duckboard bridge on floats

08:36 Dec 21, 2012 

близкое к тому, что изображено на Ваших картинках.
Гать и мн. ч. гати. Класть гати.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гать
http://www.sb.by/post/82483/

07:29 Dec 21, 2012 

Yes, Ilja, you are correct. I just happened to remember that name 'quick-bridge a la Ivar' and then, in the morning, googled it. This quick-bridge is suitable only for narrow water obstacles. For wider once there have to be better floats and some lateral supports like ropes from the middle of the bridge obliquely fastened on the shore, or supporting poles drived to the bottom. I just wanted to show by these pictures how this ‘polkusilta’ generally looks like.

06:49 Dec 21, 2012 

Why I'm asking is that it is two absolutely different things what I see in your pictures and what you said in the source. You said in the source "boats, raft sacks and barrels were used as its floating bearers". Is it from your book as the description of what was done or you got this somewhere else?

06:41 Dec 21, 2012 

The explanation was in the same document that I am translating. Otherwise, I would have been confused of what kind of thing it is. Fin word 'polku' means 'path', but being a part of a compound noun it means 'pedal' (polkupyörä = bicycle, polkuauto = pedal car), so polkusilta should be a pedal bridge. What is interesting, just last night I happened to remember how, 40 years ago, as conscripts, we were building this kind of bridge that was called 'Iivarin pikasilta' (quick-bridge a la Ivar)

http://www.ww2incolor.com/finnish_forces/iivari.html

http://www.pohjanpioneerikilta.fi/sivut/kuvark/sch023.htm

The veteran who has written the text surely knows this name but he may have tried to write more literary correct.

05:31 Dec 21, 2012 

Where did you get the "explanation" that is in contradiction to your Finnish "polkusilta"?