“Apart from the 90 tons of concrete, the Golden Gate Bridge of Mulvane is built primarily out of recycled materials. The Richardsons used part of an old wooden bridge for the towers, cables from an old oil rig, and suspender cables salvaged from an old Boeing aircraft. ‘It was all handmade, hand dug,’ Larry says. ‘We backpacked supplies across, and built a crane to stand the towers up. It all went pretty smoothly, although a few times we went, ‘Uh-oh!’ The retired postman estimates he only spent around $5,000 building his backyard replica, while the original construction cost $35 million.” w/ photos
