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it up an embankment to its new location in connection with highway 

 widening. This particular line is about 60 miles long and the distance 

 the poles were moved varied between 6 and 125 feet. It is reported 

 that the move of this entire lead which averaged about 4 arms was 

 completed without untying a single wire, without cutting any slack 

 and with practically no trouble on the circuits. It is needless to say 

 that the saving involved by being able to move this line rather than 

 rebuild at the new location was an item of considerable importance. 



The above illustration shows the derrick in position to pull a pole 

 out of the ground, the top of the pole being temporarily side-guyed. 



In Fig. 4 the pole is shown after having been pulled out of the 

 ground and placed on top of the embankment. The derrick is ready 

 to shift and slide the pole back to the new hole. Two men and the 

 chauffeur pulled and completed the moving of this pole with its load 

 of six arms of wires in twenty-five minutes. 



Fig. 5 — Derrick Operating Under Difficult Conditions 



As a further example of the usefulness of the derrick in pole work, 

 Fig. 5 shows a job where the pole derrick was operated under rather 

 unusual conditions to erect a pole at the side of the road where the 

 pole hole was dug under water and the pole erected in barrels. It 



