Job Description:

• 1) Cuts notches for crossarms and installs step sockets in telephone, telegraph, and electric-power transmission poles: Sights down pole to determine straightest side so that poles will line up evenly when erected.

• 2) Saws tip of pole to point with chain saw.

• 3) Saws two parallel cuts at specified place on pole and cuts out wood between cuts with adz to make crossarm notch.

• 4) Drills bolthole through pole at center of crossarm notch, using electric drill.

• 5) Measures intervals for step sockets on opposite sides of pole.

• 6) Drills holes and drives step sockets in place with small ax.

• 7) Loads and unloads poles from railroad cars or truck, using rope, skids, and cant hook.