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JUMPER BRIDGE

Bigge recently added a 120 foot long “Jumper” Bridge to its equipment fleet.  The ramp has a modular design with a minimum width of 12 feet and a maximum width of 22 feet.  It can be used as a barge ramp or as an “on-the-road” jumper bridge for going over existing bridges or for spanning otherwise impassable trenches, creeks or rivers.  It has a capacity of a 1000 ton payload at an 80-foot span or an 830 ton capacity at a 100-foot span.

The bridge is stored at the Bigge facility in Knoxville, TN and can be transported on 6 to 9 legal truckloads, depending on the application. 

In early 2004, the bridge was certified by Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant for transporting an 830 ton reactor vessel package using a 94-foot long bridge configuration.  Bigge originally designed the “Jumper” Bridge for use on the Connecticut Yankee project, for use as a barge ramp and for spanning two bridges along the land transport route in South Carolina that could not withstand the weight of the reactor vessel.

Transporting heavy loads such as the Connecticut Yankee reactor vessel can be performed with a double-wide Goldhofer hydraulic platform trailer or a 3 file 18' wide Bigge Scheuerle hydraulic platform trailer.

You may find additional pictures in the Bigge Photo Library.  Click on the link below and enter keyword "jumper" into the search box.

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