| POLE LINE CONSTRUCTION |
| Pole Erection. The crews of Camp-I used two methods to raise poles. Poles up to 25-30 ft. in length were raised with pike poles and a dead man shown in the top figure. Poles that were longer were raised using the gin pole method shown in the bottom figure. The fall line from the block and tackle was fasten to a speeder to raise the pole. January - June 1954 Construction Figures For 1st.Comm. Constr. Squadron. New poles set.............................121 Rock cribs constructed................157 Guys installed.............................. 727 Push braces installed................... 18 Swamp fixures installed..................33 Cable raisings...............................265 Poles raked and alighned..............382 Poles stepped and restepped..........66 Reterminate lashing wire..............1803 Replace hardware.........................350 Miscellaneous corrections............1064 |
| Jerome and Scharnweber raising the cable to its new pole. The top of the old pole has been cut off to make way for the cable to raise to the new pole. Jerome is on top manning a coffin hoist. This job was in the Clarenville area. Joe Louie Photograph |
| Scharnweber using an "A" frame to raise the old pole out of the ground to make way for the new pole. The cable has been lowered and is hanging free behind him. Joe Louie Photograph |
| Jerome using a squadron line truck to load some poles on a pole trailer. This scene was at Pepperrell AFB in the winter of 1953-54. Jerome Young Photograph |
| Swamp fixtures were built on swamp land to help hold up the pole line. Newfoundland had a lot of swamp land. Jerome Young photograph. |
| In this view, on the left are some rock cribs built by the Camp-I crews. The cribs were made from cut up telephone poles and pinned together with rods.The cribs were than filled with rocks. Jerome Young photograph. |
| On the left, T/Sgt. Everett "Red" Wilkerson, Fred Rose is the speeder operator, unknown airman in the rear. The unit on the speeder trailer is a air compressor used for drilling rock anchors. Some where north of Camp-I. Jerome Young Photograph |
| I took this photo along the railroad branch into Placentia. Some of this line construction looked so fragile to me. |
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