Crossing Suggestions for a Mushy Channel

[addo]

One for the rural bods here.

I am unable except in very dry spells, to drive a Xantia across the small channel separating my two paddocks. This ditch goes down about eighteen inches, and is maybe six feet wide at the base, tapering out to perhaps ten at the top. The bottom is filled with water or softish slimy mud, reeds and grasses.

Without engineering a fancy solution, what kinds of crossings might people suggest, that still allow water flow? There's not much rock/stone to hand, nor solid building rubble.

[xmexclusive]

How about an inverted truss made out of old scaffold tube.
Make them up as two pairs with underslung cross tubes to carry scaffold planks for the wheels to run on.
Bit like a pair of giant wheel ramps.

John

[addo]

That could work - things rust very slowly in the dry air. Many people seem to "acquire" concrete pipe lengths as used by local authorities, then bed them in gravel/rock. I'm trying for an honest fix.

[xmexclusive]

Hi addo

Another simple option is lay 8 lengths of 9 inch plastic soil pipe across the bottom.
Cover with a bit of sand or soil free of sharp stones then lay some scaffold boards as wheel runs across the top.
That should turn the stream crossing into a dry ford most of the year.

Then of course:
Take next scrap car, cut off roof at mid point of A, B & C pillars.
Leave windscreen and rear window if unbroken.
Throw into stream crossways.
Fill ends with earth and rubble.
May need scaffold boards for wheel runs particularly if you pick a scrap car with sunroof.

John