Voorbeelden van fording

• After fording, the vehicle's wheel bearings must be repacked with new lubricants.

• It was also intended for water obstacle fording operations and naval infantry landings.

• In periods of high water some crossings require fording.

• The inhabitants of marshy or flooded areas sometimes use stilts for practical purposes, such as working in swamps or fording swollen rivers.

• The dragoons entered the river; floundering about, partly fording, partly swimming, in some way they got through.

• The settlement was a stop-over point before or after fording the river (which is some 60 70 metres wide at that point).

• The team was attacked when they stopped after fording a river.

• Legend says that any person failing to confess his sins before fording the river will be carried away by the water spirits.

• A splashboard is mounted at the front of the hull to stop water from rushing up the glacis plate when the vehicle is fording streams.

• The driver was protected from being splashed by water while the vehicle was fording.

• It was capable of fording water at depth of 30 (60 with preparation).

• Only at places where the river gravel beds afforded a firm river bed was fording a safe and practical proposition.

• The remains of the fording point are still visible next to the arched bridge used today, which dates back to the 17th century.

• Portions of the sprouts were very shallow, 2 ft or less, and allowed for easy fording of the river.

• The creek can be crossed via the log footbridge or an adjacent low fording area.