit and then I'm thinking just take the dirt And go right over it And this will all just be dirt and you know put grass in there I Was thinking about putting nine different blocks here and I calculated at all. There's a There's a an actual size You know, what's a cross-section side view of one of the blocks? But then I was like, no, I think I want to make just six big ones Because I like big ones. I don't know Yeah, like that So each one of these rotates 30 degrees Which means each one of these individual angles on the block is 15 so like that angle there is 15 degrees 15 degrees and These are a foot and a half or 18 imperial noodle units Because I mean all my stuff has inches on it Okay, so this is the top view of the bridge totally not to scale or anything If I make like a four foot wide thing Like mold that I can make a four foot wide piece and then the next piece I can cut in half and get a two foot piece here and a two foot piece here And then get a full piece here and just you know stagger them like that. They'll be pretty big pieces Hope and I can move those should be able to move those Well, I've got this stuff Sorry for the backlighting there These pieces of wood They were what I used to make these. I don't have any more of those to make so that's up to grabs Okay, let's just fast forward a bit. Here's my mold. It's just Pretty simple wood thing your screws in each corner and These taper down 15 degrees on each side and It's almost four feet across when I cut these boards in half it ended up being Almost four feet, which is good enough fine So I just need to fill this nine times Boy, that's a lot of styrocrete Guess I better start grinding. Do I feel like grinding styrofoam right now? I guess the answer is yes because I Need to get these pieces made soon because I'm gonna run out of places to dirt to put dirt right now on my path here I'm like maybe here So a few more wheelbarrows of dirt and I'm gonna be on the bridge. So I better get these made Okay. Well, if I make one per day It's a week and a half Mish I'm thinking I'm gonna need pretty much a full barrel To fiddle that mold Yeah, that looks about right Roughly one barrel. All right. Yeah, maybe I'll just do one full barrel and wherever that comes up to in the mold Hopefully it's thick enough For me to feel like it's thick enough, you know with my feelings Oh That's close enough All right, three buckets of bits in my mixing bag and now I'm gonna try to get One eighth that amount of cement in a bucket and mix it with a bunch of water make it nice and soupy Dump it in there. So I'm aiming for eight styrofoam bits to one cement But I don't actually measure dice kind of eyeball it That's eight buckets of styrofoam bits one bucket of cement and The appropriate amount of water. I think that is enough It's definitely more than six imperial noodle units thick More like eight or so. Oh, and I still have some in my barrel