His explicatis antarii funes ante laxi conlocentur; retinacula super scapulas machinae longe disponantur, et si non erit, ubi religetur, pali resupinati defodiantur et circum fistucatione solidentur, quo funes alligentur.
When all is made ready, the tackle, which is previously loose, is to be attached; the cables are to be carried over the shoulders of the machine. If there is no place to which they may be fixed, sloping piles are to be driven into the ground and secured by ramming the ground round them; to them the ropes are to be attached.
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