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���A man with a wrench opens the nozzles in succession, each stream cleaning to a line ahead of the next nozzle until the operator has gone over the entire area between hydrants

Flushing Streets with Streams from The Northern Logger Is the Nerviest Movable Pipe-Lines of Our Steeplejacks

DIFFKRING entirely from all pre- /^NE has only to go to the <lcpths of \ ious t\'i)es of 8treet-flu.shing appa- Vv the great wooded districts of Oregon r.itus, a simple de\ice recently put on and meet the logger in his native haunts the market con- sists of a jointed line of piping with valves at regular internals, thewhnle being placed in the center of the street from hydrant to h\(lrant and thi' tlushing accom- plished by turning on each nozzle in succession. The pipe line is made up of sixteen-foot sections, each mounted on two w heels at each end a n d CO n n e c t e d with the next sec- tion by means of short lengths of rubber hose. Each unit has a swinging \alve connection, w h i c h can b e turned in any direction.

Oneendof theline is attached to the nearest street- hvdrant.

���The lumberman calmly smokes his pipe as he oils the blocks at the top of the swaymg pole

��to recognize in him all the qualities which go to make up a nervy stccplc- ( limber. He thinks nothing of doing an ordinary >teeplejack's job before breakfast and then dogging f.dling trees and setting off dyna- mite blasts until the supper bell rings.

The accompany- ing photograph shows a logger in the act of oiling two large blocks. He was hoisted to his dizzy position !)>■ a donkey en- gine, and as he sat there, straddling two thin steel cables, he was so much at home that he smoked his pipe. The large pole is a gin-pole, erected to lift the logs.

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