"Pulling rig"

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    Photo: William Arnett, 1998
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    Photo: William Arnett, 1998
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    Photo: William Arnett, 1998
Description

I used to work at a lumber company and use their machines. They had this one, called it "Highball 99." It pulled logs. Last one I seen operating was in 1938. It give me the idea for something I named the "pulling rig." Each man have one of these poles, about fifteen feet apart. Each one pull the other, with a "royal stake" in the middle. The man that pull the other to the royal stake, holding him there for five minutes, he the one wins. Sometimes it come out tie-tie, neither one defeat the other.