HOW WOULD YOU DO IT? 



SUPPOSING you were seventy- evident that a tower must be over 100 ft. 

 five miles from the base of sup- in height to be of any use. 

 pHes and having but four pieces "The dangerous fire season was near 



of rope, the longest 100 feet, at hand, and we were 75 miles from any 

 two double and one single G-inch sheave base of supplies, so it was decided to 

 blocks, axes, two-man saws, hatchets, build the tower with what tools and rig- 

 crowbars, lineman's 

 climbers and a brace 

 and bit, it became nec- 

 essary to imediately 

 erect a fire look o u t 

 tower 100 feet high, 

 what would you do? 



That is the problem 

 which confronted some 

 Forest Service men in 

 the Sitgreaves National 

 Forest of Arizona a 

 short time ago. This 

 forest, covered with tall 

 timber, has no good nat- 

 ural lookout points. It 

 therefore is necessary to 

 build towers tall enough 

 to overtop the high trees. 



Mr. Bristow Adams, 

 of the Forest Service, 

 tells of how the problem 

 outlined in the first 

 paragraph was solved. 

 He says : 



"A triangulation sta- 

 tion was needed on the 

 Chevalon District, and 

 having in mind several 

 points upon which the 

 timber was only 35 to 

 40 ft. in height, it was 

 planned to build where 

 a 40 to 50 ft. tower 

 would be sufficient. Ac- 

 cordingly, such t o ol s 

 and rigging as were at 

 hand were thought to 

 be adequate, and they 

 would have been for the construction 

 of a tower of the size we expected to 

 build. 



"It was found, however, that there 

 was only one point from which a satis 



Figure"!. 



Promontory Butte Lookout Tower, Si tcreaves Nationa 

 Forest, A:hzos\. 



ging we had. We had only ;><'<' ft. of 

 ■}4-in- rope in four pieces, the longest 

 being 100 ft. in length; two double 

 blocks G in. long and one single-sheave 

 block of tlie same size. 



"Our tools consisted of axes, two- 



factory view over the forest in all direc- 

 tions could be obtained. Unfortunately, man saws, hatchets, crowbars, two pairs 

 the timber was so tall there that it was of lineman's climbers and belts, and a 



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