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Updated: May 9, 2025
But by digging the trench again and jacking down the bottom and putting hay under the concrete, the floor was finished; and that detail was settled. "The remainder of the job was by comparison uneventful.
"Yes, and I've won other money before," he boasted. "I won first place last year in the single-handed contest but that's too hard on your arm. You change about, you know, in the double-handed work one strikes while the other turns but in single jacking it's just hammer, hammer, hammer, until your arm gets dead to the shoulder."
This having been done, the temporary shoring girders were moved south to the next column, where the process was repeated. The weight was taken on these columns by jacking up directly beneath the column base and taking out the blocking between this base and the bent directly beneath the column.
A method similar to this is practised by the hunters of the North, who go at night in boats or canoes to the edges of ponds to which deer resort to feed upon lily-pads. There this method of hunting is called "jacking" for deer, and the fire-pan, or "jack," is fixed in the bow of the boat, while the hunter, rifle in hand, crouches and watches beneath it.
The weight of the structure was placed on these bents directly beneath the columns by jacking up the temporary girders again, putting blocking between the bents and the base of the columns, and taking out the blocking which had been put in previously under the temporary shoring girders.
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