Number 1 - the Pole Truck

The Pole Truck carries the center and the quarter poles for the big top (the side poles ride on the stakedriver truck).

It is a semi-truck with a custom rack on the trailer. While packed away in storage part of the rack has become disassembled, (parts laying next to truck in picture) and part of the rack is missing. Additionally, the cab was never painted. As with all the trucks, there is a considerable amount of grime present. Dad appears to have used packing lumber for much of his wooden apparatus, so part of the challenge will be obtaining matching wood reduced to the correct sizes.

This picture shows a wooden stake, a side pole, a quarter pole, an eighteen inch ruler, and a center pole. For the uninitiated, center poles go in the center of the tent, side poles go at the edges of the tent, and quarter poles go about halfway between.

Next post, we will meet the bandstand/calliope truck.