Hauling a Seven-Ton Truck Out of the Mud 



A special wrecking truck did the trick after 

 four other trucks working together had failed 



A MIRED truck had backed off the 

 edge of a back-fill pile at a swamp 

 and half buried itself in the mud. 

 Four other trucks working as a unit 

 arrived on the scene and broke a seven- 

 eighths-inch chain in trying to extricate 

 it. Then a special wrecking truck main- 

 tained by one of the New York city service 

 stations appeared. It pulled the mired 

 seven-ton truck out of the marsh and up a 

 ten-foot embankment. 



The wrecker, which consists of a conven- 

 tional truck chassis with a worm-driven 

 winch and crane boom mounted in place of 

 the body, backed up to the edge of the pile, 

 had its rear wheels chocked and pulled the 

 mired truck out alone by means of a block 

 and tackle. 



One block was attached to a chain drawn 

 around the front 

 spring horns of the 

 mired truck and the 

 other to a bar anchor 

 driven in the 

 ground, the free end 

 of the block rope 

 being attached to 

 the chain cable run- 

 ning over the truck 

 crane and then to 

 the winch drum. 



the free ends were snubbed around two 

 other anchors. 



In this way the mired truck was hauled 

 up the embankment without further delay 

 and without subjecting it to further dam- 

 age. The entire operation took up less 

 than an hour — after the wrecker was put 

 on the job. 



The seven-ton truck 

 backed off the edge of 

 a swamp and half- 

 buried itself in the mud 



At left: Attaching the 

 chain to the mired 

 truck so that the en- 

 gine can draw it up 



Pulling the mired truck up the embankment. 

 Note the curved blocks behind the wrecker's 

 rear wheels to prevent it from slipping 



The truck engine was then started, the 

 winch revolved and the cable wound up, 

 thus bringing the truck out of its 

 marshy resting place. 



As a precautionary measure to keep the 

 mired truck from twisting around, a second 

 rope was tied to each of its rear wheels and 



Trees in the Forest One Week — 

 Houses the Next 



WHO would think that trees growing in 

 the forest could be converted into 

 houses within the space of a week? Yet, 

 that is exactly what happened in the 

 cantonment at Louisville, Kentucky. The 

 administration buildings were constructed 

 from lumber which was felled in a Missis- 

 sippi pine forest on Saturday, kiln dried on 

 Sunday, transported on Monday and Tues- 

 day, delivered at Louisville on Wednesday 

 and converted into houses on Thursday and 

 Friday. On Saturday, just one week from 

 the day the trees were cut down, the houses 

 were completed. 



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