Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Re: Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Hi all,
Does anyone know what exactly the soldiers in this picture are doing?
Image from Ebay
Sturm78
Does anyone know what exactly the soldiers in this picture are doing?
Image from Ebay
Sturm78
Re: Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Wild guess - operating a manual pile driver???
My apologies if I have missed this so far, but are there any good, ideally drawings, but, failing that, photographs of the gear used to launch the K-bridging equipment?
My apologies if I have missed this so far, but are there any good, ideally drawings, but, failing that, photographs of the gear used to launch the K-bridging equipment?
Re: Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Manual pile driving is my guess too:
- pontoon bridges were considered a temporary solution for establishing and sustaining a bridghead.They are to be replaced by fixed temporary bridges as soon as feasible and be available for new bridging operations.
- most temporary bridges were built by driving wooden piles in river bottom and building a wooden bridge on these piles.
- there is a line of piles already driven and cut to size behind the pontoon ferry in the centre of the picture.
Cheers,
Angel
- pontoon bridges were considered a temporary solution for establishing and sustaining a bridghead.They are to be replaced by fixed temporary bridges as soon as feasible and be available for new bridging operations.
- most temporary bridges were built by driving wooden piles in river bottom and building a wooden bridge on these piles.
- there is a line of piles already driven and cut to size behind the pontoon ferry in the centre of the picture.
Cheers,
Angel
Re: Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Thanks to both, gebhk and Angel...
Regards
Sturm78
Regards
Sturm78
Re: Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Hi Sturm
They say its better late than never - your post 164, second photo: you are almost right. The equipment is Polish and the vehicles are LKS trailers (lekki konio-samochodowy - light horse-motorised) with long chassis. The idea was that they could be pulled by two horses or by a motor vehicle (typically a Polski Fiat 618 1-tonn truck) with a quick towbar change. However the boats are not pontoons - they are steel sappers' boats (in Poland all engineering troops are called 'sappers'). To make things even more confusing, the sappers' boats could also be used as pontoons at a push. A trailer could carry two boats (as in this case) or one boat and an outboard motor.
While I wouldn't want to stake my head on it, I am fairly sure that the boat in Carius' post 672 is the Polish sappers' boat in question.
They say its better late than never - your post 164, second photo: you are almost right. The equipment is Polish and the vehicles are LKS trailers (lekki konio-samochodowy - light horse-motorised) with long chassis. The idea was that they could be pulled by two horses or by a motor vehicle (typically a Polski Fiat 618 1-tonn truck) with a quick towbar change. However the boats are not pontoons - they are steel sappers' boats (in Poland all engineering troops are called 'sappers'). To make things even more confusing, the sappers' boats could also be used as pontoons at a push. A trailer could carry two boats (as in this case) or one boat and an outboard motor.
While I wouldn't want to stake my head on it, I am fairly sure that the boat in Carius' post 672 is the Polish sappers' boat in question.
Last edited by gebhk on 14 Dec 2022, 11:16, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Pontoon Bridges and assault boats
Hi Carius
Any idea where the photo in your post 796 was taken?
Any idea where the photo in your post 796 was taken?