never read it but ill have to find a copy. We had pictures of them running a new 69kv line through the seney swamp. Its 50 miles of half swamp half ponds that the only vehicle weve ever got to run it end to end in the summer is an argo with tracks that floated. Snowmobiles would do it in the winter but twice we had to leave a machine in the swamp till summer. One we never found. Either someone else found a way to get it or its sitting on the bottom of one of those ponds. Some of those poles were set in ponds that are 50 yards square. They did it all with man power and horses. 50 foot poles but all dug by hand. It is hands down also the most mosquito infested place in the world. Elephant grass up to your head in most places. I still dont know how they dug those poles in in the middle of a swamp. They had to have somehow put in a round piece of culvert and pumped it out as they did it but with no electricity and no generators back then even the pumping had to be by hand and all the poles set with pole gins and horses to pull them up. Only other way i can think of is jetting them in but i dont see how they could have a water jet that big witout power either. We did here they used many trucks of dynamite in that job. All that 4/0 aluminum wire with a steal core strung in by hand and man handled on the poles by men climbing. I think i was a hard worker but if i showed up to that job site id have to have some awful hungry kids at home. It used to be a nightmare every time we got a trouble call because that line was down. We had a caravan of off road vehicles and even boats we took out there. If a pole was broke in one of those ponds we had to call in contractors with REAL equipment. Read an early book on the first couple decades of lineman and one out of four will killed on the job.
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