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German bridging apparatus...SBG on stilts.
I have several pictures of an German expedient type bridging that I'm not entirely familiar with. It's not the common floating treadway that we're used to seeing. The best I can come with to describe it is Small Box Girder bridging on stilts. The pictures smack of trials as both the PzKpfw 38(t) and the PzKpfw IV neither look war weary nor are they cluttered with the usual kit of an operational area, further, the PzKpfw IV has the L24 main gun suggesting this was early in the war while trials of various bridging techniques may have been ongoing. The stilts don't look very sturdy, while they are handling the 22 tons of Panzer IV well enough, this set up wouldn't have handled the weight and width of the V's and VI's yet to come.
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Bridges -
I'm comforted to see that the drivers are standing, and prepared to bail....
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Dont know for sure but it could be this:
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Post bridging
I just watched a show on bridging equip. and the Canadian army is looking at a Hemitt launched post supported bridge currently being developed. The vertical posts have large feet on the bottom to spread the weight over a large area. I wouild think that German ones do also.
The Canadian system can bridge any length with additional spans added and it was only a couple of guys and very little physical labour. Very cool. Sean
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Sounds like a case of "What was once old is new again" to me. This method of bridging looks to have a couple of advantages over pontoon bridging, one of which was to allow floating debris to pass beneath the bridge instead of piling up against the pontoons. There must have been a huge strain on the pontoons especially during Spring run-off which must have had to been monitored constantly for fear of losing the bridge. I have a R.C.E. picture clearly showing the large anchors used to hold the pontoons in place. Of course, the spindly stilits would have been susceptible to suffering a direct hit from a large floating tree. The water in the pictures looks quite still so maybe this system was considered only for ponds, lakes, and swamps. CHIMO! Derek.
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bridge debris
The current model under construction did have limits of depth and bottom material. The Hemitt could run back , get another section, back on to the completed section and deploy another link. They said that the bridge could be as long as you wanted. It also had very heavy capacity in about 1/3 the time of conventional bridge. Very cool.
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Cmp crossing bridge
http://milifax2003.tripod.com/milita...ng_part_2.html
neat http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/dai...2007/#clip6892 this is the clip with the new bridge on it
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