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<br /> <br />"" <br /> <br />. -- <br />.L', 1 <br /> <br />\IETROI'O!.!T.\.'\ W.-\1t:1I LlI:o'TRICT <br /> <br />lines were passed hack o\'el" the stringing sheaves by means of <br />the ropes left therein. and the conductor pulled through the tower. <br />When sulticient Icnsrths had been laid out and spliced for a pull. <br />usually :!l~ miles. tellsion was placed un e.\eh cable. singly, by <br />me.alls of a power-drin'O winch on the tractor, sufficient to permit <br />the release of the c:'lbJe from the dead-man at the end of the pre- <br />vious pull. :Uld the cnhlc was then prl'slretch('d to l~,(lOO pounds for <br />five minutes. Following tbis the condul.'tor wns sagged to normal <br />tension, about 7.500 pounds at o,-dinary temperatures. and attached <br />to the Ilew set of dt>ad-men .-equired at the end of each pull to hold <br />tension while the line was heing dipped-in to the towel'S :lnd addi. <br />tiOlllll conductor WllS lx-iug laid out and sp!it'ed for the next pull. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />I <br />~ <br />oil. <br />I <br /> <br />> <br /> <br />J <br /> <br />J <br /> <br />TmrH/orm,'n (Ifld Hl'itch h.m.". <br /> <br />