Popular science monthly . cession, each stream cleaning to a line aheadof the next nozzle until the operator has gone over the entire area between hydrants Flushing Streets with Streams from The Northern Logger Is the NerviestMovable Pipe-Lines of Our Steeplejacks DIFFKRING entirely from all pre- /^NE has only to go to the <lcpths of\ ious t\i)es of appa- Vv the great wooded districts of , a simple de\ice recently put on and meet the logger in his native hauntsthe market con-sists of a jointedline of piping withvalves at regularinternals, thewhnlebeing placed in
Popular science monthly . cession, each stream cleaning to a line aheadof the next nozzle until the operator has gone over the entire area between hydrants Flushing Streets with Streams from The Northern Logger Is the NerviestMovable Pipe-Lines of Our Steeplejacks DIFFKRING entirely from all pre- /^NE has only to go to the <lcpths of\ ious t\i)es of appa- Vv the great wooded districts of , a simple de\ice recently put on and meet the logger in his native hauntsthe market con-sists of a jointedline of piping withvalves at regularinternals, thewhnlebeing placed in thecenter of the streetfrom hydrant toh\(lrant and thitlushing accom-plished by turningon each nozzle insuccession. Thepipe line is madeup of sixteen-footsections, eachmounted on twow heels at each enda n d CO n n e c t e dwith the next sec-tion by means ofshort lengths ofrubber hose. Eachunit has a swinging\alve connection,w h i c h can b eturned in anydirection. Oneendof thelineis attached to thenearest The lumberman calmly smokes his pipe as heoils the blocks at the top of the swaymg pole to recognize in himall the qualitieswhich go to makeup a nervy stccplc-(limber. He thinksnothing of doingan ordinary>teeplejacks jobbefore breakfastand then trees andsetting off dyna-mite blasts untilthe supper bellrings. The accompany-ing photographshows a logger inthe act of oilingtwo large was hoisted tohis dizzy position!)>? a donkey en-gine, and as he satthere, straddlingtwo thin steelcables, he was somuch at home thathe smoked his large pole is agin-pole, erected tolift the logs. 40 PopiiUu- Science Monlhbj
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