Examples of using Sledges in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Chain the supply sledges together and put them behind you.
The remaining supplies were re-distributed between the remaining two sledges.
One urgent task was to improve the sledges, which had not worked well during the depot journeys.
Spot workpieces on lowering platforms, using hoists or manually,cranes, or sledges.
The stones were moved from Wales, via sledges and by boat, not by dark arts or secret sciences.
Amundsen overruled him, and at sunrise on 24 August seven sledges were made ready.
The first team of dogs would haul a train of two sledges, which collectively carried half the weight of the party's supplies.
Amundsen learned much from the journeys, especially on the second,when the dogs struggled with sledges that were too heavy.
Our sledges weighed 200 kilos, or 440 pounds each at the start, the same weights that the weakest of Scott's ponies pulled.
As with the first glacier, they had to unhitch the dogs from the sledges and slowly make the treacherous descent.
On 14 September, on their way back to Framheim, they left most of their equipment at the 80° S depot,to lighten the sledges.
The party loaded up three sledges with supplies for a march of up to 60 days, leaving the remaining provisions and dog carcasses in a depot.
More'n half were women and children, and they were driving their animals before them, goats, sheep,even aurochs dragging sledges.
After the sledges broke down, he continued south, man-hauling, as the leader of the last supporting party to accompany Scott to the pole.
Ninnis and Mertz had spent the winter preparing the dogs for the journey,sewing harnesses and teaching them to run in teams with the sledges.
When Scott, in Norway to test his motor sledges, telephoned Amundsen's home to discuss cooperation, Amundsen would not take the call.
Scott rejoined the ship in New Zealand, where additional supplies were taken aboard, including 34 dogs,19 Siberian ponies and three motorised sledges.
The columns were transported by wooden sledges to the Nile, barged to Alexandria, and put on vessels for a trip across the Mediterranean to the port of Ostia.
This was despite encountering sastrugi- ridges in the ice caused by wind- as high as 3 feet(91 cm),that caused the dogs to slip and the sledges to roll.
Scott's team were on foot, all five of them wearing harnesses and dragging around sledges, and they arrived at the pole to find the Norwegian flag already there.
For the first journey, to begin on 10 February, Amundsen chose Prestrud, Helmer Hanssen and Johansen to accompany him;18 dogs would pull three sledges.
Bjaaland reduced the weight of these older sledges by almost a third by planing down the timber, and also constructed three sledges of his own from some spare hickory wood.
Launching an extensive scientific research expedition, he traveled with over three times more men than Amundsen, alongside over 30 dogs, 19 Siberian ponies,and three state-of-the-art motorized sledges.
At Cape Evans the shore parties disembarked, with the ponies, dogs,the three motorised sledges(one of which was lost during unloading), and the bulk of the party's stores.
So we had some 21st-century gear, but the reality is that the challenges that Scott faced were the same that we faced: those of the weather and of what Scott called glide,the amount of friction between the sledges and the snow.
In addition to those chosen specifically for the expedition,Amundsen had brought along several sledges from Sverdrup's 1898- 1902 Fram expedition, which he now thought would be better suited to the task ahead.
When the ship became trapped in pack ice his duties expanded to constructing makeshift housing, and, once it became clear that the ship was doomed,to altering the sledges for the journey over the ice to open water.
I essentially drag sledges for a living, so it doesn't take an awful lot to flummox me intellectually, but I'm going to read this question from an interview earlier this year:"Philosophically, does the constant supply of information steal our ability to imagine or replace our dreams of achieving?
Joyce, Shackleton and Frank Wild were the only members of the expedition with previous Antarctic experience, and on the basis of his Discovery exploits,Joyce was put in charge of the new expedition's general stores, sledges and dogs.