Abstract: The invention provides a pole installation guide for the installation and removal of large poles, such as utility poles. The guide includes an elongate guide body with a curved surface adapted for receiving and slidingly engaging poles for insertion into a receiving hole. The guide body has an upper portion extending above the hole and a lower portion extending into the hole. Intermediate the upper and lower portions is located a ground plate, preferably equipped with spikes for engaging the ground surface, for supporting and retaining the guide body in place when the installation guide is in use.

Abstract: A leader member is attached at one end to a lead end of the cable on its storage reel and at its other end to a cable pulling rope. The leader member is formed from a number of flexibly connected segments. Weights are attached to the leader member to counteract the tendency of the cable to twist or rotate as it is being strung. The segments of the leader member and the weights are shaped so that they pass readily over cable stringing blocks or pulleys. The weights are located on the leader member so that only one of them at a time can be engaged and disabled by a stringing block or pulley.