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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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gaff into thepole. (The weight of the body isusually sufficient.) He was then toproceed to raise the body into positionfor the second step. The hand on theside of his body on which the leg wasmoving up was raised slightly beforethe foot. After the second gaff is placed, the first gaff is removed fromits position in the pole by shifting theweight to the other leg and lifting thegaff out of the pole. The free gaff isthen raised upward for the next step.Short steps are taken when one is learn-ing to climb. The distance betweensteps will lengthen naturally with prac-tice. The same principles apply fordescending the pole; the weight of onesbody should ordinarily be sufficient toset the climber gaffs securely when de-scending. was measured for his climbers, and to the plant school. Here poles had taught how to wear them properly, been placed in conditions simulating The next phase of climbing instruc- real field conditions,tion was given outside, in a yard next Before any man could learn to
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Circuit layout is an important Jeature of PBX work 1953 Learning How To Do It 43 climb a pole successfully, the Instruc-tor stressed, he must have confidencein his ability to learn to climb and Inhis climbing equipment. The instruc-tor demonstrated the correct tech-niques by climbing repeatedly up the1 pole about three feet and down again.Then he asked each man to stand atI the base of one of the poles withoutI his climbers. Each was instructed tol; place his feet against the base of thepole at about a 45° angle, with theside of the arch of each foot againstthe sides of the pole. Then he wasinstructed to extend both arms for-ward in a horizontal plane from theshoulders, grasping the pole with bothhands, and thrusting his hips wellback from the pole with legs and arms straight. He was taught to move hislegs up and down as though he wereactually climbing a pole. (These exer-cises are very Important, for theylimber up muscles which are not or-dinarily used.) Now the men were ready to pu

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