Two workers carrying out post-tensioning of stressing cables running around a recently constructed sugar silo at Allscott Sugar Beet Factory, showing one of the men on a telephone. The stressing cables were post-tensioned with a load of 50 tons to prevent the walls bursting from the weight of the stored sugar.

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