"spud" pier

12:35 Jun 29, 2014
English to Latvian translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Other / bridges
English term or phrase: "spud" pier
Apraksts ir šāds:

Each spud pier was a floating barge 200 feet long and 60 feet wide, which could slide up and down on four adjustable posts (spuds) which went through the steel hull and anchored in the harbor bottom. These sixty foot spuds enabled the piers to rise and fall with the twenty-four foot tide, keeping the pier surface level and steady.


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biankonera
Latvia
Local time: 13:48


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4 +1Pāļu piestātne
Kaspars Porins


  

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Pāļu piestātne


Explanation:
Pieņemu, ka tā varētu būt "Pāļu piestātne" vai "Piestātne, kas veidota no pāļiem"

Kaspars Porins
Latvia
Local time: 13:48
Native speaker of: Native in LatvianLatvian

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