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theFlERALQ Politicians on referendum page A deal at River Run page B9 Home Newspaper Hills SFCnON B THE HERALD May SECOND SECTION Hal million volts coming onstream Hydros bringing power to the people Day by day week by week the two ends of the wire which will carry 500 volts of electricity from the Bruce generating station on Lake Huron to the Milton trans former station come closer and closer together in effect symbolizing the end of a sevenyear battle to stop the corridor The nal connect on will be made In Hills and the efforts of homeowners up and down the length of the corridor lo have the need for the corridor and the reasons for the choice of the route demonstrated will have come to naught Ontario Hydro has changed Its policies dealing with such corridors since the f began but that is of little satisfaction to most of the residents who gaze each day on he lowers and wires loom over their homes farms and bus Ontario Hydro began string the line through the last remaining section in the second week of May and the connection may be made by the end of June towards the Milton transformer station Lost Wednesday morning med a photographers were taken on a tour of the sites where the stringing is proceed Chris Taylor of Ontario Hydros community relations department and Don Nelson general foreman of stations and I construction explain the procedure and the being used The sect on under construct south to II At the Hon end the tower has been strung from the transformer station a just north of Avenue The line is strung in five- milesectlons for the most part Mr Nelson The f stage for a helicopter lo fly around the towers with a rope is hooked on to the arms of the tower This rope is then attached to a larger rope known as a bull I and the butt 1 ne is pulled along by the f rope until It stretches the full length of the section being strung The first rope Is then pulled out Th process Is repeated with a threequarter Inch steel and finally with the four conductors Each time a new cable is pulled through the other is removed unt the conductors arc place This must be done for each of the Once the wire In place a machne called a tensioner is attached to one end of the wire and the tens on of the I is set The sag of the is calculated on a number of factors such as nd and land on Once the connect on Is made Ontario Hydro will conduct of every boll the tower and every facet of the construct on to ensure It safe before the power is turned on Mr Taylor The conductor ends drop from the arms of the tower to the ground where are secured in grips Once the next lection of line Is in place the ends will be spliced together with splicers Those men high on the arms of the tower are volunteers who receive danger pay for their work on the towers TheyarecMnectlagtbeinsulatorstothetowerarm Mr Nelson are asked to work on the towers work Is done a volunteer basis This ban anchor tower which takes the conductor around bead la the route The design of these towers Is especially stable This machine Is a ItBdJuUtheleasloaoriheUacsseUhigthe tension to stand op against the element The set at the end of the section tin and literally poll the of to the right tension The section being polled Wednesday was IT M feet hag a the longest sections to be polled fat go n the whole Hue If not on corridor to Ontario Not all the work on the site directly related to the and two the men are worths c ringing of lie lines The machine most be maintained fas good of the which sets the tension of the Uses