Bulwark
Entrenchment kit is the tool carried by the troops to carry out simple earthworks and woodwork . The bulwarks can then be carried by the soldiers in cases on their bodies, and historically it was also loaded into bulwark wagons designed for this purpose. It is used to erect or remove entanglements and the construction of trenches or fighting positions - the name for such field fortifications was originally Schanze . The equipment of every infantry group today includes the pioneer kit light (infantry) with long spades, pickaxes (or pickaxes), saws, hatchets, wire cutters and hammers. As a stopgap measure, every soldier now has a folding spade for putting on oneRifle pit or a fighting post with.
Tools
Historically worked pioneers, infantry and cavalry usually with long spades , shovels, hoes, Beilpicken, hand axes and saws, 1870 short-stemmed came feldspars and 1938 folding shovel on. Today the technical troops and the artillery have mechanized or long-handled bulwarks on their vehicles.
equipment
Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon from 1907 states:
- At every pioneer company, the four-horse bulwark wagon (60 large spades, 30 pickaxes, 20 axes) with the field mine wagon belongs to the small baggage. In the Austro-Hungarian infantry, each group has a feldspade, each swarm has a pickaxe, each company has two people as earthworkers, resp. Carpenters equipped to form the regimental spy division under the command of an officer.
In addition, according to Meyers, the Russo-Japanese War had shown that wire cutters for destroying the wire obstacles, which were also popular in the field war, as well as saws in general should be added to the previously common entrenchment .
