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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1969)
ROPES, PULLEYS, CRANE, AND AGGIE An Agg-ie guides a log into place that has been lifted by and ropes were needed to hoist the timber into place, a boom crane. He used several means of getting logs (Photo by Mike Wright) to the top tiers. Besides the crane, a series of pulleys “Chainsaw Man" takes time to try to his breath during the final two-day rush figure out a way to trim logs quicker, to complete the spirit stack. (Photo by and takes a few more minutes to gather Bill Hathaway) I A log sometimes makes the best bed, especially when the rest of the area is a sea of sticky, gooey, and gritty mud. Here a stacker catches a few winks between logs. (Photo by Bob Stump) THE NIGHT GUARD DOES ITS THING Many good stories are repeated over the were determined that the Bonfire would guard fires during the nights preceding not be set prematurely by fellow students the Wednesday night light-off. The Aggies or anyone else. (Photo by Bill Mathaway)