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Car loads of polrs which an- ri-ci-iwd l)y rail may In- backed into 

 ilu- track Icadini; to the ()olc Ircatiny; (ilaiil for treatment or may Ik- 

 unloaded u()<in the "untreated" skids if desired. In any event, there 

 >liould l>e a mininuim of cotifiision in the pole moving operations. 



l-ig. I shows the skids at one enil of the Sylva yard before (>oU's 

 had been (liled upon ihem. It illustrates tin- desirability- of havitii; a 



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long, narrow \ard and also shows that the switch track is the backbone 

 of the |)olc yard. 



It will also be noletl from Fig. 4 that in the Sylva yard the enils 

 of the skids are brought up close to the track. This is because the 

 jK)le handling in the Sylva yard is done by means of a locomotive 

 crane which runs on the track and works from the ends of the cars. 



In the Natural Bridge yard, which is show'n in Fig. 5, a tractor 

 crane is used for p:)lc handling. This unit has crawlers and wheels 

 which operate on the narrow roadways at either side of the spur 

 tracks. The tractor crane runs up to the side of a car to unload it. 

 iiy operating at the sides of the cars a much shorter boom is required 

 by the tractor crane than for the locomotiv'e crane working at the 

 ends of the cars handling the same lengths of poles. 



Delivery of Poles to Pi-\xts 



\'arious methods are used for delivering poles to the treating plants, 

 from the locatit)ns where the>' are cut. In adtlition to the use of 

 automobile trucks with their trailers, and to the use of horse-drawn 



